Plug-ins

Sonoris’s innovative plug-in designs prove that not all digital equalisers sound the same.

The Holy Grail of location recording is the ability to isolate the sound of a source from that of the space in which it was recorded. Have Zynaptiq found it?

Native Instruments have teamed up with Softube to model three pieces of highly regarded valve outboard gear.

Behind Fabfilter’s elegant interface lurks an advanced algorithm that is claimed to offer the most natural de-essing yet.

Rhythmic Robot, Loopscape, Universal Audio, MXR Flanger/Doubler, Waves NS1

Izotope have improved the formula of their ‘do everything’ mixing plug-in. Is this new Alloy platinum sterling, or pinchbeck?

Does Kush Audio’s expertise in designing analogue equipment translate into the plug-in realm?

When I'm doing vocal pitch-correction, should I include breath sounds if I'm trying to get the sound to be realistic? I'm...

Waves are the latest manufacturers to try to package the sound of large-format mixing consoles in plug-in form.

The virtual vintage front panels of LSR Audio’s plug-ins conceal processors with plenty of personality.

There are hundreds of reverb plug-ins to choose from, but none quite like Eventide’s Blackhole...

The sound of magnetic tape stems from a hugely complex set of interacting factors. Slate Digital’s VTM is the most detailed attempt yet to capture these in digital form.

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With so many virtual guitar amps already on the market, can newcomers Scuffham Amps bring something fresh to the party?

Paradoxically, adding distortion in mastering can make tracks sound clearer. That’s the idea of Brainworx's clever multi-band plug-in.

Making similar signals play nicely together sometimes requires more than just a polarity switch. Enter Waves’ phase-manipulation tool.

Linplug’s innovative plug-in has one aim in mind: to create fresh sounds from pedestrian drum loops.

Controlling harsh 'ess' and 'tee' sounds in a vocal can be surprisingly challenging, but SPL's technology aims to make it easy.

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Having wowed the professionals with their Native PCM and LXP reverb plug-ins, Lexicon now turn their attention to the financially challenged!

Eventide are among the last of the big-name hardware manufacturers to offer their wares as native plug-ins. Has it been worth the wait?