Soundtoys Effect Rack is usually only available as a part of the Soundtoys 5 bundle. However, they are offering their Effect Rack plug-in for free to all as a time-limited licence.
What Is Soundtoys Effect Rack?
Effect Rack is a multi-effects plugin, which hosts 14 Soundtoys plugins and allows global controls controlling tempo sync and a global recycle control for feedback loops and a global mix control.
The plugins included are:
Crystalliser - Granular Echo Synthesiser
Decapitator - Analog Saturation Modeler
Devil Loc - Audio Level Destroyer
Echo Boy - The Ultimate Echo Plugin
Echo Boy Jr. - Analog Echo Modeler
Filter Freak 1 - Resonant Analog Filter
Filter Freak 2 - 2 Resonant Analog Filters
Micro Shift - Pitch shift widening
PanMan - Rhythmic Auto Panner
PhaseMistress - Analog Phase Shifter
Primal Tap - Retro Delay
Radiator - Tube Warmth
Sie-Q - Boutique EQ
Tremolator - Tremolo and Auto Gate
Note that the “little“ plugins such as Little Plate or Little AlterBoy aren’t available but versions of the big hitters from the Soundtoys range are.
How Do I Get Effect Rack From Soundtoys?
Click the button to go to the Soundtoys website, give your name and email address, download and you’re good to go. You’ll need an iLok account but not necessarily an iLok dongle to use this plugin for free until June 30th.
Julian Rodgers is Editor of Production Expert. He has a background in live sound and has been a Pro Tools user since 2001. He lives by the sea in West Cornwall where he plays piano, bass and guitar equally badly and is an avid collector of microphones and opinions about all things audio.