Acoustic
DI Regan
At last, a cheap DI'd acoustic can sound like an expensive mic'd classic. Built for that one job - and its 4-band saturator shapes snares and kicks beautifully too.
A mono acoustic-DI channel strip: it turns a thin, quacky acoustic DI (piezo / magnetic / SBT) into a mic’d acoustic through a PA in a room. A full series chain - Input → Quack Tamer → Guitar IR → 4-band Saturator → Compressor → Anti-Feedback → PA/Room → Output. Part of the suite but completely standalone (no brain, no shared state).
Early-bird pricing
These are launch prices and they will go up as the suite fills out. What you buy now is yours at that price for good: every future update is included, including the versions that cost more later. There is no subscription and no upgrade fee.
demo
See it work.
Demo coming soon
what's in it
Every control, and what it's for.
Controls marked Brain are the ones the Analyser can set for you on an ANALYSE pass.
Input & Quack Tamer
Input gain (−24…+24 dB), phase invert, and a high-pass with a 12 / 24 dB/oct slope switch.
US / MAG / SBT / LINE - voices the strip for your source and sets the Quack Tamer defaults; filters the guitar-IR browser (does not hard-gate loading).
A dynamic dip over the piezo “quack” region - ducks on transients, leaves sustained tone alone (not a static notch). Amount / Freq (1.5–4 kHz) / Sens.
Guitar IR & Saturator
Zero-latency convolution - the body/mic core. OFF/ON, LOAD IR (embedded factory IRs or Load from file…), Clear, and Low / High trims for the IR extremes.
Linkwitz-Riley crossovers into one shared, oversampled saturation curve. Three moveable crossovers = four bands; per band Drive (loudness-compensated - pushing changes tone, not level), Gain, Solo (for dialling).
Compressor & Anti-Feedback
Gentle, program-dependent, acoustic-voiced glue. Amount macro (auto makeup) with a MORE fold for Ratio / Attack / Release / Makeup detail; a live transfer-curve graph.
Catches resonant peaks (including ones the IR itself creates) before the room adds reflections. OFF/ON + Sensitivity (a bank of auto-hunting notches) and Phase Rotate for extra gain-before-feedback.
PA / Room & Output
The final “arriving in a space through a PA” voicing. Engage (section master), Speaker ALGO vs IR, Room Type Stage/Club/Theatre/Hall (algorithmic), Push (LF-weighted saturation + level-dependent compression - the “moving air” no IR reproduces), and Size / Distance / HF Damp / Tone. Distance also sets wetness (further = wetter) - there is no separate room-mix knob.
Trim (output level) and Mute. Mono in → mono out throughout; zero added latency except the saturator oversampling (reported to the host).
quick start
Four steps to a sound.
- Insert on a mono acoustic DI track; set the Pickup type (US / MAG / SBT / LINE).
- Clean the input: HPF + Trim, then load or pick a Guitar IR (the body/mic core).
- Dial the 4-Band Saturator and Compressor to taste (it’s a full series strip - no dry/wet blend).
- Optional: engage PA / Room for the “amplified in a space” voicing; add Push for moving air.
Not currently suitable for Pro Tools
These are AU and VST3 plugins. Pro Tools only loads AAX, which these aren't built as - so none of the suite will appear in it. Please check your DAW before you buy - once you download, the sale is final.
Get DI Regan
AU · VST3 · Standalone - macOS 10.15 Catalina or later, Windows (VST3). Installers are not yet notarised, so there's one extra click on first install; the install guide walks through it.
Where it's confirmed to work
Honest version: this is a one-person operation, so it has been properly tested in the DAWs below and not yet in the others. Not tested yet means exactly that - not that it fails.
| DAW | System | Plugins load | They share with each other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logic Pro | macOS | Yes | Yes |
| GarageBand | macOS | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Ableton Live | Mac/Win | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Cubase / Nuendo | Mac/Win | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Studio One Confirmed on Windows (VST3). The sharing side is still to be checked. | Mac/Win | Yes | Not tested yet |
| Reaper Confirmed on Intel Mac - both AU and VST3, and the plugins share with each other. Not yet tested on Windows. | Mac/Win | Yes | Yes |
| FL Studio | Mac/Win | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Bitwig Studio | Mac/Win | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Digital Performer | Mac/Win | Not tested yet | Not tested yet |
| Pro Tools Pro Tools only loads AAX plugins. These are AU and VST3. | Mac/Win | No | No |
| System | Confirmed | |
|---|---|---|
| macOS on Intel | Yes | Confirmed working from 10.15 Catalina upwards. |
| macOS on Apple Silicon | Yes | Confirmed on an M4 Mac in Logic Pro. The installers are universal binaries, so they run natively - no Rosetta needed. |
| Windows 10 / 11 | Yes | VST3 only - there is no AU on Windows. Confirmed in Studio One. |
"They share with each other" is the ANALYSE pass, the clash matrix and the AUTO settings. Where a DAW keeps plugins apart, every plugin still works perfectly on its own - they just can't pass measurements between them, and nothing breaks. Ten-second check in any DAW: put Analyser on two tracks, turn one to master, and see whether the second track appears in its overview. Tell me what you find and this list gets updated.