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The Vacuum Vintage Black Friday deal is 70% off, $29, until Nov 26, 2026, on AIR Music Technology's monophonic vintage synth plugin in AU and VST formats.
Vacuum Vintage started life in AIR's Creative Collection of instruments bundled with Avid Pro Tools. As the synth gained a following among musicians and producers, AIR released it as a standalone plugin.
It is a monophonic subtractive synth built around vacuum tube circuit modelling. The maker says it captures the crunchy, warm sound of the analogue era, and it is aimed at the 70s and 80s sounds that analog oscillators, multiple filters and envelopes are known for.
The front panel is all switches, knobs and dials, so you can program basses, leads, pads or sound effects by hand.
Two Vacuum Tube Oscillators sit at the start of the chain. Each has four wave shapes, and instead of picking one you can morph between them.
Both oscillators feed a mixer where you can add drive/distortion and ring modulation. From there the signal passes through high-pass and low-pass filters.
The filters give a smooth sound by default. Each has a saturation control for a more aggressive tone.
The Age section has two parts: Drift and Dust. Drift applies pitch drift to the oscillators, and Dust adds crackle and noise.
The maker says Age can also introduce slightly inaccurate keyboard triggering and pitch, for an aged-hardware feel.
The preset library is meant as a starting point you tweak to taste.
If you want more, AIR points to the upgrade to Vacuum Pro. It brings polyphonic tube synthesis with six circuits and expanded effects.
Vacuum Pro combines two synth parts that can be stacked, split or layered. Every part carries a pair of tube-driven oscillators covering a broad frequency span, and you can lock them together, pull them apart in pitch, or place each in its own octave.
Quad Detune controls on each oscillator make it quick to dial in thick sounds, and a built-in Doubling effect widens and thickens a patch further.
Yes. The Vacuum Vintage Black Friday deal takes 70% off AIR Music Technology's synth plugin, bringing it to $29. The offer ends Nov 26, 2026. It is a monophonic vintage synth available as a standalone plugin in AU and VST formats.
Vacuum Vintage is available as a standalone plugin in AU and VST formats. It began inside AIR's Creative Collection of instruments bundled with Avid Pro Tools, and AIR later released it on its own for anyone to use.
It ships with a wide range of presets designed by sound designers Richard Devine and Mark Ovenden. They cover leads, pads, bass, arpeggios, percussive sounds and FX, and they are meant as instant inspiration you can tweak.
It is a monophonic subtractive synth with vacuum tube circuit modelling. Two Vacuum Tube Oscillators, each with four morphable wave shapes, feed a mixer with drive and ring modulation, then high- and low-pass filters, envelopes and effects.
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