Cillic Audio - Metal Box Lite
a free distortion and saturation plugin offering a stripped-down version of their Metal Box processor for adding grit and edge to your sound.
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Image unavailableCrush Audio - Crush FX
A creative effects processor for changing texture, space and drive on percussion or other audio.
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Image unavailableQuietformat - Transient Control
A simple yet powerful transient shaper that lets you balance attack and sustain with one knob, adding punch, smoothness, or subtle saturation in seconds.
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Image unavailableVariety of Sound - FeenstaubHDR
A stereo bus processor combining compression, expansion, saturation, dynamic equalization and stereo shaping.
Windows
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Image unavailableVitling Crypt - Hyper-Unison Synth
Hyper-unison synthesiser that layers up to 64 detuned oscillators to create spacious, cold synth textures perfect for genres like witch house, trance, ambient, hardcore, and EBM.
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Witch Pig - Apocalypsis
Combines delay, reverb, pitch shifting and distortion, with an input-driven pitch envelope.
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Image unavailableBorealis Audio - Lado b
a commemorative audio tool celebrating 15 years of Lado b Mastering Studio, designed to capture the studio’s signature warmth and sonic character. Offers the same tonal quality and musical depth that have defined the studio’s sound over the years,
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Image unavailableDaniel Gergely - Spirals
Pitch-shifted echoes and shimmer reverb with diffusion, filtering, dual delay lines and freeze.
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Image unavailableDAW Junkie - Lil Bottom
A bass synthesizer intended for low-end parts.
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Image unavailableDecadebridge - Shallow Grave
A cascaded filter effect using three state-variable filters to build changing tones and textures.
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Image unavailableDesired Sounds - Sonic Bass One
An electric-bass instrument made by multisampling synthesized bass tones.
Windows
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Image unavailableDiscreet Signals - 8TT
An adjustable multiband upward/downward compressor with up to eight bands, sidechain operation and oversampling.
Windows · macOS
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Image unavailableFracture Sounds - Blueprint: Collection
A collection of sampled keyboards, orchestral instruments and creative textures for Kontakt Player.
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Image unavailableHaven Audio - CODA
Rotates phase around a selected frequency to reshape the character of transients.
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Image unavailableHOFA Plugins - DigiDestroy
A bitcrusher with bit-depth reduction, sample-rate degradation, jitter and clipping.
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Image unavailableInitial Audio - Clipper 2
A soft clipper with saturation, waveform monitoring, true-peak limiting and integrated loudness metering.
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Joonasy Lanne - Church Bells
A sampled church-bell instrument for Decent Sampler.
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Image unavailableLotus Sound Audio - Silver Fox MK2
A VCA-inspired compressor for dynamics shaping on tracks and buses.
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Image unavailableMinimal Audio - Formant
a vocal tone-shaping plugin that uses pristine formant shifting and a simple XY pad to transform vocal character and identity without changing pitch.
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Image unavailableMolecular Bytes - Atomic Reverb Free
A reduced-feature algorithmic reverb focused on room and hall spaces.
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Image unavailableNUSofting - Filter4Tongue Free
A four-band-pass filter bank with nonlinear operation, saturation, pink noise and envelope-following modulation.
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Image unavailableParallax Audio - Virtual Sound Stage
Places instruments in a simulated room with stage positioning and configurable microphone setups.
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Image unavailableRemaincalm - GLOSS
Models two vintage ensemble chorus circuits, followed by a dense reverb suited to synth textures.
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Image unavailableSignal Perspective - Pyrite
A preamp-style processor combining transformer saturation, compression and low-cut, air and bass-lift equalization.
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10 pluginsThe Sample Flipping Toolkit
Chop, stretch, pitch and rearrange your samples into something new.
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10 pluginsDust, Warmth & Wobble
Tape colour, sampler grit and pitch drift for sounds with a little history.
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10 pluginsSoulful Keys
Characterful pianos, electric keys and organs, with tremolo to bring them to life.
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10 pluginsMake Your Drums Knock
Shape the attack, add weight and glue your drums together.
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10 pluginsOdd Ingredients
Unusual instruments, unexpected textures and effects for your next happy accident.
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10 pluginsSpace & Atmosphere
Build depth and atmosphere with echoes, reverbs, granular textures and evolving pads.
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