Sound Design Engine

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. Keep what works, regenerate the rest, then mutate and edit every automation by hand.

VST3 + AU + Ableton Devices · Audio In for guitar, vocals, hardware & recordings

$99
  • ●Stride VST + StrideBridge included
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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

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

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

Andromeda Colt

Bass Music Producer

As someone who usually couldn't be bothered with sound design sessions, Stride really inspired me to dive back into designing my own sounds. It hits the sweet spot by automating the tedious parts and supporting my creative workflow, freeing me up to create the craziest sounds.
Absalon

Absalon

IDM & Bass Music

Stride gives me more chances to stumble into sounds I never would have built on purpose, without losing control of where they go. I can map a huge number of parameters, hear dozens of evolving possibilities incredibly fast, then keep, edit and push the ones that actually work. It turns complex modulation from something time-consuming into a fast, playable creative process. For anyone who loves experimental sound design and constantly asking “what happens if I do this?”, it's brilliant.
AltWire

Derek Oswald

AltWire

Stride is always an adventure. Great fun as a creative experimental tool but also a serious sound design machine, producing genuinely unique (and highly usable) results.

John Anderson

Sound Designer

I'm an electronic music creator that delves more into the experimental side of things and Stride is, in my opinion, perfect for that. Never a dull moment & a lot of fun to use. Lot's of happy accidents are guaranteed! Highly recommended 👍
Stan Magendanz

Stan Magendanz

Electronic Music Creator

I use Stride to resample a generative hybrid modular setup on the fly. Cut it via Push2 and Simpler and in seconds start jamming around the sound texture of the modular as it proceeds generating sound stream.
iloveERROR

iloveERROR

Hybrid Modular

Stride does something no other plugin currently does, opening up complex modulation possibilities with incredible ease. It's simply in a league of its own bringing something completely new and innovative to the table. On top of that, it's easily one of the most fun and addictive plugins I've ever used, with a super smooth UI and top-tier support. I've already used it on 4 out of my last 5 finished projects!
Odditi

Odditi

Halftime Bass

Stride Engine has helped reopen my creativity. It has added infinite doors of sound possibilities to my work flow. I use it in all of my projects.
Lucas Ferrell

Lucas Ferrell

Sound Designer

The ease of creating chaos, something slowly evolving and something loopable is the biggest draw to Stride. It does all 3, and it makes them all very easy to commit to a project which helps with someone having difficulty committing to automation.
Z

Z

Sound Designer

Joe had an amazing idea and made it a reality! I took a chance on it very early on and am so glad I did! In the past, if I had issues or questions with the interface, he was available for chat! I can't think of anyone doing customer service like that. He takes your feedback and works with you. It just keeps getting better! As far as Stride, and Stride Fx, they can be as minimal or drastic as you want. I can't speak highly enough for the products. This is a sound designer's dream come true:)

Arthur

Early Adopter

After modulating my hardware recordings, I was curious about other ways to continue modulation within the DAW. I was looking for a plugin that could emulate the feeling of altering various knobs simultaneously, then I found Stride. I've only used it a few days, but I can say it's been fitting in nicely to my workflow, in that it provides another layer of multi-modulation on top of my audio signals. Last thing I'll say is that its surprisingly ergonomic - theres a ton of complexity that it can handle and the plugin makes that complexity relatively simple.
Mark Mohr

Mark Mohr

Techno

BROOOO ! Stride is EXACTLY the move to break out of an inspiration blockade. Instead, just open up Stride, let the modulation go absolutely wild, record the whole thing, and then pick out the gems from the chaos. 🤯 The beauty of it is that you no longer have to actively try to come up with a good idea. You create the conditions for things to happen that you might never have programmed intentionally.
Findelkind

Findelkind

Braingames Records

For me, working with high bpm music production, discovering this tool has been absolutely wonderful. It’s essential for anyone who enjoys creating all their own effects in an "organic" and innovative way. it’s never been easier to just drop in an oscillator and let the magic happen.
Major Drop

Major Drop

Psytrance

Works with the instruments you already own

SerumVital OperatorWavetable PigmentsPhase Plant DivaMassive X Omnisphere Any VST3 or Ableton instruments

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. Keep what works. Regenerate the rest.
It doesn't replace any of it. It reveals more of what's already there.

New · built for Stride

TENDRILThree engines. One evolving sound design playground.

Shape the harmonics, push the effects, and let three independent patterns play off each other. Explore with Stride to discover fresh sounds, mudpies and sequences from the same patch.

Stride lets you try fresh motion across the parameters you map, lock what works and regenerate the rest.

It comes with 22 StrideChains: sound design systems ready to load and explore.

Sold separately to Stride owners. A special offer is available after you buy Stride.

The playable rack from the Tendril manual: the HARMONICS chamber, its MOTION lanes, PITCH, AMP, the waveform and the keys
The face from the Tendril manual: one OSC tab with every plate numbered
The ten HARMONICS knobs from the Tendril manual, each card drawing what its knob does to the partials
OSC FX from the Tendril manual: SIEVE and FOLD on the HARMONICS plate, and a sketch of every SPECTRUM and SHAPE mode
The mixer from the Tendril manual, every control numbered
The sequencer from the Tendril manual: a row of steps for each engine, every control numbered
Play it. The manual's own rack, running Tendril's HARMONICS math in your browser. Drag a knob, drop a MOTION shape onto one, press PLAY.
Audio In · new in 1.2

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.

audio in → Amp Sim → Filter → Valhalla Delay → out

An FX-only chain becomes a rig. You play the take, Stride moves every knob you mapped.

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Your pedalboard, with motion

Amp sim into filter into delay, every mapped knob riding its own curve while you play. Generate new motion until the take lands.

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Vocal chains that perform

Draw a delay throw exactly where the phrase needs it, sweep a filter across the line, and try new motion until the chain sings back. Keep what fits the performance.

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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 picks 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. Run the generators, mutate, reshape: a whole new set of curves on every click, no two ever the same.

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Every generator is a fresh take

Chaos, Neuro, Reflector, S&H - same sound, four totally different directions. Try all four in seconds.

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Apply, reshape, repeat

Hit a generator, hear it, go again. Every pass writes fresh motion across the whole chain, no two the same.

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Mutate & Prism for finer takes

Found a curve you love? Hit Mutate to vary it, or Prism to grow 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 writes a fresh take.

Stride VST · every DAW

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.

Serum → Saturator → Valhalla Delay → out

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

Auto Filter + Echo + Roar

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.

VST3

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

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One purchase · yours for good

Stride 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.
$99

Stride VST + StrideBridge

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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.

StrideBridge · Ableton Live · how it works

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

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Drop Stride on a track

Load the instruments and effects you want to move inside it.

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Drag StrideBridge onto any track

One per set. It passes audio straight through, so it can sit anywhere.

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Map the knobs you want moving

Touch a knob inside Stride, or press MAP LIVE and click a knob anywhere in your set.

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Draw the motion, or generate it

Draw a curve by hand, or hit a generator and get a different one on every lane at once.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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StrideBridge is included with Stride. One purchase, $99.

FAQ

The questions everyone asks

What do I get for $99?▾
Stride VST for every DAW (host your synths and effects and modulate them), plus StrideBridge for Ableton (reach the set's own devices, and print the motion into a clip when you want it). One purchase, yours for good, no subscription. The Experimental Collection is a separate optional add-on and is not included.
Which DAWs does Stride VST work in?▾
Any VST3 host: Ableton Live, Cubase, Nuendo, Studio One, FL Studio, Reaper, Bitwig, Cakewalk and more. On macOS it also ships as an Audio Unit, so Logic and GarageBand work too. Not Pro Tools (AAX only).
Can Stride VST modulate Ableton devices?▾
Yes. Stride VST hosts and modulates VST3 instruments and effects directly inside Stride, in any DAW. In Ableton Live, StrideBridge also maps your Ableton devices into the same Stride canvas, so one click moves both. And when you want that motion written into a clip, select the clip and press INJECT on the bridge.
Can't I just draw automation by hand?▾
You can, and Stride never takes that away: every lane stays editable, point by point, right on the canvas. What changes is scale. By hand, motion across a whole rack means one lane at a time. Stride writes all of them in one click, then hands you a fresh take on the next one. You shape, lock, or redraw whatever you want. Final say is always yours.
How is this different from an LFO tool?▾
LFO tools are built around a shape that repeats. Stride writes long-form evolving motion, up to 32 bars of it, across every lane of the chain you host inside it, and writes a brand-new variation every time you click. Not a cycle you set: a performance you discover.
Can I play it live?▾
Yes. Keyswitch Mode fires the Motion tools from one octave of your keyboard: the notes stay silent, the tools fire. Note-triggered motion runs the canvas from the notes you play, no transport needed. Keys fire the tools, notes drive the motion, and both record into a clip.
Is there a free trial?▾
Yes: a 24-hour Discovery Pass. Download Stride, then activate the pass inside the plugin when you're ready — your 24 hours only begin at activation, not at download. Every tool, every generator, no limitations, on your own tracks, so you can decide if it's the right fit. When the pass ends your projects stay intact; one purchase then unlocks it for $99, for good.
Mac and Windows?▾
Stride runs on Windows 10/11 and macOS 11+ (Intel and Apple Silicon).
Can I get a refund?▾
Try it free first, it's the best way to know Stride fits your setup: the complete product, unlocked for 24 hours with no limitations. Once you activate your license, all sales are final. Haven't activated yet? Email us within 14 days for a full refund. And if Stride won't run and we can't fix it together, we'll refund you. Full policy.

Somewhere in your setup
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24 hours, fully unlocked, on your own tracks. Then one purchase: $99.