DIAL - Lofi Radio Plugin | Thenatan
DIAL — Free For 72 Hours

Tune In.
Lose The Signal.

DIAL turns any track, loop, vocal or melody into a real radio signal — drifting between stations, fighting the static, crackling out of a speaker that has seen better days. It doesn’t add a lofi filter. It puts your music on the air.

Seven stations. Four vintage radios. Everything that lives in the air between them.

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DIAL lofi radio plugin main interface
TUNE / SEARCH / AM · FM / INTERFERENCE / RECEPTION / TONE / RATTLE / 7 Stations / 4 Radio Models / 64 Presets / Zero Latency / TUNE / SEARCH / AM · FM / INTERFERENCE / RECEPTION / TONE / RATTLE / 7 Stations / 4 Radio Models / 64 Presets / Zero Latency / 
The Heart Of DIAL

Seven Stations.
Everything In Between.

Park the needle on a station and your sound comes through clean. Drift off and it sinks into the static — only a ghost of it bleeds through. Hold SEARCH and the dial hops the band at random, then glides back home when you let go. Flip to AM for narrow, gritty mono or FM for wide, clean stereo. It’s not an effect you set. It’s an instrument you play.

DIAL tuner - dial window, needle, tune knob, AM/FM and search
Four Radios, One Plugin

Four Sounds.
Four Looks.

Pick a radio and the whole plugin changes — the voicing, the band, the drive and the interface skin. Every model is built from a real radio, inside and out.

DIAL four radio models and their interface themes
WARM TUBE1940s walnut tube console. Soft, rounded and naturally saturated.
TRANSISTOR1960s ivory pocket set. Brighter top end, cleaner drive.
SHORTWAVEField receiver with a lit amber dial. Thin, distant, pushed hard.
CHEAP SPEAKER1970s tangerine plastic. Small, boxy and heavily driven.
The Air Around The Broadcast

Hiss, Crackle
And Lost Signal.

NOISE is a hiss floor that swells as you drift off-station. CRACKLE fires irregular pops with random spacing and level — never a metronome. MORSE bleeds tone pips in from the station next door. Then DRIFT wanders the tuning like an old analog dial, DROPOUT fades the signal at random, and BLEND decides how much of it you feel.

DIAL interference - noise, crackle, morse DIAL reception - drift, dropout, blend
The Box It Plays Out Of

Warm It Up.
Shake It Apart.

SATURATION is level-matched, so it adds warmth and grit rather than volume, and LOW CUT / HIGH CUT trim each radio’s natural band. RATTLE is the speaker itself — two detuned wobbles beating against each other like a loose cabinet panel, shaking the grille on screen as you turn it up. Every block has its own bypass that genuinely stops processing.

DIAL tone - saturation, low cut, high cut DIAL speaker rattle - rate and depth
Endless Possibilities

What Will You
Tune Into?

Put a beat on 3AM talk radio. Make a vocal sound like it’s coming through a kitchen counter set. Turn a melody into a numbers station. Sweep the dial for a transition nobody saw coming.

Lofi BeatsVintage VocalsRadio IntrosDial SweepsAM Telephone FXDusty SamplesBroken SignalsAmbient BedsTransitionsPre-Drop FXNostalgiaSound Design

Built for real productions: six focused processors in one signal path, each running in its own node — bypass a block and it actually stops processing rather than being mixed to zero. DIAL adds zero latency, so you can write, produce and track through it live. Every sound control is automatable, including the Model and the tuning dial itself.

64 Presets. Zero Filler.

Eight Categories.
Eight Stations Of Sound.

64 hand-tuned factory presets, from a clean broadcast to a completely collapsed signal. Every preset stores its per-block bypass states too, so anything that isn’t contributing is switched fully off.

DIAL preset browser - 64 presets in 8 categories
Clean BroadcastWarm LofiLate Night AMShortwaveBroken SignalKitchen RadioTexturesFX & Transitions
Free For 72 Hours · For Everyone

$0 — Launch Giveaway $50

No code, no catch. After 72 hours DIAL goes back to $50.

Tune In. Drift.
Create.

Your sound doesn’t have to be clean. It doesn’t have to be close. It just has to feel like it came from somewhere. DIAL puts that somewhere inside your DAW.

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Technical Specifications

Everything You Need
To Know.

FORMATS
Win (VST/VST3) & Mac (AU/VST/VST3), 64-bit
CHANNELS
Mono & stereo compatible
ACTIVATION
Serial number — no iLok, no dongle
WINDOWS
Windows 7+. 4GB RAM, 1GB free space
MACOS
Native Apple Silicon (M1 and up). 4GB RAM, 1GB free space
DAW SUPPORT
FL Studio, Logic, Ableton Live, Cubase, Reaper, Studio One
PERFORMANCE
Lightweight / Instant load / Zero added latency
NOT SUPPORTED
Pro Tools (no AAX)