PuluTec is a series of audio plug-ins built by a mixing engineer for everyday studio work. Every plug-in shares the same interface language: A/B compare, undo and redo, a common preset menu, selectable colour palettes and resizable windows. Learn one and you already know your way around the rest.
All plug-ins are available in VST3 and CLAP formats, with the exception of the MIDI FX set, which is MFX and therefore for Cakewalk Sonar only.
EQ & Filters
PuluTec EQ
The centrepiece of the series. A parametric equalizer in which every node can be static, dynamic or spectral, and placed on the stereo signal, left, right, mid or side independently. Dynamic nodes have both range and ratio, and can be triggered by another node’s band.
Resonance Hunter points out problem frequencies and turns them into cuts with a click. A piano keyboard can replace the frequency scale, so you can place a node directly on a note. Delta listening and auto gain are there when you need to check what you are actually doing, and the analyzer can hold a frozen spectrum beside the live one for comparison. Latency is zero unless spectral processing is switched on.
PuluTec Scientific Filter
Adjust the signal with lowpass, highpass, bandpass and band cut modes, using Bessel, Butterworth, Chebyshev or Elliptic designs.
The display shows magnitude, phase and group delay, so you can see how the chosen design behaves outside its magnitude response, where the differences between the four designs actually live.
Dynamics
PuluTec Compressor
Five compressors in one window: Clean, Bus, Punch, Opto and Vari-Mu. Each engine is an original design with its own behaviour and its own colour, so you can tell at a glance which one is running. Controls that do not apply to the selected engine are simply not shown.
Gain reduction sits large in the middle of the interface, with input and output levels on either side. Each engine has its own quick presets, and the main preset menu is kept short on purpose.
PuluTec -76
A FET compressor with vintage character and a look of its own. Input and output gain, attack from 0.02 to 0.8 ms, release from 50 to 1100 ms, and ratios of 4, 8, 12 and 20, plus the all-buttons-in setting, here called Nuke Mode. Two character options cover the early and the late revisions of the original design, and an analog VU meter shows the result.
Everything a modern mix needs is there alongside the vintage behaviour: delta listening, a Mix control for parallel compression, auto makeup, oversampling at 2x or 4x, and a side chain high-pass filter up to 1 kHz with external side chain support. A gain reduction history graph covers 5 seconds to 5 minutes, so you can see how the compressor has behaved across a whole take instead of guessing from a swinging needle. The Advanced panel opens over twenty parameters of the compression algorithm itself, and the built-in Fast Guide explains on a single screen where to start.
PuluTec Limiter
A true peak limiter with six algorithms: Clean, Glue, Punch, Loud, Safe and Smooth. True peak limiting is always on, oversampling goes up to 32x, and release can be adaptive or manual.
A scrolling level and gain reduction history shows what the limiter has been doing, and a large loudness readout with per-platform targets shows where you have landed. Latency stays constant, so adjusting settings never interrupts playback.
PuluTec Clipper
Practically a one-knob plug-in for taking a few decibels off the peaks, cleanly. Two styles, Hard and Soft. Auto Gain is on by default, so turning the knob changes the peaks and not the level.
Oversampling is selectable from 4x to 16x, or off for zero latency. Light enough to use on any bus in any project.
PuluTec Gate
A gate that shows what it does. The level history display makes it easy to set the threshold where it belongs. Lookahead catches the first transient, and Duck mode turns the gate upside down.
The gate can also send a MIDI note each time it opens, which makes it a simple trigger for samples and instruments.
PuluTec De-Esser
Sibilance control with three modes: Vocal, Mix and Mastering. The same engine handles a single lead vocal and the high-frequency limiting of a full master. Works wide band or split band, with internal or external side chain.
Press Fix Sibilance For Me and the plug-in listens to the material, then moves the controls to suggested settings in front of you. You can undo it, or continue from there. The Listen button plays only what is being removed.
PuluTec Transient
A transient shaper with no threshold to set: attack and sustain, independent of level. For drums, percussion, acoustic guitar and room microphones, in the cases where a compressor is the wrong tool.
Four modes and an optional two-band split let you shape the low and high end separately.
Character
PuluTec Tape
Tape machine emulator with two machines to choose from, studio and consumer, running at 15 or 7½ ips.
Drive and head bump shape the record stage, while wear and hiss set the condition of the tape. Wow and flutter take care of the transport. Everything a tape machine does to a signal is on the panel, with nothing hidden behind a single amount knob.
PuluTec Exciter
Adds harmonics above a chosen frequency and blends them back into the signal. Three main controls, Freq, Drive and Mix, with the filter bandwidth following automatically. The range runs from 500 Hz to 16 kHz.
A third meter next to input and output shows how much is being added. An exciter is rarely needed in large amounts, and the factory presets are set accordingly.
PuluTec LoFi
The opposite of clean. The converter section takes sample rate down to 1 kHz and bit depth down to a single bit, with dither, anti-aliasing and smoothing switchable so you can hear what each one contributes.
The character section adds the telephone: µ-law, A-law or ADPCM encoding, and band limiting from full range through wide to phone. For the moments when a track sounds too good to be interesting.
Reverb & Delay
PuluTec Plate Reverb P1
One plate with a sound of its own, and only the controls that matter. Decay and Mix are the largest knobs for a reason. A tube stage with Drive adds colour when wanted.
A de-esser on the plate input keeps sibilance out of the tail, ducking from the signal itself or from a side chain keeps the reverb out of the way, and a full decay EQ shapes how each frequency range dies away. True Stereo and Dual Mono modes, with tempo-synced pre-delay and decay.
PuluTec Hall Reverb
Four halls on one engine. Two modes take their character from the classic digital reverbs of the late 1970s and the 1980s, one grainy and one lush and modulated. Modern is clean, with decay times up to 60 seconds, and Cathedral is exactly what the name says.
Shares its workflow with the Plate Reverb, including ducking and decay EQ.
PuluTec Delay
A delay that sits between basic and everything: quick to set up, with enough depth for the special cases. Four character modes, tempo sync and delay times up to ten seconds. Changing the time glides the pitch the way an analog delay does.
The Advanced view adds Freeze and a micro-pitch Double.
Modulation
PuluTec Chorus
A mixing engineer’s everyday chorus, aimed at acoustic guitar and backing vocals. Four modes: Analog, Digital, 80’s and Dimension, the last one with the familiar four buttons.
PuluTec Flanger
Four flangers behind one clean interface: Analog, Tape, 80’s Digital and Modern. The Analog mode is modelled on a real pedal, including the way it behaves when feedback is pushed into self-oscillation.
All modes share a Manual sweep control. Modern mode adds through-zero flanging and envelope modulation from the signal or a side chain.
PuluTec Phaser
Analog, Vintage, 80’s Digital and Modern. From a soft, quiet pedal-style phaser to twelve stages across the full frequency range. Each mode has its own colour and its own quick presets.
Manual sweep is available in every mode, and Modern mode can follow the envelope of the signal.
PuluTec Doubler
A doubler made for widening backing vocals. Natural for a believable second take, Stack for four, six or eight voices, Micro for subtle width, and Harmony for two voices at a fixed interval.
Formants are preserved, so shifted voices still sound like the singer. The Take selector gives a different performance for every track, so six backing vocal tracks do not all get the same double.
Stereo, Metering & Utility
PuluTec Width
Stereo width in three frequency bands, with zero latency. Narrow the low end to mono, widen the top, and let the correlation-based safety limit stop you before the image falls apart.
Includes a view and presets for vinyl work, where the low end has to stay in the middle.
PuluTec Meter
A zero-latency measurement tool: spectrum, spectrogram, goniometer with phase correlation, and loudness and true peak metering with target presets. One switchable main view, with the meters always visible beside it.
A compact meters-only mode is there for when screen space is short.
PuluTec Channel Tools
The small jobs every channel needs, in one place and with the same interface as the rest of the series: channel polarity, balance, mono bass and M/S handling.
Podcast & Speech
PuluTec Denoise
Restoration modules in one plug-in: broadband noise reduction, hum removal, de-click, and a neural engine trained for speech. Hum removal offers both a classic notch mode and an adaptive mode for hum that does not stay put.
The classical engines are there when you want to hear exactly what is being subtracted; the neural engine is there when the noise is too tangled up with the voice for a spectral approach to separate it. Latency is constant whether modules are on or off, so switching them never interrupts playback.
PuluTec DeReverb
Takes the room out of a recording. The plug-in learns the decay of the space and reduces it in three frequency bands. The Difference monitor plays what is being removed.
PuluTec Rider
Level riding and music ducking in one plug-in. On a speech track it rides the level phrase by phrase, the way an engineer would with a fader. On a music track it ducks the bed under the speech, set as a ratio to the speech level instead of a fixed number of decibels.
Instances talk to each other inside the project, so the music track knows when someone is speaking. Three ride modes: Phrase, Smooth and Fast.
PuluTec CrossTalk
An automatic expander for multi-microphone speech recordings. Instances on the speaker tracks communicate with each other and decide together which microphones should be open, so a loud voice on one track does not open the others.
Quiet sentence endings and shared laughter are let through. The aim is to remove the leakage that gets in the way and nothing more.
MIDI
PuluTec MIDI FX
A set of MIDI effects that process notes instead of audio, with the same look and palettes as the rest of the series: Arpeggiator, Chord Analyzer, Echo, Event Filter, Event Probe, Quantize, Transpose, UnDupe and Velocity.
These are MFX plug-ins, written for Cakewalk Sonar and usable only there. Event Probe shows what is actually travelling down the track, and UnDupe removes duplicate events, which is the one that saves the most time on a track edited by hand.