Physical Audio Complete Bundle – All 7 Physical Modelling Plugins for $39.99

Every synth you own makes sound one of three ways: oscillators, samples, or models of oscillators. Physical Audio’s instruments use a fourth: they simulate the objects themselves. Strings vibrate, couple and decay; metal plates ring with their real resonant modes; membranes and chaotic systems behave the way physics says they should — and the sound you hear is that behavior, generated in real time. The Complete Bundle collects all seven Physical Audio plugins for $39.99, which makes it the most distinctive instrument purchase on this entire board.

The Instruments

Tetrad models coupled string systems, producing complex, evolving harmonic textures as simulated strings interact with each other — tones that shift and breathe like a real string ensemble rather than looping like a patch. Derailer explores the unstable, nonlinear end of physical systems, where behavior tips toward chaos and timbres emerge that no oscillator designer would have specified. Modus works in modal synthesis, simulating the resonant modes of solid objects for metallic, glass-like and percussive tones with genuine acoustic logic. Preparation recreates the prepared piano — strings altered by objects placed on them — with the strange, percussive resonance that made the technique a modern-classical staple.

Reverbs With Physics Too

The bundle’s Physical Reverbs suite applies the same philosophy to space: plate, spring and room reverbs derived from the acoustic behavior of real reverberant systems rather than algorithmic approximation. Fed with the bundle’s own instruments, the whole signal path — source and space — obeys one consistent physical logic, which is a large part of why these sounds sit in mixes and scores with an uncanny sense of place.

Played, Not Triggered

Because the sound is generated from a physical model, it responds to performance the way acoustic instruments do: velocity, aftertouch and MIDI expression change the behavior of the object, not just its volume. Every note is slightly different, every gesture produces a unique tonal response, and long notes evolve instead of cycling. For film and game composers this means textures with the variation of live performance; for sound designers it means timbres that are genuinely unavailable anywhere else, because no sample library recorded them and no conventional synth architecture produces them.

Territory Nothing Else Covers

The use cases cluster where uniqueness is the brief. Game audio teams use the instruments for adaptive, physically reactive sounds that never repeat identically — an asset in interactive media, where a looped sample announces itself within minutes. Trailer and film composers reach for Modus and Preparation when a cue needs the uncanny feeling of real objects behaving strangely. Experimental producers build entire tracks from Derailer’s instabilities and Tetrad’s string interactions, material that could not be mistaken for anyone else’s session. Even in conventional productions, a single physically modelled texture placed against synthesizers and samples gives the ear something real to hold onto. Sound libraries compete on size; this bundle competes on being the only door to its sounds.

Ownership economics complete the argument: seven instruments whose sounds cannot be substituted by anything else in a typical plugin folder, for the price many developers charge for a single preset expansion. Producers who buy the Complete Bundle tend to describe it the same way — not as more content, but as a different instrumentarium altogether.

The Deal

The Physical Audio Complete Bundle is $39.99 for all seven plugins — Tetrad, Derailer, Modus, Preparation and the full reverb suite — in VST3, AU and AAX for macOS 10.13 and later and Windows 10 and later, delivered instantly. Specialist instruments usually charge this per plugin. If your productions sound like everyone else’s synth folder, this is the bundle that breaks the resemblance.