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Papyrus Keys Black Friday pricing is 75% off, $19, until Nov 25, 2026, on BeatSkillz' virtual instrument for New Age sounds in the style of 80s and 90s artists like Enigma, DeepForest, Vangelis and Enya.
The maker says the collection bundles lush pads, nature sounds, lead flutes and other orchestral and world elements into one instrument. Everything is sampled and produced in-house, with presets built on BeatSkillz's own synthesis and effects engine.
It is a preset-first instrument. Load a patch and play.
The plugin ships with 200+ factory presets, split into these groups:
Under the presets sit multisample maps for bass, drums, elements, guitar, keys, orchestra, pads, synths and world instruments.
Two multisample map engines, A and B, can be layered or split across the keyboard, with automatic assignment via MIDI. Any control on the plugin can be mapped to MIDI with a right-click.
Each patch has ADSR envelopes for amp, filter and pitch. Three LFOs handle filter, volume and pitch, all syncable to tempo, with rate and depth controls.
The filter is an analog-modelled ladder design with low-pass, high-pass and band-pass modes, switchable between 12 and 24dB per octave. You also get cutoff and resonance, pitch transpose and tune, portamento with a rate control, and adjustable velocity curves for volume and filter cutoff.
The arpeggiator runs up to 32 steps, synced to tempo. Velocity, note length and pitch can each be modulated per step. You can save your own patterns, load the factory ones, and set step increment and swing.
The FX engine offers nine swappable effects: reverb, chorus/flanger, phaser, 4-band EQ, compressor, drive, bit crusher, delay and stereo expander.
On Mac it runs on macOS 10.14 Mojave or later, including Big Sur and M1 Macs, as VST3, AU and AAX (64-bit only). On Windows it needs Windows 10 or later, in VST3 and AAX (64-bit only).
Both platforms call for an Intel i5 or later or AMD Athlon 64 or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and a 300 MB drive footprint, at a screen resolution of 1024x768.
The library can live on any internal or external drive. Point the plugin to it once through the settings icon, and you can move the content later and reconnect it.
Yes. The Papyrus Keys Black Friday deal takes 75% off BeatSkillz' New Age virtual instrument, bringing it to $19. The offer runs until Nov 25, 2026.
Papyrus Keys bundles 200+ factory presets, from pads, keys and orchestra sounds to world instruments, voices, bass, drum kits and synths. It also includes two multisample map engines, a 32-step arpeggiator and nine swappable effects.
On Mac, Papyrus Keys comes as VST3, AU and AAX, 64-bit only, and supports macOS 10.14 Mojave or later, including M1 Macs. On Windows it comes as VST3 and AAX, 64-bit only, and needs Windows 10 or later.
Yes. You can edit and save presets, and the arpeggiator lets you save your own patterns alongside the factory ones. Synthesis options include ADSR envelopes for amp, filter and pitch, three tempo-syncable LFOs and a ladder filter.
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