Pluggo 3.5 Site License (25-49) per seat

Pluggo 3.5 is an extraordinary collection of more than one hundred audio plug-ins. Pluggo works with sequencers and audio applications that support Audio Unit, VST, and RTAS plug-in formats. Version 3.5 is available for Windows XP and Mac OS X. Note: The ability to host VST plug-ins is not available for the RTAS version of pluggo.

There has never been anything close to the selection of plug-ins assembled in pluggo, and with the arrival of pluggo 3, the the gap has gotten even wider. With its range of sound design possibilities, pluggo 3 is more than just a few effects-it's a real-time interactive audio processing, modulation, and synthesis environment that works right inside your favorite audio application. Effects categories include delays, filters, pitch effects, distortion, granulation, spectral effects, modulators, multi-channel effects, synthesizers, audio routing, reverb and dynamics, and visual display. It's easy to see why pluggo has been winning rave reviews from critics and users since its release.

And now there's even more to love: joining the original 74 plug-ins such as the legendary Feedback Network, Tapped Delay, and Swish are over 19 Essential Instruments -- tasty and nourishing instrument plug-ins in a variety of flavors for your RTAS, MAS, or VST application. These elegant and immediately effective instruments were created by eowave, the developers of the iSynth, and make full use of the new and improved award-winning Max4/MSP2 audio programming environment. While space only allows us to tempt you with a few descriptions, you'll find something for every palate, from the characteristically midwestern self-effacement of the Pretty Good Synth, to additive synths, analog-modeling drum and percussion synths, theremins, sampling, granular synthesis, FM synthesis, wavetable synthesis, and some lovely waveshaping for that little sonic something extra. And you can seamlessly combine these exciting new instruments with pluggo effects plug-ins and modulator plug-ins for a world of sonic possibilities you'll never exhaust.

As you look over the tantalizing list of plug-ins at right, you might wonder how all this shameless abundance is possible. The answer lies in the power of Cycling '74's Max/MSP audio processing system and its plug-in development tools. pluggo uses a run-time version of Max/MSP. Since all the plug-ins run within the same environment, they can work together behind the back of your sequencer. For example, the PluggoSync plug-in listens to an audio click track, then tells other plug-ins where the beat is. Then there's our PluggoBus system that lets plug-ins send up to eight channels of audio to each other, exploding the limitation of one or two outputs per plug-in in audio sequencers. pluggo also sports a set of Modulators--plug-ins that mess with the parameters of other plug-ins in cool and unusual ways. And VST and MAS users can even modulate the parameters of VST plug-ins that are not part of pluggo--see our Pluggo VST Host for an example.

We started developing pluggo with a breathtakingly simple yet radical concept: lots of interesting plug-ins for a modest price. We wanted people who would never consider paying hundreds of dollars for a single plug-in to find the pluggo deal impossible to resist. Since Max/MSP allows you to make so much cool audio stuff so quickly, we could prototype an effect in minutes and then ask, "Would we pay a buck or two for this?" The result is that ideas that would been rejected by other plug-in developers have become the stars of the parade. Raindrops? Sine Bank? Phone Filter? Then there's the stuff that is simply unlike anything you've ever plugged in, like Spectral Filter, Feedback Network, Granular-to-Go, and Noyzckippr.

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Here is table showing support in various sequencers for features in pluggo:

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So, how much will all this shameless abundance cost? $159.95 for new pluggo customers. In discussing pluggo 2 EM speculated, "Who knows, maybe your patch will win next year's Editor's Choice Award." As it turns out, pluggo won the 1999 EM Editor's Choice award. This year, the editors wrote, "We've said it before and we'll say it again: if you are serious about doing hard disk recording on the Macintosh, you must buy this software." Wonder that they'll say about pluggo 3.... pluggo requires a host audio application that supports the VST, MAS, or RTAS plug-in format. Mac OS PowerPC computer running system 8.1 - 9.2. G3 or G4 processor recommended. More details can be found on the download page.

The number of plug-ins that you can use simultaneously depends on the processor, its speed, and your available memory. Specifications and system requirements subject to change without notice. pluggo © 1999-2002 Cycling '74TM All rights reserved. VST plug-in technology by Steinberg. MOTU and MOTU Audio System are registered trademarks of Mark of the Unicorn. Pro Tools and RTAS are registered trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. and its subsidiaries and divisions. That work with Mac OS sequencers and audio applications that support Steinberg's VST plug-in format, the MOTU Audio System (MAS) format used by Digital Performer, and Digidesign's