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The Parallels Black Friday deal takes 76% off this Softube synth plugin, which puts it at $35 until Nov 8, 2026.
Parallels is a dual-source software synth with two wavescanning sections that run side by side and blend together. Softube describes it as a dream-synth for modern scoring and soundscaping.
Each source section plays back pre-recorded multi-waveforms, and you can blend the two sources in parallel. Softube says there are almost a hundred of them, taken from digital and analogue synths, modular and FM gear, physical modelling and environmental recordings, plus some rare and unreleased pieces.
Every waveform runs for 15 seconds and carries some kind of movement, such as a filter sweep or a pitch diffusion. Playback can start from any point you pick, which gives you many different sounds from a single waveform.
You set how far the playhead travels through the source scene and how fast, before it returns to its start point and settles into a sustain loop. Loop lengths are pre-calibrated per source, and the plugin runs up to fourteen voices, seven per source when both are active.
Each source passes through its own shaper section with three analogue-modelled filter types:
Four mod pods sit on the left. You can set every modulator to work as an LFO, a random source, an envelope, or a Euclidian or step sequencer, then route it to nearly any control in the synth. Two pods can also pair up to co-modulate a single parameter, with the blend amount set by you.
The signal then runs through five three-knob effects in series: distortion, chorus, flanger, delay and reverb. The flanger has stereo spread built into its feedback control, and the reverb is an algorithmic design built for this synth. Each effect can be adjusted, modulated and bypassed on its own.
Parallels ships with a large library of presets made by a mix of producers, studio engineers and sound designers, one of whom is Brian Transeau. BT, Richard Devine and Inhalt.
Parallels is also modular ready. It works as a native instrument plugin and as modules in Modular, Softube's Eurorack platform.
The plugin runs in AU, VST, VST3 and AAX hosts. Softube recommends VST3, since some of its plugins have features the older VST format lacks.
Supported sample rates run from 44.1 kHz up to 192 kHz, in mono and stereo.
Yes. The Parallels Black Friday deal takes 76% off, bringing this dual-source synth plugin to $35, and it runs until Nov 8, 2026.
Parallels holds almost a hundred pre-recorded multi-waveforms from classic digital, analogue, modular, FM and physical modelling synths, plus environmental sources and some rare, unreleased pieces. Two sources run in parallel, with up to fourteen voices in total.
Parallels has five three-knob effects in series: distortion, chorus, flanger, delay and reverb. Parallels has four modulation pods, and every one can run as an LFO, a random source, a Euclidian or step sequencer, or an envelope, with nearly any parameter available as a target.
Parallels comes as AU, VST, VST3 and AAX, on macOS and Windows 10 or 11. Softube tests its plugins in Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Ableton Live, Studio One and Reaper, and recommends VST3. It needs an iLok account.
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