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Oscilloscope VST’s are essential tools for any music producer, allowing users to see how waveforms look, identify clipping, and target phase issues. Here are our top picks for your consideration.

MOscilloscope (free)

Powerful oscilloscope with a pitch detector

MOscilloscope by MeldaProduction is a powerful oscilloscope equipped with a pitch detector, which saves your time, because it just works. This VST allows users to see what the waveform looks like, figure out phase, and see if one wave is louder than another.

MOscilloscope can be downloaded here

Wave Observer (free)

Oscilloscope and monitoring plug-in for time-domain audio analysis

Wave Observer by Press Play is an oscilloscope and monitoring plug-in for time-domain audio analysis. It visually supports mixing, mastering and sound design by offering a number of unique features including:

• smooth continuous presentation of input signals (left, right and stereo)
• wide time range (from one millisecond up to four seconds)
• stabilization algorithm for fixing single waveforms on screen
• freeze function including the ability to scroll through history

Wave Observer can be downloaded here

s(M)exoscope (free)

Oscilloscope VST plugin. You can use it to visually monitor audio wave forms.

s(M)exoscope by Smart Electronix is a Virtual Effect Audio Plugin for macOS and Windows. It functions as a VST Plugin, an Audio Units Plugin and a VST 3 Plugin. Its features include:

• Available as a Standard insert effect or as a special Modular version optimized especially for modular VST hosts like Plogue Bidule or AudioMulch.
• Display controls – Time (number of pixels per sample) & Amp (amplitude of the waveform in the display).
• Retrigger modes – Free, Internal, Rising & Falling – with Retrigger Threshold. External mode also available in the modular version.
• Options – Sync Redraw, Freeze, DC-Kill & Channel.

s(M)exoscope can be downloaded here

occularScope (free)

occularScope is a bar or beat synchronized oscilloscope with side chain input.

occularScope by Bom Shanka Machines is a bar or beat synchronized oscilloscope with side chain input.

Features:

• View either a single beat or bar synchronised to your DAW.
• Line or filled waveform view.
• Can show side chain input overlaid or added to primary input.
• Freeze button.
• Stereo/Mono input display modes.
• Auto or manual gain control, either linked or per input.
• Adjustable delay compensation for manually correcting waveform offset.
• Fully scalable user interface.
• Dark and Light themes and more (or completely customise your own colour scheme).
• Native Apple Silicon (M1 or better) support.

occularScope can be downloaded here

Oszillos Mega Scope

BPM-synced oscilloscope with support for multiple inputs.

Oszillos Mega Scope by Schulz Audio is a BPM-synced oscilloscope with support for multiple inputs. It gives you a visualization of the waveforms you feed it with. This can be handy in different situations like compressor-fine-tuning, sound design, drum programming, etc. Oszillos Mega Scope features a resizable and intuitive user-interface that lets you just do you work.

Features:

• available as VST, AU and AAX (Pro Tools) and stand-alone
• supports multiple channels / test-points
• multiple draw modes (precise, shaded, and more)
• preset management
• beat synced zoom-levels (1/32 note to 16 bars)
• multiple visualisation modes (separate waves, combined waves)
• input-level adjustment
• resizeable window.
• easy and elegant UI
• runs on macOS & Windows
• 32 bit & 64 bit Host support

Oszillos Mega Scope can be purchased here

Blue Cat’s Oscilloscope Multi

Unique multiple tracks real time waveform renderer and comparator: it lets you visualize the content of several audio tracks on the same screen and compare them thanks to its X-Y view.

Blue Cat’s Oscilloscope Multi by Blue Cat Audio offers stereo or mid-side channels waveform extraction as well as several synchronization modes. The zooming and precise measurement capabilities let you analyze the waveforms in details, and the XY phase scope view will help you track phase issues within an effect chain or while recording with multiple microphones.

The additional histogram display complements the toolset to check the distribution of the values in the waveform and get an idea of the average peak level.

The four memory slots let you store any waveform in memory: it helps you make comparisons between several setups or portions of your audio project very easily.

Thanks to Blue Cat’s skinning language support and the included window opacity management feature, you can adapt the plug-in user interface to your personal needs and enhance your workflow.

Blue Cat’s Oscilloscope Multi can be purchased here

PsyScope Pro

Versatile multi-track synced oscilloscope plugin

PsyScope Pro by FX23 is a versatile multi-track synced oscilloscope plugin using fast workflow routing free system that allows easy inspect of different signals and the way they interact together in terms of phase / tuning / sum / peaks ect.. and  also an all in one multi-track Frequency analyzer, with spectrum, spectrogram, vectorscope and vu meters.

PsyScope Pro can be purchased here

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