Cableguys | HalfTime

12 €

Instant creative half-speed effect for trap, EDM, hip-hop, techno, house and more.

12 €

C.P Dubb

David Guetta

B of Nard & B

Armin van Buuren

Hussein

Rik Simpson

Firebeatz

This plugin is an essential for turning your beat from predictable to innovative.

C.P Dubb

Producer (Tyga, Tory Lanez, French Montana)

Enter a world of spaced-out sound

Enter a world of spaced-out, slowed-down sound with HalfTime – the only plugin 100% dedicated to half-speed effects. Used by Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, 808 Mafia, The Chemical Brothers and more.

Transform your music

HalfTime transforms any audio into a dark, downtempo version of itself, giving your tracks huge mood and atmosphere.

Synths mutate into heavyweight EDM bass monsters. Plinky pianos become haunting slow-mo trap melodies. Percussion thickens, revealing new rhythmic possibilities.

Just add the plugin for an instant half-speed effect with zero setup. Or go in deep with powerful creative controls. HalfTime works on loops, virtual instruments or even live audio input, inspiring you in seconds.

Half-speed in no time

The hands-on Power button makes it easy to fit HalfTime into your tracks – create a rapid switch or sink in slowly with smooth fades up to 16 bars.

Three speed Modes give you classic half-speed (2x), tight harmonies and shuffling swing rhythms (1.5x), and drugged-out quad-time playback (4x).

Adjustable Loop length allows multi-bar slow-downs, funky syncopations and totally new grooves.

Slow only the lows, mids or highs with the Band Split – generate deep bass movement, fatten midrange percussion, or flip your top-end on its head.

More Features

🟢 Instant setup – Add the plugin for an instant half-speed effect with zero setup.

🟢 Cableguys quality – Best-in-class DSP. Great sound, low CPU, minimal aliasing.

🟢 Power button – Punch to activate the effect or automate in your DAW.

🟢 Fade In/Out – Fade the effect in gradually, across up to 16 bars.

🟢 3 speed Modes – 2x for the classic "half-speed" effect. 1.5x for perfect fifth harmonies and triplet rhythms. 4x speed for drugged-out quad-time playback.

🟢 Band Split – Half-speed bass, treble or midrange for trippy FX.

🟢 Band Solo – Hear only the slowed frequencies. Use as a filter or to aid setup.

🟢 Dry/Wet Mix – Blend the original and slowed audio.

🟢 Loop Length – From 1/16 up to 8 bars. Preserve timing or create new rhythms.

🟢 Smooth – Avoid clicks or use creatively. Percussive, Sustain, FX and Swell modes.

🟢 Resizable – From 75% to 200%, with crisp Retina-ready graphics.

Videos

Cableguys: How To Use HalfTime – Complete Guide

Cableguys: 4 Essential HalfTime Tricks For Producers

Chuki Beats: Why you need HalfTime

Cymatics: "It's on basically any record"

SweetScaleTV: "This thing is ridiculous!"

Cableguys: The Official HalfTime Trailer

How-to: Thick claps and percs

Ave Mcree: Creating counter-melodies

MrDifferent: "This is the new sauce!"

J. White Did It: HalfTime on a HUGE hit

Reid Stefan: HalfTime in 20 seconds!

Soniq Sounds: Making melody layers

While the timestretching is handy enough, it's the mixing and filtering that make HalfTime really brilliant, enabling groovy layered timings that would require significant work to achieve any other way. At this price, it's an unmissable creative tool.

Computer Music Magazine

10/10 – Issue 251

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System Requirements

Windows

Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11
64-bit
VST 2, VST 3 or AAX host DAW

Mac

Mac OS X 10.9 or later
Intel or Apple Silicon processor
VST 2, VST 3, AU or AAX host DAW

Works with Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Cubase, Bitwig Studio, FL Studio, REAPER, Studio One, and many other DAWs that support VST, AU or AAX.

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