Finally Here: Embodme Erae Sound Is the Synth Engine for the Erae 2 and Every MPE Controller!
Not Just Another Plugin, but a Complete Instrument Built for the Erae 2
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Finally Here: Embodme Erae Sound Is the Synth Engine for the Erae 2 and Every MPE Controller! · Source: Embodme
Embodme has just released Erae Sound, a synth engine built from the ground up for the Erae 2. No generic plugin you have to wrestle into shape, but an instrument that actually knows what it’s talking to. 84 presets, each with its own dedicated layout for the Erae surface, a virtual analog engine with a deep modulation system, and nine effects. $89 as a one-time purchase, free demo available. What are you waiting for?
Embodme Erae Sound: Everything You Need to Know about the New Synth Engine
What Erae Sound Is and Why It Makes Perfect Sense
Anyone who’s read our Erae 2 review knows what an unusual controller this is. The pressure-sensitive, fully configurable surface offers a level of expressivity that conventional keyboard controllers simply don’t reach. The problem up until now: you had to figure out yourself which plugins actually take advantage of that expressivity and how to configure the surface for them in a way that makes sense.
Erae Sound solves exactly that. Each of the 84 presets comes with its own layout for the Erae 2, so the surface automatically adapts to match the chosen sound. Retro synth, digital harp, analog keys — each preset is a different invitation to move differently, touch differently, and discover what lives inside the sound. It’s a genuinely coherent concept and makes getting started a lot more immediate.
The Engine under the Hood
The virtual analog engine runs two dual-oscillator engines with continuous waveform morphing, a wavefolder, two morphing filters, and through-zero FM. That’s a serious synthesizer on paper, and it holds up in practice.
The modulation system stands out in particular. Every parameter gets its own ADSR envelope and its own LFO, free-running, tempo-synced, or at audio rate, with waveform morphing, polyphonic LFOs, and link groups. No routing matrix with a fixed number of slots, just full flexibility without workarounds.
The Erae 2 integration is bidirectional: layout-aware modulation sources like XY pads, faders, and buttons appear dynamically in the software, and hardware and plugin stay in sync. Erae Sound also works with any other MPE controller, so it’s not locked to the Erae 2 ecosystem. Nice!
Nine Effects, Every Parameter Modulatable
The effects section covers Distortion, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Delay, Reverb, Shimmer, Compressor, and parametric EQ across four slots. Wet sends are adjustable per generator, and every parameter is modulatable here too. For a plugin at this price point, that’s an exceptional amount of depth. And it sounds genuinely good.
Price and Availability
Embodme Erae Sound costs $89 as a one-time purchase and is available now directly at Embodme. The plugin supports VST3, AU, and Standalone on Mac and Windows. A free demo is available for download, with 84 presets included in the full version.
The Erae 2 controller is available at Thomann*.
More Information
- Embodme Erae Sound: Product Page
- Embodme Erae Sound: Demo Download
- Review: Embodme Erae 2
- All Embodme News on Gearnews
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