Baby Audio Transit

Baby Audio Transit


The collaboration between YouTube personality Andrew Huang and Baby Audio led to the creation of a tool specifically designed for music transitions, as its name suggests. Now in its second version, Transit is a modular multi-effects plugin that allows users to build custom effect chains, with all parameters controlled simultaneously by a single, large knob. This enables the creation of dynamic motion effects while saving hours of effort on automation, patching, and fine-tuning.

Features:

  • 838 Presets
  • 6 Different Motion Modes
  • 28 Effects Modules
  • MacOS, Windows and all major DAWs compatibility



Cableguys ShaperBox 3

Cableguys ShaperBox 3


ShaperBox offers ten versatile shaping effects: Reverb, Time, Drive, Noise, Liquid, Filter, Crush, Volume, Pan, and Width. These effects come with a wide range of parameters, enabling users to create complex effects such as filtering, stuttering, rhythmic reverb, multiband distortion, phasing, dynamic noise layering, lo-fi textures, and much more. A straightforward preset browser helps users get started quickly, while the creative possibilities are virtually limitless.

Features:

  • 130+ Presets
  • 10 shaper effects
  • LFO Wave and Multiband editors
  • VST2, VST3, AU and AAX
  • MacOS, Windows and all major DAWs compatibility



Waves Space Rider

Waves Space Rider


Waves Space Rider is a spatial effects suite that combines reverb, delay, and chorus modules into a streamlined user interface. The standout feature is the "Dynamic Rider" slider, which can be assigned to any parameter, allowing you to seamlessly morph between effects and add otherworldly movement to your tracks. When activated, a built-in envelope shaper refines the Dynamic Rider's response, enabling the creation of intricate effects with ease.

Features:

  • 3 Effects Modules - Chorus, Delay and Reverb
  • Rider Control Slider for morphing between effect states
  • Assignable parameters for Rider morphing function
  • VST3, AAX and Multi-platform compatibility
  • MacOS, Windows and all major DAWs compatibility




ValhallaDSP Shimmer

ValhallaDSP Shimmer


Shimmer earns its spot in the top 10 for its ability to recreate a creative FX chain inspired by high-quality vintage reverb units, harmonizers, and other effects developed by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. Known as the Eno/Lanois Shimmer Effect, this signature sound has been extensively used in their works and is often credited with shaping the origins of ambient music and ethereal soundscapes.

Features:

  • 4 reverb modes - Mono / Small Stereo / Medium Stereo and Big Stereo
  • 5 Pitch Shift Modes - Single / Dual / SingleReverse / DualReverse and bypass
  • Color Mode control for tone shaping
  • VST3
  • MacOS, Windows and all major DAWs compatibility



Excite Audio Motion: Dimension

Excite Audio Motion: Dimension


Motion Dimension combines dual delays with adaptable hall and plate reverb algorithms, offering numerous adjustable parameters in a dynamic, interactive environment. Its reactive, animated user interface visualizes the complex modulations happening behind the scenes, making the creative process both intuitive and engaging. This plugin also allows users to "perform" their effects by recording mouse movements, complemented by extensive routing and mapping options and a wide array of presets.

Features:

  • 250 Presets
  • Reverb, Delay, Distortion, bitcrushing, filtering and more
  • Reactive 3D Visualizer
  • VST, VST3, AAX and Standalone
  • MacOS, Windows and all major DAWs compatibility



Sugar Bytes Effectrix

Sugar Bytes Effectrix


Marketed as a "real-time audio manipulation tool," Sugar Bytes Effectrix 2 empowers users to sequence and automate 14 different effects, each with its own set of parameters. The effects are controlled through a matrix-style user interface that operates on a time grid, allowing users to "paint" and shape effects in sync with their tracks. Presets can be customized, automated, routed, and even triggered via a MIDI controller, all within an intuitive and user-friendly layout.

Features:

  • 400+ Presets
  • 32-step effect sequencer with swing and dynamic length
  • 14 Effect blocks
  • VST2, VST3, AU, AAX and Standalone
  • MacOS, Windows and all major DAWs compatibility



Arturia Efx Fragments

Arturia Efx Fragments


EFX Fragments is a multi-effects plugin rooted in granular processing, designed to divide, transform, and reconstruct sounds. Its capabilities range from creating rhythmic reverbs to alien-like glitchy stutters and experimental textures. Users can set recording points on the waveform, adjust effect intensity and feedback, and control granular parameters such as width, direction, shape, density, size, and pitch. Additionally, the plugin supports macro assignments to multiple parameters and incorporates a built-in envelope follower making grains react dynamically to your track.

Features:

  • 60 Presets
  • 3 distinct granular modes - Classic, Texture and Rhythmic
  • 2 FX Slots with routing capability
  • VST2, VST3, AU and AAX
  • MacOS, Windows and all major DAWs compatibility



Plugin Boutique ScalerEQ

Plugin Boutique ScalerEQ


Scaler takes a unique approach to equalization, earning its place as the first truly musical EQ. Its built-in harmonic detector identifies the key and scale of a track, enabling users to boost in-key frequency octave peaks and cut out-of-key frequencies. The plugin provides precise controls for bandwidth and individual filter adjustments, along with features like mid/side (M/S) operation, dynamic processing, and stereo enhancement for mixing and mastering techniques to be seamlessly applied.

Features:

  • Minimum phase, zero latency EQ
  • Key Detection and Scale Switching
  • Patent pending musical EQ with harmonic band types
  • VST, VST3, AAX and Standalone
  • MacOS, Windows and all major DAWs compatibility



Eventide H3000 Factory

Eventide H3000 Factory


Modeled after one of the greatest creative hardware processors of all time, the H3000 MKII plugin not only faithfully replicates the original but also enhances its features. It introduces a virtual patchbay, similar to those found in hardware synthesizers, allowing users to freely combine up to 18 different effect blocks and expanding its pitch-shifting, delay, filtering, and modulation capabilities. Additionally, the plugin offers MIDI control, sidechain and noise inputs, assignable Macro Soft Keys and 19 waveforms with a function generator.

Features:

  • 600+ Presets
  • Effects blocks include delays, amplitude modulators, envelope followers, pitch shifters, filters and more.
  • Brand new modeling of the analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converter sections of the original H3000
  • VST2, VST3, AU and AAX
  • MacOS, Windows and all major DAWs compatibility




Freakshow Industries Pocket Dimension

Freakshow Industries Pocket Dimension


Freakshow Industries is known for creating some of the most unusual plugins, and Pocket Dimension is no exception. It doesn’t exactly clarify what it does to a track, but that’s part of its charm. Simply insert it into your sound and have fun tweaking its obscure parameters to create otherworldly multi-effects madness. Marketed as "Visual Cortex Abrasion" or "The Time Hole," Pocket Dimension promises hours of creative exploration, making it especially enjoyable for those into sound design and experimental electronic music.

Features:

  • Void, Dose and Secret controls - whatever those are
  • Attack and release knobs
  • Wet/dry control
  • VST, VST3, AU and AAX
  • MacOS, Windows and all major DAWs compatibility