PlainTools Audio

KickDuck

Most sidechain ducking plugins give you a knob and a curve they picked for you. KickDuck lets you draw your own duck curve by hand — shape exactly how the ducking attacks and releases instead of being stuck with someone else's default. That, plus a price that undercuts pretty much everything else on the market, is what makes KickDuck stand out.

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Stop guessing the curve.

Pancake

Pancake is a four-shape auto-panner built for anything that needs to move. Pick sine, triangle, saw, or square, dial in the amount and rate — synced to Hz or your host tempo — then shape the curve further with phase, offset, and an invert switch. No hunting through menus for the pan movement you actually want.

• —Four waveshapes — sine, triangle, saw, and square, switchable on the fly
• —Hz or BPM-synced rate — free-running or locked to your host tempo
• —Phase, shape, and offset controls — sculpt the curve beyond the basic waveform
• —Invert switch — flip the modulation direction instantly

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Flip it like a Sunday morning pancake.

Woodpecker

Woodpecker is a BPM-synced trance gate. It chops the input on and off in time with your host — pick a rate, choose a shape, set how deep and how wide each chop is, and it goes. No step sequencer to program, no grid to draw.

• —Three gate shapes — hard, smooth, and pluck for that percussive pecking
• —12 tempo divisions — 1/32 up to a full bar, dotted and triplet included
• —Depth and pulse width — from subtle pumping to gating down to silence
• —Click-free at every setting — built-in smoothing, even at 1/32 on fast tempos

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Slinky

Slinky is a BPM-synced wobble filter. The cutoff sweeps through a tempo-locked shape — no free-running LFO to babysit. Choose low-pass, high-pass, or band-pass, pick a shape and rate, then dial in depth and resonance.

• —Three filter modes — low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass
• —Four sweep shapes — sine, triangle, square, and a random that repeats per bar
• —12 tempo divisions — 1/32 up to a full bar, with 1/8 default for the classic wobble
• —Resonance from gentle to screaming — with click-free cutoff glide throughout

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RabbitHole

Stop digging through endless folders. RabbitHole is a sample browser that integrates seamlessly with your DAW — point it at any folder, search and filter by keyword, and find the sound you need in seconds. Preview samples with a click, see the waveform at a glance, and drag-and-drop straight into your project.

• —Point it anywhere — open any folder on your drive and load in your samples
• —Search and filter by keyword — find what you need instantly, no more scrolling
• —Click to preview — audition any sample with built-in playback and waveform display
• —Drag and drop — pull samples straight into your DAW
• —Works with your library — supports .wav, .mp3, .flac, .aiff, .ogg and more

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Don't get lost in the rabbit hole.

Tube Temptation

Tube distortion that goes from a hint of warmth to total destruction with one drive knob. No menus, no presets to dig through — just plug it in and turn it up.

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Turn up the heat.