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The MAATgo Black Friday deal puts 29% off a monitor controller and goniometer plugin from MAAT, at $17 through Nov 30, 2026.
MAATgo is a universal monitor controller and visualization plugin for computer playback. The maker built it for people who listen to high-resolution audio files and streams on their computer, whether they are mixing, mastering or just listening.
It comes as a VST 2, VST 3 and AAX plugin for macOS and Windows, plus Audio Units for macOS.
The maker describes it as a preamp's worth of channel routing in software. A balance control sits next to the channel steering and blending options.
The routing section covers:
There are five monitoring modes, and solo is available before the vectorscope with one button press. Left/right soloing as a phantom centre, mono, difference and Mid/Side are the options the maker lists.
Mono mode lets you listen for cancellation in the phantom centre. It also shows how the centre relates to content panned out to the edges.
L-R mode strips mono content, so centred vocals usually drop a lot or vanish. The maker points to this as a quick karaoke trick.
Polarity inversion helps you check signal chain integrity, and the left-only and right-only controls give a closer look at the stereo field.
The goniometer, or phase scope, is the software take on an analogue oscilloscope display. It shows global trends and problems, lets you gauge frequency response and phase shift, and has a visual out-of-phase warning built in.
An optional autogain keeps the display readable across a wide range of input levels. Gain, focus, phosphor colour, drawing style and persistence sit in the preferences, and you can save everything as a personal preset.
Controls that are switched off are fully out of circuit and do not touch the sound. Enabled controls run their DSP in 64-bit double-precision floating point.
MAATgo works at sample rates from 44.1 up to 384 kHz.
The interface is resizable and takes up only a small slice of screen. The maker also calls the plugin lightweight on CPU.
A standalone version is included, so MAATgo can run without a DAW, plugin host or player app and act as a stream-through processor. For that you usually need a virtual audio device. The maker suggests VB-Audio's HI-FI Cable on Windows and Existential Audio's BlackHole on macOS, both free.
Yes. The MAATgo Black Friday deal takes 29% off, with the plugin at $17, and it ends Nov 30, 2026. MAATgo is MAAT's monitor controller and goniometer utility plugin.
MAATgo is available as VST 2, VST 3 and AAX on macOS and Windows, plus Audio Units on macOS. A standalone version is included too. AAX Native needs Pro Tools 10.3.10 or newer.
It offers sum (L+R), difference (L-R), swap and polarity inversion for left, right or both. It also has a balance control and five monitoring modes, including mono and Mid/Side, plus a goniometer with an out-of-phase warning.
Yes. The included standalone version runs without a DAW, plugin host or player app, as a stream-through processor. You usually need a virtual audio device: VB-Audio's HI-FI Cable on Windows or Existential Audio's BlackHole on macOS, both free.
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