This plugin creates the frequency and pitch shift of sounds travelling past you, for sound design and for adding motion to mixes.

Speeding cars, aircraft fly-bys or trains moving past you: the Doppler effect is an essential sound design tool for creating the impact of space and motion. The plugin combines pitch shifting with a reverb tail generator that emulates reflections from the surroundings and Air Damp, which recreates high-frequency loss as the sound moves away, while an intuitive display shows how the sound moves in space. Doppler also adds motion to percussion, hi-hats, guitars, synths and background vocals in a mix, and pitch shifting can be bypassed to keep rhythmic instruments in tempo.

Features

• Fly-bys and movement with pitch shifts and reverb
• Intuitive display of how the sound moves in space
• Air Damp emulates high-frequency loss as sound moves away
• Control track curve, centre time, pitch, start and end points
• One-shot or continuous sweeps, triggered manually or by threshold
• 20 presets for common sound design movements

Technical details

• Operating systems: Windows, macOS
• Plug-in formats: VST3, Audio Unit (macOS only), AAX
• Architecture: 64 bit
• Licensing: licence key, machine-bound or USB flash drive (via Waves Central)

System requirements

• macOS 14 Sonoma, 15 Sequoia, 26 Tahoe or 27 Golden Gate (Apple silicon or Intel)
• Windows 10 64-bit (version 22H2) or Windows 11 (Intel or AMD, x64)
• 16 GB RAM
• 30 GB free disk space on the system drive

The licence is registered with the manufacturer at https://www.waves.com/downloads/central. You will receive your serial number and the download link by e-mail immediately after purchase.