LANGSTON MASINGALE INDUSTRIES×  COSMIC AUDIO LAB

A sixteen‑pad sampler, a slicer and a saturator — struck from the same gold.

Three plugins built the way hardware used to be built: one job each, no menus to dig through, and nothing on the audio thread that could ever make you miss a take.

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  • VST3
  • AU
  • AAX
  • Standalone
  • macOS 10.15+ Universal
  • Windows 10/11 64‑bit

01 THE SUITE

Three tools. One workflow.

Load it, chop it, dirty it. Each plugin does one thing completely, and the three of them share a face, a preset language and a signal path, so moving between them costs you nothing.

  1. I

    Luxampler

    The kit sampler

    Sixteen pads, a different sample on every one, and a full voice behind each pad instead of a shared one. Build a kit, save it as a .lux file, carry it to the next session.

    • Per‑pad voice. ADSR, drive, filter with resonance, bit depth, sample‑rate reduction, tune, pan and level — all per pad, not per instrument.
    • Three algorithms. Clean, Grit and Hybrid, switchable per pad, so one kit can hold a pristine 808 and a crushed break.
    • Choke groups and stacking. Pads that cut each other off, or two pads on one note to layer.
    • Sixteen aux outputs. Every pad can leave on its own channel for mixing.
    • Keylock or Varispeed. Follow the host tempo, or let pitch move with speed the way the old boxes did.

  2. II

    Luxamp

    The chop shop

    One sample in, sixteen playable slices out. Drop a break on it, set your markers, and the chops are under your fingers before you have finished listening back.

    • Markers to pads. Slice a loop across the grid and play it from any controller. Numbered markers so you can see what you are hitting.
    • Keylock that follows. Lock to the host tempo and the chops stay in time when the session moves.
    • Vintage engine. Word‑depth and sample‑rate reduction with the noise floor that came with them, not a plug‑on filter.
    • Export the slice. Print any pad to WAV through the exact DSP you were listening to — no surprises between preview and print.
    • Mono collapse. Fold a stereo break down when you want it sitting behind the vocal.

  3. III

    LuxGrit

    The saturator

    Seven controls and a button called Punish. It puts weight on a drum bus, teeth on a sample, and hair on a vocal, and it gets out of the way when you turn it down.

    • Drive with Bias. Push the stage off centre for even‑order weight instead of the symmetrical fuzz everything else gives you.
    • Tilt before the stage. Decide what gets dirty first — lean the spectrum into the drive rather than EQ‑ing the mess afterwards.
    • Crush. The digital end of the range, for when analogue warmth is not the assignment.
    • Punish. One button. You will know when you need it.
    • Clean at zero. Turn it down and the path is transparent — a true bypass, not a quieter version of the effect.

02 HOW THEY ARE BUILT

Built like hardware, not like software.

The interesting decisions in a plugin are the ones you never see. These are ours.

Real‑time safe by rule

No allocation, no locks and no file access on the audio thread — enforced as a build discipline, not hoped for. Streaming, preset loading and export all happen off the thread that has to hit its deadline.

Signed, notarised, stapled

Developer ID signing with hardened runtime, an Apple‑notarised installer that is stapled before it ships, and a Windows installer that puts the VST3 exactly where the spec says it goes. It installs and it opens. That is the whole story.

Offline by default

No telemetry, no analytics, no account needed to make a sound. Licences verify offline. The only thing these plugins ever ask the internet is whether a newer version exists — and you can dismiss that and never see it again.

Native everywhere

One universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel. A native 64‑bit build for Windows 10 and 11 with the runtime linked in, so there is no redistributable to chase before your session opens.

Sampling has never been about clean. It is about what a machine did to a sound on the way through, and whether you could get back there again tomorrow.

03 COMPATIBILITY

Where they run.

Formats
VST3 · Audio Unit · AAX · Standalone
macOS
10.15 Catalina and later · Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel)
Windows
10 and 11 · 64‑bit only
Hosts
Any VST3, AU or AAX host — Logic, Live, Pro Tools, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, FL Studio, Bitwig
Sampler pads
16 per instance, MIDI note or pad‑click triggered
Outputs
Stereo main plus 15 aux stereo buses (Luxampler)
Audio files
WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 · any sample rate, resampled on load
Presets
.lux kit files — portable between machines and platforms
Licence
Offline activation · free trial · no dongle, no always‑on connection

04 FIRST IN LINE

Be there on day one.

One email when the suite drops, and one more if there is a launch price. Nothing else, ever. No list swaps, no drip campaign, and one click to leave.

We store the address and nothing else.