Audio Plugin

pure:level is an AI-powered leveling and level-riding plugin from sonible that keeps vocal, dialogue, and instrument tracks consistent in a mix while preserving their natural dynamics. It combines intelligent level stabilization with non-destructive mix placement, plus a unique group feature for controlling layered tracks like backing vocals or guitar stacks as a single element.

HMD Uncompressor is a transient-based dynamics plugin from Help Me Devvon that uses a single dual-direction slider to either compress audio for control or "uncompress" it to restore punch, movement, and life to over-processed sounds. It includes three tone modes, a real-time transient visualizer, and zero added latency, making it suitable for drums, vocals, guitars, and full mix buses.

Filter Ark is a filter-design plugin from KORG that combines faithfully modeled classic filters — from the MS-20, Polysix, miniKORG 700s, and ARP ODYSSEY — with innovative modern filter types like physically modeled resonators and a vowel filter. Up to four filters can be routed together with deep modulation and macro controls, and the plugin can even generate its own sound using a built-in noise oscillator and scale quantizer.

The OD Plugin Bundle from Tokyo Dawn Records and Ohlhorst Digital brings together four specialized mixing and mastering plugins: OD Limen for high-frequency acceleration limiting, OD Ancora for stereo image correction, OD Finesse for spectral resonance management, and OD DeEdger for reducing signal harshness. Each plugin targets a specific mastering-stage problem with precision controls developed from real mastering-engineer workflows.

Mors Rumble (808 Booster) is a focused audio plugin from independent developer Mors, designed specifically to enhance 808 bass sounds using three dedicated Low, Mid, and High boost bands with individual gain, mix, and input/output controls. Available for Mac in VST3, AU, and AAX formats through the developer's official Patreon channel.

Hybrid 3 is a dual-part, six-oscillator analog/digital synthesizer plugin from AIR Music Technology, combining subtractive and wavetable synthesis with vintage VCF filter modes and over 1,200 factory presets. It's available as a VST2, AU, and AAX plugin for Mac, though its officially documented macOS support (10.8–10.15) predates Apple Silicon, and it may require Rosetta 2 on newer Macs.

Iona is a virtual analog monosynth from AIR Music Technology, faithfully modeled on the classic Roland SH-101. It features a 128-step pattern sequencer, built-in Lo-Fi, Delay, Reverb, and 3-Band EQ effects, more than 100 factory presets, and five UI skins, running as a VST2, VST3, AU, and AAX plugin on Mac and Windows, plus native support on Akai MPC and Force hardware.

Instinct EQ is a visualizer-free equalizer plugin from Black Salt Audio built to force ear-based mixing decisions by removing frequency curves and numeric readouts entirely. It features a four-band musical EQ with shelf/peak and wide/narrow modes, a dedicated Surgery module for transparent resonance removal, and optional analog-mode warmth, available as a VST3, AU, and AAX plugin for Mac and Windows.

Slam2 is a channel-strip enhancement plugin from BeatSkillz that combines EQ, sub-harmonic generation, 1176-style FET compression, multi-stage saturation, and stereo widening into one simple interface. It includes 50 preset drum kits, works on tracks, busses, or full mixes, and runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs as an AU, VST3, and AAX plugin

Telos - Guitars is an all-in-one guitar mixing plugin from Black Salt Audio combining EQ, compression, saturation, and dynamic control into a single, ear-guided interface. Built for every guitar type from acoustics to heavy rhythms, it replaces a typical 3-to-5-plugin chain and is available individually or via subscription in VST3, AU, and AAX formats for Mac and Windows.

Telos - Vocals is an all-in-one vocal mixing plugin from Black Salt Audio combining EQ, dual-stage compression, one-knob de-essing, and saturation into a single, ear-guided workflow. Designed to replace complex vocal chains and work across any genre, it runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs as a VST3, AU, and AAX plugin.

Polyresonator is a formant-sculpting resonator plugin from DSPTone inspired by the Polymoog synthesizer's iconic resonator section, using three overlapping resonant bands to reveal hidden tone and harmonic character in flat or lifeless sounds. It includes multiple filter modes, individual band MUTE/SOLO, ParaDry blending, and true zero-CPU bypass, running natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs as a VST3, AU, and AAX plugin.

P422 Fairuz is a resonant EQ plugin from Pulsar Modular built around real op-amp band saturation, Contour bands that boost and cut a single frequency simultaneously, and Voice/Hammer transformer circuits for analog character. Version 2.1.0 improves high-frequency EQ accuracy, Tremor circuit behavior, stability, presets, and workflow, and the plugin includes 278 presets and runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

smart:comp 2 is an AI-powered spectro-dynamic compressor plugin from sonible that analyzes audio across thousands of spectral bands to automatically suggest transparent compression settings. It includes sidechain ducking, interactive loudness Quality Check hints, and runs on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs as a VST, AU, VST3, and AAX plugin, with smart:comp 3 now available as sonible's newer successor.

Zenbox is a rock-oriented guitar amp simulator plugin from Canvas Audio, built for punchy, responsive tones ranging from clean to full punk rock distortion. It includes four hand-selected cabinet tones, more than 100 artist presets, and built-in drive, chorus, and phaser effects, with free lifetime updates and universal DAW support via AU, VST3, and AAX formats.

Glaid is a synthesis, sequencing, and arpeggiation plugin from Tsuga Audio inspired by 80s gaming hardware, featuring a relativistic arpeggiator, a beat-locked gliding clock, dual oscillators, deep modulation, and MIDI output for driving external synths. Version 0.4.3 fixes offline rendering playback issues and improves window resizing, and the plugin runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs as an AU and VST3 plugin.

BodyLift is a low-end foundation enhancer plugin from Styx Audio (Roman Styx) that uses a single control to add weight, warmth and low-end body to thin or over-filtered tracks. It has a wide low-shelf curve, warm tape saturation and a soft built-in limiter. It runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs as a VST3, AU and AAX plugin.

sonible’s deess is an AI-powered de-essing plugin that uses neural network voiceprint analysis to remove sharp, sibilant edges from vocal and speech recordings. Available as a VST, VST3, AU and AAX plugin for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, it runs natively. It’s controlled by three main parameters (Suppression, Color and Shaping) to achieve natural sounding results quickly.

Sound Doctor is an FX chain generator plugin from Unison Audio that instantly generates style-specific effects chains with 25 custom designed effects, 5 styles and 8 formulas. Includes 250 factory presets, full manual editing, a master control center with limiter and EQ and works with all major Mac and PC DAWs. Produces royalty-free output cleared for commercial use.

Pulsar Modular’s P44 Magnum is a saturation and clipping plug-in built around the signature saturation circuit of the P42 Climax, and wrapped in a new processor that is focused on shaping the Oomph and Poomph low end, a Sweet high-shelf circuit, an O2 harmonic exciter, and a custom clipper. Version 1.1.2 has a few general improvements and optimisations. The plugin now runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

P565 Siren is a filter effect plugin from Pulsar Modular that merges the character of the UREI 565T Filter Set and the Moog Ladder Filter, offering selectable filter slopes, dual band filters with a King Tubby-style step mode, an envelope follower, and drive/overdrive circuits. Version 3.0.0 adds a custom delay circuit and code optimizations, and the plugin runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

Bass Dragon is a bassline and 808 generation plugin from Unison Audio that instantly creates genre-specific basslines across 30 genres of music, using over 19,500 custom MIDI fragments combined with machine learning and chord-detection algorithms. It includes a built-in synth with 200 factory presets, a piano roll editor, nine effects, and support for exporting royalty-free basslines in audio or MIDI format.

Vovious is a vocal tuning and pitch correction plugin from DoublePi Technologies that uses overtone-separated processing and on-device neural network pitch detection to aim for natural-sounding corrections. Available as VST3, AU, and AAX plugins with ARA2 support, plus standalone mode, it runs natively on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs and includes manual per-note editing, pitch drawing, and MIDI reference tuning.

Buena Depth Cue is a set of plugins for Adobe After Effects including Depth, Rack Focus, Camera Mapper, Flipside, Atmosphere and Falloff Lighting. They simulate realistic Z-depth, focus pulls and camera projected 2.5D environments from a single common grayscale depth map. Version 2.5.8 for After Effects CS5 through Creative Cloud on Mac and Windows was originally developed by Digieffects and is now maintained by Rowbyte LLC.

Zebra 3 is a modular software synthesiser by u-he (Heckmann Audio) combining wavetable, additive, FM and physical modelling synthesis in an adaptive, patch-based interface. It has a deep filter section, flexible modulation routeing and a global effects grid so you can build sounds from scratch rather than follow set synthesis paths. Available for macOS in CLAP, AU, VST3, AAX formats.

Imagiro Piano is a lo-fi character piano plugin for Mac by imagiro. It is made from intimate recordings in actual, flawed rooms, not a polished studio. It boasts an expandable collection of sound packs and creative processing options such as glide, loop and reverse, allowing creators to take the piano well beyond a natural acoustic sound.

Bulldog Tuned is an AI-powered vocal pitch correction plugin for Mac from Bulldog Samples that promises natural, legato-aware tuning without the robotic sound. This ARA compatible plugin combines automatic and manual pitch correction, a real time diatonic harmonizer, formant control and MIDI export.

Red Giant VFX Suite 1.5.2 is a set of plug-ins for Adobe After Effects that provides compositing (Supercomp), planar tracking (King Pin Tracker), object removal (Spot Clone Tracker), chroma keying (Primatte Keyer), and lighting effects (Optical Glow, Knoll Light Factory) in one package. This is an Intel only legacy build. If you are a current Mac user, for Apple Silicon compatibility please use the latest Maxon supported release.

Quick Menu 2 is a launcher script for After Effects by Edgar Huanca. It enables users to quickly find and apply effects, plugins, presets, scripts, extensions and expressions via a keyboard activated type-to-find menu. It has since been replaced by Quick Menu 3 for newer versions of After Effects.

mTitle Cyberpunk is a Final Cut Pro plugin from motionVFX that adds a futuristic, sci-fi vibe to video projects with themed title templates, matching transitions and digital glitch overlay effects. It installs natively into Final Cut Pro’s Titles and Transitions browsers and is fully customisable for text, colour and timing.

Loudness Pro is a mastering limiter with AI from SSG Audio that brings together the clipping and limiting processes into one adaptive processor, for Mac and Windows DAWs. Its on-device AI is real-time, so it continuously rebalances both stages, giving you louder, cleaner, punchier masters without the manual automation. Version 1.1.104 has added a Unity Gain button, gain reduction metering and refined knob controls for a smoother mastering workflow.

Quick ToneMapper is an After Effects plugin by PixelGym that applies tone mapping directly to CG renders in post-production, letting artists recover overblown highlights and shape contrast without baking decisions in at render time. It offers three tone mapping methods (Reinhard, Filmic, ACES) alongside exposure and white balance controls, built around a proper unclamped, linear render workflow.

The full version of Melodyne’s pitch and time editing software, Celemony Melodyne 5 Studio, with DNA Direct Note Access for polyphonic material, unlimited multitrack editing and utilities such as the Chord Track and Fade Tool. This is a stand-alone app or ARA-enabled DAW plug-in for professional-level vocal and instrument editing.

Amadeus Pro is a multitrack audio editor for Mac, made by HairerSoft. It is designed to record, edit, convert and repair all kinds of sound files. It has a full multitrack editor, powerful batch processing and a dedicated repair centre for de-noising old tape and vinyl recordings. Supports VST and Audio Unit plug-ins.

Wavesurfer 1.0.0 is an AI-powered multi-effects plugin for Mac from Karanyi Sounds, combining vintage analog-style effects with neural processing across seven modular effect units. It includes a master section with stereo imaging, tonal EQ, and a tempo-synced filter sequencer. Available in AU, VST3, and AAX formats via Plugin Alliance.

MiniMeters 1.0.30.358 is an audio metering application and plugin suite for Mac from direct.audio, offering seven mix-and-match modules including Spectrogram, Stereometer, Loudness, and Oscilloscope. It works as a standalone app with system audio capture or as individual VST3/AU/CLAP plugins inside a DAW. This release focuses on macOS stability and display bug fixes.

United Plugins Complete Bundle is the developer’s entire line of audio plugins, including reverbs, compressors, saturators, EQs, and vocal and guitar tools, all bundled together. It is installed and managed using the official UnitedPluginsManager application, giving producers a central place for dozens of mixing and mastering tools. For Mac music producers who want to cover a wide spectrum of plugins without the inconvenience of individual plugin installers, the bundle is perfect.

MeldaProduction MCompleteBundle is a complete package of audio plug-ins for Mac containing 119 effects and instruments including MDrummer, MSoundFactory and MPowerSynth covering composing, mixing and mastering.

Steinberg WaveLab Pro 13.0.30 is a professional application for Mac, to master and edit audio with Dolby Atmos mastering, multicore rendering, advanced spectral editor and a complete set of mastering plug-ins. This maintenance update is focused on stability improvements and refinements to the application. It runs natively on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

Audija SuperStutter is a live stutter and glitch effect plugin for Mac that records incoming audio into continuous buffers and trigger stuttered playback over 16 performance pads and a 4-pattern step sequencer. This maintains rhythmic effects in musical time by live input quantization in studio and stage. Available as VST3 / AU with native Apple Silicon support.

Superlunar TS-440 is a cassette deck emulator plugin for macOS and Windows that emulates 20 real cassette recorders and 4 tape formulations. Producers can independently control preamp saturation, tape degradation, speed and pitch. 1.1.0 - Improved latency accuracy, reduced overall plugin latency.

Superlunar EM-900 is a digital sampler emulator plugin for macOS and Windows that emulates the DAC circuits, filters and aliasing character of 17 classic samplers including the SP-1200, MPC60 and S950. It’s designed to deliver real vintage sampler grit to modern productions, with modular sampler/filter pairing and a real-time S950/S1000-style timestretch engine.