utility
Does a job in the signal path without being heard: routing, gain staging, format conversion, metering.
ABComparison Plugin— Daniel Rudrich
A channel-routing plugin for AB-comparison tests, switching between up to 32 input streams with configurable channel width, exclusive-solo or toggle switching modes, and fade time.
ActivityTimer— tgalpha
A VST plugin to track your project working duration
Analytiks— Gandalf the grey
Spectral and stereo analysis plugin with OpenGL rendering — a free, open-source clone of Vision 4x
Ants— Danny Ayers
Cellular-automata MIDI generator with pheromone trails.
Artix— Spatian.dev
A simple Plugin that maps MIDI channels to notes, to simplify your keyswitches and more.
Audio Analyzer— rty65tt
An audio analyzer plugin displaying a real-time spectrogram and sonogram of the incoming signal.
BeatIt— Loïc Bartoletti
Interactive metronome audio plugin with tempo control, custom time signatures, beat visualization, and multiple click sounds for precise musical timing
Birdhouse— Mads Kjeldgaard
Birdhouse listens for OSC messages and converts them to MIDI (note on/off, CC, pitch bend) in realtime, so OSC-based controllers and software can drive a DAW or plugin host directly.
BlindCard— Sugoi Audio
Blind A/B testing plugin with a poker-card themed UI, LUFS auto-level matching, star rating/guess/quiz modes, and support for up to 8 synchronized instances.
Cadence— Danny Ayers
Transport-synced MIDI harmonizer that learns one cycle of a monophonic line, infers fitting chords per segment, and emits a voiced progression on subsequent cycles.
Camomile— Pierre Guillot
Camomile is a meta-plugin with Pure Data embedded, letting you load and control Pure Data patches as VST3, Audio Unit, or LV2 plugins in a DAW.
Carla— Filipe Coelho
Audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats.
Chartchotic— Noah Baxter
An au/vst plugin for DAWs that visualizes midi notes similar to how they appear in rhythm games like Clone Hero and YARG
ChatGen— Danny Ayers
Text to MIDI CC generator for Chatterbox speech synthesis
Consul— lucianoiam
A self-contained CLAP/VST plugin with a mixer-like, LAN-accessible web UI for remotely controlling other plugins' MIDI-learn parameters, primarily designed for touch devices.
CtrlrX— Damien Sellier
An enhanced version of Roman Kubiak's CTRLR. CtrlrX can control any MIDI-enabled hardware, synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, effects and more. Create custom user interfaces and host them as VST3, AU or AAX plugins i
Cycloscope— Eyal Delarea
Waveform / single-cycle / spectrum / stereo analyzer plugin
DCOffsetter— Kazuma Narita
DC offset audio plugin
Fire— Jerry Yifeng
Multiband distortion plugin.
Flues BassGen— Danny Ayers
Monophonic host-synced bassline MIDI generator with genre-biased phrase generation and exact pattern persistence.
Flues Control— Danny Ayers
MIDI CC controller for flues-synth with 31 programs (0-30) and 9 parameter sliders
Flues DrumGen— Danny Ayers
Transport-synced polyphonic drum MIDI generator with genre templates, Euclidean variation, and exact pattern persistence.
Flues Euclid— Danny Ayers
Euclidean/stochastic MIDI rhythm generator for Drumkit. 8-24 step grid locked to host tempo with swing and per-track length.
Flues EuclidMono— Danny Ayers
Two-pattern Euclidean MIDI generator with boolean logic combiner and single-note output.
Funky Moose Viz— Uwe Arthur Felchle
Boutique-style audio visualizer plugin for spectrum, waveform, vectorscope, and pitch detection
GremlinDriver— Danny Ayers
Tempo-aware modulation source that emits Gremlin-friendly MIDI CC and action notes.
K-Meter— Martin Zuther
K-System loudness meter according to Bob Katz' specifications
Key Detect— Seho Young
Analyzes the frequencies present in incoming audio to detect keys and harmonies
Kholors Station— Quentin FAIDIDE
Live, color-coded spectrogram of your DAW tracks in a single window. VST Compatible.
Live Midi Splitter— David Vos
Control multiple MIDI instruments with one input. Aimed at playing live.
master_me— Klaus Scheuermann
automatic mastering plugin for live streaming, podcasts and internet radio.
MeasureCounter— geissmannsbin
VST3/AU plugin for live performance measure counting with beat-segmented progress bar. Shows current bar/beat, cycle progress (4/8/16/32 bars), and visual warnings. Perfect for staying in sync during shows and rehearsals
Meeblip Controller— Romain Clement
MIDI controller plugin for the Meeblip Anode open-source hardware synthesizer.
MIDI BPM Detection— Vincent Alsteen
Estimates tempo (BPM) from incoming MIDI note-on events in realtime while you play, showing a histogram of competing tempo candidates. Includes a Bitwig controller extension to feed detected tempo back to the DAW transpo
MIDI Chord Detector— kelvin
Lightweight MIDI plugin for real-time chord detection in DAWs, with a full piano keyboard view, grand staff notation panel, and active notes monitor
MIDI Flip— Danny Ayers
Reflect MIDI note events around a pivot note.
Midi Lattice— Yan Han
A VST3/CLAP plugin that visualizes the pitch classes of incoming MIDI notes on a 2D lattice organized by perfect fifths and major thirds, with configurable tuning for exploring 5-limit and 7-limit just intonation.
MIDI Time Machine— maksut
Captures and replays MIDI performances so you can quickly review what you just played, with a piano roll and velocity display and drag-and-drop import into your DAW
MidiChords— Mark Wilkins
DAW plugin for scrolling display of chords in a MIDI track
Midiscribe— danja
Non-destructive MIDI capture utility. Passes all received MIDI events through unchanged while optionally recording them with beat-position timestamps into a rolling ring buffer. When the write trigger fires, captured eve
Millisecond— Gahel
GTK app that runs system diagnostics and offers tips for improving low-latency audio performance on Linux, based on rtcqs
MixCompare— Jun Murakami
A virtual source selector plugin for DAW final stage mixing that provides instant switching between your work-in-progress mix and reference audio sources.
MultiMeter— Alex Zhang
A comprehensive set of AU/VST real-time audio analysis tools in one window implemented with JUCE 6.
NeuralNote— DamRsn
Audio Plugin for polyphonic Audio to MIDI transcription using deep learning.
OpenLightShow— digidigital
OpenLightShow - A music-reactive lightshow application with 50+ visual effects. Transform your music into stunning visualizations with real-time audio analysis and beat detection.
OpenMeters— Maika
Fast and professional audio metering/visualization for Linux.
osccontrol-light— Patric Schmitz
Sends Open Sound Control (OSC) messages directly from a host's automatable plugin controls, at full resolution and without encoding as MIDI CC — available as a GUI preset-prototyping plugin/app, or a headless build prelo
Oscilloscope— waddafunk
A simple, resizable oscilloscope for visualizing an audio signal's waveform, with continuous or triggered/static plotting and a customizable refresh time.
PerceptoMap— Qirui Huang
PerceptoMap is a real-time psychoacoustic visualization VST3 plugin. Displays Mel spectrograms, MFCCs, Chromagram, Tempogram, Spectral Centroid, Contrast, Flatness, Rolloff, Onset markers, and more perceptual audio featu
PHU Beat Sync Multi Scope— Peter H.
Beat-synced multi-input oscilloscope that collects and displays inputs from peer instances set to "broadcast"
plugdata— plugdata-team
A plugin wrapper around Pure Data with a new GUI, allowing visual patching in a wide selection of DAWs. Ships with the ELSE collection of externals and abstractions, and can also be used as a standalone replacement for P
PluginCollider— Pascal Gauthier
A generic wrapper that allows using a SuperCollider server inside a VST3/CLAP plugin
PlugNspectr— Kevin Jenkins
Analyzes the frequency response, harmonic distortion, and dynamics of other audio plugins in your DAW in real time
Protoplug— Nebula Audio
Loads and edits Lua scripts as audio effects and instruments, turning a DAW into a live-coding environment for audio
Pulse Visualizer— Audio Solutions
Real-time audio visualizer standalone app inspired by MiniMeters
Quadratic Visualizer— Nathaniel D'Annunzio
Audio visualizer that uses TheGrayCuber's shape algebra to generate crazy shapes.
Quantico— Danny Ayers
Quantizes MIDI notes to a selected key and scale.
ShoutVST— Artur Iunusov
Streams audio from a VST host directly into Icecast/SHOUTcast, ideal for streaming live performances from applications like Traktor or Ableton without loopback methods
ShowMIDI— Geert Bevin
Multi-platform GUI application (and VST3/AU/CLAP/LV2/VST2 plugin) to effortlessly visualize MIDI activity, including MPE and MIDI 2.0.
Slimmer— Danny Ayers
Monophonic MIDI filter with selectable note selection strategies.
sMexoscope— Matthijs Hollemans
The classic s(M)exoscope oscilloscope VST using modern JUCE
solidUtility— SolidFuel
A versatile channel utility plugin — swap or mute channels, mid-side encode/decode, invert phase, remove DC offset, and more.
SonoBus— sonosaurus
A real-time network audio streaming and collaboration tool for jamming or podcasting remotely with high quality, low-latency, peer-to-peer audio.
Soundscope— Egor Kurtashkin
A TUI app for analyzing audio data such as frequencies and loudness (LUFS)
Spectacle— JP Cimalando
A real-time spectral analyzer using the short-time Fourier transform, with a logarithmic musical scale, zoom, smooth interpolation, and peak identification under the cursor.
Spectrum Analyzer— Lluís Estapé
Real-time audio spectrum analyzer with a smooth frequency-response curve, stereo VU meters with realistic falloff ballistics, a panning-width indicator, and a freeze button.
Spekana— Yvonne Yuan
Real-time audio-to-MIDI plugin that transforms textured sound, field recordings, and noise into usable MIDI and musical notation, with a live spectrogram and top-10 peak tracking
TestTone— Jun Murakami
A minimal test-signal generator plugin. Generates a sine wave or pink noise, for VST3/AU/AAX/CLAP/LV2.
The Mono Hawk— NL Sounds
Chromatic tuner for guitar and bass on Linux (LV2)
TinyVU— Jun Murakami
A minimalist, pass-through VU meter plugin with a classic analog-style needle display that can be shrunk to almost any size.
TonnetzViz— Dušan Zatkovský
VST3 audio plug-in that visualizes the Tonnetz grid, shows active notes, highlights chords, and keeps a history of recognized chords.
Trace Tuner— Simon Heimler
Minimalistic tuner plugin with a history trace of recent pitch
traKmeter— Martin Zuther
Loudness meter for correctly setting up tracking and mixing levels (gain staging)
Utilities— Butch Warns
A simple utility plugin with phase flip, channel routing (stereo/left/right/swapped), mono-below-frequency bass control, DC offset filtering, stereo width, volume, and pan.
Utility Clone— mimoz
A gain/utility plugin similar to Ableton's Utility, with phase invert, pan, mono, and bass mono controls.
Wolf Spectrum— Wolf Plugins
Spectrogram plugin which supports both log and linear frequency scaling.
ysfx— Jean Pierre Cimalando / Joep Vanlier
Hosting library for JSFX
ZL Inflator— ZL Audio
A distortion/saturation plugin that increases perceived loudness, with auto-gain compensation and a dB-scaled response plot.
ZL Loudness Makeup— ZL Audio
A loudness make-up gain plugin, for restoring perceived volume after processing that reduces level (e.g. compression, EQ cuts) earlier in the chain.
