There is nothing worse in the studio than getting a vocal take that absolutely slaps in the pocket, only to realize the “s” and “sh” consonants are slicing through your studio monitors like daggers.

You try to EQ it out, but dropping a massive bell curve on the high-end just makes the whole track sound like it was recorded under a heavy blanket. The air is gone, the presence is dead, and you just ruined the vibe trying to fix a few aggressive syllables.

Enter nClear Sibalance

Why nClear Sibalance is a Game-Changer for Your Mix & Workflow

This isn’t your daddy’s heavy-handed compressor. This plugin acts as a precision sibilance shaper that actually listens to what’s happening in the audio file. Here is why it belongs in your toolkit:

• Smart Energy Detection: It listens strictly for sibilance-like energy and only triggers reduction when those harsh spikes happen. The rest of your vocal stays untouched, keeping all that crisp high-end presence and headroom you worked so hard to get.
• Delta Monitoring: No more shooting in the dark! The Delta feature lets you solo out exactly what the plugin is removing. If it sounds like a snake hissing, you’re doing it right.
• Vocal Smoothing: It effortlessly tames aggressive consonants and overly bright vocal recordings, ensuring the vocals sit glued in the mix instead of jumping out and startling the listener.

Tech Specs (Keep it Light)

We love a lightweight plugin that doesn’t eat up our CPU when we’ve got 50+ tracks loaded up. nClear Sibalance is super lean:

• Size: A ridiculously tiny 16 MB. It installs in seconds.
• Compatibility: Available for both WiN and MAC users, so no matter what OS you’re cooking up beats on, you’re fully covered.

The Verdict

Finding a good free de-esser that doesn’t completely murder the tone of a lead vocal is rare. nClear Sibalance does exactly what it says on the tin: it clears up the harshness, preserves the original recording’s soul, and gets out of the way. If you want your vocals to sound expensive, smooth, and radio-ready, this is an absolute must-download for the plugin folder.

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Sibalance.1.0.0  ( 16 MB )

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There is nothing that kills a vibe faster than unwanted background noise, amp hiss, or bleed in your drum tracks. You spend hours dialing in that perfect tone, but the moment the track breathes, that nasty noise floor creeps in and eats up your headroom. It makes the whole mix sound amateur.

That’s where Orange Gate v2.1 steps in. I’ve been testing this out, and honestly, sometimes you don’t need a plugin with fifty knobs and a manual the size of a novel. Sometimes, you just need a tool that shuts the door on noise so your actual audio can shine. This plugin sits in the mix perfectly, handling gating and compression without bogging down your CPU.

Why Orange Gate is a Game-Changer for Your Mix & Workflow

This isn’t just another utility plugin; it’s a workflow accelerator. When you’re in the zone, you want to dial it in and move on. Here is why this thing slaps:

• Zero Learning Curve: The philosophy here is simple—if the signal is loud enough, it passes. If it’s too loud (compression) or too quiet (gating), it gets tamed. No rocket science, just results.
• Surgical Precision: With straightforward Attack and Decay controls, you can shape the transient of a snare or clamp down on a guitar tail instantly.
• Lightweight Footprint: Clocking in at just 12 MB, you can slap this on every channel in your session without your DAW choking up.
• Dual Threat: It handles both gating and compression, meaning you get dynamic consistency and noise reduction in one UI.

Tech Specs (Keep it Light)

Here is what you need to know to get this running in your DAW:

• Format: VST3 and CLAP for Windows users.
• Mac Support: AU and CLAP formats available. Important Note: This is for Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) running MacOS Ventura or above.
• Size: A tiny 12 MB download.
• License: Free to use.

The Verdict

Orange Gate v2.1 is a “set it and forget it” tool that belongs in every producer’s arsenal. Whether you are trying to silence a noisy distorted guitar amp sim or just trying to get your vocals to sit crisp in the mix without the breath noises, this plugin does the job. It’s free, it works, and it doesn’t try to be something it’s not. Go grab it and clean up that noise floor.

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Orange Gate 2.1.0 WIN MAC  ( 12 MB )

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GATE-12 is a cross-platform envelope generator for gate/volume control inspired by plugins like GrossBeat and ShaperBox.

It is the latest version of GATE-1 plugin and brings many improvements like Audio Triggering, advanced Paint Mode and high-quality tools for envelope manipulation.

Features:
Multi-segment editor.
12 patterns triggered by MIDI notes.
Paint mode with user defined patterns.
Point type – hold, curve, s-curve, stairs ..
Attack and release smoothing and tension.
Pre and post waveform display.
MIDI trigger mode.
Audio trigger mode.

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149 MB

Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph’s RNNoise
A real-time noise suppression plugin for voice based on Xiph’s RNNoise. More info about the base library.

The plugin is meant to suppress a wide range of noise origins (from original paper): computer fans, office, crowd, airplane, car, train, construction.

From my tests mild background noise is always suppressed, loud sounds, like clicking of mechanical keyboard, are suppressed while there is no voice however they are only reduced in volume when voice is present.

Please note that this plugin could not improve the voice quality with bad microphone, it even could make things worse by misclassifying the voice as a noise which would reduce already not-so-good voice quality.

The plugin works with one or more channels, 16 bit, 48000 Hz audio input.

❗ ❗ ❗ Do NOT use any other sample rates, use ONLY 48000 Hz, make sure your audio source is 48000 Hz and force it to be 48000 Hz if it is not.

How-to:

Plugin Settings
VAD Threshold (%) – if probability of sound being a voice is lower than this threshold – it will be silenced. In most cases the threshold between 85% – 95% would be fine. Without the VAD some loud noises may still be a bit audible when there is no voice.
VAD Grace Period (ms) – for how long after the last voice detection the output won’t be silenced. This helps when ends of words/sentences are being cut off.

Retroactive VAD Grace Period (ms) – similar to VAD Grace Period (ms) but for starts of words/sentences. ⚠️ This introduces latency!

https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice

RNNoise  ( 149 MB )

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32 MB

Drum Specific Gate Plug-in

FEATURES

– GATE: Sets threshold for gate

– HOLD: It’s like regular hold but it has also program dependent release (10ms to 1000ms)

– FILTER: It’s low pass filter but working reverse. It will start from 5Hz and go to 500Hz. You can simply mix gated signal with filtered (removed) signal to smooth gated signal.

– BLEND: Will blend DRY and WET signals

– BYPASS: Big red button

— USAGE INFORMATION —

First, try gating your source with GATE knob. Then, use HOLD knob to keep your transients as you want. You will be able to get cleanest gated sound ever.

But if you want smoother gate and resonance/tail from your source, you can simple use FILTER knob. It will add filtered leftover signal and also tail of your gated signal.

These three knobs are your way to get super clean or controlled drums.

Also, you can use DrGate with any sources like bass, guitars, vocals or anything!

—NO OVERSAMPLING—

Resizable interface. Simple “Bottom Right Corner Handle” to resize. 50% to 200%.

*Resizing Tip: When you duplicate plug-in, it will remember current state of GUI size. But if you load new instance, it will be opened at default size. To get rid of this issue, simply follow these steps;

1. Open plug-in for the first time

2. Resize GUI according to your screen resolution or you liking before setting any knobs

3. Save this state as default preset with your DAW

Now, you will be able to load new instances with same size.

(If you want to go default size, simply double click to resize handle.)

Version 1.0 – 11.18.2024

Available Formats

VST3 / AU / AAX Native – Audiosuite | Mac 10.11 or Higher | Intel / Apple Silicon

VST3 / AAX Native – Audiosuite | Windows 10 – 11

Mac Versions require a graphic card that supports “Metal”

Windows Versions require a graphic card that supports “OpenGL”

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DrGate_1.0  ( 32 MB )

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26 MB

T-De-Esser Plus is an enhanced version of the original T-De-Esser and contains extra Pro features you can enable via an upgrade activation. T-De-Esser Plus has one of the Pro features enabled for free, the ‘Audition’ (Delta-listening). It also allows you to activate and use all the pro features for free for 14 days.

Quick yet powerful
T-De-Esser has been designed with simplicity in mind. It is fast to set up and easy to use, yet allows you to adjust the processing to your needs.

Turning the processing knob starts the plug-in’s operation, you then set how intense you want to go according to your taste. There are 4 frequency bands available to choose between, depending on where the harshness and sibilance are coming from.

The ‘Audition’ (Delta-listening) feature in T-De-Esser Plus allows you to listen to the selected frequency range modes, as well as letting you listen to the audio sounds that are being processed, by the plug-in. This helps when it comes to making specific comparisons.

Remove sibilance and harshness, fast
You can use T-De-Esser to:
Remove harshness from sound sources that were closely mic’d
Manage sibilance in vocals and dialog in a transparent manner
Treat irregular tonal balance caused by poor recording quality
Reduce the glare from unnecessarily bright guitar and piano recordings
Tame piercing synth sounds
Control the high-frequencies in overheads’ transients, such as snare, hi-hats, or clash
Give more dynamic range to your tracks while mastering, due to the reduction of unnecessary harsh frequencies

Available as
Windows 7 and up as 32 / 64-bit VST and VST3, and 64-bit AAX (PT11 and up).

Mac OS X 10.11 (OS X El Capitan) and up as 64bit VST, VST3, and AU, and 64-bit AAX, Intel, and Native M1

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T-Force Trance Gate 2 is an envelope controlled rhythmic gate effect to chop an incoming audio signal like e.g. a pad sound into a rhythmic sequence.

This kind of effect was used a lot in old classic trance tunes which also gave this effect its name. In early days of trance music this effect was realized by using a noise gate device. The rhythmic sequence was done by using e.g. a hihat sequence which was routed to the sidechain input of the noise gate.

The T-Force Trance Gate 2 uses an internal step sequencer instead, to make the workflow easier to create this effect. It also can be switched to a sidechain mode, to use it the “classical” way by using an external audio signal as a sidechain input. The Trance Gate 2 also has a multimode filter.

The effect is fully controlled by an amp envelope and a filter/resonance envelope. With all these features it’s even possible to turn your favorite pad sound into an arp-like sequence.

Features:

Effect device for using as insert effect or send effect
Stereo audio input (L/R)
MIDI Input
Bypass mode
Step sequencer with up to 32 steps
Adjustable tempo with bpm host sync
Multimode filter with 13 different filter types, with controls for cutoff, resonance, cutoff envelope amount and resonance envelope amount
1 ADSR amp envelope with on/off function
1 ADSR filter cutoff envelope with on/off function
1 ADSR resonance envelope with on/off function
2 trigger modes: Sequencer mode – uses the internal step sequencer to trigger all ADSR envelopes. MIDI mode – In this mode the internal gate sequencer is disabled and you can trigger the gate with MIDI notes instead. Just route a MIDI signal to the gate with your DAW’s MIDI routing options.
2 LFO’s
Mod Matrix
Other features:

All controls are fully automatable
Available as Windows 32 bit VST2 and Windows 64 bit VST2/64 bit VST3

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T-Force Trance Gate 2 1.0.3  ( 17 MB )

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GATE1 is an open source envelope generator for gate/volume control.

Features:

Multi-segment editor.
12 patterns triggered by MIDI notes.
Paint mode – erase, line, saw up, saw down ..
Point type – hold, curve, s-curve, stairs ..
Tempo sync or LFO rate (Hz).
Attack and release smooth.
Pre and post waveform display.
Global tension control.
MIDI trigger mode.

https://github.com/tiagolr/gate1

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Darvaza is a multichannel gate with a twist : whenever the gate closes on your input signal, you get a perversion of your source spat back at you. It can however work as a time synchronized classic tremolo too.

The gate uses different waveforms and its individually tunable oscillators are synchronized to the host tempo and time signature. When the gate closes and you have tweaked it to return a signal during the closed state, you get a signal based on your input, but with a plethora of things having gone wrong with it.

Basically you get your incoming sound as if it was part of a bad dream. But take solace in the fact that it’s a lucid bad dream, over which you have full control.

If you wish to hear the plugins sound design qualities in action, Darvaza is the leading effect on Drosophelia’s Instar.

Blending and randomizing

The “Entry”-control is analogous to “dry mix”. By default this is set to zero which mutes the sound when the gate is closed (functioning like a standard tremolo). By increasing the dry mix you can hear the original signal unaffected whenever the gate is closed.

The “Rand”-control is a modifier that allows you to set an alternative gate duration (from 2 measures to a 16th note). Every half measure the gate will be set to this duration. The moment when this kicks in is handled individually by each channel.

Slowdown…

To add an additional twist on the ears, using the “Sorrow”-control you can control the playback speed of the gated signal.

Changing the playback speed will also affect the pitch of the gated signal, by adjusting the speed carefully you can create harmonies between the uneffected source and gated signal. Resetting the control to zero will re-align the gated signal with the input, making it possible to create time synchronized “tape / vinyl scratch” slowdown without missing a beat.

Controls

Darvaza’s UI is a little vague by intention, the plugin is aimed at sound design through experimentation and happy accidents. However, for those who DO wish to know what is happening under the hood, dive into this brief explanation of the controls:

Gate controls

The “Odd”- and “Even”-controls allow you to tweak the duration of the gate’s open/close cycle all the way from 4 measures down to a 16th note, per channel. The “Sync”-control will match all channels to match the Odd-speed.

By using the “Door”-control you can change the waveform shape from a sine through triangle and sawtooth to a square wave.

Degrading and freezing

The “Regret”-control allows you to control the sample rate of the gated signal. This goes from the current host sample rate down to a gravelly 2 kHz.

The “Dwell”-control activates a reverb on the gated signal. The reverb will “freeze” its sound every beat to add an additional shimmer where the frozen signal will contain the timbre and pitch of the input, but will sounds a nightmarish cloud of evil.
Ticking the “Recast”-control will reverse playback of the gated sound.

… and repitch

If you wish to have more control over the pitches of the gated signal, you can use the “Weep” control which will adjust the playback speed to perfect harmonic pitch intervals (with distinct pitches between the channels). When the control is at zero, it is disabled. By opening it up it will travel between six different scales : major, mixolydian, augmented (happy), via neutral (5th and minor 2nd) to minor and diminished (sad/melancholic and evil).

Note that using Weep overrides the effect of the Sorrow control.

The archive contains VST2 and VST3 plugins for both macOS (10.10/Yosemite and higher) and Windows (7 and up). Additionally macOS users can also use Darvaza as an Audio Unit.

Installation instructions are provided inside the archive’s README file. Note macOS users should be aware of possible Gatekeeper issues.
Linux packages are currently not provided, though you can build from source.

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Razorgate  is a Dynamics processor to slice away unwanted audio.

Slew Rate Limiter gain control design with variable timings, threshold, hold, hysteresis. Character control gives you control to change the envelope shape. Same technology as the plus version, without the external sidechain, sidechain filter, VCA color and Dual Mono mode.

Supports Windows 10/11(x64) & MacOS BigSur+ (**Now Notarized!**)

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