August 21, 2025
Today, UA’s engineers have revisited the design with even greater attention to detail. The LA-2A Classic Leveler Plug-In Collection includes faithful models of three highly sought-after LA-2A units, delivering the most authentic emulation of this iconic compressor to date.
August 21, 2025
The Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor is widely respected in studios around the world as a modern essential compressor. With its flexible and colorful sonic character, the Distressor carries on the legacy of classics like the UA 1176 and Teletronix LA-2A, offering a modern tool that blends practicality and creativity—heard on thousands of hit records.
August 20, 2025
From award-winning instruments like the Electra 88 Vintage Keyboard Studio and Moog Minimoog, to iconic 1176 compression and classic studio ambience effects, the UAD Producer Edition provides everything you need to compose, record, and mix chart-topping hits.
August 20, 2025
In the early 1990s, preset-driven digital synthesizers dominated the market, with most models offering only limited hands-on control. Introduced in 1991, the JD-800 brought synthesizers back to their roots with a large control panel and a sound palette focused squarely on electronic tones. With its player-centric workflow, expressive sound, and powerful effects, the JD-800 has remained a favorite among top electronic music producers since the 1990s.
August 20, 2025
This is AudioThing’s fourth collaboration with German composer Hainbach—also known as “that guy with the sweaters.” In his laboratory, Hainbach has created hundreds of recordings using rare vintage test equipment, tape machines, analog synths, unusual field recordings, and electroacoustic and magnetic experiments. Together with AudioThing, he has shaped these sounds into this creative noise instrument.
August 20, 2025
Since 1994, the Vari Mu has been Manley Labs’ flagship design—a hand-crafted, tube- and transformer-driven classic that has become the gold standard for mixing and mastering engineers. The Manley Variable Mu Limiter Compressor plugin brings the same clarity and cohesion of the high-end hardware to your stereo bus and full mixes.
August 20, 2025
Can an Exciter Truly Be Called “Transparent”? Developed in collaboration between Softube and Weiss Engineering, the Weiss Exciter achieves something few—if any—other exciters can: it adds harmonic content so naturally that it feels like part of the original sound. The result is a subtle, transparent enhancement of clarity and energy that preserves the overall coherence of the mix. The harmonics sound remarkably organic, as if they were always there from the beginning.
August 20, 2025
Experience over 70 years of Universal Audio’s analog heritage with the plugin version of their flagship tube channel strip, the 6176. The new LA-6176 Signature Channel Strip combines three of UA’s most iconic processors — the 610 Mic Preamp, the 1176 Limiting Amplifier, and the LA-2A Leveling Amplifier — into a single plugin.
August 19, 2025
There’s a reason engineers often refer to this style of compression as a “mix bus cheat code.” Whether found in the master section of a console or in modern rack gear, this iconic circuit has long been a go-to tool for adding power, glue, and character to a mix.
August 19, 2025
PITCHMAP is the world’s first and only plugin that can process the pitch of individual sounds within a mix in real time. By using a MIDI keyboard and its intuitive, visually clear interface, you can create pitch maps to edit melodies and harmonies directly from your audio. At the same time, you can optionally correct tuning issues.
August 19, 2025
The Avalon VT-737, the flagship channel strip from Avalon, has made a significant impact on top-charting productions. Used by artists ranging from Jay-Z and Dr. Dre to Babyface and Beyoncé, the Avalon VT-737 Tube Channel Strip plugin consistently delivers polished results with the glossy detail heard on radio broadcasts.
August 19, 2025
Inspired by the iconic “Ultimate Keys” from the SRX wave expansion board series, SRX KEYBOARDS brings together some of Roland’s most popular keyboard sounds of the 1990s into a single plugin. The collection includes around 400 ready-to-play patches covering a wide range of instruments such as acoustic pianos, electric pianos, synthesizers, organs, guitars, and woodwinds.