Third Party VST Plugins support
Certified as of Pyramix v11.1
This list is subject to frequent updates.
| VST and VST3 plugins supported in Pyramix v11.1 and higher (applies as well to Ovation v7.1 and higher) | ||||||
| Plugin Manufacturer/Brand | VST | VST3 | Supported | DXD (352.8kHz) Support | Atmos Support | Comments |
| 112dB (Redline Monitor) | YES | NO | YES | YES | Crossfeed Plugin for Headphone mixing. Confirmed no upsampling/downsampling in DXD | |
| Acon Digital | YES | NO | YES | YES | 7.1.6 | Restauration, reverbs and chorus. Confirmed no upsampling/downsampling in DXD Verberate Immersive 2 supports Atmos 7.1.6 layouts |
| Acustica Audio / Acqua | YES | NO | YES | NO | DXD not certified by manufacturer and potentially Vector Loading Acceleration issue above 192kHz | |
| Analog Obsession | YES | YES | YES-But | NO | Bypass / On-Off button in the plugin UI does not respect VST recommendations, and therefore the bypass status from the mixer may not be the same as the plugin UI. Same issue will happen with other DAWs | |
| Arturia | YES | YES | YES | NO | Some plugins might work in DXD but flagship ones such as the Analog Lab willl not | |
| Auburn Sound | YES | NO | YES | YES* | Freeware: Corrector Graillon | |
| Audio Damage | YES | YES | YES | YES* | Freeware: Fuzzplus, Rought Rider | |
| Audio Ease | YES | NO | YES-But | YES | Issue with Altiverb and the VST3 360 pan suite (not supported),changing presets can cause glitches Display issues occuring relative to the display's resolution or scaling parameters | |
| AutoTune 9 | NO | YES | YES-But | NO | Latest version only support VST3, recommended up to 2FS | |
| B<>COM | YES | YES | YES | NO | VST (VST2) causing Pyramix crash was fixed in the latest b<>com version. Remote desktop not supported. DXD support in next Pyramix version | |
| Celemony Melodyne | YES-But | YES | YES-But | NO | Latest certified. Can be used in the FX Rendering in order to commit the melodyne changes to a track. Workflow certified with Melodyne v4.9.5 | |
| Cytomic | YES | NO | YES | YES | The Glue mastering plugin | |
| DMG Audio | YES | YES | YES | YES* | ||
| Eventide | YES | YES | YES | YES-but* | No official DXD support | |
| Exponential Audio (iZotope) | YES | YES | YES | YES | 5.1.4 7.1.4 9.1.6 | Potential Channel mapping issue in FX Rendering |
| FabFilter | YES | YES-But | YES | YES | Q3 up to 7.1.2 R2 up to 9.1.6 | VST 3 Version can crash Pyramix randomly, rather use their VST (VST2) version. As well Potential Issue at the first plugin insert (licensing/disabled) second insert works. Under investigation Multichannel issue, Merging in contact with Fabfiler on this (PMX125-66) |
| Facebook 360 | NO | YES | NO | NO | Potential Crash of Pyramix | |
| Fine Cut Bodies | YES | YES | YES | YES | Freeware La Petite Excite (Exciter) | |
| Flux VST | YES | YES | YES | YES | 5.1.4 | IRCAM consumes lots of resources at High Sampling Rates (e.g. 4FS, 352.8kHz/DXD), especially High Density mode. Alchemist Delay compensation issue under investigation Since v23 supports 16 channels for Atmos |
| Forward Audio | YES | YES | YES-But | TBC | Warning: Plugin such as the faSampleDelay can conflict with MassCore and are not recommended | |
| GRM Plugins | YES | NO | YES-But | TBC | GRM Spaces causing crash, GRM Space Grain has routing issue (no signal treatment) | |
| Harpex-X | YES | NO | NO | TBC | Latest version recommended for bypass and channel routing fixed issues | |
| IK Multimedia | YES | TBC | Investigating T-RackS potential crash. | |||
| inagrm | YES | YES | TBC | |||
| Interlligent Sound and Music | YES | YES | NO | TBC | Aroma plugin supported but causing potential Mixer UI flickering each time the Plugin UI is closed | |
| Izotope Bundle | YES | YES | YES | YES/No | Not all plugins support DXD, Also VST3 instabilities and potential crashes with Pyramix v11.1.5 HotFix. Solved in the Following release. In the meantime we recommend the use of the VST (VST2) version. | |
| Izotope Ozone | YES | YES | YES | YES | (confirmed DXD support). Warning leaving the Ozone v8 UI open could cause project to crash at mixdown, when re-opening a proejct (if saved open) or when loading a Mixer Memory preset.. | |
| Izotope Nectar | YES | YES | YES | YES | (confirmed DXD support) | |
| Izotope Neutron | YES | YES | YES | YES | (confirmed DXD support) | |
| Izotope Neutrino | YES | YES | YES | NO | Muted in DXD | |
| Izotope RX | YES | YES | YES-But | TBC | Issue with VST (VST2) channel routing (only mono available). Under investigation. RX7 Connect known to crash when using simultaneously the Pyramix Render>Pencil tool or the Import functions. Issue PMX120- | |
| Klanghelm | YES | YES | YES | YES | Some Freeware (VGI-Saturation/DIstortion & DC1A-Compressor. Confirmed no upsampling/downsampling in DXD | |
| Krotos | YES | NO | YES-But | TBC | Plugins not working in FX Rendering (muted) | |
| Leapwing Audio | YES | YES | YES-But | TBC | RootOne reverb can make Pyramix crash randomly at Mixer Rebuilt. | |
| LePou plugins | YES | NO | YES | YES* | Guitar amps modelisation | |
| Lexicon / Harman | YES | NO | YES | YES* | v1.3.7 | |
| Line 6 | YES | YES | YES-but | TBC | Some users had issue with the Pod Farm VST scanning (unders investigation), Helix known to be working fine. | |
| Liquid Sonics | YES | YES | YES | TBC | Reverb 7.1.6 | Cinematic Rooms reverb with 7.1.6 Atmos Support Seventh Heaven Pro with 7.1.6 Atmos Support (recommended upcoming version 1.4.4, with the Presets > Synchronous Render Update to On Engine/Channel change, to fix muted reverb at the beginning of non real-time mixdown) |
| maat digital | YES | YES | YES-but | NO | Code meter wibu dongle conflicts with MassCore and is not recommended. Potentially the new version may fix this conflict. | |
| mh acoustic | YES | YES | YES | NO | No GUI (Merging provides generic controls) | |
| Massenburg design works | NO | YES | YES | YES | MDWEQ6: No Downsampling, fully transparent. A go to EQ from 1Fs all the way up to 8Fs (DXD 352.8kHz - 384kHz) | |
| Mastering the Mix | YES | YES | YES | NO | Issue of Blaklisted, contact Support to have a VST scanner patch .exe that solves the issue. | |
| MDA plugins | NO | YES | YES | YES* | No GUI | |
| New audio technology | YES | YES | TBC | 7.1.2 in the works for SAD | Spatial Audio plugin suite: | |
| Newfangled Audio | YES | YES | YES | YES-but* | Newfangled Audio - Potential crash with plugin re-ordering in Mixer. Confirmed no upsampling/downsampling in DXD | |
| Noise Makers | YES | NO | YES | NO | Ambisonic suite. | |
| Nugen Audio | YES | YES | NO | YES* | 7.1.4 | Use version 3.0 > to prevent a fixed crash. Confirmed no upsampling/downsampling in DXD, Routing issue with the UpMix is fxed in their latest versions |
| Oblivion Sound Lab | YES | NO | NO | NO | Potential Crash (Chorus) | |
| Pensadia | YES | NO | YES | NO | ||
| Perfect Surround (Penteo) | YES/NO | YES | YES | NO | 5.1.4 7.1.4 9.1.6 | Not all of them are VST & VST3. the Pandeo VST3 supports up to 16 channels Merging is in close contact to officially support Pyramix as a DAW by the Manufacturer. |
| Plugin Alliance | YES | YES | YES-but* | NO | Latest v4.7 is now supported by Pyramix (perform a force rescan) but some Plugins from their 3rd party partners are still not supported and can crash or not be scanned (Schoeps, Fiedler, ADPTR and Unfiltered series). As well some of their 3rd party plugins will only show up mono routing Support. The Plugin Alliance team is following this issue with their own partners. | |
| PSP Audioware | YES | YES | YES | YES-but* | Potential issue with PSP Vintage Warmer not always opening correctly or crashing randomly. | |
| Relab | YES | YES | YES | TBC | LX480 | |
| Sennheiser AMBEO | YES | YES | YES | YES* | For Ambisonic | |
| Slate Plugins | YES | YES | YES | YES* | Some plugins like the VBC rack plugin can cause hang of Pyramix at first insert. The Slate Trigger 2 will crash in DXD Most of their plugins will work in DXD, including the new Fresh Air. Slate VSX - VST software Supported. | |
| Softube | YES | YES-but* | YES | NO | Softube plug-ins supported sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 and 192 kHz. As for DXD & 384 kHz they wre officially not supported by manufacturer and could potentially crash. | |
| Sonible plugins | YES | YES | YES | YES* | ||
| Sonic Anomaly | YES | NO | YES | YES-but* | Plugins can generate clicks in DXD parameters automation. | |
| Sonnox | YES | YES | YES-but | NO | Crash with ebuzzer - Declicker - Denoiser (v2.01) and Sonnox Dynamics can crash in DXD insert - Being investigated by the Sonnox team | |
| Sonoris | YES | NO | YES | TBC | Recommended latest version (1.0.4.0 >) to avoid crash in settings chages | |
| Soundfield | YES | NO | TBC | TBC | Surround and Ambisonc plugins | |
| SoundRadix | NO | YES | YES | TBC | AutoAlign v2 supported. | |
| Soundtoys | YES | NO | YES | TBC | ||
| SSA plugins | YES | NO | YES | TBC | Ambisonic suite. | |
| Stone Voices | YES | NO | YES | YES* | Freeware: Ambient Reverb | |
| SSL plugins | YES | NO | YES | TBC | ||
| Syncro Arts | NO | YES | YES-but | NO | Potential crash at Pyramix insert | |
| TAL (Togu Audio Line) | YES | NO | YES | YES* | ||
| TC Electronics | YES | YES | YES | NO | VSS3 Reverb, automation on presets not showing the preset changes (TC Electronics issue, it was reported to them) | |
| The Cargo Club | YES | YES | YES | TBC | Up to 7.1.2 | Spanner - Splatter - Stemcell |
| Tokyo Dawn Labs | YES | NO | YES | YES* | TDR Kotelnikov dynamics compressor and EQ (free) | |
| ToneBooster | YES | YES | YES | YES | 5.1.4 7.1.4 9.1.4 | Barricade 4 certifed for Pyramix and supporting up to 16 Channels. Confirmed no upsampling/downsampling in DXD |
| Tritik | YES | YES | YES | YES | Quality plugin suite, intersting for DXD users. Confirmed no upsampling/downsampling in DXD | |
| TSE Audio - TSE-808 | YES | NO | NO | NO | Potential crash with parameter changes | |
| UAD1 | YES | NO | NO | NO | No longer supported discontinued | |
| UAD2 | YES | NO | YES | NO | Supported for real Time Mixdown and playback, but not faster than real-time (UAD not supporting latency changes in non real time mixdown) | |
| u-he | YES | NO | YES | YES | Freeeware: Protoverb | |
| Voxengo | YES | YES | YES | YES-but* | Warning: Reverb in DXD could be stuttering | |
| Valhalla | YES | YES | YES | YES-but* | Confirmed no upsampling/downsampling in DXD but the delay buffers might not allocate enough memory at times causing glitches | |
| Waves | YES | YES | YES-but | NO | VST3 - Wave 10 slow loading, fixed in Pyramix v11.1.6 HotFix and v12.0, and 25th Anniversary version. Waves v12 supported in Pyramix. Recommended Nvidia graphics parameters (see Merging’s knowledge database). Some Waves crash in DXD Most of the Waves plugins are limited to 96khz some will go to 192kHz, refer to their specifications. | |
| XLN Audio | YES | NO | YES | YES* | Addictive Trigger works nicely in DXD, but is very resource demanding. | |
| Youlean | YES | YES | YES | YES* | Loundess Meter | |
* While working in DXD, the manufacturer does not clearly state DXD (352.8kHz) support.
Many plugins do not force a Max sampling rate, but some could upsample/downsample so adding a sampling rate conversion process in DXD.
A small risk remains to have potentially wrong peak vs. average load readings as well
TBC= To be Confirmed
Note: 32 bit plugins are not supported by Pyramix/Ovation as of v10 and VST3 plugins are only supported as of Pyramix v11.1