McDSP is a world-renowned, innovative and award-winning audio software company specializing in professional audio plug-ins. and ESV are proud to add their fantastic plug-ins to our ever expanding portfolio.
Founded in 1998 by Colin McDowell, McDSP make software for the Music Production, Live Sound, Post Production, Game Audio and iOS apps market. Now celebrating their 20th anniversary, McDSP continue to go from strength to strength – the SA-2 Dialog Processor plug-in recently won a prestigious Engineering Emmy award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development – high praise indeed.
Back in ’98 the first plug-in to be released was FilterBank and whilst that continues to be an industry standard collection of EQs, McDSP now produce over 24 high-end audio software tools, many of which continue to receive high marks in various awards categories. Some highlights include CompressorBank – a compressor plug-in capable of emulating many vintage and classic compressors, MC2000 – the first multi-band compressor for Pro Tools, Channel G – the only channel strip plug-in with a customized UI for Avid ICON control surfaces and the AE400 – the first active EQ for the Avid HDX platform plus many more!
McDSP plug-ins are available individually or in various bundles – conveniently grouped plug-in collections that allow the user to save money. The vast majority are available in either HD or Native options; depending on the type of plug-in format your favourite DAW supports – choose HD versions if your favourite DAW supports AAX DSP/Native, AU or VST plug-in formats. If your system cannot handle AAX DSP then choose the Native format. McDSP plug-ins are compatible with Pro Tools, Pro Tools | HD, Logic X, Cubase, Nuendo, Ableton Live and a whole host of other DAWs that support AAX, AU or VST/VST3 plug-in formats. They require either an iLok 2 or iLok 3 for authorization and are supported on Mac OS 10.8.x through 10.13.x and Windows 7, 8 and 10.
Read our review of the SA-2 Dialog Processor from guest blogger Mike Aiton here
Bundles
Every single plug-in that McDSP make
McDSP’s highly sought after EQ’s, compressors,
tape machine and analog signal path emulators,
mastering limiters and more
McDSP’s legendary emulations of EQ’s,
compressors, tape machines and channel amplifiers
A collection of McDSP plug-ins ideal for
mixing live performances
A collection of plug-ins to achieve the
perfect vintage sound
Individual Plug-ins
Equalizers
- 6050 Ultimate Channel Strip
- 6020 Ultimate EQ
- AE400 Active EQ
- AE600 Active EQ
- 4020 Retro EQ
- FilterBank
- NF575 Noise Filter
- Channel G
- Channel G Compact
Dynamics
Mastering & Multi-band
