Audio Plugins
Everything published on Viyolens under Audio Plugins — reviews, buying advice and how-tos written for players and producers in the UK.
The Ultimate Guide to Romantic Piano Vst
A romantic piano VST captures the warmth and expressiveness of an acoustic piano for your digital studio. This guide explains the technology, compares top options, and helps you select the romantic pi...
Soundtoys: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Buying the wrong bit of this range, or more of it than you need, is an easy way to waste a budget. Here's how to actually decide.
A Guide to Plugin Alliance
The name behind half the plug-in sale banners you've seen, explained: what it makes, who owns it now, and whether it's worth your money.
Chorus Plugin: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Not all chorus plugins sound the same. Discover how to evaluate sound quality, understand rate/depth/feedback controls, and choose between hardware emulations and digital designs.
Common Fabfilter Mistakes to Avoid
None of these are stupid mistakes — they're easy traps built into how genuinely capable this stuff is. Here's how to avoid them.
Autotune Mic for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Autotune is pitch correction software that keeps your vocals in tune. This beginner's guide covers what it does, how to use it, and common mistakes to avoid.
Waves Pitch Correction Plugin: A Complete Guide
Pitch correction plugins are essential for polished vocal and instrumental recordings. This guide explains automatic versus manual approaches, top options, and how to choose the pitch correction plugi...
Common Plugin Alliance Mistakes to Avoid
The avoidable errors, from paying full price out of impatience to trusting the marketing copy over your own ears.
Tape Emulation Plugin: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Buying a tape emulation plugin is confusing because quality varies wildly at different price points. This guide covers specs that matter, common pitfalls, and how to test before committing.
Fabfilter Explained: Features, Types and Tips
From the curved EQ line to the neon compressor meters, FabFilter has become a mixing-room staple. Here's what the range actually does.
Waves Plugins Explained: Features, Types and Tips
From faithful hardware emulations to entirely new digital tools, here's how the Waves plugins catalogue actually breaks down.
The Best Fabfilters for the Money
There's no single 'best' FabFilter plug-in — only the best one for the job in front of you. Here's an honest pick for each task.
Common Waves Plugins Mistakes to Avoid
Six common Waves plugins mistakes that have nothing to do with which plugins you own, and how to fix every one of them.
Fabfilter for Beginners: A Complete Guide
FabFilter can look technical from the outside, but it's built to be learned by ear, gently, one plug-in at a time.
The Complete Guide to Solid State Logic Plugins
Solid state logic plugins bring the sound of legendary SSL mixing consoles into your DAW. These digital tools combine musical EQ, smooth compression, and transformative character for professional mixi...
Everything You Need to Know About Uad Audio Plugins
Detailed hardware modelling on real analogue gear, in two genuinely different flavours. Here's what UAD plugins actually are and how they work.
Fabfilter: A Complete Buyer's Guide
FabFilter's a safe bet, but the catalogue's bigger than people think. Here's how to actually decide what to buy first.
Everything You Need to Know About Sample Plugins
Sampler plugins turn recordings into playable instruments. Discover time-stretching, sample slicing, granular synthesis and the best sampler tools for your production workflow.
Virtual Tape Machines for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Virtual tape machines look intimidating but they're genuinely beginner-friendly. This guide walks you through what you need, how to get started, and the mistakes to avoid on your first tries.
Waves Plugins: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Bundle or individual, subscription or perpetual — here's how to actually buy Waves plugins without ending up with software you never open.
Limiter Plugin: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Choosing the right limiter plugin means understanding lookahead, release modes, and metering. Learn what specs matter and which price tier suits your needs.
Waves Plugins for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Overwhelmed by Waves plugins? Here's the sensible, no-panic way in: one plugin at a time, a simple signal chain, and real attention to gain staging.
The Complete Guide to Vocal Amp
Vocal amp plugins simulate the warmth and saturation of physical amplifiers applied to vocal recordings, transforming raw tracks into polished, professional-sounding performances.
Soundtoys for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Overwhelmed by the knobs on your first Soundtoys plugin? Here's a calm, structured way through your first sessions.
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Chorus Plugin
Chorus plugin effects add width, movement and character to vocals, synths, guitars and keys.
Fabfilter
FabFilter delivers high-end EQ, compression and mastering plugins with precise control and clear workflow.
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Limiter Plugin
Peak-control plug-ins for louder, safer mixes and cleaner mastering results.
Pitch Correction Plugin
pitch correction plugin tightens vocals and melodies for clean tuning or stylised effects in the mix.
Plugin Alliance
plugin alliance offers professional mixing, mastering and creative plugins for modern DAW-based production.
Sampler Plugin
Sampler plugins turn audio into playable instruments for chopping, mapping and reshaping sounds inside your DAW.
Soundtoys
Soundtoys plug-ins add analogue-style colour, movement and creative effects for distinctive mixes and sound design.
Waves Plugins
Mix and master with trusted Waves plugins for vocals, dynamics, EQ, ambience and dependable studio processing.
