BugoSub
Does your track have a floor?
BugoSub listens to what is already playing — or to MIDI — and generates a clean, stable low-end voice underneath it, tracked to the right note and shaped to sit under the source without fighting it.
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Three Sources, One Honest Job Each
Pick the source that matches what you're feeding it. BugoSub doesn't try to guess and do everything badly — each mode does one job well.
- Follow
- Tracks the pitch of a continuous, melodic source — bass lines, synth parts — and generates a matching sub in real time, following octave jumps note by note.
- Impact
- Transient-triggered instead of pitch-tracked. Built for kicks and one-shots where you want a fast, punchy low hit at the frequency you dial.
- MIDI
- BugoSub Instrument: a MIDI-driven sub synth you play straight from a keyboard or a MIDI track, with legato glide.
Bass, BugoSub. Press play, then switch takes while it runs.
Recorded through BugoSub in Logic Pro and level-matched, so the difference is the low end, not volume. Most of what BugoSub adds sits below what laptop speakers can play: listen on headphones or monitors.
Where BugoSub earns its slot
- Bass lines
- Put FOLLOW on a bass or synth bass and add a foundation an octave below. At 50% SUB MIX your source stays at full level with the sub underneath — inserting BugoSub never makes the track quieter.
- Kicks
- Use IMPACT to give a kick a low hit at a fixed frequency between 20 and 120 Hz, with DECAY setting the length of each hit.
- From midi
- Write the sub part yourself with BugoSub Instrument when you want full control over every note.
BugoSub, up close
Every control, and what it’s for
8 controls on the panel. Nothing hidden in a menu.
- SUB MIX
- 0% source only, 50% source untouched plus the full sub, 100% the generated sub alone.
- OCTAVE
- Transpose the generated voice −2 to +1. Nothing is ever played below 20 Hz.
- PHASE
- Flip polarity when the sub fights the source instead of reinforcing it.
- DECAY
- How long the voice rings after the input stops.
- SENSITIVITY
- How easily FOLLOW commits to a detected pitch — conservative by design, so it would rather stay silent than play a wrong note.
- FAT / SUB COMP
- Harmonic weight and built-in compression for the generated voice.
- WIDEN
- Mono-safe stereo movement on the sub.
- SUSTAIN / GLIDE
- How the voice holds and slides between notes.
Will it run on my system?
- BugoSub FX
- Audio Unit (AU), VST3
- BugoSub Instrument
- Audio Unit (AU)
- OS Compatibility
- macOS 12 or later
- Architecture
- Apple Silicon and Intel
- Latency
- FOLLOW latency reported to the host for delay compensation
Get BugoSub
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