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, 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, 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. 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.
See what you're EQing against, and ride the note
Orra EQ v1.4.0 brings Orra Link 2 integration (pick sidechain sources by name, and draw linked tracks behind your curve), per-band pitch tracking, vertical display zoom, and a rebuilt oversampling engine. Everything is additive, so existing sessions load unchanged.
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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