AURORA
Free dynamic parametric EQSee the sound. Shape the spectrum.
A $129-class dynamic EQ — free, with a built-in assistant.
Press play. 31 seconds inside AURORA.
The trailer — the curve, Smart Ops and the dynamic engine in motion, straight from the shipping build. Sound on.
◇ Streams from YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) when you press play — nothing loads until then.
A pro EQ you play — with an assistant built in.
AURORA is a dynamic parametric EQ built around one idea: your hands should touch the sound. Double-click the live spectrum to drop a band, drag its glowing node to move it, scroll to open or tighten the Q — up to 24 bands, eight shapes, cut slopes from a gentle 6 dB/oct to a vertical Brickwall. No menus, no typing numbers: the curve is the interface.
Colour belongs to the signal — cool blues in the lows, hot reds in the highs — so the band you touch lights up and the rest of the chrome recedes. Flip any band to dynamic and it leans in only when the frequency does: de-essing a vocal, taming a resonant snare, adding air on demand. Work in stereo, mid-side or left-right with an analyzer that splits to match, across three phase modes — zero-latency, an analog-matched Natural, and true linear phase.
And when you want a head start, Smart Ops is the assistant most EQs make you pay extra for: match a reference curve, hunt and tame resonances, de-ess, auto-bracket with high and low cuts, and unmask one track against another — one click each, every move fully editable after. It's a $129-class EQ, and it's the free flagship of the 13x rack.
Real plugin. Real moves.
No mockups. Every frame below is the shipping build — this is what loads the second you open AURORA.
01 · Smart OpsAn assistant built into the EQ.
Match a reference, de-resonate, de-ess, auto HP/LP and unmask one track against another. Press LEARN while the audio plays and AURORA makes the move — then hands you every band, fully editable.
- Match · De-resonate · De-ess · Unmask
- One click each — no second plugin
- Every move stays fully editable after
02 · Dynamic EQEQ that moves with the mix.
Flip any band to dynamic and it leans in only when the frequency does — a full sidechain detector, Peak or RMS, threshold, ratio, knee and a signed range. De-ess a vocal, tame a snare, add air on the breaths.
- Threshold · ratio · knee · signed range
- Peak / RMS · internal or external sidechain
- Cross-track unmasking, band by band
03 · Stereo & Mid-SideStereo, Mid-Side or Left-Right.
Work the whole image or split it. The analyzer splits to match — Mid in white, Side in violet — so you can widen the sides and tighten the centre on one curve. Place any band on stereo, L, R, M or S.
- Stereo · Mid-Side · Left-Right
- Analyzer splits to match the mode
- Per-band placement: St · L · R · M · S
Everything inside AURORA.
- The curve
- Up to 24 bands — add one with a double-click
- 8 shapes: bell, shelves, cuts, notch, band-pass, all-pass
- Cut slopes 6 → 96 dB/oct plus a vertical Brickwall
- Drag to move, scroll for Q · live analyzer under the curve
- Smart Ops — the assistant
- Match a reference spectrum, static or dynamic
- De-resonate — find and tame resonant peaks
- De-ess and auto high-/low-cut bracketing
- Every move is fully editable after it runs
- Dynamic EQ & unmasking
- Any band flips static → dynamic
- Sidechain detector · Peak/RMS · threshold, ratio, knee, range
- Cross-track unmasking — duck one track against another
- De-Harsh — tame harshness spectrally, only when it bites
- Phase, stereo & character
- Zero-latency · analog-matched Natural · Linear phase
- Stereo, Mid-Side or Left-Right — analyzer splits to match
- Per-band placement: stereo, L, R, M or S
- Clean · Subtle · Warm analog character
- Included, foreverLifetime updates
- Every future update included — new features, new content, fixes
- No subscription — you get it once, it keeps growing
- No upgrade fees, no version-2 tax
- Yours for life, in every copy
Where AURORA earns its place.
Mixing
Surgical cuts and musical boosts on one live curve — cut what you see, then let Smart Ops de-resonate the mud in a click.
Vocals
Dynamic bands de-ess and add air that only opens on the breaths, never on the whole take.
Mastering
Linear-phase mode, mid-side control and gentle character for transparent tone-shaping on the 2-bus.
Cleanup
Unmask a vocal against a busy beat and hunt resonances out of a room recording — without a second plugin.
Shape it. A / B it.
Same source, loudness-matched, one toggle. Hear the spectrum open up — then watch the curve that did it, glowing on the live analyzer.
◇ Same take, same loudness — only AURORA changes. The curve is illustrative.
AURORA
Free dynamic parametric EQ
The full plugin, no trial limits. We’ll email you the moment it’s ready to download.
- Formats
- VST3 · CLAP
- System
- Windows 10/11 · macOS 11+
- Bands
- Up to 24 · dynamic per band
- Phase
- Zero-latency · Natural · Linear
- Smart Ops
- Match · De-resonate · De-ess · Unmask
Runs where you work.
- Operating system
- Windows 10/11 (64-bit) · macOS 11+ (universal)
- CPU
- Modern 64-bit CPU — Apple Silicon, Intel or AMD
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM minimum · 8 GB recommended
- Plug-in host
- Any VST3 / CLAP DAW — FL Studio, Ableton, Bitwig, Cubase, Reaper…
- Formats
- VST3 · CLAP — 64-bit only
- Latency
- Zero in Zero-latency / Natural · reported PDC in Linear
- Sample rates
- 44.1 – 192 kHz
- Disk
- ~16 MB installed
- Authorization
- Free — no license key · works offline
Is AURORA really free?
Yes — AURORA is free with no license key, no account and no trial limit. It's the free flagship of the 13x rack; the paid instruments and effects keep the lights on.
Is AURORA a good free alternative to FabFilter Pro-Q?
It covers much of the same ground — a live spectrum, up to 24 dynamic bands, mid/side and linear-phase — plus a one-click Smart Ops assistant, for free. Pro-Q is more mature and cross-platform today; AURORA is Windows-first with macOS coming.
What formats and systems does AURORA support?
VST3 and CLAP on Windows 10/11 (64-bit), with a macOS build coming. It loads in any VST3/CLAP DAW — FL Studio, Ableton, Bitwig, Cubase, Reaper and more.
What can Smart Ops do?
One click each: match a reference curve, hunt and tame resonances, de-ess, auto high-/low-cut bracket, and unmask one track against another — every move stays fully editable afterward.
Does AURORA add latency?
None in Zero-latency and analog-matched Natural modes. True linear-phase mode reports its delay compensation to the host so everything stays in sync.
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