saturation · free
Less Tube
Valve saturation with two models, Triode and Iron, and a live harmonic display.
AU, VST348 samples, reported exactly4x, polyphase FIR
Specifications and details
metering · free
Less Meter
Loudness, true peak, correlation and spectrum, with streaming, club and festival targets.
AU, VST30 samplesEBU R128, BS.1770-4
Specifications and details
dynamics · free
Less Comp
A clean compressor with the transfer curve and gain reduction on one screen.
AU, VST30 samples, 240 at 5 ms lookaheadinternal or external bus
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limiting · free
Less Limiter
A brickwall limiter with a true peak ceiling that holds after encoding.
AU, VST32 ms, 96 samples at 48 kHz, reportedtrue peak per BS.1770, switchable
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utility · free
Less Gain Stage
Gain, polarity and a measured readout for setting levels.
AU, VST30 samplesnumerically transparent, tested at 1e-7
Specifications and details
How these are built
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Tested like instruments
Every release passes 268 automated tests, Apple's auval, and pluginval at its maximum strictness, on both platforms. A claim that appears on these pages has a test or a measurement behind it.
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Measured, then documented
Latency figures are exact sample counts reported to the host. Alias suppression, filter flatness and ceiling behaviour are measured on the shipping binaries, and the specifications below quote those measurements.
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Made for the community
We build these tools for people who mix, and the free five are our contribution to that community. The engineering behind them is the same engineering our paid tools will get.
Less is more.