CUSTOMTONE 2
VST3 / AU INSTRUMENT PLUGIN

CustomTone 2

Design motion, harmony, and texture inside one living instrument.

A cinematic sound engine built for evolving presets, expressive layers, and performance-ready sonic worlds.

How it works

$79 for the plug-in alone, lifetime updates. Or grab the Complete bundle for $119 and save $17 vs buying the three packs separately.

INCLUDED FREE · NEW

The Custom Tone 1 Library, now built in.

We rebuilt the entire CustomTone 1 sound set as a full CustomTone 2 expansion pack — 110 presets with their original waves baked in. It's bundled free with every purchase and waiting in the preset browser the moment you install.

Custom Tone 1 Library expansion pack cover artwork
110
Presets
.WAV
Original samples(included)
$0
With every CustomTone 2
Custom Tone 1 Library shown in the CustomTone 2 preset browser
Find it in the preset browser under “Custom Tone 1 Library.”
FIVE MACROS

One twist becomes a track.

Color

Tone, saturation, and harmonic content. Warm at low values, electric at the top.

Pulse

Rhythmic density and gate behaviour. Sets how the motion sequencer fires notes.

Drift

How freely Evolve mutates state — from frozen to wild — within your locked sections.

Space

Reverb size, modulation depth, and the sense of room around every voice.

Bloom

Texture, layering, and the silvery tail of every note. Drive, growth, character.

TEXTURE + FINISH

Six layers, in your hand.

Delay, Wave, Resample, Reverse, Stretch, Filter. Each is a fully independent voice with its own source — drag a sample onto any card and the engine slices, key-detects, and routes. Round-robin them or stack them; pitch-shift one an octave down for a stretch pad while another reverses for a percussive tail.

  • Source: Audio file · Wave oscillator · Wavetable (hyper-saw unison)
  • Per-layer pitch · pan · mute · solo · key-shift · loop region
  • Six tempo-syncable effects: delay · filter · reverse · stretch · drive · modulation
  • SmartMaster auto-leveler + brick-wall limiter at -0.8 dB
  • 6 reverb algorithms — Deep Space, Hall, Plate, Room, Cave, Cloud
CustomTone 2 Texture engine — six layer cards with waveform displays, level faders, and effect controls
CustomTone 2 Motion Map page — eight luminous nodes orbiting a central hub with macro controls
MOTION

A node graph that composes itself.

Eight outer nodes orbit a central hub. Drag to rewire — every connection becomes a live signal path that sequences notes and modulates parameters at the same time. Press Evolve and the engine mutates state under your locks: anything you've pinned stays put, everything else drifts toward something you haven't heard yet.

  • Per-node type: arpeggio · delay · reverse · gate · grain · pitch
  • Per-node mute & lock — protect the parts that work
  • Density · swing · gate · probability · humanise
  • Five macro destinations: Color · Pulse · Drift · Space · Bloom
HARMONY

Drop in a sample, it learns the key.

The Harmony engine analyses any audio you drop and locks the rest of the plug-in to that key — host MIDI, motion-fired chords, every note from every layer is quantised to a scale you actually meant to be in. Pick a mood, pick a scale; the chord cards rewrite themselves.

  • Real-time key detection — Krumhansl-Schmuckler templates
  • Major · Natural Minor · Dorian · Phrygian · Phrygian Dominant · Harmonic Minor
  • Per-step chord voicing — pick quality and inversion
  • 8 mood presets — Late Night · Cinematic · Trap · Jazz · Bright …
  • Picardy denial · Neapolitan 6 · tritone substitution moves baked in
CustomTone 2 Harmony page — chord progression, scale lock, mood presets, and live MIDI keyboard
INCLUDED

Sounds to start with.

Twenty hand-built factory presets get you playing the moment you load the plug-in — every one comes with its source samples baked in, so the sound travels with the preset. Plus the full Custom Tone 1 Library — 110 presets with their original waves included free (shown up top). Lifetime free updates included.

Three optional expansion packs (Creator Arc, Lucid Dreams, Nostalgia) sold separately at $19 each. Add all three for 61 more presets and 353 more baked samples — see below.

20
Factory presets
80
Included audio samples(baked in presets)
10
Original MIDI files
110
Custom Tone 1 Library presets(free · original waves included)
EXPANSION PACKS

Three pack drops on launch.

Each pack ships five hand-built presets and five original MIDI patterns hooked into the engine's motion map — drop the MIDI on any pad and the harmony engine handles the rest. $19 each; licensed to your CustomTone 2 account.

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Creator Arc

AUDIO TECH HUB · 21 PRESETS · 124 SAMPLES · 5 MIDI

Building, triumphant hard. Phrygian Dominant rising motifs with a brighter top end. 92–105 BPM.

15 Synths · 1 Flute · 1 Brass · 1 Keys · 1 Wind · 1 Pluck · 1 Bell

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Lucid Dreams

AUDIO TECH HUB · 20 PRESETS · 112 SAMPLES · 5 MIDI

Slower, atmospheric hard. Held-tone bed under tight Storch-flavoured stabs. 75–88 BPM.

9 Synths · 4 Strings · 3 Wind · 2 Plucks · 1 Brass · 1 Keys

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Nostalgia

AUDIO TECH HUB · 20 PRESETS · 117 SAMPLES · 5 MIDI

Boom-bap golden-era. Heavier piano, soulful chord motion, dusty atmosphere. 84–94 BPM.

5 Keys · 5 Synths · 1 Organ · 1 Stab · 1 Texture · 1 Hangdrum · 1 Pluck · 1 Flute · 1 String · 1 Bell · 1 Pad

DEMOS

Hear it in action.

Eight unedited patches straight from CustomTone 2.

BUILT BY VST DEVELOPERS

Made by the team that teaches VST development.

Audio Tech Hub has shipped commercial VST plugins under our own name and a dozen producer brands since 2019. CustomTone 2 is everything we've learned about real-time audio software, generative composition, and plug-in UX — packaged as a tool. If you'd rather build your own instead, we teach the craft directly: our VST development course walks engineers and producers through the full pipeline — JUCE / HISE / FAUST, UI design, DSP fundamentals, store launch, distribution.

Brands we've shipped VST plugins for: MacShooter · Busy Works Beats · Infinit Audio · Producer Sources · StudioTrap · DNX · B Rackz · Killshot · SoundWare · Studiolinked VST · Banana Audio.

FAQ

Common questions.

Which DAWs is this compatible with?
VST3 and AU on macOS 11+ and Windows 10+. Apple Silicon native, Intel-Mac universal binary, and 32/64-bit Windows. Tested in Logic, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Bitwig, Reaper, and Pro Tools.
How does the license work?
One purchase, lifetime updates, tied to your email. Sign in once on each Mac via a magic link — no serial numbers to lose. Refunds and revocations are honoured automatically.
Can I re-download my order?
Yes — anytime, on any device. Visit audiotechhub.com/pages/customtone-2-download and enter the email you used at checkout. We'll email you a one-tap magic link; click it and the page loads your library with download buttons for the plug-in and every expansion pack you own. No password, no serial number — your email is your account. Sessions stay signed in for 90 days, so most of the time you can just bookmark the page and click through.
What about CPU and latency?
Idle < 1%, normal preset 3–8%, heavy texture 8–15% on a typical M1 at 48 kHz / 512 samples. Latency is zero unless you engage limiter look-ahead or spectral blur (those are reported correctly to your host).
Can I use it on multiple Macs?
Yes. Each Mac signs in with the same email; we link Macs to the same email for your account. Roadmap includes a self-serve "manage devices" panel.
What if I want a refund?
7-day refund window — full price returned, license cleanly revoked, no questions. After 7 days we look at it case-by-case.

Sounds don't make themselves.
This one almost does.

One-time purchase. Free updates for the life of the plug-in. Test drive it with our money for the first week.