Exciters / Enhancers

Soundtoys have announced that their Soundtoys 5 Academic Bundle is being offered at a reduced price until 20 August 2024.

SideMinder Max offers some comprehensive stereo widening capabilities while avoiding mono compatibility issues.

AIR Music Tech say that their all-in-one Creative FX Collection 2 bundle has been designed to meet the rigorous demands of today’s music producers. 

CLRS reimagines Modbap's HUE module, combining DJ-style high- and low-pass filters with some versatile saturation and stereo width tools and built-in ducking. 

Waves V15 rolls out a whole host of new features across the company’s plug-in line-up, adds new plug-ins to some of their existing bundles, and ensures compatibility with the latest operating systems. 

Master Plan 1.5 sports a brand new look and introduces an additional EQ band, improved loudness metering and more. 

As well as gaining a pair of existing plug-ins, FX Collection 5 also includes two completely new offerings in the form of Bus PEAK and Bus EXCITER-104.

Techivation’s latest plug-in is said to be able to identify and eliminate problematic frequencies, helping users to keep their tracks sounding crystal clear.

Bass Focus promises to add weight and power to low-end sounds, and also improve how mixes translate to smaller speaker systems. 

Flow Mastering Suite comes equipped with signal chains created by professional engineers and offers an all-in-one solution for adding the finishing touches to a track. 

Along with a new harmonic enhancer plug-in, the Korneff Audio range has also gained a Waves L1-inspired limiter and a recreation of a consumer effects processor that became popular for guitar processing.

The lastest free update for ShaperBox introduces some enhancements to the plug-in suite's presets system and LFO Waves function.

The latest version of Eventide's H3000 plug-ins promise to provide users with the most authentic recreation of the classic hardware unit possible.

FAC Punchlab is an all-in-one processing solution that comes loaded with nine modules and boasts a user-friendly GUI with comprehensive metering and feedback.

Bloom promises to take the place of dynamic EQs and multi-band compressors, despite not doing either of those things. 

Available as a free download, S Doubler generates four additional voices based on its input and offers a range of stereo placement options.

Pulsar Modular's new P455 MDN Sidecar bundle models a setup based around an API Sidecar that was housed in Sausalito Record Plant. 

MeldaProduction’s latest plug-in pairs simple Mid-Side balance control with spectral processing that offers more in-depth control than traditional decode/encode matrices. 

Much like how harmonic exciters synthesise sounds lacking in high frequencies, SubMassive is designed to produce low frequencies absent in the original audio.

MetaPitch offers independent pitch and formant controls, built-in saturation and stereo width effects, and a Robot Mode capabling of creating vocoder-style melodies.