# Process Audio > Process Audio builds pro-grade audio plugins for music producers and engineers — including Sugar (harmonic enhancer), Decibel (loudness metering), Spicerack (distortion), Ripple (delay), Rockruepel COMP.TWO (compressor), Filter Factory and Protility. This index lists the site's products, articles and support pages. The site is also available in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese. ## Products - [Sugar — Enhancer](https://process.audio/en/products/sugar): Harmonic saturation and tape-inspired coloring. From subtle warmth to aggressive drive, Sugar adds life and dimension to any source. - [Decibel — Metering](https://process.audio/en/products/decibel): Upgrade your studio by adding fully customizable real-time metering displays on your desk. Unparalleled LUFS and dynamic metering. - [Spicerack — Distortion](https://process.audio/en/products/spicerack): Creative distortion with 5 unique algorithms. Distort, shape, and texturize your tracks, or simply add warmth to your master bus. - [Ripple — Delay](https://process.audio/en/products/ripple): The ultimate creative delay plugin, engineered for seamless and intuitive delay effect design with reactive and inspiring visual feedback. - [Rockruepel COMP.TWO — Compressor](https://process.audio/en/products/rockruepel-comptwo): An emulation of the hardware Rockruepel tube compressor. Parallel compression made intuitive — blend dry and compressed signals with precision. - [Protility](https://process.audio/en/products/protility): Protility is a suite of essential tools for audio professionals, designed to speed up track preparation and enhance workflow during production or mixing sessions. - [Filter Factory — Filter](https://process.audio/en/products/filter-factory): A versatile filter plugin that offers a wide range of filter types, modulation options, and creative possibilities to sculpt any frequency range. ## Free trials - [Free trials](https://process.audio/en/free-trials): Download fully functional, time-limited demos of every Process Audio plugin. - [Sugar — free trial](https://process.audio/en/products/sugar/trial): Harmonic saturation and tape-inspired coloring. From subtle warmth to aggressive drive, Sugar adds life and dimension to any source. - [Decibel — free trial](https://process.audio/en/products/decibel/trial): Upgrade your studio by adding fully customizable real-time metering displays on your desk. Unparalleled LUFS and dynamic metering. - [Spicerack — free trial](https://process.audio/en/products/spicerack/trial): Creative distortion with 5 unique algorithms. Distort, shape, and texturize your tracks, or simply add warmth to your master bus. - [Ripple — free trial](https://process.audio/en/products/ripple/trial): The ultimate creative delay plugin, engineered for seamless and intuitive delay effect design with reactive and inspiring visual feedback. - [Rockruepel COMP.TWO — free trial](https://process.audio/en/products/rockruepel-comptwo/trial): An emulation of the hardware Rockruepel tube compressor. Parallel compression made intuitive — blend dry and compressed signals with precision. - [Protility (free plugin)](https://process.audio/en/products/protility): Protility is a suite of essential tools for audio professionals, designed to speed up track preparation and enhance workflow during production or mixing sessions. - [Filter Factory — free trial](https://process.audio/en/products/filter-factory/trial): A versatile filter plugin that offers a wide range of filter types, modulation options, and creative possibilities to sculpt any frequency range. ## Key pages - [Home](https://process.audio/en) - [Learning center](https://process.audio/en/learning) - [Blog](https://process.audio/en/blog) - [Support](https://process.audio/en/support) - [About](https://process.audio/en/about) - [Contact](https://process.audio/en/contact-us) ## Blog - [Use Sugar as a Parallel Compression Plugin!](https://process.audio/en/blog/compress-with-sugar): Sugar is the easiest way to add parallel compression on your vocals, your drums, and every one of your tracks. Get instant great-sounding mixes. - [Use Sugar as a Saturation Plugin!](https://process.audio/en/blog/saturation-never-sounded-so-sweet): Sugar is not only a powerful sonic enhancer; it's one of the best saturation plugin. Choose between 3 different flavors: Drive, Distort, and Crush. - [Use Sugar as a Vocal Enhancer!](https://process.audio/en/blog/make-your-vocals-shine): Sugar is a great vocal enhancer, it can add that extra special something to your vocal tracks. No matter what style of music you're mixing. - [Use Sugar as a Bass Enhancer Plugin!](https://process.audio/en/blog/sweet-bass): Sugar excels as a bass enhancer. With four enhancer bands and the choice of three types of saturation, you have a lot of sonic options at your disposal for your bass enhancement. - [Use Sugar as a Mastering Plugin!](https://process.audio/en/blog/sugar-on-top): Sugar can be used as a mastering plugin that lets you handle some of the most critical aspects of the process with ease. In fact, you could call it an “almost” automatic mastering plugin. - [Decibel Overview](https://process.audio/en/blog/decibel-overview): How to use Decibel in your workflow w/ award-wining engineer Fab Dupont. - [Decibel Modules Shortcuts - Easily configure your Decibel tabs & layout](https://process.audio/en/blog/decibel-modules-shortcuts): Award-winning engineer Fab Dupont demonstrates how to use shortcuts to organize your modules like a pro. - [Decibel Offline HI Analysis - Understand the LUFS profile & dynamics of your songs](https://process.audio/en/blog/decibel-offline-analysis): Award-winning engineer Fab Dupont shows you how to use your Decibel plugin offline analysis feature so you can figure out the LUFS profile of your music and spot at a glance what parts of your songs are the loudest/quietest! - [Decibel Daemon (OSX) - Monitor & Analyze hit songs from Spotify/ Youtube/ iTunes](https://process.audio/en/blog/decibel-daemon-understand-the-background-app-study-what-others-doing-with-their-music): Fab Dupont shows you how to set up the Decibel Daemon, a background app that will help you listen and analyze any music or audio clip and compare it to your production. - [Connect Decibel to many mobile devices (iOS / Android) - Unlimited real time displays](https://process.audio/en/blog/Connect-Decibel-to-many-mobile-devices%20-Unlimited-real-time-displays): Download and launch Decibel Display from the App Store or Google Play Store. - [The Decibel VU METER: Get a feel for your levels](https://process.audio/en/blog/decibel-vu-meter): VU Meters will help you manage your recording levels and avoid overloading, distortion and help you hit your digital converters at their sweet spots by calibrating the meter's 0VU level accordingly - [Decibel Module: The LUFS Histogram - Track your music's loudness over time](https://process.audio/en/blog/the-lufs-histogram): The LUFS Histogram represents your music's loudness (LUFS) and short-term dynamics (TrueDyn) over time. It is the best way to compare different parts of your songs and see how their loudness and dynamics evolve and compare to one another. - [Quick Tips | Gain Staging your Session using the Decibel Supermeter](https://process.audio/en/blog/gain-staging-your-session-using-decibel-supermeter): If you ask us, gain staging is the technique of consciously managing the gain of one or more tracks across the entire path of their described audio signal. - [Control Your Dynamic Range in Real Time Using a Limiter](https://process.audio/en/blog/Control-Your-Dynamic-Range-in-Real-Time-Using-a-Limiter): Reach the perfect dynamic range for your track using a limiter by using the Trudedyn-s as meeting point for perfect loudness - [The Decibel Target Validators: Prepare Your Music for Streaming Platforms](https://process.audio/en/blog/The-Decibel-Target-Validators:-Prepare-Your-Music-for-Streaming-Platforms): Target Validators are the perfect way to know if you have met your targets. Decibel has three targets - [Why Your Master Sounds Quiet on Spotify (And What the Pros Actually Watch)](https://process.audio/en/blog/lufs-targets-streaming-platforms-loudness-metering): Spotify normalizes to -14 LUFS. Apple Music to -16. Here is exactly what to measure, why the loudness wars are over, and how to hit every delivery spec first time. - [Your Mix Sounds Amateur (And It's Not Your EQ)](https://process.audio/en/blog/harmonic-enhancement-why-mixes-sound-amateur): EQ can only boost what already exists. Pro records sound expensive because of harmonic generation, saturation and transient design. Here is the gap, and how to close it. - [Your Delay Is Ruining Your Mix (And You Can't Hear It Yet)](https://process.audio/en/blog/how-to-make-delays-sit-in-a-mix-ducking-gating): Delays don't muddy mixes. Uncontrolled delay dynamics do. Learn ducking, gating, delay throws and anti-Doppler stutters: the techniques that separate pros from presets. - [Why Your Mix Doesn't Glue (And Why More Compression Won't Help)](https://process.audio/en/blog/mix-bus-glue-vari-mu-tube-compression): Your mix sounds like stems, not a record. That is not a compression amount problem. It is a compression topology problem. Inside vari-mu, tubes, transformers and glue. - [Why Your Tracks Sound Sterile: The Missing 0.5% on Every Channel](https://process.audio/en/blog/analog-warmth-saturation-every-track-console-distortion): Analog consoles didn't add warmth on the master. They added a tiny amount of distortion to every single channel. Here is how to rebuild that in the box, without mud. - [Your Beat Is Technically Perfect and Completely Boring](https://process.audio/en/blog/how-to-add-movement-to-a-beat-filter-automation): Loops repeat. Records evolve. Filter modulation (LFO, envelope follower and wah) is how producers turn a static 8-bar loop into something that moves. Here is the method. - [The 7 Moves Every Pro Makes Before They Touch an EQ](https://process.audio/en/blog/track-preparation-gain-staging-phase-bass-mono): Gain staging, phase alignment, bass mono, high-pass, stereo width. Pros do this before they mix, and most people skip it. Here is the checklist, plus a free plugin that does all seven. ## Support - [Activate my plug-in with iLok Cloud (FREE)](https://process.audio/en/support/activate-my-plug-in-with-ilok-cloud): Our plug-ins are protected by an iLok license management system. Don't worry, this iLok system is FREE, easy to use and very common in the audio industry. It ju... - [Activate my plug-in with a iLok 2+ dongle](https://process.audio/en/support/activate-my-plug-in-with-a-ilok-2-dongle): Our plug-ins are protected by an iLok license management system. This system will require you to own an iLok dongle 2+ which you can purchase online or from you... - [Download & start using my plug-in (demo & full licenses)](https://process.audio/en/support/download-and-start-using-my-plugin): Compatibility Our plug-ins are compatible with the following platforms: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) Mac OS X 10.9 or newer PRO... - [Where are my plug-ins installed?](https://process.audio/en/support/where-are-my-plug-ins-installed): Plugin Installation Locations PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are only installed in 64-bit formats only in the following locations: Windows C:\Program Files\VSTPlugins —... - [How do I completely uninstall my plug-ins?](https://process.audio/en/support/how-do-i-completely-uninstall-my-plug-ins): Windows When you install PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins, an uninstall.exe file is automatically created. This file will be located here: C:\Program Files\ProcessAudio\M... - [How do I connect my pureMix account to Process.audio?](https://process.audio/en/support/how-do-i-connect-my-puremix-account-to-processaudio): That's an easy on! You have 2 options. All you have to do is register to PROCESS.AUDIO on this page: https://process.audio/register and click on the pureMix log... - [How do I get FREE access to PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins?](https://process.audio/en/support/how-do-i-get-free-access-to-processaudio-plug-ins): All pureMix Pro Members have access to ALL PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins for FREE for as long as their Pro Membership is active. If you are interested in becoming a pu... - [How many licenses per plug-ins do I get?](https://process.audio/en/support/how-many-licenses-per-plug-ins-do-i-get): All plug-in purchases come with 2 different activation locations. This means that you can activate your plug-ins on 2 different iLok dongles that you can connec... - [Ableton Live - my plug-ins aren't showing up](https://process.audio/en/support/ableton-live-my-plug-ins-arent-showing-up): Compatibility PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are compatible with Ableton Live 8 and above in 64-bit mode ONLY. PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are 64-bit only. So make sure you... - [Cubase - my plug-ins aren't showing up](https://process.audio/en/support/cubase-my-plug-ins-arent-showing-up): PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are compatible with Cubase 6 and above in 64-bit mode ONLY. PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are 64-bit only. Our plug-ins will work in either VST2... - [Logic - my plug-ins aren't showing up](https://process.audio/en/support/logic-my-plug-ins-arent-showing-up): Compatibility PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are compatible with Logic Pro 9 (64-bit run only) and Logic Pro X only. Logic Pro 9 and Logic Pro X Step 1: Check Plugin Lo... - [Studio One - my plug-ins aren't showing up](https://process.audio/en/support/studio-one-my-plug-ins-arent-showing-up): PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are compatible with Studio One 2 Pro (64-bit run only), Studio One 3 Pro (64-bit run only) and Studio One 4 Pro and above. Step 1: Verify... - [Reaper - my plug-ins aren't showing up](https://process.audio/en/support/reaper-my-plug-ins-arent-showing-up): Compatibility PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are compatible with Reaper 5 in 64-bit mode ONLY. PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are 64-bit only. Our plug-ins will work in either... - [Pro Tools - my plug-ins aren't showing up](https://process.audio/en/support/pro-tools-my-plug-ins-arent-showing-up): PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are compatible with Pro Tools 11 and above. (Pro Tools 10 and under are not supported) PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are 64-bit AAX only. Unfort... - [Officially supported DAWs, formats and OS](https://process.audio/en/support/officially-supported-daws-formats-and-os): Supported DAWs PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins run in 64-bit mode only. Therefore, we only support DAWs that are 64-bit compatible: Ableton Live — Live 8 (64-bit), Live... - [Do you offer educational discounts?](https://process.audio/en/support/do-you-offer-educational-discounts): Yes we do. PROCESS.AUDIO is happy to help students and teachers make more music. We offer a 40% discount on all our products. EDU licenses are NFRs only (Not Fo... - [FL Studio - My Plug-ins Don't Show Up](https://process.audio/en/support/fl-studio-my-plug-ins-dont-show-up): PROCESS.AUDIO plug-ins are compatible with any FL Studio version installed in 64-bit mode. Step 1: Verify Plug-in Installation Paths Make sure your plug-ins are... - [Activate my plug-in with Machine Authorization (FREE)](https://process.audio/en/support/activate-my-plug-in-with-machine-authorization-free): Our plug-ins are protected by an iLok license management system. Don't worry, this iLok system is FREE, easy to use and very common in the audio industry. It ju... - [Acknowledgments](https://process.audio/en/support/acknowledgments): Legal Notices Copyright © 2018-2024 Process.audio Inc. All rights reserved. Process Audio plugins and applications may utilize third-party software. Copyrighted...