Two free plugins · Yours for joining the list
Shift·Symphonic
Two SPX90 emulations — the micro-pitch widener that put the width on a generation of records, and the ensemble chorus that made everything sound expensive — with the converter noise, the lo-fi grain and a few modern conveniences. Sign up for the Punch Audio mailing list and both are yours. No catch, no timer.
Free forever · AU / VST3 / AAX · macOS 15+ · Apple silicon & Intel
How it works
We use the same store that runs Grit Factory, so your free copies behave exactly like a paid license: they live on your account, activate in one click, and get updates inside the plugin.
Hit Get Shift free or Get Symphonic free — or both. Create a free Punch Audio account with your email (that's the mailing-list sign-up) and the plugin is added to your account at $0. No card, ever. One account covers both.
One installer for every Punch Audio plugin, covering AU, VST3 and AAX. Grab it from the download page — no account needed — run it, restart your DAW. The installer lists everything it will install; untick Grit Factory if you only want the free ones.
Open the plugin, click Activate, sign in. Done — on up to three machines each, with offline activation for studio computers that never see the internet.
Shift · Free
A few cents of detune on each side, a few milliseconds of delay, and a mono source becomes a wide one. Shift keeps the character of the box that made it famous and adds the controls we always wished it had.
Independent detune per side, ±50 cents. The factory setting is the +8 / −8 that started it all.
0.1 to 50 ms a side. Nudge one channel for width, push both for slap, keep them tiny for glue.
Bit-depth grain and the original unit's converter hiss, on its own switch — because the noise was half the sound.
A low-pass to take the fizz off, stereo width from mono to wide, and a dry/wet mix so it sits on an insert as happily as on a send.
Symphonic · Free
The SPX90's Symphonic program stacked modulated delay voices, spread the motion across the stereo field, and turned anything into a wide, breathing ensemble — the sound under a decade of pads, guitars and background vocals. Symphonic keeps that architecture and the converter character, and adds the voices we always wanted.
The modulation that moves the voices: 0.05 to 5 Hz, from a slow breathe to a wobble, at any depth from a hint of motion to full seasick. The factory 0.7 Hz is the one you know.
The original ran three modulated voices, and that's the factory setting. Five and seven are there for the thick stuff — each voice on its own delay, evenly spread.
The same bit-depth grain and converter hiss as Shift, on its own switch — the two plugins share one signal chain after the effect.
A low-pass to take the fizz off, stereo width from mono to wide, and a dry/wet mix so it sits on an insert as happily as on a send.
Questions
Go on, then
Join the list, claim both, and put some air around a vocal tonight.