Description
Channel Strip Plug in TrackPlug is our most popular plug-in, an all-in-one channel strip which features a 10-band EQ, brickwall filters, spectrum analyzer, dual multi-mode compressors, gate/expander, extensive sidechain options, and a peak limiter. It also boasts Wave Arts’ outstanding sound quality and impressive CPU efficiency.
TrackPlug’s interface has been meticulously designed for visual clarity and ease of use. For example, the EQ interface lets you add a new EQ band by double-clicking, then you drag the control point to change frequency and height, right-click (shift-click on Mac) to change width. Right-clicking on a meter or display axis gives a popup menu of display ranges. Right-click a knob drag to get fine tune adjustment, double-click a knob to revert to default value. And so on.
Our preset manager lets you A/B compare two different presets or undo the last change. TrackPlug also features preset managers per section so for example you can quickly combine an EQ preset with a compressor preset. Super handy.
Like all Wave Arts’ plugs, TrackPlug only consumes CPU for features that are enabled, so if you just need a few bands of EQ and some compression, TrackPlug has a negligible CPU load. Even with everything turned on, TrackPlug is very light on CPU. We’ve had users report using over 100 TrackPlugs in a single project.
The applications for TrackPlug are virtually endless: shape the tone of an instrument, fix sonic problems, bring dynamics under control, clean up noise problems, add some punch or vintage warmth to a track, de-ess a vocal track, and much more… The outstanding user interface puts the power of TrackPlug under your control. 10 bands of professional, 64-bit EQ
EQ band types: parametric, low/high shelf, analog low/high shelf, resonant low/high shelf, low-pass, band-pass, high-pass, or notch filter
Brickwall lowpass/highpass filter section
Third-octave spectrum analysis display
Dual multi-mode compressors and a gate
Clean, vintage, peak, and RMS dynamics modes
Sidechain EQ support on each dynamics section
External sidechain support (VST3, AU, AAX)
Adjustable lookahead delays
Peak limiter
Comprehensive metering
Master preset manager and preset manager per section
Over 60 master presets, 30 compressor presets, 60 EQ presets, 10 gate presets
Latency compensation, latency matching when bypassed
Fully automatable
Up to 192K support
Mono or stereo Requires a host program that supports audio plug-ins. iLok licensing supported but not required.
Macintosh – AU, VST3, AAX
OS-X 10.11 to MacOS 12 (Monterey)
Apple Silicon (M1) supported (AU and VST3)
AAX – Pro Tools 11 and higher
64-bit hosts only
Windows – VST3, AAX
Windows 7/8/10
AAX – Pro Tools 10.3.5 and higher
32-bit and 64-bit hosts supported