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Instruments for sounds that do not exist yet

DreamDeep makes deep, expressive instruments and effects processors that bring neural networks and advanced signal processing into your DAW. We also release the music that we make with them.

NeuralDream, our flagship instrument, is out now.

01 · The flagship

NeuralDream

NeuralDream Instrument: A deep polyphonic synthesiser with 40+ effect processors. Each of its three oscillators can play wavetables, clouds of grains, resynthesised partials or physically modelled plucked, struck and bowed sounds and 40+ DSP and neural engines are ready to shape what they play.

Two step sequencers and Starling (a generative engine that listens to what you play) keep the sounds moving.

NeuralDream Effects: The same 40+ effects from NeuralDream Instrument available as an FX-Only plugin.

You can pick one of more than 350 finished presets and start writing in seconds or open every panel and build a sound of your own from nothing.

Drill down

AU · VST3 · Mac and PC

The NeuralDream Instrument window with three layers: the synthesiser, a Particles layer and an effect chain, with the modulation strip along the bottom.
40+DSP and neural engines
350+factory presets
8layers in every sound
32voices of polyphony

02 · Hear it

Audio demos

All demos are purely NeuralDream Instrument and built-in neural and DSP effects.

Each demo is of a single Preset without any additional effects or processing. Each demo will play in turn automatically, if you just want to sit back and enjoy!

Alien Machine

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03 · See it

See it at work

Introduction to NeuralDream Neural Dream Instrument Wavetables - An introduction to the basics
Wavetables - the basics Neural Dream Instrument Wavetables - An introduction to the basics
Wavetables - advanced warping Advanced Wavetable realtime processing - wavefolding, phase distortion, symmetry, depth and harmonics
Wavetables - grit modifiers More advanced and unique techniques for Wavetable processing
Grains
Beat-slicing grains and layers
Partials oscillator
Library and modal oscillator
Sequencer
Particles
Sampler

04 · The technology

Neural and DSP, side by side

DreamDeep's engines put trained neural networks and deep signal processing in the same signal path so one sound can be shaped by physics, by mathematics and by machine learning at the same time.

Neural engines

Four engines run neural networks on your audio as it plays. They capture real amplifiers and tape machines, grow a new effect from a single seed number and re-imagine one sound through what a model has learned from another.

The Particles logo, a cloud of glowing dots of different sizes and colours.

Sound sources

Wavetable, granular, partials and physically modelled oscillators sit alongside a sample player that follows your DAW's tempo and Particles, which gives birth to as many as 1024 tones at once.

The Starling logo, a murmuration of birds turning in a spiral.

Starling

Starling listens to what you play and to the sound it is making itself, then develops your ideas. It accompanies you while your hands are on the keys and takes the lead when they are not.

05 · The plugins

Our plugins

Every DreamDeep plugin is built as an instrument to be played and explored. Despite owning over 2000 commercial plug-in licences and dozens of hardware synths and FX (see our About page), we still couldn't do all of the things that we wanted so we built them and learned from every one of them.

The NeuralDream Instrument window.

NeuralDream

Instrument and effect

Two plugins in one licence. NeuralDream Instrument is a deep polyphonic synthesiser with 40+ DSP and neural engines, two step sequencers and the generative Starling engine. NeuralDream Effects brings the same 40+ engines to any track as an FX-only plugin. More than 350 presets are included.

£79including VAT
Explore
The DriftDream window.

DriftDream

Multi-effect

A multi-effect drift processor that chains a delay, a granular engine, five reverbs and a resonant filter in any order, with audio-rate modulation and a 3D galaxy that flies through your sound. It is free to everyone on the DreamDeep list.

The cover of Main Streaming by DreamDeep CR: a city skyline and a wide river glowing pink and gold under a rising sun, with the title in gold letters. The cover of Synth Stories - Deep in the Mind by DreamDeep CR: a synthesiser lit in orange and blue below the title on a golden band. The cover of Cosmos by DreamDeep CR: a spiral galaxy glowing white and gold against deep blue space, with the title in large copper letters. The cover of Solar System: Travel by DreamDeep CR: a planet lit by a distant sun with smaller moons around it, with the title in gold letters. The cover of Just Getting Started by DreamDeep CR: a close-up of a newborn baby's face and hand in warm light, with the title in gold letters. The cover of the Hawkmoon Series by DreamDeep CR: an armoured rider with long fair hair on a dark horse before a gothic city, with a copy of the book Hawkmoon: The History of the Runestaff in the corner.

06 · The music

The records

Six DreamDeep CR albums are available now for download and streaming on Bandcamp. Every track was written and produced at DreamDeep.

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New instruments, free updates, first listens to new music and offers for people on the list. DriftDream is also free to everyone who joins.