About DreamDeep

A new force in sound

DreamDeep builds deep, expressive instruments and effects that bring neural networks and advanced signal processing to musicians and releases the music made with them.

The story

Made by a player, for players

DreamDeep was founded by me, Chris Rodbourne. I've been an electronic musician and software developer for over forty years (yes, I am a bit old, lol). It's logical to combine the two passions and NeuralDream is the culmination of this work, developed over the course of 2026.

Those two lives meet in everything DreamDeep makes. The engineering goes as deep as the technology allows. Every control is placed and tuned by someone who plays, which is why the instruments feel like instruments and not like software.

NeuralDream is the first result: a synthesiser and an effect processor built over many hundreds of hours, with more than forty engines and more than 340 presets. It is the start of a family of instruments, effects and records.

The main desk with NeuralDream on the wide screen and a pad controller and a keyboard in front of it.

A stack of keyboards and desktop synthesisers on a stand, with lit displays and pads.

A rack of synthesiser modules lit in blue, with cream-coloured synthesisers on the desk below.

Cream and black desktop synthesisers in front of the blue modular panel.

Modular synthesiser modules joined by a tangle of coloured patch cables and glowing lights.

A close view of patched modular synthesiser modules with coloured cables and lit controls.

A large blue modular synthesiser panel covered in sliders lit in orange.

Four keyboards stacked on a tall stand, their controls lit in the dark.

A large keyboard synthesiser with rows of lit controls, above a second keyboard on the stand below.

A drum machine and a blue synthesiser on the desk, with a monitor, a speaker, a clock and a plant behind them.

A desk with a blue synthesiser keyboard at the front, a smaller keyboard and a controller behind it and a monitor to the side.

Two keyboards on a stand, one above the other, the lower one in a red wooden case with an orange display.

The studio from above, with keyboards on the left and NeuralDream on the computer screens.

The whole studio from behind the chair, with keyboards on both sides and three screens around the desk.

A small boy in big headphones dancing beside the stack of keyboards.

Chris in the studio with a smiling young woman, with keyboards and synthesisers behind them.

Chris at the desk with NeuralDream on the screens, surrounded by keyboards and synthesisers.

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What we believe

Sound is wonder, beautiful, longing and personal

Made to be played

A DreamDeep plugin is meant to be played and explored for years. It will grow with you while we provide free updates.

Ready in seconds

Every instrument comes with finished sounds you can play in seconds and every panel is open for when you want to go further.

Musical first

Neural networks and advanced signal processing earn their place only when they make something that sounds new and musical.

The technology

Neural and DSP, side by side

DreamDeep's engines combine several families of sound technology in one signal path and every control in every engine can be modulated.

Neural processing

Four engines run neural networks on your audio as it plays, from captures of real amplifiers and tape machines to RAVE, which re-imagines one sound through what a model learned from another.

Spectral processing

Morphing, gating, vocoding, cross-synthesis and style transfer let one sound take on the shape, the detail or the voice of another.

Physical modelling

The modal oscillator models an exciter striking, plucking or bowing a resonator so a note behaves like a real object that has been set ringing.

Grains and particles

Granular oscillators rebuild any audio from tiny grains and Particles gives birth to clouds of up to 1024 short tones, each with its own pitch, wavetable, length and place in the stereo field.

Generative music

Starling listens to what you play and to the sound it is making itself, then develops your ideas and takes the lead when your hands leave the keys.

Modulation

Four LFOs, four envelope followers and four macros can move any control in any engine, through a pool of 1024 parameters your DAW can also automate.

40+DSP and neural engines

340+factory presets

8layers in every sound

32voices of polyphony

What comes next

The first of a family

NeuralDream is out now. DriftDream is a powerful product that we have chosen to give to everyone on the DreamDeep list. More instruments, effects and music will follow.

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