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The Oxford Inflator Black Friday deal is 75% off the HDX version of Sonnox's Inflator, bringing it to $65 until Dec 17, 2026.
This is the AAX DSP build of the Oxford Inflator, an exciter and limiter-style plugin made for Avid HDX systems. It runs on the DSP chips of the HDX card, so your host CPU stays free for the rest of the session.
Sonnox says the sound is identical to the Standard version. If you don't own an HDX system, the Native version is the one you need.
Sonnox describes the Inflator as a way to add warmth, depth and character to a track when EQ and compression aren't getting you there. Think of a vocal that lacks punch, a thin mix bus, or a track missing some spark.
The maker says it raises loudness without flattening dynamics and without adding unwanted distortion. You decide how far to push it, from subtle saturation to full intensity.
Sonnox calls the Inflator a long-running tool in mixing and mastering studios and says engineers have trusted it for over a decade. That is the maker's claim, not an independent ranking.
The plugin supports Pro Tools 11 or above in AAX Native and AAX DSP on both platforms.
Each licence in the Toolbox range gives you 2 activations. You need an iLok account, and each activation can authorise the plugin on a machine, an iLok2 or iLok3 device with the latest drivers, or iLok Cloud, which needs an active internet connection.
If your signal chain lives on an HDX rig and you want the Inflator running on the DSP rather than your host processor, this is the version built for that.
Yes. The Oxford Inflator HDX Black Friday deal is 75% off, bringing the Sonnox plugin to $65 until Dec 17, 2026.
Yes. Sonnox says this is an HDX plug-in meant for the DSPs of an Avid HDX system, which keeps it from taxing your host processor. Without an HDX system, the Native version is the one you need.
Sonnox states that the Standard and HDX editions of the Oxford Inflator sound identical. The HDX build runs on the HDX DSPs, so the processing load stays off your host processor.
It needs Pro Tools 11 or above (AAX Native and AAX DSP) on macOS 10.13 or later or Windows 10 or later. Each licence gives 2 activations through an iLok account, on a machine, an iLok2 or iLok3, or iLok Cloud.
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