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ToneLab plugin interface showing a chorus lane with its EQ band confined to the upper mids
Chorus confined to the upper mids — lane 1 of 5
Multi-FX Plugin · AU / VST3 / AAX

Five effects.
One insert.
No mud.

ToneLab confines reverb, distortion, delay, chorus and saturation to the frequency ranges you choose — the parallel send chain you'd hand-build from five buses and five EQs, in a single VST3 / AU / AAX insert.

For producers and mix engineers who want their FX surgical, not smeared. A Vector DSP product for macOS and Windows.

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Reverb in the mids only
Distortion just in the lows
Five lanes. Five EQs. One insert.
For producers and mix engineers
AAX for Pro Tools
macOS Universal · Windows 10 / 11
Reverb in the mids only
Distortion just in the lows
Five lanes. Five EQs. One insert.
For producers and mix engineers
AAX for Pro Tools
macOS Universal · Windows 10 / 11
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Music Production Plugin · VST3 · AU · AAX

A multi FX processor with a classic EQ interface that lets you apply effects to specific frequency ranges — not your entire signal. Reverb in the mids only. Distortion just in the lows. Five parallel lanes, each with its own EQ, in a single insert.

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Visuals driven by the audio itself, rendered offline rather than captured off a screen — linear light, 16-bit float, no banding. Name and date when it's ready.

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How We Build

Three things ToneLab lets you stop doing by hand — and the engineering underneath each one.

01
Keep your low end tight while the reverb sits in the mids

Each lane's EQ decides where its effect lands, so a long reverb never washes into your 808. Real-time performance is the constraint every processing decision is made against — latency and CPU efficiency first, not as an afterthought.

02
Replace a five-bus parallel chain with one insert

Five sends, five buses, five EQ instances — rebuilt every session. ToneLab makes that routing permanent. Every parameter, algorithm and interface decision is deliberate; nothing is added for the sake of it.

03
Sculpt band-specific textures in a single pass

Saturate the low mids, chorus the air, leave the vocal range untouched — without leaving the channel. Built in C++ on the same architecture professional audio companies use, and shipped in the formats you actually run: AU, VST3 and AAX.

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Behind the Sound.

Vector DSP is built on a straightforward idea: audio software should give you more control, not more complexity. We build DSP tools using industry-standard architecture — each one designed around a specific problem that existing plugins don't solve well.

Kai Hansen, founder of Vector DSP, wearing studio headphones
Kai Hansen
Founder & Developer, Vector DSP

I wanted something that didn't exist, so I spent a year building it. ToneLab is five parallel DSP lanes in C++ on JUCE, every one of them on a microsecond budget. I'm also the only person on the support email — which means the brain that wrote the bug has to explain it too.

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