Somewhere to ask
A channel for every plug-in, and one for everything else. Engineers and artists, trading what they know.
No uploads, no tracking, no advertising. The house rules fit on one page.
Open a channel to read it. The form to start a thread sits at the foot of every one.
Who are you?
Say hello. What you make, what you make it with, and what you are after.
Last: Welcome! and thank you for joining our forum· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
You made music with our plug-ins
Put the track somewhere and link to it here. Tell us what you used and how.
Last: Post a track, and say how you got there· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
TIJN 50
The filter and drive effect. Questions, settings, and what you got out of it.
Last: Which of the five models do you reach for first, and on what?· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
Mey IVY
The sixteen voice polysynth. Patches, sounds, and how it behaves.
Last: Eight tracks is a lot of instrument. What did you build with it, and how did you lay the tracks out?· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
HALLE 1280
The multichannel hall reverb. Rooms, tails and placement.
Last: What room are you trying to build? Post the settings and what you were after, and say where it falls short.· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
MEY 640 Gravity
The surround mastering compressor. Settings and what it does to a mix.
Last: What are you mastering with it, and how much is each of the three stages actually doing?· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
MEY 320
The dimensional chorus. Width, movement and where it sits.
Last: Which of the four modes do you use, and on what? Guitars and keys are the obvious ones, so I am more curious about the unobvious ones.· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
Unity Balancer
Shape, ride, craft. The mastering bus.
Last: Where does it sit in your chain, and what is it doing that something else was doing before?· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
Halo 2000
The living circuit reverb.
Last: Which programme, and what are you putting through it?· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
Gear
Hardware, and what is worth knowing about it. Lists, notes and questions. No sponsorship and no affiliate links: nobody here is paid to name anything.
Last: Twenty hardware synthesisers worth knowing about· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
A rainy day watch
Lectures, conference talks and documentaries worth a whole afternoon. Where synthesis came from, how filters and op-amps actually work, and what saturation really is. Every link checked against YouTube itself.
Last: Saturation, distortion and harmonics· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026
Audio chat
Everything else about making sound. Gear, rooms, technique, other people's tools.
Last: Anything about audio that is not about our plug-ins· Ronald Meij· Sept 2026