A smart, musical automation engine that pushes the limits of sound design.
Stride lets your VSTs and Ableton devices move together in one place, at once. Explore endless variations from the gear you already own. Every click reveals a fresh direction. Lock what works. Reroll the rest.
VST3 + AU + Ableton Devices · Audio In for guitar, vocals, hardware & recordings
- ●Stride VST + StrideBridge included
Three sound-design experiments
Broken drums destroyed and rebuilt into fractured percussion. A whole palette made from one falling water drop. One simple signal pushed into heavy feedback. Plus 15 Ableton Racks pre-mapped to Stride FX and 4 StrideChains.
The pass is the full version · no limitations · on your own tracks
Works with the instruments you already own
Stride VST hosts VST3 instruments and effects inside it, in any DAW. In Ableton Live, StrideBridge maps your Ableton devices onto the same canvas, and prints that motion into a clip when you want it. It hosts VST3 anywhere and AU on macOS. No VST2.
You already have everything you need.
Your favorite synths.
Your trusted effects.
One variation is easy.
Twenty is the work.
Stride writes a fresh one across every mapped lane with every click. Lock what hits. Reroll the rest.
It doesn't replace any of it. It reveals more of what's already there.
In the wild
Already in their sessions.
Hundreds of producers are already exploring with Stride.
Stride is your best friend for sound design's happy accidents and complex modulations. It let you re-discover your entire plugins library in a new way, like if they were completely new instruments and tools, again.
Oblium
Experimental & Psychedelic
Stride really is a fun thing. I love that it has these movements that you easily can switch and adjust to your taste.
It makes modulation much fun. Kind of a controlled random chaos Pandora's box.
I love that it helps you to create some nasty things even if you're kind of uninspired.
Brojanowski
Dark Prog
Stride really changes the sound design game for me. It makes it really fast and easy to add insane modulation to all my devices at once. Been getting crazy results playing around with it!
Andromeda Colt
Bass Music Producer
Route your hardware, guitar, or vocals through your favorite FX chain.
Put it in motion.
Send the signal into Stride through your DAW, load the VST3 effects you already trust, and map the knobs you want moving. The chain keeps shifting while you play, with a fresh variation on every click.
An FX-only chain becomes a rig. You play the take, Stride moves every knob you mapped.
Your pedalboard, with motion
Amp sim into filter into delay, every mapped knob riding its own curve while you play. Reroll the motion until the take lands.
Vocal chains that perform
Draw a delay throw exactly where the phrase needs it, sweep a filter across the line, and reroll until the chain sings back. Lock what fits the performance.
Your hardware. Your favorite FX chain. In motion.
Route your favorite synth or drum machine into Stride, then build the VST3 effects chain you have always wanted around it. Every mapped knob moves while you play.
Audio In is part of Stride VST, new in 1.2. You route audio in with standard DAW routing, and the effects chain is hosted inside Stride: VST3 anywhere, AU on macOS. Not Pro Tools (AAX).
In every DAW
One click. Every lane comes alive.
Map the knobs you want to move. One click writes a different evolving curve on every lane, up to 32 bars deep. Click again for a completely new take, as many times as it takes.
Chaos
One click. Every lane filled.
Stamps multi-layer wave noise onto every unlocked parameter. Smooth, organic, never the same twice.
Good for · dense evolving textures, ambient pads, slow-motion sound design.
Neuro
Gnarly. Random. Musical.
Random shape chunks - dotted ramps, hard chops, hyper-stutters, syncopated drops - across every unlocked lane.
Good for · neuro & DnB bass, dubstep wobbles, aggressive design that locks to the grid.
Reflector
Mirrored motion. Coherent set.
Pairs every two lanes - base plus a value-flipped mirror - so the sound folds in on itself. One click.
Good for · modulation in opposition: filter opens / resonance drops, drive up / volume down.
Sample & Hold
Polyrhythmic stepped motion.
Per-lane stepped-random staircase. Each lane rolls its own rate - straight and triplet, down to 1/32.
Good for · glitchy stepped textures, sequenced modulation, rhythmic motion without drawing a step.
Variations on demand
Every button is a variation.
Less tweaking. More discovering. Roll the generators, mutate, reshape: a whole new set of curves on every click, no two ever the same.
Every generator is a fresh take
Chaos, Neuro, Reflector, S&H - same sound, four totally different directions. Roll through them in seconds.
Apply, reshape, repeat
Hit a generator, hear it, roll again. Every pass writes fresh motion across the whole chain, no two the same.
Mutate & Prism for finer takes
Found a curve you love? Hit Mutate to reroll it, or Prism to spin siblings across every other lane, anchors locked. New in 1.2: Keyswitch Mode puts the toolbox on one octave. Chaos on C, Mutate on F#. The notes stay silent, the tools fire: play them live, or record the triggers into a clip and every pass rolls a fresh take.
One plugin. Your whole rig.
Stride VST hosts your instruments and effects in series, inside itself. Map knobs from every device and modulate them together, in any DAW. In Ableton Live, StrideBridge puts your Ableton devices on the same canvas.
Every knob on every device is fair game. Draw one curve on the filter, another on the delay feedback, another on the drive - all moving together, in time.
Explore across your VSTs + Ableton devices
In Ableton Live, StrideBridge adds the set's own devices to the same canvas. One click moves your hosted chain and your Ableton devices together.
VSTs inside. Ableton devices through Bridge.
Stride VST modulates the instruments and effects you load inside it, in any DAW: VST3 anywhere, AU on macOS, no VST2. In Ableton Live, StrideBridge opens the canvas past the hosted chain and maps your Ableton devices too, so both move on the same click. Want it written into the clip itself? Press INJECT on the bridge, below.
Stride VST + StrideBridge · one-time purchase
Get Stride for $99
One purchase · yours for goodStride VST + StrideBridge
- ✓Stride VST: modulate your instruments in any VST3 DAW (Cubase, Studio One, FL, Reaper, Bitwig, Ableton) and in Logic as AU
- ✓StrideBridge: reach your Ableton devices, and print the motion into a clip when you want it
- ✓Free v1.2 just landed: Keyswitch Mode, Audio In, note-triggered motion, half-screen layouts
- ✓The full canvas, all generators, on Windows & macOS
- ✓One-time purchase. No subscription.
Stride VST + StrideBridge
VST3 + AU + Max for Live · not Pro Tools (AAX)
Stride is a one-time purchase. The Experimental Collection is an optional add-on. Not Pro Tools (AAX). Third-party plugins shown are sold separately.
In Ableton, it reaches everything.
Stride moves the plugins you load inside it. Drop StrideBridge on a track and your set's own devices join the same canvas, so the whole thing rides one set of curves.
The workflow
Drop Stride on a track
Load the instruments and effects you want to move inside it.
Drag StrideBridge onto any track
One per set. It passes audio straight through, so it can sit anywhere.
Map the knobs you want moving
Touch a knob inside Stride, or press MAP LIVE and click a knob anywhere in your set.
Draw the motion, or roll it
Draw a curve by hand, or hit a generator and get a different one on every lane at once.
Press Play
The knobs ride your transport, locked to the clock. Export and Freeze render offline, so press INJECT or resample the track to carry that movement into a file.
Want the curves as real automation you can edit by hand, keep after removing Stride, or capture in an export? Select a clip and press INJECT on the device. StrideBridge moves Live’s own devices in real time, and Export, Freeze and Bounce all render offline, so INJECT or a real-time resample is what carries that movement into the rendered file. Anything running inside Stride itself renders normally.
Reaches the whole set
Map knobs on any track, in place, with nothing hosted inside Stride first. Operator, Roar, Auto Filter, the lot. Live's MIDI effects too.
Racks travel
Save Stride and its Ableton devices together as a rack. The lanes find their knobs wherever that rack lands, in this set or the next one.
Made for Ableton, only Ableton
StrideBridge is a Max for Live device. It needs Ableton Live 11+ (Suite, or Standard with the Max for Live add-on) and doesn't run anywhere else. Stride itself runs in any VST3 DAW, and in Logic as AU.
StrideBridge is included with Stride. One purchase, $99.
FAQ
The questions everyone asks
What do I get for $99?▾
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Can't I just draw automation by hand?▾
How is this different from an LFO tool?▾
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Somewhere in your setup
is a sound you haven't met.
24 hours, fully unlocked, on your own tracks. Then one purchase: $99.