Delivering three quality, professional audio utility plug-ins for discerning engineers and producers, the Pro Series Pack from Plug & Mix is a bundle designed to cover a wide range of usage scenarios. This pack includes—Emax, a highly transparent linear phase equalizer, essential for any studio—OptoMax, a punchy and precise compressor based on the smooth response of an optical compressor—and Tube Exciter, a clear and fat tube saturator that can enrich your sound with sparkling harmonic distortion and sub-bass enhancement.
Each plug-in features a sophisticated GUI interface for complete control over every parameter you might need to sculpt your sounds to perfection, and the whole pack is fully compatible with macOS and Windows PC, with support for up to 5 simultaneous devices. These plug-ins are available in AAX Native, Audio-Unit, and VST formats for wide compatibility with most DAWs.
Get precise dynamic control over your vocals, guitars, drums, or entire mixes with the Plug & Mix OptoMax plug-in. OptoMax features an intuitive user interface that allows for effortless control over compression levels, frequency side-chaining, lookahead function, tube signal warming, and more.
- Threshold: Sets the input level at which compression begins.
- Input Level: Adjusts the level of the input signal.
- GR Meter: Shows the amount of gain reduction being applied to the input signal.
- Peak: Displays the Peak decibel or RMS level.
- Makeup Gain: Sets the amount of gain applied to the signal after compression.
- Attack: Sets how long the compressor takes to kick in once the input signal exceeds the threshold.
- Ratio: Fixed values for accurate instrument and bus compression.
- Release: Sets how long it takes for the compression to stop once the signal has dropped below the threshold.
- Surround: Complex stereo widening effect, expands the sonic depth and presence of the output audio.
- Dry Input: Adds the unprocessed, direct signal to the mix for serial or parallel processing.
- Tube: Restores warmth and detail lost during digital compression.
- Lookahead: Turns on Compressor’s Lookahead feature enabling it to duck the sound earlier than a triggering peak appears.
- Clipper: For limiting your signal’s overall output.
- Up to five computers can be authorized.
Essential tools for any producer, mixing, or mastering engineer, Plug & Mix E-Max is a professional 6-ban EQ plug-in, ideal for sculpting your sound with a high level of precision. It features a large graphical interface for intuitive and accurate control of all parameters.
Use the built in Harmonic Exciter for extra sweetening and use the Linear Phase mode to preserve the transients and transparency of your music when mixing and mastering. Up to five computers can be authorized.
- Click and drag any colored point on the line to move it.
- Move a colored point left or right to change its frequency.
- Move a colored point up or down to boost or cut the gain of the selected frequency.
- Double-click a colored point to reset the gain to zero.
- Listen: Solos the selected band for precise control.
- On/Off: Turns the selected band On/Off
- Filter: Selects variable filter modes—Bell, Low/High Cut, Low/High Shelf, and Notch.
- dB/Oct: Low- and High-Cut filters feature 6, 12, 24, and 48 dB/Octave modes for subtle to extreme filtering.
- Freq: Determines the frequency of the selected band.
- Gain: Determines the gain of the selected frequency band.
- Q: Adjusts the bandwidth or resonance of the selected band.
- XBass: Boosts the overall low end of your material.
- XPanse: Boosts the overall high end of your material.
- Linear Phase: This EQ mode preserves the original music balance with zero phase shift.
- Clipper: Limits your signal’s overall output.
- Output Level: Controls the output level of the plug-in.
The Plug & Mix Tube Exciter Plug-In delivers punch, clarity, and sparkle to any signal you run through it. The plug-in features Tube Exciter, Tube Saturation, and Sub Bass, enhancers to enrich your sound in subtle or drastic ways. Its unique interface allows for precision adjustments using elegant graphical curves and audio analysis tools that give you a real-time window into the sound processing. Use Tube Exciter on practically any audio source like broadcast and live PA systems, while recording guitars, vocals, and bass, or for mixing and mastering your songs.
- Lows: For extended low-end enhancement.
- Center Freq: Adjust center frequencies to find your midrange sweet spot.
- Highs: Adjust the amount of high-frequency output.
- Push: Nonlinear tube saturation effect, the main distortion stage of the plug-in
- Sub-Tuning: Dial in the frequency and bumps your low end.
- Sub-Drive: Dial in the amount of Sub Bass.
- Tube: Soft-knee, nonlinear saturation effect, applied to output signal. Intended for restoring lost harmonics of heavily compressed material. Also useful to alter the main saturation-stage character.
- Analog: Engage alternative filter models and internal circuit routing for achieving alternative results.
- Clipper: For limiting your signal’s overall output.
- Input and output meters: Control the overall input and output of the plug-in.
- Up to five computers authorization.