Get the Steinberg Backbone drum Resynthesizer plugin for FREE with every purchase at Plugin Boutique until March 2, 2025.
The software shop Plugin Boutique is celebrating its 13th birthday in February. Happy Birthday! They launched numerous anniversary deals to celebrate this special event, including a 50% OFF discount on the Arturia V Collection X or the Korg Collection 5.
Parallel to these deals, Plugin Boutique has also unveiled its monthly gift with purchase. This month, it’s a real treat: You get the Steinberg Backbone drum synthesizer, a plugin worth 149€, with every purchase.
Steinberg Backbone Free?!
To get Steinberg Backbone for free, purchase something at Plugin Boutique in February. The minimum purchase amount is not set. The item can be a 5€ plugin or sound set, 10€, or more. Rent-to-own offers are excluded. But what is Backbone?
Backbone is a powerful drum Synthesizer with a unique re-synthesis engine for designing distinctive drum sounds (kicks, snares, cinematic, impacts, hi-hats…). Each sound comprises up to eight sample slots with a sample import option.
Once done, Backbone transforms samples into a synthesized version with a spectral domain. The re-synthesis engine goes pretty deep and offers an audio decomposition tool set. It separates the original sound source into its tonal and noise elements
Each element gives you complete control over the re-synthesis and classic subtractive synthesis controls like filter and amp. For deeper dive-ins, you can also use a customizable spectral filter.
Steinberg gave the engine even more power in version 1.5 by adding DrumGAN, an innovative drum generator developed by Sony CSL. Powered by AI, it creates new kicks, snares, and cymbal samples quickly and intuitively. It also analyzes samples, can replicate them, and create countless variations.
Further, the plugin ships with two independent 4-slot multi-FX processors, including distortion, reverb, and more.
The Best Deal
The easiest way to get the plugin is to buy something. But if you haven’t planned anything for February because Black Friday may have put too big a hole in your budget, you’ll be looking for the cheapest option.
Even if there is no official minimum to participate, you must spend at least 5€. These are cheap products that you get at Plugin Boutique right now. Here are some examples:
- Neon City Synthwave sound library for NI Massive (5€)
- Red Sky Lullaby preset pack for BLEASS Omega synth (5€)
- various PB VirtualCZ expansions (5€ each)
- various PB Carbon Electra expansions (5€ each)
- …
Deal Or Not?
The Steinberg Backbone free deal with any purchase is one of the best gift-with-purchase deals from Plugin Boutique in recent months. Last year’s Black Friday special was weaker, in my opinion.
It’s a very intriguing drum synthesizer, oh sorry, resynthesizer plugin with cool features. Since I haven’t personally tested Backbone, I may buy it myself because you will not get it cheaper.
Steinberg Backbone is available now as a free download with every purchase at Plugin Boutique until March 2, 2025. The regular price is $149. It runs as a VST3, AU, and AAX plugin on macOS (native Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows.
More information here: Steinberg
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