WAX Plate
An EMT 140 plate reverb emulation, as an audio effect in your DAW.
WAX Plate is an emulation of the EMT 140 plate: dense, smooth ambience with a natural decay. It is built on the WAX Native engine and loads as an audio effect in any VST3 or AU host.
Wired into your session automatically.
Emulation of the legendary EMT 140 plate reverb, with rich, spacious ambience and smooth, natural decay. Shape the character of the plate with adjustable decay, damping, tone, stereo width, pickup position and mechanical controls, from subtle studio depth to expansive atmospheric reverb.
An EMT 140 plate, with six controls.
Subtle depth on a vocal or a long wash on a pad, from the same six controls.
EMT 140 character
Modeled on the EMT 140: dense, smooth, with a decay that stays musical.
Decay and damping
How long the plate rings and how fast the highs fade.
Tone
Tilt the reverb brighter or darker so it sits behind the source.
Stereo width and pickup position
Narrow it for a vocal, open it wide for a pad. Pickup position moves the stereo image.
Mechanical controls
The physical behaviors of a real plate, exposed as controls.
WAX Native: no page to load, nothing to route.
WAX Plate runs on the WAX Native engine inside the plugin. On an insert, on a bus, fed by sends.
Browser tab vs. WAX
Stop switching. Start making.
WAX Plate in a browser tab
- A browser reverb cannot sit on a send bus
- Processing a track means routing system audio out and back
- No automation lane for decay or tone
- Settings live in a tab, not in the session
- Bounce and it is not in the print
WAX Plate inside WAX
- Loads as an audio effect on an insert or a bus
- Sends from any track reach it
- Draw decay, tone and width on the automation lane
- WAX Pro saves the settings with the project
- It is in the bounce, like any other plugin
Its output is the track’s output. Add your own compressor, saturator and bus sends.
Play it from a controller, a keyboard or the host MIDI editor, in time with everything else.
Host automation reaches its parameters, so a build or a breakdown can be drawn on the lane.
Device state travels with the project file. Reopen the session and it comes back (Pro).
Built on the WAX Native engine, so it runs inside the plugin with no external page to load.
30+ years of web audio, unlocked
Once WAX is on a track, any app in the library loads the same way. Browse to it and it runs as a plugin.
From browser to first send in three steps
Install it, load it, play it. About five minutes from download to first send with WAX Plate.
Buy WAX Pro and install it
$60 perpetual or $30 a year. Run the installer and rescan plugins in your DAW. WAX shows up as an instrument, an audio effect and a MIDI effect.
About two minutes
Load WAX as an audio effect and open WAX Plate
Add WAX to a bus or an insert as an audio effect, then pick WAX Plate from the built-in library. It loads natively inside the plugin window.
About thirty seconds
Send to it
Route a vocal or a snare to the bus and set decay and tone. It prints in the bounce like any other reverb.
Then record it like any plugin
VST3 and Audio Unit · macOS 11+ and Windows 10+ · Works in every major DAW
Unlock WAX Plate with WAX · $60See it in action
Short clips of WAX Plate inside WAX.
More from the WAX library
One WAX Pro license covers every app in the library, hundreds of instruments, effects and tools. A few more in the same category as WAX Plate:
$60 unlocks hundreds of plugins.
One WAX Pro license covers the whole library, WAX Plate included. Unlimited devices, preset recall with your project, and the Hack Panel for live tweaking. Pay once, or $30 a year.
- Every app in the WAX library: hundreds of instruments, effects and tools
- Full browser and real-time audio bridge
- Unlimited custom page devices
- Full preset recall with your project
- MIDI, transport and playhead sync
- Hack Panel for live page tweaking, plus full-screen mode
- The same library, same as Perpetual
- Billed yearly, switch to perpetual whenever you want
- Unlimited devices and preset recall
Questions
What does WAX Plate cost?
It is included with WAX Pro: $60 perpetual on the launch sale (from $120), or $30 a year. The same license covers WAX Plate and every other app in the WAX library.
Is it an insert or a send effect?
Both. Load WAX as an audio effect on an insert for a single track, or on a bus and feed it from sends like a hardware plate.
Which DAWs does WAX work with?
WAX ships as VST3 and Audio Unit for macOS 11+ and Windows 10+, so it runs in Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Reaper, Studio One and more.
What does WAX Native mean?
WAX Plate is built on the WAX Native engine, so it runs inside the plugin itself rather than loading an external web page. Same controls, same automation, no page to fetch.
Is WAX only for effects?
No. WAX is a real browser wired into your DAW. Load it as an instrument for synths and drum machines, as an audio effect for processors like this one, or as a MIDI effect.
Unlock WAX Plate on your bus.
Buy WAX Pro, install it, and load WAX Plate on a bus.
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