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Engineer Factory · Built-in plug-ins

24 plug-ins, included with the DAW

All 24 are part of Engineer Factory and included in every access - in one consistent design, with presets, Listen modes and an AI Assistant button in every window.

The EF Compressor window in Engineer Factory: the preset bar and the AI Assistant button at the top, Bypass and Normalize beside them, and the side-chain section with the Listen switch on the left

EQ & dynamics

  • The EF Equalizer window in Engineer Factory

    Equalizer

    8 bands with a live spectrum.

  • The EF Compressor window in Engineer Factory

    Compressor

    Controls the dynamics of a track or a bus. With side-chain input.

  • The EF Limiter window in Engineer Factory

    Limiter

    Look-ahead and true-peak mode for a safe master.

  • The EF Clipper window in Engineer Factory

    Clipper

    Catches peaks cleanly, with oversampling.

  • The EF De-Esser window in Engineer Factory

    De-Esser

    Tames harsh sibilance. With side-chain input.

  • The EF Gate window in Engineer Factory

    Gate

    Closes when the signal drops below the threshold. With side-chain input.

  • The EF Transient Shaper window in Engineer Factory

    Transient Shaper

    Shapes attack and sustain.

  • The EF Reso Control window in Engineer Factory

    Reso Control

    Tames harsh resonances dynamically - on vocals, hi-hats, guitars and synths, for example.

  • The EF Dynamic EQ window in Engineer Factory

    Dynamic EQ

    Six bands that move only when their own frequencies are too loud - de-harsh, de-mud, or duck one band with a side-chain.

  • The EF Multiband Compressor window in Engineer Factory

    Multiband Compressor

    Four bands with phase-aligned crossovers, each with its own threshold, ratio and timing - plus solo and bypass.

Saturation, modulation, reverb & delay

  • The EF Saturation window in Engineer Factory

    Saturation

    Tape, tube, diode and warm - with oversampling.

  • The EF Reverb window in Engineer Factory

    Reverb

    Space and depth for any source.

  • The EF Delay window in Engineer Factory

    Delay

    Tempo-synced, with ping-pong.

  • The EF Flanger window in Engineer Factory

    Flanger

    From a classic jet sweep to subtle motion - at its own rate or in sync with the song tempo.

Stereo & utility

  • The EF Stereo Imager window in Engineer Factory

    Stereo Imager

    Stereo width in 3 bands, with Stereoize for mono sources.

  • The EF Doubler window in Engineer Factory

    Doubler

    Makes a double from a single take: up to four voices with their own timing and pitch drift, tone and stereo position.

  • The EF Utility window in Engineer Factory

    Utility

    The handy helper in the signal path.

Metering

  • The EF Analyzer window in Engineer Factory

    Analyzer

    Shows what is happening in your signal.

  • The EF Loudness Meter window in Engineer Factory

    Loudness Meter

    Loudness to EBU R 128.

Processors & instrument

  • The EF Vocal Processor window in Engineer Factory

    Vocal Processor

    Vocal processing in one plug-in.

  • The EF Vocal Tuner window in Engineer Factory

    Vocal Tuner

    Pitch correction for vocals: pulls every note onto the beat's key (SYNC detects it automatically), from natural to hard tune and beyond in Ultra mode, with Humanize, Formant and Transpose.

  • The EF Mastering Processor window in Engineer Factory

    Mastering Processor

    Master processing in one plug-in.

  • The EF Synth window in Engineer Factory

    Synth

    The built-in synth - an instrument track plays instantly.

  • The EF Sampler window in Engineer Factory

    Sampler

    The built-in sampler: one sound played by MIDI - a one-shot drum with choke, or a pitched 808 that follows the note.

Presets for every plug-in

Every built-in plug-in comes with factory presets, and you save, rename and delete your own. With third-party VST3 plug-ins their presets and their own programs come on top.

The preset bar in the EF Compressor window: one of your own presets selected, next to it Save, the side-chain input and the AI Assistant button

Listen modes

Hear exactly what is at stake: a single EQ band, the side-chain signal, the effect alone - or only what the plug-in is taking away.

The AI Assistant button

In every compatible plug-in, one click measures the signal and offers 3-5 fitting variants - each one a card with an icon and a short name, and the whole card is the button. Press and hold a card and you hear the variant first, in A/B against the sound before; a click applies it as one AI step you can undo. Below the cards, one line says what the selected card does.

The AI Assistant in the EF Compressor: five variants side by side, each a card with an icon and a short name

Included in every access

The plug-ins are part of the DAW and included in every access. They are not yet available as separate VST3s for other DAWs.

B, N and a signal fader on every slot

Bypass without clicks, switch off to save CPU, compare at matched loudness with N, and blend dry and wet with the signal fader. One click bypasses a track's whole chain, and every plug-in keeps its settings. Copy, paste or replace the whole chain - onto another track too, in one undo step. Compressor, Gate and De-Esser also accept a side-chain.

More on the plug-in chain

Your own VST3 plug-ins work too

Engineer Factory runs your VST3 plug-ins with automatic latency compensation. Their own interface opens right inside the DAW window, with presets, side-chain and bypass - in the size the plug-in asks for. Even very large plug-in packages are scanned completely. Missing, unlicensed or faulty plug-ins are skipped, and your project still opens. Find them quickly by search, category, vendor, favourites or recently used. VST2 and AU are not supported.

More on plug-in support

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Version 3.27.4 · Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit · macOS 11 or newer

The desktop version with additional features - download with your Engineer Factory access.