The ThirdPartyPluginLoader loads your own VST and AU plugins into HOFA SYSTEM and wraps them in multiband, mid/side and parallel routing they never had.
HOFA-Plugins has added a ThirdPartyPluginLoader to its modular HOFA SYSTEM, letting you load your own VST2, VST3 and AU plugins into SYSTEM and wrap them in routing and modulation they never shipped with.
At a glance
- Add-on for the modular HOFA SYSTEM that hosts your own VST2, VST3 and AU plugins
- Run any loaded plugin as multiband, mid/side or left/right
- Parallel paths, feedback loops and oversampling for any plugin
- Build and save custom channel strips with routing, modulation and settings intact
- Modulate and automate loaded plugins from the DAW or SYSTEM’s own modulators
- Cross-format: use VST in Logic, AU in Cubase, both in Pro Tools
- Free version loads one plugin; full version hosts as many as needed
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Once a plugin is loaded, it can use everything SYSTEM’s environment provides. A stock 1176 or LA-2A emulation can run as a multiband compressor, splitting its action across frequency bands. A Pultec-style EQ can process the mid and side of a mix separately for mastering. Two plate reverbs can run in parallel for more depth, or a tube distortion and a reverb can be placed together inside a feedback loop. The plugins don’t need any of these features themselves, since SYSTEM supplies the surrounding structure.
What you can add covers multiband, mid/side and left/right processing, parallel paths, feedback loops and oversampling, the last of which is handy for taming aliasing on saturation and clipper plugins that don’t oversample internally. You can also build custom channel strips from your favourite plugins and save them complete with routing, modulation and every plugin setting for recall in other projects, then control any loaded plugin’s parameters from the DAW or from SYSTEM’s own modulators.
Because HOFA SYSTEM runs as a VST3, AU and AAX plugin, the loader also gets around format gaps between hosts. VST plugins become usable in Logic, AU plugins in Cubase, and both in Pro Tools.
Like the rest of the SYSTEM range, the ThirdPartyPluginLoader comes in a free version alongside the paid one. The freeware loads a single external plugin, enough to give one plugin multiband, mid/side or oversampling, while the full version hosts as many as a project needs and wires them into larger chains, parallel setups and multiband racks.
The ThirdPartyPluginLoader is available now.
