The awesome plugin you didn’t know you needed!

Texturize by SoundGhost is a very unique plugin that you immediately get obsessed with and use on every sound you make. As its name suggests, it is used to add texture to any sound and make it feel more organic and human. It is dead simple to use but at the same time very effective and creative. So let’s go through the details of Texturize and see why it’s so useful for everyone.

In Texturize you’ll find more than 200 original noise sources from retro recording devices, unique foley, and organic rainfall, to modular synthesizers and electromagnetic drones. From tape hiss to vinyl crackles, and from rain sounds to paper noise, Texturize has an excellent high-quality collection of samples to fit your original sound and help it come to life.

After choosing the sample, the controls are very simple:

With Rise & Fall, you control the attack and decay of the sample. All samples are tied to your sound through an envelope follower so you’ll only hear Texturize when your sound is played so by adjusting Rise & Fall you essentially control when the texture is enabled and for how long.
Volume is the overall volume of Texturize’s gain
HP & LP are a HighPass and LowPass filters to shape the samples further
Pitch controls the sample’s pitch to tune it to your liking.

You can also disable the enveloper follower to have the sample playing all the time and you can edit the waveform by adjusting the start and end points if you want to focus on a specific area of the sample. Additionally you can even mute the audio source and use it just as a gate and only hear Texturize’s sounds being played.

Another amazing feature is that you can also import your own samples to use with Texturize! It supports wav, mp3, flac, ogg, and aiff formats for sample import and you can then control your own samples with the controls on the plugin’s panel.

Key Uses

My two favorite uses of Texturize are the following:

Using it to layer samples beneath a pad or a piano to make it sound like it’s being recorded through a mic. Adding a subtle layer of sounds can have a huge impact on your recordings as it feels more unstable and lofi
Use it on drum parts to add extra layers of percussion to your original drum sounds. The plugin’s library has many high-quality sounds that pair perfectly with drum sounds.

Conclusion

Texturize is a great plugin. It is very simple and with high-quality sounds and it can get a very simple instrument sounding organic and natural with a few clicks. In an era where we constantly trying to humanize computer music, Texturize is a perfect example of giving life to sterile sounds and overplayed timbres by adding that extra layer of dirt, noise, and texture. I would definitely recommend it to anyone that makes music with lots of soft synths and drum machines to make their music more human and alive.

And as a plus, it is now on a 25% discount for just £29.00!

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