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Adam Douglas

“The biggest driver right now is people wanting everything fast”: Predicting the future evolution of plugin design

Mixing Night Audio.

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: Open up the plugin folder in your DAW and take a look at what's in your collection. It’s likely a mix of cutting-edge new instruments and effects alongside a few older applications which have withstood the test of time. The ones that get the job done with no fuss.

You’ve probably already noticed but many plugins being released in 2025 are fairly different from those of 20 or even 10 years ago.

Their look has evolved, with graphical user interfaces (or GUIs) that are less representative of anything you might find in the physical world.

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