Bluelab, a developer of whom we weren’t previously aware, have made their entire plugins catalogue available for free. Why?
The range of 27 plugins is available because the company have ceased development. The plugins are in a state of development described as advanced beta. They work but there are issues so we publish this information with no guarantee of functionality.
Will Bluelab Plugins Work On My DAW?
The short answer is that you’ll have to try them. Russ and I both tried the Mac versions and, possibly because we are on different operating systems, had contradictory results. Russ found they only worked in Pro Tools, I found they didn’t work in Pro Tools but most, but not all, of the plugins worked in Studio One but the AU versions crashed. I’m being deliberately vague about exactly which OS and hardware we are running as the results led us to conclude that the only advice we could offer in good faith was to try them yourself.
What Plugins Are Available?
Lo Fi - Simple and efficient bitcrusher plugin.
Gain 60 - Plugin that modifies the gain of a track from -60dB to +60dB.
Panogram - Stereo sound field visualization plugin.
Autogain - Gain rider plugin, which follows and adjusts the level of a track automatically.
EQ Hack - Plugin to retrieve visually and accurately an equalization previously done on an audio file.
Wav3s - Sound visualization in 3D.
PitchShift - Plugin that changes the pitch of a sound, from one octave below to one octave above the original sound.
GhostViewer - Simple spectrogram visualization plugin.
Spatialiser - Binaural HRTF spatialization plugin.
StereoPan - Plugin that sets the panning of a stereo track for each of the two channels independently.
Precedence - Precedence (Haas) effect processing plugin.
Gain24 - Plugin that modifies the gain of a track from -24dB to +24dB.
Impulses - Plugin that captures the acoustic characteristics of a place by using impulse responses (IRs).
Infra - Phantom fundamental bass enhancer plugin.
Chroma - Chromagram visualization plugin.
SpectralDiff - Plugin that detects if two audio files are identical or slightly different.
Shaper - Transient shaper plugin that amplifies or attenuates the transients on an audio track.
Saturate - Simple saturation plugin.
Gain12 - Plugin that modifies the gain of a track from -12dB to +12dB.
Denoiser - Plugin that attenuates or even suppress the background noise (hiss) on a track.
StereoWidth - Stereo widening plugin.
Rebalance - Single track spectral demixer plugin.
Ghost - Powerful spectrogram visualization and editing software.
SampleDelay - Plugin that simply applies a short delay to a track, with a precision at the level of one sample.
Air - Air extraction and remixing plugin.
Sine - Simple and accurate sine wave generator plugin.
System requirements
Mac OS X 10.9 or later (limited Catalina support)
Windows 7 or later
Graphics card compatible with OpenGL for some of the plugins
Formats: AU / VST / VST3 / AAX
Disclaimer
BlueLab Plugins are Beta Software and are discontinued. As such they have no support from the developer.