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Orra Audio Orra Ducker 1.1.1

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Orra Ducker is a sidechain ducking plugin that turns down only the frequencies where two sounds collide, instead of the whole track. It’s for producers and mixing engineers who want a kick to cut through a bass, or a vocal through a synth, without the obvious “pumping” of a normal sidechain compressor.

Orra Audio Orra Ducker 1.1.1 Overview

Orra Ducker comes from Orra Audio, a small two-person plugin company run by producers Aaron Jaques and David Schocke. They released it as a “Customer Appreciation Drop” at a pay-what-you-can price. A normal ducker measures the overall level of the trigger and pulls the whole track down. Orra Ducker instead splits both signals into about 1,000 frequency bins using a 2048-point FFT. A bin is turned down only when the same bin in the trigger signal is loud. So a kick can carve a pocket in the bass’s low end while the rest of the bass line stays untouched. Version 1.1.1 is a fixes-and-polish update. It adds tooltips in seven languages, makes licensing smoother, and changes no parameters, so older sessions load unchanged.

Key Features

Per-frequency ducking. Each of roughly 1,000 bins has its own detector and gain, so only the overlapping frequencies are reduced. Focus band and Resolution. Draw a low and high cut to aim the ducking. Resolution sets how surgical or smooth the cut is. Stereo, Mid or Side. Apply the ducking to the full stereo signal, or only to the center or sides. Orra Link 2 routing. A free sender plugin, bundled in the installer, lets you pick any track by name as the trigger, even across buses in DAWs that make sidechaining awkward. Stack multiple instances. Put several Duckers on one track, each keyed to a different source such as kick, vocal and bass. Delta listen and Live mode. Delta lets you hear only what’s being removed. Live mode switches to zero-latency broadband ducking for monitoring.

Extensions Details

File Size39.5 MB
Version1.1.1
DeveloperOrra Audio
PublisherOrra Audio
LicenseFree

System Requirements

Minimum
OSmacOS 10.13
ProcessorApple Silicon
Recommended
OSmacOS 10.13
ProcessorApple Silicon

How to Use Orra Audio Orra Ducker 1.1.1

Run the installer. It adds Orra Ducker and the Orra Link 2 sender plugin in AU, VST3 and AAX formats. If macOS blocks the installer, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. [VERIFY] Rescan plugins in your DAW. Put Orra Ducker on the track you want to duck, and Orra Link 2 on the trigger track. Pick the trigger by name in Ducker’s SIDECHAIN menu. Then activate your license, or start the trial.

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