Xfer Records LFOTool

At 5:12:27 in this Twitch video, deadmau5 can be seen using the plugin

In one of his tweets, Zedd tweets to Steve Duda (The developer of LFO Tool) asking for help. "@steve_duda dudaaaa. LFO tool is crashing with the new cubase 7 and I'm crying over here :'("

In Calvin Harris' private Youtube Channel, we can see that in his "Liked Videos" playlist an official tutorial of how to use Xfer LFO Tool Plugin appears there, so it can be assumed he used (at least once) this Plugin from Xfer Records.

Tiësto teamed up with [KSHMR](https://equipboard.com/pros/kshmr) on the track "Secrets (Drop)" where the Xfer LFO Tool Plugin was used. [Source](https://splice.com/tiesto/tiesto-kshmr-secrets-drop).

At 30:20 in the video, Nicky Romero talks about doing a sidechain: "...we'll take the LFO Tool today, it's also a great one. I take a sidechain preset, and I just adjust it."

When asked about their favorite plugins, W&W say "The LFOTool we use a lot and really like. That is from Xfer."

the most filled up channel contains a plugin called LFOTool

At this masterclass session at ACM (Academy of Contemporary Music), Zomboy pulls up Xfer LFO Tool Plugin on the screen (0:37 into the video) to demonstrate how he sidechains. He goes into some detail as to how he uses and gives a couple demos: "...It's literally only dropping out for about... 1/32 drop. But you can also change it to make it like your classic sidechain. I love the fact that this isn't affecting the audio at all. It's literally acting as a volume tool. You're not compressing it, you're not coloring it, you're not shaping it in any other way other than literally just using it as a volume automation... I don't use compression sidechain anymore now, I just rely on this [Xfer LFO Tool Plugin] completely. It's also not just good for that, it's a good filter, you can like... you can do some crazy stuff with it. It's a filter as well as everything else. Quite cool!

In the high resolution version of this image 3LAU shared on Facebook, you can see the LFOTool plugin on the bottom left.

The Xfer LFO Tool Plugin was used on the track "Secrets (Drop)" by KSHMR and [Tiësto](https://equipboard.com/pros/tiesto). [Source](https://splice.com/tiesto/tiesto-kshmr-secrets-drop).

"Also LFO Tool is our go to sidechaining plugin. We love it because it is so consistent every time. The problem with sidechain compressors is that some of the time you will actually get distortion from the compressor depending on how it’s set, or what the key signal is. Sometimes you want that distortion, but it’s really nice to have something that is transparent and produces the perfect ducking curve every single time."

Virtual Riot can be seen using a Xfer LFO Tool at 4:27:22 of this video.

In this YouTube video at 6:53, Markus talks about the Xfer LFO plugin & how he uses it.

Gareth Emery uses the Xfer LFO Tool on the left side of his screen at the 3:03 mark in this video.

Favorite plugins for The M Machine? They tweet "...rely most heavily on Sylenth. Runners up are Ohmicide and LFO tool".

Morgan Page sent Equipboard an email in February 2017 stating he uses Xfer's LFO Tool.

19:09 into Albin Myers' "In The Studio" video, Albin recalls a channel strip preset called "LFO TOOL", and after loading it "LFOTool" can be seen in the channel strip. At 19:18, he opens LFO Tool on-screen and says: "I just put in my LFO Tool sidechain producer here on the hi-hat..."

in this instagram video, you can see very clearly there's xfer lfo tool with valhallaRoom.

Used on "Purpose", as stated by *Purpose* mix engineers Josh Gudwin and Andrew Wuepper in this May 2016 *Sound on Sound* interview about the mixing of the title track and others. > Gudwin picks out a few other interesting tracks, beginning with a vocal track named ‘vcls’. “That track contains a vocal sample that Blood made of Justin’s vocal. I’m just touching that with the LFO Tool for a bit of pumping, I take out some high frequencies with the Pro-Q 2, and then use the SoundToys Microshift for a slight pitch-shift/chorusing effect. ‘Sry1V’ below that is the vinyl sound in the track. ‘$JBU’ is the main lead vocal bus, on which I have the UAD 1176, Waves De-Esser, Manley Massive Passive, Metric Halo Channel Strip. The sends are to the generic aux tracks at the bottom of the sesion: verb, ping-pong delay, Dimension D. Below the lead vocal bus is the print track of a Bricasti outboard.” > Wuepper: “There are two tracks called ‘Bric’ around the main vocal bus; the one above is the print from the Bricasti effect that was used on the percussion, and the one below is the print of the Bricasti reverb on the vocal. Next are Josh’s vocal delays. Putting delays on audio snippets [ie. copying short vocal clips to new tracks and applying delays as inserts, rather than automating a send from the main vocal track] is a pretty interesting way of doing things. I’ve not seen anyone else do this, but it makes it easier for Josh to manipulate these delays and to go deeper into the effect. He can really fine tune the delay times and decay lengths and so on. Sometimes the feedback you get with plug-ins can act a little weird, and this approach allows him to have more control.” > Gudwin: “The five green tracks are all vocal throws and delays. I don’t like to automate delay throws via aux tracks. The top green track is the master track for the delays, ‘JB Throw All’, and it has a compressor and an SPL Vitalizer. The ‘1147’ delay track has the UAD Cooper Time Cube, with a quick ping-pong-y flutter delay that I use to widen, and the track called ‘1167’ has a basic eighth-note delay from the Echo Boy. The ‘A’ insert is Auto-Tune, but it’s not working on these tracks. When needed, our vocal tuning is normally done by Chris ‘Tek’ O’Ryan in Melodyne. I sometimes do it myself, if I have the time do it, in the stand-alone version. > “The blue vocal tracks below the vocal delay tracks are the main lead vocal comp tracks, and on many of them I have the UAD SSL Channel Strip, UAD LA-2A, and the Waves C6 multiband compressor, and sometimes also the Pro-Q 2 EQ. The ‘DLYP’ track has a delay pan effect, with the SoundToys Primal Tap delay and Panman auto-panner, SSL Channel Strip and the P&M Vinylizer. ‘White’ and ‘Master’ are printed reverbs recorded in two rooms at Henson. They are my main plug-in vocal reverbs, and the green tracks below are pitched with the Elastic Audio X-Form [in Pro Tools] and effected with the Waves H-Compressor for a pumping effect. I pitched the reverbs up an octave or two, and I mixed them in very low. The ‘PCM’ and ‘PC1’ tracks are prints from ping-pong delays from the Lexicon PCM42 outboard. > “Justin’s backing vocal tracks all go to the group track called ‘JBG1’, on which I have a Waves De-esser, an SSL Channel and the C6 multiband compressor, plus there are a number of delays and reverbs via the sends. Trevon’s backing vocals all go to ‘JBTR’, which has similar effects. I wanted to fill the song up a bit more, and sometimes it’s not the most enjoyable process for an artist to sing all these background parts. Plus a different vocalist will add a different texture to the song, as long as it complements the lead vocal and the record. As I mentioned, Julia added her vocals during the final mix in New York, and her group track also has the De-esser, SSl Channel and C6. Right at the bottom are some effects tracks, with the Dimension D and group delay throws, and so on. > (...) **'Love Yourself'** > (...) Next are Justin’s vocals, with I overdubbed in New York. Almost all the regular vocal tracks have the UAD SSL Channel, LA2 and the Waves C6 multiband compressor. These three plug-ins work great on his vocals, so I tend to stick with them. Each of the vocal tracks has slightly different settings from them. They all go to Justin’s lead vocal bus above them, which has the FabFilter Pro-DS de-esser and the Pro-2 EQ. Justin’s lead vocals also go through the Bricasti, and the effect is printed. My own four backing vocals went through a vocal bus on which I had the SSL Channel, and a compressor, but they didn’t do much, nor did the sends. These vocals are very much in the background, I just wanted to add some texture really quickly. Finally, at the top of the session everything went through a Master track, on which I had the UAD SSL channel, mainly for compression set to mid-attack and auto-release — without drums you don’t need the slow attack and quick release — a Massey EQ, boosting 100Hz and 16kHz, a FabFilter Pro-L for level, and the Sonnox Oxford Inflator to add some sheen.” > **'What Do You Mean?'** > (...) “There were a few more complicated vocal effects, like the ‘JG FX’ track, on which I used the Vitalizer doing some spatial expanding, a UAD Fatso to thicken it up, and I then cut some low mids with an EQ, and used a de-esser. This effect track gave more depth to the vocal and made him sound more like an angel! Underneath that are two ‘Radio’ tracks [which sound like they could have come straight from Peter Gabriel’s ’80s Fairlight experiments]. I used Auto-Tune to pitch the vocals up, and then put on a SoundToys AlterBoy, which changed the formant, and then I’m filtering 350Hz and below. > “Below the ‘radio’ tracks are all my vocal delay tracks, in green as usual, with the bus for all delay throws at the top. One delay track, ‘Splaater’, is a flutter delay with Auto-Tune and the Cooper Time Cube, and the other two have the Waves H-Delay and SoundToys Echo Boy. They’re both quarter-note delays, but with different feels. Below the delay tracks are some ad lib tracks, and all the actual lead vocals, pulled out over several tracks. Most of them have my regular trio of UAD SSL Channel, LA2 and Waves C6 plug-ins, and all vocals are sent to the ‘JB Buss’, on which I have the FabFilter DS de-esser, a Manley EQ doing light cuts at 330Hz, 560Hz and 3kHz, and then a whole bunch of sends to my regular aux tracks at the bottom: a hall reverb, a plate reverb, a light quarter-inch delay, a light ping-pong delay and a Dimension D. > “Further down are four Justin backing vocal tracks, which go to a bus above them, ‘JBG1’, on which I have the SSL Channel, boosting highs and cutting lows and doing some heavy compression, a UAD 33609 compressor, and then the Waves Enigma [phaser/flanger] on a Mutron setting, adding some sweeping sounds. The sends are once again hall and plate reverbs, a quarter-note and a ping-pong delay and a UAD Roland Dimension D. Once Justin had decided to go with my rough mix, I spent another half hour on it, doing some EQ adjustments, and that was it.”

LFO Tool is on this list

In this photo from Instagram we can see on his computer LFO Tool.

Thomas Gold adds LFO Tool at 3:49

"I use Xfer LFO Tool a lot to do sidechaining." (33:49)

"Side-chain compression from the kick drum is a well-known about technique, but I have become obsessed with LFOTool from Xfer Records for this. The reason is that it allows me to easily tailor the release curve for each individual sound. I can go for a quick release, so that the sound is ducked only for the “click” of the kick drum, or a long release which can completely remove the sound for the duration of the kick, or anywhere in between."

Steve Duda is the creator of LFO Tool.

0:10 - LFOTool can be seen in an effects channel

"This @xferrecords LFOTool upgrade 1.1.0 totally rocks!! Love the Scope feature, this will make my life so much easier :-D" (31 July 2013)

Barely Alive can be seen having an LFO Tool open at 3:30.

In this video at 14:33 they are using LFO tool.

The software tools within Logic X that I most often use include: NI Komplete (the whole suite and samplers), NI Massive, VPS Metrum (To make kicks), Logic’s ES2, EXS24, Xfer plugins (like LFO Tool), Sylenth1, FabFilter Pro Suite, EW/QL Symphonic Samples, Voxengo SPAN, iZotope Ozone (Just for analysis, not for actual processing).

According to the official gear list on Darude's Website (Click on the studio tab), it says he owns a license for Xfer LFO Tool.

In the beginning of the video you can clearly see Xfer LFO TOOL open right before he presses play.

Two dutch guys in South Africa means a Joburg studio evening with Dirty Herz!!

Picture in facebook Heatbeat's

In this video at 1.47 he is using lfo tool plugin.

Jerome Isma-Ae can be seen using LFOTool in this video he uploaded on his Instagram.

In this Instagram post from Bobina, if you look closely at computer screen you can see the LFO Tool plugin

Can be seen at 1:07 in the plugin section of the right screen in the open project file of Will You.

the Xfer LFO Tool Plugin can be seen 0:35 into this video.

What's your favorite plugin?!

In this YouTube video posted by JAKKO, one can see an automation line named LFOTool.

"this is best sidechain plugin you can get! some people just use it on 4/4 beats sidechaining but you can use it on various genres by using midi note trigger option! , that's a secret tip from me :) go ahead and try it !!!"

Pause the video at 16:41

3ri5 uses Xfer LFO Tool Plugin a lot in his sessions

Very useful tool!

LFOtool is seen in multiple channels during this video. At 13:54 Jordan says "I used the LFOtool... and the good thing with the LFOtool is you can do like gates"

Whitexx tweets, About LFO Tool.

Can be seen within multiple mixer tracks on Logic

One can see automation lines named LFOTool, as seen in David Bulla's Twitter photo he posted.

We can see Sylvermay using Xfer LFO tool plugin on this video.

At 32:44 in this video, DJ Mad can be seen opening Xfer LFO Tool.

At 16:42 this plugin was pulled up and Frank says "LFOtool, we did like a little preset called free the kick juat to make a little bit of space"

In this Instagram video, you can see an automation line named LFOTool.

"I sidechain everything with LFO Tool" - 9:03

This Plugin can be seen in this Instagrma picture, uploaded by the artist himself.

At 19:38 Crystal Skies uses Xfer Records LFOTool in the session of In The Daw on Youtube going through their track The Chasm.

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Proof on Facebook.

"**YourEDM:** Favorite plug-in? **7MD:** LFO Tool"

This Plugin can be seen at 1:40 in this YouTube video, explaining how Cat Dealers work on their projects.