• Add punch to your audio, with adjustable release time ranging from very short snap transients via medium length impact attacks right up to smooth dynamics expansion, for individual sounds or full mixes.
• Add airy presence, mid-range twang, meaty ooomph, give your sounds more contour, or reduce over-compression effects on mixes...and anything in-between.
• Intelligent, advanced statistics based CRYSTAL and SMOOTH processing algorithms with reconstruction based on 10 or 100+ super-clean minimum phase bands, respectively.
• Easy frequency dependent processing using our BIAS functionality and visual hover menus.
• Transparent sounding, oversampled or multi-band output clipper.
• Near-Zero latency processing (5 samples, actually).
• Support for up to 16 channels for immersive workflows.
• Optional 64-bit processing.
• Fully vectorized GUI with zoom up to 200%.

PUNCH works equally well for individual sounds and complex material like mixed music, even if excessive dynamics processing was applied that would leave traditional transient shapers nothing to go on, and applies its processing to all sound components separately, with up to more than a hundred bands of exquisitely engineered filtering. Throw in two alternative algorithms, a transparent sounding output clipper, support for up to 16 channels for immersive workflows, and our trademark workflow, and you're all set for punchy, present and transparent sound in seconds!

This software is available for a variety of 64-bit formats.

On macOS:

• Apple AudioUnits (AU)
• Avid AAX Native including AudioSuite
• Steinberg VST 3

On Windows:

• Avid AAX Native including AudioSuite
• Steinberg VST 3

System Requirements Mac

• Apple Mac computer
• macOS 10.15.x or newer, 64 bit.
• Apple Silicon CPU, or Intel CPU with at least 2 Cores (i7 or better recommended).
• 64 bit Apple AU (AudioUnits), Steinberg VST 3 or Avid AAX Native compatible Host software, processing audio as 32 bit float.
• iLok.com account for machine- or iLok 2/3 based activation (of full as well as demo versions)
• Internet Connection for Software Activation (though not necessarily on the computer used for audio)

System Requirements Windows

• Windows 10 or newer
• CPU with at least 2 Cores; Intel CPU recommended, i7 or better recommended.
• Steinberg VST 3 or Avid AAX compatible 64-bit host software, processing audio as 32 bit float.
• iLok.com account for machine- or iLok 2/3 based activation (of full as well as demo versions)
• Internet Connection for Software Activation (though not necessarily on the computer used for audio)

Copy Protection

This software uses the latest PACE copy protection, which allows you to place your activation on your machine or on an iLok 2* (or newer; not included). You will need a free iLok.com account to use our software, even for the the demos - but you do not necessarily need the iLok 2 dongle, if your machine has internet access (activation of a system without internet connectivity requires an iLok 2 device). All required software is installed along with our plugins, but we generally recommend downloading the latest versions directly from iLok.com.

*Please note: the older, first generation (blue) iLok is not supported!