SSA Plugins
SSA Plugins develops Ambisonic tools for immersive audio production, aimed at making spatial workflows feel as direct as stereo mixing. The aX plugin suite covers key processing stages from spatialisation and monitoring to dynamics, EQ, delay and metering while preserving spatial balance, with seven plugins in total covering everything from panning and rotation to de-essing and binaural monitoring. The product line supports multiple Ambisonic orders — a1, a3 and now up to tenth-order in the aX suite — for practical studio and DAW workflows across music, VR and AR content, running as VST3 and AAX plug-ins with native Apple Silicon support alongside Intel Macs.
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SSA Plugins is the work of Peter Stitt, who first released the a1, a3 and a7 plugin suites, covering first-, third- and up-to-seventh-order Ambisonics respectively, back in 2018. The line has been refined steadily since: in January 2024, the a7 suite was renamed and rebuilt as the aX suite, extending support up to tenth-order Ambisonics for the highest spatial resolution the VST format allows. Around the same period, the plugins were also updated as Universal Binary 2 builds, bringing native performance on Apple Silicon Macs alongside continued support for Intel machines.
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