LANGSTON MASINGALE INDUSTRIES×  COSMIC AUDIO LAB

A sixteen pad sampler, a chop deck 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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All three plugins in one purchase. Or take any one on its own.

  • 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. Every one ships in both themes: drag the divider on any interface below to move the line between the graphite plate and the gold one.

  1. Luxampler split down the middle: sixteen pads and the per pad panel in the dark theme on the left, the same interface in the gold theme on the right

    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.
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  2. Luxamp split down the middle: the sample editor and vintage engine in the dark theme on the left, the same interface in the gold theme on the right

    II

    Luxamp

    The chop deck

    One sample, two markers and a controller. Ride the in and out points over MIDI CC while it plays, so you chop by hand instead of by grid.

    • Markers on a knob. Start and end are automatable parameters with learnable MIDI CC, so the chop moves under your hand without opening the window.
    • Loop, reverse, normalise. The three edits you actually reach for, done to the sample rather than bolted on after it.
    • Vintage engine. Word depth and sample rate reduction with drive, filter and resonance behind them. The noise floor comes with it.
    • Keylock or Varispeed. Keylock moves pitch and leaves the length where it was; Varispeed drags both together the way the old boxes did.
    • Export prints the effects. What lands on disk is what you were listening to, run through the same DSP rather than a clean copy of the source.
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  3. LuxGrit split down the middle: the dark theme on the left, silver knobs on a graphite console, and the gold theme on the right, gold knobs on a cream console, both in the same walnut frame

    III

    LuxGrit

    The saturator

    Eight 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 cleaning up 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 rather than a quieter version of the effect.
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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.

Safe in real time

The audio thread has one job and a deadline it cannot miss. Nothing on it allocates memory, waits on a lock or touches a file. That is a build rule here, not an aspiration. Streaming, preset loading and export all happen somewhere else.

It opens the first time

Developer ID signing with hardened runtime, an installer notarised by Apple and 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

Nothing here reports back. There is no analytics and no account to create before you can make a sound, and a licence verifies against a file already on your disk. The one request these plugins ever make is a version check, which you can dismiss for good.

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.

THE MAKERS

D’lux Suite is the work of two shops, and the × in the name is the point. This is a collaboration, not a licensing deal. Every control on these three plugins had to survive two questions: does it sound like something, and does it still behave at three in the morning with a full session open and a deadline in the way.

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

  • VST3All hosts
  • Audio UnitmacOS
  • AAXPro Tools
  • StandaloneNo host needed

Systems

  • macOS10.15 Catalina and later
  • ArchitectureUniversal, Apple Silicon and Intel
  • Windows10 and 11, 64 bit
  • RuntimeLinked in, nothing to install

Hosts

Logic Pro · Ableton Live · Pro Tools · Cubase · Nuendo · Studio One · Reaper · FL Studio · Bitwig · Digital Performer · Cakewalk

Any host that loads VST3, AU or AAX.

Instrument

  • Pads16 per instance, MIDI note or click
  • OutputsStereo main + 15 aux buses (Luxampler)
  • Audio filesWAV, AIFF, FLAC and MP3 at any rate
  • Presets.lux kits, portable across platforms

Engineering

  • Audio threadNo allocation, no locks, no file access
  • Code signingDeveloper ID, hardened runtime, notarised, stapled
  • Runtime networkNone, beyond a version check you can dismiss
  • ActivationOffline, no dongle, free trial

04 GET THE SUITE

Take all three.

The suite is the way in: one purchase, one install, and the three plugins that were built to be used together. Every one of them is also sold on its own, and every one of them has a free trial, so nothing here needs your card before you have heard it.

THE BUNDLE Best value

D’lux Suite

Luxampler, Luxamp and LuxGrit together, in one checkout instead of three.

  • Luxampler Sixteen pads, a full voice behind every one
  • Luxamp One sample, two markers, chopped by hand
  • LuxGrit Eight controls and a button called Punish
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VST3, AU, AAX and Standalone. macOS 10.15+ Universal and Windows 10/11 64 bit. Offline activation, no dongle, no account.

OR ONE AT A TIME

Every trial is the plugin itself, installed the same way, running in your session. The three of them share a face, a preset language and a signal path, so they are worth more together than apart. Take the bundle

05 STAY IN THE LOOP

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