Meet Apus, Our New Free Lo-Fi Plugin

We’ve got a new instrument for your next late-night session. Meet Apus, our free lo-fi plugin with 52 presets for keys, leads, pads and other melodic ideas.

We made it for warm chords, hazy melodies and those slightly imperfect sounds that give a track some character. Pick a preset, play a few notes and see what turns up.

A little dusty, a little strange

Apus has soft textures, nostalgic tones and a slightly off-kilter feel. Some sounds are fragile and detuned; others sit quietly behind a beat or give a simple melody a bit of colour.

We’ve built it with lo-fi, ambient and retro ideas in mind. Try it on a mellow beat, a slow-moving pad part or a lead line that needs to feel a little less polished.

Keep the controls close

There’s an ADSR envelope, filter, glide, modulation and velocity control, plus chorus, distortion, delay and reverb. You can soften the attack, add movement, make things a little rougher or let a sound hang in the air.

We wanted the sound-shaping to feel easy to get into, without having to dig through pages of settings.

Hear Apus in action

Here’s a quick demo before you give it a go.

Download it for free

Apus is available as VST3 for Windows and VST3/AU for macOS. There’s no AAX version for Pro Tools.

Visit the Apus page to download it for free via Gumroad, watch the demo and check the full details.

We hope Apus gives you a sound you want to come back to.