Press & EPK

Short

Cryptid Audio is a boutique audio-plugin company making warm, characterful tools for music producers. Its flagship, Aura, is an EQ and channel strip with an aura that glows where your sound is alive.

Medium

Cryptid Audio is an independent audio-plugin company building warm, analog-flavored tools for producers and mixing engineers. Its flagship, Aura, is a parametric EQ and channel strip that wraps an aura around your sound — the warm, sustained core glows amber while noise stays dim. No subscriptions, no dongles: one-time purchase, lifetime v1.x updates.

Long

Cryptid Audio is a boutique, independent audio-plugin company building warm, analog-flavored processors for music producers and mixing engineers. Its flagship, Aura, is a parametric EQ and full channel strip — EQ, Opto and FET compression with Mid/Side and sidechain filtering, dynamic resonance taming, a de-esser, analog saturation, and a bus-glue compressor — wrapped around a unique aura that glows where your sound is alive, so the warm, sustained core lights up amber while noise and transients stay dim. Joined by Nessie (lo-fi analog) and Mothman (space echo + aura reverb). Cryptid sells direct, with no iLok, no subscription, and no account wall.