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The Double Wide

One knob. Mono to wide. Free forever.

Simple stereo width control. Narrow your mix for focused mono compatibility, or widen for an expansive stereo field. Built on the same M/S engine as Warmth Engine.

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AU VST3 macOS 10.13+ Apple Silicon native Zero latency
The Double Wide plugin interface — stereo width control
Simple by design

One knob does it all

Turn left to narrow. Turn right to widen. The plugin handles M/S encoding, bass protection, and smoothing automatically.

Narrow

  • +Check mono compatibility before bouncing
  • +Focus bass-heavy elements to the center
  • +Tighten up a loose stereo image

Wide

  • +Open up pads, synths, and ambient layers
  • +Create space around the vocal without EQ
  • +Add dimension to a flat mix bus
Features

Small plugin, serious engineering

The same DSP principles behind our flagship plugins, distilled into a single control.

M/S Processing

True mid-side encoding and decoding. Not a simple pan trick. The stereo field is manipulated at the signal level for clean, phase-coherent width changes.

Bass Mono-izing

The low end is automatically kept centered, even when widening. Your bass stays tight and translation-safe on every playback system.

Smoothed Automation

50 ms parameter smoothing on the width control. Automate freely without clicks, pops, or zipper noise. Smooth transitions guaranteed.

Zero CPU Overhead

Lightweight M/S math with no oversampling, no FFT, no convolution. Use it on every track without thinking about CPU. Zero latency, zero compromise.

Specifications

Technical Details

Plugin format AU + VST3
Platform macOS 10.13+ (High Sierra)
Architecture Universal Binary (Intel + Apple Silicon)
Latency Zero latency
Processing Stereo width processing with mono-safe low end
License Free. No activation required.
Version 1.1.1
Compatibility

DAW Support

Logic Pro
Ableton Live
Reaper
Cubase
Studio One
Nuendo
All AU/VST3
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Warmth Engine includes advanced stereo control plus saturation, spectral shaping, transient control, and mix glue — all in one plugin. Five processing stages that turn flat mixes into something you can feel.

If you like what The Double Wide does for stereo, Warmth Engine takes it further with StereoFocus, TYPE morphology, and program-dependent processing.

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