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The NLS Non-Linear Summer Black Friday deal takes 79% off this Waves utility plugin, which brings it to $29.99 until Nov 26, 2026.
NLS is a console summing plugin that puts the color of three analog consoles into your DAW. The maker says analog consoles earn their reputation for richness and harmonic complexity because they are imperfect, and NLS is built around that idea.
The three consoles are modeled from the setups of mixers and producers Mark "Spike" Stent (Paul McCartney), Mike Hedges (The Cure) and Yoad Nevo (Sia). Waves describes them as a solid-state console that launched thousands of hits, a vintage British tube desk, and the console used to record The Dark Side of the Moon.
The plugin models how the summing bus and the channel preamps interact, not just the preamps in isolation. That interaction is where a lot of console character comes from.
It models 96 channels, including every input and every summing bus amp.
You can mix and match consoles, so different channels can run through different desks in the same session. That lets you give a drum bus one flavor and a vocal another.
The main controls and features:
On Mac, NLS supports macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14 and Sequoia 15. Formats are VST, AU and AAX.
On PC, it needs Windows 10 or later, in VST and AAX formats.
If you want summing color in the box without a physical desk, the NLS Non-Linear Summer plugin does that with three console models and per-channel mixing and matching. The NLS Black Friday deal covers the full plugin.
Yes. The NLS Non-Linear Summer Black Friday deal takes 79% off this Waves plugin, bringing it to $29.99. The offer runs until Nov 26, 2026.
NLS is a console summing plugin. It models three analog consoles, including how the summing bus and channel preamps interact, across 96 channels. The maker says it brings the harmonic richness of analog summing into your DAW.
On Mac it runs on macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14 and Sequoia 15 in VST, AU and AAX. On PC it needs Windows 10 or later and comes in VST and AAX formats.
Yes. NLS lets you mix and match the three consoles across channels. You can also set Drive for harmonic distortion, add or skip modeled preamp hiss, and pick the clean line input or the mic preamp input.
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