Doppler

Doppler effects for film, sound design, and music

Create the Frequency/Pitch Shift Effect of Sounds Traveling Past You

Speeding cars, airplane fly-bys, railroad trains moving past you—the Doppler effect is an essential sound design tool to create the impact of space and motion. Now, the Doppler plugin provides the aural cues that recreate a realistic environment, and place your sounds within a realistic space.

But as Doppler users have found out, this isn’t just about sound design. Add motion to mixes—percussion, hi-hats, guitars, synths, background vocals, and more—that no other effect can create.

Create fly-bys and movement for FX, with pitch shifts and reverb
Control track curve, center time, pitch, start and end points
Intuitive display shows clearly how the sound moves in space
Bypass pitch-shifting to retain tempo with rhythmic instruments
Reverb tail generator emulates reflections from surroundings
Trigger one-shot or continuous sweeps, manually or by threshold
Air Damp emulates high-frequency loss as sound moves away
20 presets for common sound design movements

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What Top Pros Are Saying

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