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Outlaw Black Friday pricing is 60% off, which puts this gain-riding plugin at $15.60 until Nov 29, 2026.
Outlaw listens to the incoming audio and moves the level the way an engineer would ride a mixing desk fader. You skip drawing volume automation by hand, and the plugin evens out the level for you.
W. A. Production built it for live sound, vocals and solo instruments alike.
It compensates for volume changes in real time. The maker pitches it as a first-in-the-chain tool for live guitars, vocals, bass and drums, or anything that needs balanced dynamics with a "human touch".
The front panel is built around four dials:
A large display shows Peak and RMS levels for the left and right channels. The amount of gain riding appears in the centre.
A secondary panel lets you fine-tune the gain algorithm.
The detection signal can run through high-pass and low-pass filters with four slope settings. That lets the gain rider ignore low rumble in a speech recording, hi-hat bleed, or the attack and finger noise on a bass take.
Attack and Release shape the transients and sustains of the processed audio. The Direction control sets whether they work upwards, downwards or both ways, depending on which way the gain is moving.
Max Up and Max Down cap how much gain the plugin may add or remove. Low values sound subtle, and high values sound erratic.
The RMS control offers slow, medium or fast detection. Instant is very fast, and Zero uses 0ms RMS time.
Outlaw was developed in the JUCE framework, and the maker calls it the most stable plugin it has released. It supports retina and high-definition screens, and the interface is resizable.
This is the first W. A. Production plugin to include AAX for Pro Tools.
If you run an Apple Silicon Mac, the maker asks you to review the plugin's compatibility status for your system before purchasing.
If you get it through a Rent to Own plan or a Beatport Studio membership, it installs and runs through the Beatport Access portal. That route needs an internet connection every 30 days to validate your license.
Yes. The Outlaw Black Friday deal takes 60% off this W. A. Production gain-riding plugin, bringing it to $15.60 until Nov 29, 2026.
Outlaw is a gain-riding plugin. Outlaw tracks the level of whatever signal passes through it and evens out the swings automatically, acting like an engineer riding a fader, which spares you the chore of drawing volume automation yourself.
Outlaw runs as VST on Windows 8 or later (32/64-bit) and as VST and AU on macOS 10.13 and later (64-bit, Apple Silicon supported). An AAX version is included too and needs Pro Tools 11 or higher.
Four main dials: Mix, Target, Gate and Gain. An advanced panel adds HPF/LPF with slope settings, Attack, Release, Direction, Max Up, Max Down and RMS options, plus a display showing Peak and RMS levels.
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