Orra EQ
EQ, saturation, and dynamics, per band
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Orra EQ
EQ, saturation, and dynamics, per band
A 16-band parametric EQ where any band can switch to tube, tape, saturation, or dynamic mode. The tone-shaping chain you would normally build from three plugins, on one band at a time.
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What's New in v1.5.0
v1.5.0 is a feature release. Make Room brings per-band spectral ducking, three new band modes take the count to eight, the Dynamic EQ can boost and lift as well as cut, and the whole interface has been reworked in the Orra family look. Free update for all owners, and sessions saved with v1.4.x load.
Make Room
Per-band spectral ducking. Pick another track as the sidechain and the band splits its range into up to 48 narrow slices, six per octave, each with its own detector. Where the other track is loud in a slice, this track is cut in the same slice, so the cut takes the shape of the other track. A filter bank rather than an FFT, so no analysis window and no added latency.
Excite
Runs only the band’s own EQ difference through one of the ten Models saturators, so harmonics land where the band is working and nowhere else. Harmonics Only drops the linear boost and adds just the new harmonics.
Width
The band’s shape applied to the Side channel alone, so the Mid and the mono mix never change. A Low Cut in Width mode folds everything below the corner to mono, the classic sub-bass trick.
Dynamic EQ that boosts and lifts
CUT is what it always did. BOOST brings out hits as the band gets louder than the threshold. LIFT boosts as it drops below, which is upward compression, and it leaves near-silence alone. AUTO makes the threshold follow the band’s own average level.
Resonance Hunter
Marks narrow peaks standing at least 8 dB above their surroundings with a gold ring, up to six at a time. Click one for a Bell cut measured from the peak, or right-click for a Dynamic EQ cut that only acts when that frequency rings.
Preset browser
Categories, search by name, category, description or author, and favourites shared across every Orra EQ. Click to load and keep browsing. SAVE AS, RENAME, MOVE, DELETE to the Trash, plus import and export.
Harmonic Series, Tilt, Notch, 6 dB/oct
A Bell band can stack extra bells at 2× to 8× its frequency, with All, Odd or Even parity, following pitch tracking. Tilt is a one-knob tonal balance, Notch a fixed-depth narrow cut, and the new 6 dB/oct slope is the gentlest roll-off there is.
A reworked interface
The Orra family look: brushed metal, raised cards, a recessed glass display and 3D gold knobs. Every control is where it was. The header is grouped and labelled, band points are bigger with readable numbers, and knobs show their units. Tooltips in seven languages.
Per-band Bypass is now saved with your sessions, and Saturation Auto Gain trims the level difference so more drive adds colour rather than loudness. Sessions saved with v1.4.x load, and two things are worth checking after you update; the release notes say which.
One band, any job
Each of the sixteen bands has its own mode. Cut at one frequency, saturate another, compress a third, in whatever order you like. A tube stage can sit after a dynamic cut on the same band, and the spectrum can alternate between processing styles as you go.
Per-frequency control over the whole tone-shaping chain.
Built for your workflow
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.
Useful 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, Low Cut and High Cut filters with slopes up to 96 dB/oct, 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, no chain to manage.
A full parametric EQ first, everything else when you want it
Dynamic EQ that reacts to any track
Every Dynamic EQ band has its own sidechain source. With Orra Link 2, the free companion sender bundled in the Orra EQ installer, you pick those sources by track name, not by channel number, so you can sidechain any track in any DAW even where the host won't let you route 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.
Pick your sources by name
- AutoDrop Orra Link 2 on a track and it appears by name, tinted in the track's color, in every band's sidechain picker. No channel to remember, no routing to document.
- ExternalThe host's sidechain bus. Route a track into Orra EQ's sidechain input and the band reacts to its full-band level, with wide-band, frequency-independent detection.
- NumberedThe classic Link 1 to 36 channels are still supported for older setups and templates, right alongside the by-name Link 2 workflow.
Picks survive reloads. Zero added latency.
Selections persist by track name, so your wiring is still there when you reopen the project. With External or a Link source the detector reads the full sidechain directly, so 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 2
Sidechain sender, bundled in the installer of every compatible Orra product
In practice
Kick
Low-band dynamic cut on the mix bus reacts every time the kick hits.
Snare
Mud-band dynamic dip on the guitars cleans up clash on backbeats.
Lead vocal
Harsh-band dynamic ease on the cymbal bus whenever the vocal is forward.
One instance, many sources. Each band keys off a different track by name: multiple sources, multiple dynamic moves, a single Orra EQ.
Orra EQ in action
A workflow walkthrough: per-band sidechain via Orra Link, oversampling, and the settings-panel workflow.
Per-Band Sidechain & Oversampling + More
A walkthrough covering per-band sidechain via Orra Link, oversampling for saturation modes, auto-opening settings panels, Piano and Zones views, and the tips carousel.
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