Rob Papen

When it was first released in 2005 'BLUE' already reflected Rob Papen's cutting-edge, creative, and — most importantly — musical approach toward developing virtual synthesizers. Rob Papen himself called it 'Cross-fusion synthesis' because it covered both Subtractive and FM synthesis in one creative concept. With its successor BLUE-II, the 'Cross-fusion synthesis' was also expanded with a creat... [Read more]

SubBoomBass is a dedicated bass synth with presets designed by Rob Papen (and other guest artists) that will supply you with "huge cone-rattling sounds". Based on the Predator engine, SubBoomBass has been carefully crafted to provide you with the tools to create fresh new bass lines for any musical style. Rob Papen displays his innovative style by combining the 'phat' sounding synth engine with tu... [Read more]

RP-Delay is a unique delay with a particular focus on some very special features, including brand new FX routing which means the sound reverser can reverse the input, while simultaneously reversing one of the delay lines. The reverse sound can also be triggered via a MIDI keyboard, generating totally new sounds, and sending them into the reverser with its own filter and distortion. RP-Delay allows... [Read more]

Using a combination of drum synthesis/samples and the built-in pattern sequencer to trigger beats already made Punch a unique drum machine and loved by many upon its first release.. Now, by adding even more drum synthesis models, and introducing a totally new main screen which allows you to quickly create new drum kits, Punch-2 continues its legacy to be a cutting edge drum machine... but with lot... [Read more]

Predator includes powerful features such as Preset Morphing, Intelligent Preset Variation, MIDI and Synth Controllable FX, Unison Detune, Chord Memory and a versatile Arpeggiator. Preset banks include: Hip Hop (NY, Club, DirtySouth and Gfunk), Jump, hardcore, breakbeat, various trance styles, DnB banks and more... It also includes PredatorFX, allowing you to use the filters, modulations, effects a... [Read more]

Blade is a virtual synthesizer that uses a "harmolator" synthesis to generate sound. The original BLADE synthesizer released in 2012 had a unique concept in controlling the waveform harmonics (Harmolator) by using an XY pad. On top of that, the XY pad movement could also be recorded, edited, and played back tempo-based. This concept of BLADE meant that you could generate some very different sounds... [Read more]

PRISMA provides the Rob Papen 'sound garden' with ways of providing terrific tone colors by combining Rob Papen plugins into a single 'prismatic' sound source. Powerfully, PRISMA stores those combined software instruments and all their respective settings as a single preset. Seriously smart features of note include individual VELOCITY or KEYB. RANGE (keyboard range) split layers for creative combi... [Read more]

RG is an innovative software instrument that allows the user to create not just classic rhythm guitar grooves, but also exciting new grooves and sounds which a real guitar could never produce. RG uses a keyboard layout of "major-" and "minor" chords to play the grooves, each with two sequence pattern (A or B) options. Just hit a single note in the major or minor keyboard range and the groove plays... [Read more]

After the original RP-VERB came out, it quickly became loved by many (famous) producers worldwide.Its dense and warm sound made it legendary and a go-to reverb for many.As usual, the Rob Papen brand always seeks new directions and for many, it won't be a surprise to find some new creative tools inside RP-VERB 2. Most intriguing in RP-VERB 2 – next to a great sound – is the new 'Reverser' secti... [Read more]

At the Dutch Dancefair 2014, DJ Promo (aka producer Sebastian Hoff) and DJ Free-K (aka producer Freek Vergoossen) approached Rob Papen with the idea of a synthesiser that focused more on 'distorted' sounds with an easy to use layout. Renowned for delivering fresh, cutting edge and musical plugins for producers, Rob Papen invited the DJs to his studio for a brainstorming session resulting in a list... [Read more]