Flat Kit vs Drum Smack
The same loop — then with the crack and punch pulled forward.
New Case — Open
v1.29.3 · Free 14-day trialFreeze Frame 47
Arm it and play. Freeze Frame 47 is a freeze pedal for the DAW, grown into an instrument: it captures the last moment of audio — 50 milliseconds to 8 seconds — as a seamless loop, puts an envelope, a two-octave speed slider, and five freeze modes under your hands, and files the takes you arm it for into the Evidence Vault.
And a second engine: STAKEOUT — flip one switch and the same envelope shapes your live audio instead. A transient and envelope designer for drums, vocals and whole mixes, plus a beat-locked pump — inside the same plugin.
Trial: fully functional · 14 days · no card — one email unlocks the download.
macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Windows 10/11 (VST3) · AU + VST3
- AU + VST3
- macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
- Windows 10/11 (VST3)
Map the panel — what's what on the interface
- The Freeze — ARM, capture and the frozen loop — 50 ms to 8 seconds, seamless.
- The Envelope — attack, hold and release of the frozen moment.
- Motion — two-octave speed slider, drift and texture.
- Eight macros — big moves on single knobs.
- Freeze modes — Normal, Reverse, Swell, Stutter, Ghost — plus Evidence Shuffle.
- Advanced drawer — sample time, speed lock, capture quantize, loop crossfade.
- The Evidence Vault — every take filed, auditioned, renamed and recalled with the session.
- Preset browser & version tag — top of the panel.
The problem it solves
The perfect moment plays once and is gone — the vowel that should ring under the whole transition, the chord that should become a pad, the noise that should carry the bridge. Freeze pedals solved this for guitarists years ago. FF-47 brings the pedal into the DAW and then keeps going: envelope, pitch, modes, macros, and a recorder — a freeze you perform, not just hold.
STAKEOUT — the envelope, without the freeze
Flip ENGINE to STAKEOUT and Freeze Frame 47 stops freezing. The same four envelope sliders become an envelope designer for whatever is playing through it — drums, a vocal, a bus, a whole mix — live, with nothing to capture and nothing to hold. Press ARM and the sound in front of you takes the shape you draw.
Four sliders, four moments of every sound
No threshold to set and nothing to trigger: STAKEOUT splits the sound by time and hands you a fader for each moment — so it keeps working on dense drum buses and loud, limited mixes where trigger-based shapers lose the beat.
ATTACKThe smack
The first instant of every hit.
DECAYThe punch
The few milliseconds right after it.
SUSTAINThe body
What rings while the note holds.
RELEASEThe tail
The ring-out, the room, the air.
50 = untouched (bit-exact) · 100 = +12 dB · 0 = gone · FREEZE becomes SEPARATION — how sharply the four moments are pulled apart.
On the grid: BEAT mode
TRIGGER · BEAT · PUMP
Sidechain without a sidechain
On every grid step the level slams down to the SUSTAIN floor, holds for DECAY, and swells back over RELEASE — the classic pump, locked to your DAW's beat.
TRIGGER · BEAT · PULSE
Accents on the grid
The inverse: every step punches a boost in — SUSTAIN sets how hard, ATTACK how fast, DECAY how long it lets go.
RATE
1/32 to 4 bars
Straight, dotted or triplet. Starts on the beat however you hit play — mid-bar, mid-song, after a locate.
The rest of the pedal comes along
DRIFT becomes real tape wow on the live signal · SPEED becomes a live pitch shift · TEXTURE adds grit · MIX is a true wet/dry · ARM is the performance switch — it glides in and out without a click, so you can play it like a pedal.
Seven STAKEOUT presets — measured, not guessed
Each one ships in the preset browser and was checked on a real drum loop and a real vocal before it got its name.
Stakeout - Flat WireThe starting point: every band untouched, ARM on.
Stakeout - Drum SmackMore crack and punch (+5 dB on both), no extra ring.
Stakeout - Room KillerDries up a roomy kit — body −6 dB, tails −9 dB.
Stakeout - Body BuilderSofter pick, fuller note — attack −2 dB, body +4 dB.
Stakeout - Vocal ForwardWords step out of the mix — onsets +3 dB.
Stakeout - Pump 1/4A sidechain-style duck on every beat.
Stakeout - Pulse 1/8An accent on every eighth note.
Hear STAKEOUT
Roomy Kit vs Room Killer
The room and the ring pulled back without touching the hits.
Vocal vs Vocal Forward
Consonants and word starts step out — no EQ, no compressor.
Static Pad vs Pump 1/4
A held pad, then breathing on the beat — no kick, no sidechain routing.
The STAKEOUT exhibits are being printed now, and a full STAKEOUT walkthrough film is in production — both land here first.
Hear the evidence
Three exhibits, one rule: the dry take and the same bars through Freeze Frame 47 — level-matched, one switch apart, named for the factory preset that makes it.
Chord vs Frozen Pad
One strummed chord, caught and held as an endless pad under the part.
Phrase vs Ghost Freeze
A vocal phrase, then its last syllable frozen and drifting into the gap.
Groove vs Stutter Capture
A drum groove, then a beat-quantized stutter capture for the fill.
- Exhibit A — Guitar · Dust Bloom Pad
- Exhibit B — Vocal · Stakeout Shimmer
- Exhibit C — Drums · Hot Pursuit
The exhibits are being printed at the studio now — dry/wet pairs land here as they're finished. The trial has all of it today.
Inside the machine
The face and the drawers — from the operations manual.
Face · 01The Freeze
Arm it and play: FF-47 captures the last moment of audio — 50 ms to 8 seconds — as a seamless loop and holds it for as long as the case requires. CHASE is the catch-and-release control: up, the freeze re-grabs accents and follows the song; at zero, it locks the loop you caught and never lets go.
SubtleA short freeze under a transition reads as sustain, not effect.
PushedCHASE riding high turns the freeze into an accompanist that follows the track.
Best onVocals, keys, anything with a moment worth keeping.
Pairs withThe envelope — the freeze becomes a playable swell.
FREEZECHASECAPTURE 50 MS – 8 SSEAMLESS LOOP
Face · 02The Envelope
A full Attack / Decay / Sustain / Release envelope over the frozen layer, so the freeze behaves like an instrument: fade it in like a pad, gate it like a stab, let it ring like a sustain pedal.
ATTACK · DECAYSUSTAIN · RELEASE
Face · 03Motion — Speed, Drift & Texture
The SPEED slider spans two octaves down to two octaves up; Musical Speed lands it on real intervals (display-only, soft latch, or hard snap — with a nearest-interval and cents readout). DRIFT scans the loop; TEXTURE roughs the surface.
SPEED ±2 OCTMUSICAL SPEED: DISPLAY / SOFT / HARDDRIFT · TEXTURE
Face · 04Eight Macros
Blend, Damage, Motion, Space, Dust, Focus, Output, Era — the whole character of the frozen layer on eight knobs, automatable from the host.
BLEND · DAMAGE · MOTION · SPACEDUST · FOCUS · OUTPUT · ERA
Drawer · 05Capture & Engine
The Advanced drawer opens the engine room: Sample Time in Free mode or synced to 16 divisions from 1/32 to 4 bars (dotted and triplet included), Capture Quantize (off / beat / bar) so the grab lands on the grid, and a second engine — STAKEOUT — that skips capture entirely and runs the live signal through drift, speed, texture, and a triggered envelope.
SAMPLE TIME: FREE / SYNC16 DIVISIONS · DOTTED · TRIPLETCAPTURE QUANTIZESTAKEOUT ENGINE
Drawer · 06Freeze Modes & Evidence Shuffle
Five ways to play the loop — Normal, Reverse, Swell, Stutter, Ghost — all resting at exactly neutral in Normal so the stock sound never moves. Evidence Shuffle produces one musical variation of the drawer per click; Safe Random guarantees it never touches your mix, blend, output, or the freeze itself.
NORMAL / REVERSE / SWELL / STUTTER / GHOSTEVIDENCE SHUFFLESAFE RANDOM
Drawer · 07The Evidence Vault
A performance recorder streaming takes to disk as 24-bit WAVs — up to ten minutes — in Manual, Fixed Length, or Follow Sample Time mode, filed straight into your Music folder. Play the freeze, keep the take, build from it anywhere.
24-BIT WAV CAPTUREUP TO 10 MINUTESMANUAL / FIXED / FOLLOW
Filed evidence — the presets
Eight factory case files ship in the box, named for the move: On Ice, Noir Organ Bed, Slow Motion Suspect, Hot Pursuit, Dust Bloom Pad, Stakeout Shimmer, Deep Freeze — plus INIT as the clean slate. Your own saves file alongside them.
Built for performing, filed for keeps
The Evidence Vault makes FF-47 part of the house system: what you perform gets recorded as plain 24-bit WAVs on your drive — drag the keepers into the session, a sampler, or a pack. Sounds you stumble into stop escaping.
Open the case
Freeze Frame 47 · Full License
$59
One-time purchase. No subscription.
One-time purchase, no subscription. Your licence code arrives the moment payment clears and works on two computers. 14-day refund.
- Two engines: FREEZE (capture & hold) and STAKEOUT (live envelope designer)
- Formats: AU + VST3, 64-bit
- Platform: macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Windows 10/11 (VST3)
- Trial: 14 days, fully functional, no card
- Activation: a licence code — no iLok, no account; two of your Macs
- Installer: signed & notarized on Mac, 62 MB Mac · 17 MB Windows
- Support: direct line to the studio
The dossier — where it stands
Statusv1.29.3 — shipping; the free 14-day trial is open
FormatsAU + VST3 — macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Windows 10/11 (VST3)
Already running inLogic Pro · GarageBand · Ableton Live · REAPER · FL Studio (Aug 2026 test matrix)
GUIFreely resizable, 0.5×–2.0×, scale remembered per session
Presets8 factory case files + your own saves
Price & trial$59 one-time · checkout opens soon · Trial is live — one email unlocks it
Cross-examination — FAQ
What is STAKEOUT?
Freeze Frame 47’s second engine. Switch ENGINE to STAKEOUT in the Advanced drawer and press ARM: nothing gets frozen — the four envelope sliders shape the live signal instead, as four moments of every sound (smack, punch, body, tail), or pump and pulse on your DAW’s beat in BEAT mode. More above.
Is STAKEOUT a transient shaper?
It does that job and more: it splits the sound by time, not by a trigger, so attack, punch, body and tail each get their own fader (+12 dB to fully off), and it keeps working on dense, loud material. BEAT mode adds a tempo-locked pump and pulse.
Is this a looper?
No — a looper records passes and layers them on a timeline. FF-47 grabs one seamless moment and makes it an instrument: envelope, speed, modes, and macros over a single held frame, with CHASE deciding whether it follows the song or locks in place.
How do I buy it?
Add it to your cart from this page. $59 one-time; the licence code arrives the moment payment clears. Not sure yet? The free 14-day trial is the full plugin.
Is there a trial?
Yes — it’s open now. One email unlocks a signed, notarized Mac installer; fourteen days with the full plugin, every control live. Take the case.
What formats will it support?
It builds as VST3 and AU for macOS today. Anything beyond that gets announced when it’s true.
Where can I read more?
The full operations manual is already published — read it here.
That moment. Hold it.
Freeze Frame 47 is running in real sessions right now — and the free trial is open now. Two engines, $59 one-time.