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SKR8 Black Friday pricing takes 79% off this Thenatan Audio DJ tool, which sits at $10 until Nov 19, 2026.
SKR8 is a scratch plugin for Mac and Windows that works as a full turntable engine. SKR8 uses a platter that can jump to any position and play backward, and you control it by sketching out the hand movement you want.
The maker is clear that this is not a scratch sample pack or a loop library. SKR8 performs scratches in real time on your own audio: a drum bus, a vocal, a bassline or a full mix.
You draw a routine across 8 tempo-synced tables and drop in any of 22 turntablist techniques. Then you run it through one of 5 turntable models.
The platter itself is modelled too. Stop the platter completely whenever you like, spin it in reverse, or release it and the motor will ramp it back to full speed.
The whole plugin is 22 MB and carries no sample library, because it is not playing samples. The maker says that means it opens instantly and runs on anything.
The same drawn motion sounds different on each deck. Build one routine, step through all five and you get five different records:
Each model has its own animated platter graphic.
Hold STOP / START and the record brakes to a halt. Let go and it winds back to full speed. Stop Time and Start Time set each ramp separately, from a 5 ms slam to three seconds.
BACK / FORWARD spins the platter in reverse for a backspin or pushes it forward for a fast-forward zip. Spin Time sets how hard the hand pushes.
Automatic mode plays your 8-table routine locked to the project. Manual Scratch mode turns a single knob into the record under your hand, so you can ride it live or draw it as DAW automation. Every front-panel control is automatable.
The Speed knob offers 24 musical divisions, from 8/1 down to 1/64, including straight, dotted and triplet values. It follows project tempo changes. A Mix knob blends the scratched signal against your dry input.
SKR8 ships with 50 factory presets. A preset in SKR8 saves the full set of eight tables along with which turntable model is selected, how tempo is divided, the blend level, whether playback runs in reverse, and the timing of each motor. Names run from Boom Bap Basics and Lofi Late Night to Crab Strut, Backspin Break and Chaos Theory.
You can save your own with one button and browse with next/previous arrows. Presets live in a folder you own.
The interface is resizable, with tooltips on every control. Activation uses a serial number instead of a dongle.
Yes. The SKR8 Black Friday deal takes 79% off Thenatan Audio's turntable-engine plugin, bringing it to $10. The offer ends Nov 19, 2026.
SKR8 is a turntable-engine plugin for Mac and Windows. You draw hand motion across 8 tempo-synced tables, choose from 22 techniques, and it scratches your own audio in real time. It plays no samples.
There are 5 models: INFERNO, DUST, RATCHET, SAWBLADE and TREMOR. The same drawn routine sounds different on each, from a clean pitch throw to bit-crunch drag, mechanical chop, dense crab grit or a fast pitch wobble.
Yes, 50 factory presets, each a full snapshot of the tables, turntable model, tempo division, mix, reverse state and motor times. Examples include Boom Bap Basics, Backspin Break and Chaos Theory. You can save your own.
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