Palora
Virtual-analog synthesizer
Visualize your sound
- Signature attack engine for snappy plucks and stabs
- Modulation matrix for instant routing and deep movement
- Play it live: MIDI Learn everywhere, plus standalone
- From crisp plucks through deep basses to lush pads
- What you see is what you hear, so it's quick to learn
- No iLok
- Offline activation
Introduction price €47, normally €79, charged in your local currency.
Every synth sound here is Palora straight out of the plugin, effects included — no external plugins, no EQ on individual tracks. Drums from various sources; the master bus carries EQ, compression and a limiter.
Visual feedback is important when you sound design
We have built a synth that is easy to use. Palora guides you with colors, layout and visual cues. The sections are linked via a “spotlight” effect and the signal flow is clear. You set parameters directly in the visualizers, where you can also see the effects of the modulation.
From Palora owners
“Palora is one of the few synths that I have gotten excited about in quite some time! … It's a fun and inspiring synth! … Thank you for making a very interesting tool for creative self-expression.”
“It does not get in the way of creating a sound. It is all there – logically in front of you. I never had to look at a manual. I just started making a sound I wanted. A small work of art.”
Drag the curve, hear the filter
Set cutoff and resonance on the filter’s own curve, and shape its envelope right beside it.
Palora’s ladder filter has two modes: Analog adds a warm saturation. Modern stays clean all the way up to self-oscillation.
Use Bass Comp to compensate for low-end loss.
Set your modulation in one grid
Wire modulation sources to any of the 24 parameters we selected for you, across a 24×11 cell grid. Use modulators alongside MIDI Velocity, ModWheel, and Aftertouch to add motion to your sound. The modulation matrix is the heart of Palora's motion.
FX river: five effects in one flow
Drive, Chorus, Delay, Reverb, and EQ — a built-in effects chain with visual feedback that takes a raw patch to a finished, mix-ready sound without leaving the plugin.
See what you changed
Palora can show you where a preset differs from the default with a preset marker. A second marker flags exactly what you've changed since loading the preset.
Double-click a control to reset it to its default value, or Command/Ctrl + double-click to reset it to the preset value.
Hear it in your own tracks.
- No iLok
- Offline activation
Introduction price €47, normally €79, charged in your local currency.
Everything else in Palora
Dual engines, sub and click
Twin morphing oscillators, a sub an octave below, and our Click generator for a punchy transient. Detune, drift, and unison turn one note into an ensemble.
Transient Shaper
Sculpts the first ten milliseconds of every note, per voice. Make your plucks snap, or make the bass cut through the mix without ruining the low end.
Modulation sources
3 LFOs, 1 envelope, 2 macros, and a per-note randomness modulator, alongside MIDI Velocity, ModWheel, and Aftertouch.
MIDI Learn
Touch the parameter, wiggle a knob, and it's mapped. Everything Palora can do, you can control from the surface you already play.
Arpeggiator
A built-in arpeggiator with multiple patterns and adjustable rate, swing, and gate settings.
Preset manager
A comprehensive factory library, with your own, shared and AI-generated packs beside it. Palora can play each preset for you as you browse.
Describe a sound. Get a patch.
We have taught AI how to use Palora, and boiled that down into an AI brief. Give it to your AI assistant, describe a sound or a whole pack, and import the result into Palora.
Using Claude? Install the Palora skill.
This is also a really good way to learn synthesis: describe the sound you have in mind, then see in Palora how the oscillators, filter and envelope were set to make it.
No AI runs inside the plugin. Palora is NOT an AI synth.
Open preset format
Under the hood, every Palora preset is a readable JSON file. Open it in any text editor, compare two versions, keep your sounds in version control and share them as plain files.
Prompt: A warm, dusty pluck that blooms a little when I hit it harder.
Hayloft.palora
{
"format": "preset",
"meta": {
"name": "Halflight",
"category": "Lead",
"tags": ["lead", "warm"]
},
"params": {
"oscShape": 30.0,
"subShape": "Tri",
"modAmt_3_10": 35.0
}
}Good to know
What does Palora run on?
Is there a free trial?
What's your refund policy?
Do I need to be online?
How can AI help me make presets?
Can I make and sell my own preset packs?
How do updates work?
Changelog
1.2.04 October 2026
New
- Shrinkable window. Palora's window can now be made smaller — down to 640 × 500 — and the page scrolls inside it, with the top bar and the info line always in view. Palora remembers the size per computer and never opens larger than your screen.
- Fold the rows. Each of the three rows — Sources / Filter / Envelope / Transient, FX, and Modulation / Matrix — folds to a slim title bar with one click, and the window shrinks with it. While the Preset Manager is open, all rows are unfolded.
- Preset Manager, fitted or full size. You choose how the Preset Manager is presented in a shrunk window. Fitted, it fills what you see, with its search, filters and buttons always in view and each column scrolling on its own. At full size it keeps its complete layout and you scroll the page to reach the rest. A new toggle next to the layout buttons switches between the two, and Palora remembers your choice.
- Edge Glide. In a window smaller than the page, rest the mouse near an edge and the view glides that way. Off by default: Settings → Window, or ⌘/Ctrl + click the scrollbar.
- Loading screen. While Palora starts, it shows its name over the dimmed interface instead of a blurred picture.
Changed
- New look. The all-black background is replaced by three tones: the page, slightly darker panels, and clearly darker displays with a thin frame, so each display is easy to tell apart. Section lines are brighter.
- Row randomize buttons in the matrix now sit to the left of the source names.
- Oscillator shape selectors follow the mouse one-to-one while dragging.
- FX faders (Drive Amount, Chorus Mix, Reverb Mix) have a clearly visible border.
- Unison readout shows Spread and Detune only; the voice count is read from the voice buttons below it.
Fixed
- Matrix knobs. Enlarging a matrix knob — by dragging or scrolling — no longer cuts pieces out of the knobs around it.
- Preset Manager audition. The arp line of the audition melody now follows the preset you load in the Preset Manager.
- Trial watermark. Switching the modulation matrix off or on no longer leaves gaps in the DEMO letters.
1.1.024 September 2026
First release.
Formats & OS
Documentation & fine print
- Read the overview
- Free 14-day trial — try in full before you buy
- Instant download after purchase
- Secure checkout via FastSpring
Get Palora
- No iLok
- Offline activation
Introduction price €47, normally €79, charged in your local currency.