Plug-ins

Will Bob Clearmountain's signature plug-in help aspiring mix engineers emulate their hero's success?

Can this 'New York–style compression' recapture the experience of sending audio out to a UREI 1176 in 'all buttons in' mode, smashing the crap out of it and blending it back under the dry signal?

This plug-in offers parallel compression and tube-like saturation.

Sonnox's innovative dynamics processor offers unprecedented ability to separate wanted from unwanted audio in drum recordings.

Feel the lo-fi magic of the 1980s — with six unique effects in one strange plugin.

This plug-in offers detailed modelling of the sound of four classic tape machines.

One look at the interface and you can tell right away that there's more to Hyperspace than your usual reverb plug-in...

Oeksound's Soothe has quietly taken the world by storm. We road-test the hotly awaited v2!

Rumoured for months, the 'powered by Acustica' virtual mixer is now close to release — and SOS were treated to an exclusive test drive! Read the full Preview today!

This most handy of problem-solving plug-ins has matured considerably. Now more user-friendly, it can deliver DAW automation data to any parameter of any of the hosted plug-ins, and includes an audio routing plug-in called SendIt.

Riffer is a randomising MIDI melody generator plug-in from AudioModern and is available as a VST/VST3/AU & AAX plug-in for Mac OS, Windows and as an iOS app.

Front DAW is a very affordable analogue console emulation plug-in for Mac and Windows, compatible with VST, VST3, AAX and AU hosts.

Conventional compressors or expanders are not always suitable for tackling issues that affect only one part of the frequency spectrum, which is where multiband solutions like Pompeii come in very useful.