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The c tools Black Friday deal puts Heavyocity's trio of retro synths for Reaktor at $30, 49% off, until Dec 18, 2026.
C-Tools is a Reaktor ensemble that bundles three separate instruments, each inspired by 70s and 80s synth gear. The maker describes it as an homage to a future that never was.
The ensemble covers drums, bass and pads/keys across three instruments:
Together they cover the core of many arrangements, from pulsing rhythms to nostalgic strings.
Capsule takes a mostly analogue approach to its synthesis engines. You get thumping kicks and kitschy hand claps, plus an effects chain made for drums that includes a gated reverb.
Coil blends digital FM with analogue subtractive synthesis. The maker says that combination gives it a rich sound palette for bass.
Clique pairs a string machine with a combo organ. Both instrument types used frequency division to produce their polyphonic sounds, and Clique follows that approach.
The maker says it runs from bright and springy to spacey and textural.
Clique also has a split keyboard routing mechanism. It lets you assign different parts of the synth to the upper half of the keyboard, the lower half, or both.
That makes it easy to play a pad with one hand and a combo organ line with the other, all inside one instrument.
C-Tools is powered by the Reaktor engine. It needs Reaktor or Reaktor Player, version 6.2 or later. The feature list also mentions the full version of Reaktor 5, version 5.9.2 or later.
It is available as a direct download only, and takes up 90.5 MB on disk.
System requirements:
If your signal chain already runs Reaktor, C-Tools loads as an ensemble alongside the rest of your instruments.
Yes. The C-Tools Black Friday deal takes 49% off, bringing the Reaktor ensemble to $30, and it ends Dec 18, 2026. The price covers all three instruments: Capsule, Coil and Clique.
C-Tools includes three instruments: Capsule for drums, Coil for bass and Clique for pads and keys. Together they ship with 149 presets and three built-in effects for each instrument.
C-Tools needs Reaktor or Reaktor Player, version 6.2 or later. It runs on Mac (OS X 10.10 up to macOS 10.12, Intel Core 2 Duo) and Windows 7, 8 or 10 (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2).
C-Tools is available as a direct download only, and takes up 90.5 MB on disk. There is no boxed copy. It loads as a Reaktor ensemble, so you open it from inside Reaktor.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.