Orra EQ
Your New Secret Sauce
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Orra EQ
Your New Secret Sauce
Streamline your workflow by combining processing you would normally need a plugin chain for, into one tool.
Secure checkout by Lemon Squeezy
Why Orra EQ exists
We didn't set out to build another EQ. We wanted per-frequency control over our entire tone-shaping chain—EQ, saturation, and dynamics woven together however we needed, not locked into separate plugins.
Traditional Approach
Load an EQ to shape tone. Load a saturator for color. Load a compressor for dynamics. Each plugin processes your entire signal before passing it to the next—you can't EQ just the highs, saturate just the mids, then compress just the lows in one fluid chain.
Full-signal processing, one stage at a time.
The Orra Way
Sixteen bands, each with its own mode. EQ one frequency, saturate another, compress a third—all in whatever order you want. Stack a tube saturator after a dynamic cut on the same band, or alternate between processing styles across the spectrum.
Per-frequency control over your entire tone-shaping chain.
Built for your workflow
Choose your approach—surgical corrections or creative transformation
17 Saturation Types — All Dynamic-Ready
Choose from Orra Tube, 6 tape machines, and 10 creative saturators—from vintage preamp warmth to aggressive wavefolder destruction.
Every saturation type can be made dynamic. Instead of just adding harmonics, dynamic saturation brings up quiet details through harmonic enrichment—like upward compression, but with color and character instead of just gain.
The result: presence and richness that responds to your playing, not just a static effect slapped on top.
Saturation that breathes with your music
Snap to Note & Key
Stop guessing frequencies. Enable snap-to-note and your bands lock to musical pitches—C2, F#4, whatever note you need.
Right-click any band and choose the exact note you want it locked to—C2, F#4, A1, whatever your song needs. No more hunting for frequencies with a calculator.
Perfect for surgical work on bass notes, taming resonant frequencies in vocals, or making sure your boosts align with the actual music.
EQ musically, not just technically
A Complete EQ — Plus Everything Else
Before you even touch saturation, Orra EQ is a fully-featured parametric equalizer: 16 bands, Q from 0.1 to 40, filter slopes up to 48dB/octave, and frequency range from 10Hz to 22kHz.
Per-band Mid/Side processing lets you EQ, saturate, and dynamically process the center and sides of your mix independently. Comprehensive keyboard shortcuts give you full control without lifting your hand from the keyboard.
Use it as a clean, transparent EQ when that's what you need. Then flip a band into saturation or dynamic mode when you want more. One plugin, zero compromises.
Pro-grade EQ that grows with your needs
Dynamic EQ that reacts to any track
Every Dynamic EQ band has its own sidechain source. Combined with Orra Link — the free companion plugin that installs automatically with v1.2.1 — you can key any band off any track in your session, even in DAWs whose routing won't let you sidechain across busses normally.
Per-band sidechain. Per-band source.
Each Dynamic EQ band picks its own detector source independently. Duck the low band off the kick, dip the mud band off the snare, and ease the harsh band off the lead vocal — three different sources, three independent dynamic moves, all in one plugin instance.
Three sidechain modes per band
- OffThe band keys off its own input — classic, frequency-conscious dynamic EQ. Perfect for de-essing and resonance taming.
- ExternalThe host's sidechain bus. Route a track into Orra EQ's sidechain input and the band reacts to its full-band level — wide-band, frequency-independent detection.
- Link 1–3636 channels fed by Orra Link. Drop Link on any track, pick a channel, and that source is available to any Dynamic EQ band in the project — no bus juggling, no aux tracks.
Frequency-independent, zero added latency
With External or Link, the detector reads the full sidechain directly — moving the band's frequency only changes which frequencies get ducked, not what triggers it (the Pro-Q 3 / Pro-MB convention). If a Link sender stops, the band falls back to self-detection within ~340 ms, so audio always keeps flowing.
Orra Link
Sidechain Sender — Installs automatically with v1.2.1
In practice
Kick → channel 1
Low-band dynamic cut on the mix bus reacts every time the kick hits.
Snare → channel 2
Mud-band dynamic dip on the guitars cleans up clash on backbeats.
Lead vocal → channel 3
Harsh-band dynamic ease on the cymbal bus whenever the vocal is forward.
One instance, many sources. Each band keys off a different Link channel — multiple sources, multiple dynamic moves, a single Orra EQ.
The largest workflow update since launch
Orra EQ v1.2.1 brings per-band sidechain with Orra Link, oversampling for saturation modes, auto-opening settings panels, a Piano view, a Zones view, and a tips carousel. Everything is additive — existing sessions load unchanged.
Orra EQ in action
See what's new in v1.2.1 — per-band sidechain, oversampling, and the redesigned workflow.
Per-Band Sidechain & Oversampling + More
v1.2.1 brings per-band sidechain via Orra Link, oversampling for saturation modes, auto-opening settings panels, Piano and Zones views, and a tips carousel — the largest workflow update since launch.
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