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Will Evans seated in a bright studio room, with a guitar, studio speakers and a keyboard behind him
Will EvansSong Athletics · Spitfire Audio ex-CEO

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Plugin for Song Athletics and Will Evans

Song Keys

Grand and upright pianos, an electric piano and synths, all in one plugin. Built by us, from the first sketch to the installer.

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  1. Build your own plugin and sell it under your name.

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    Song Keys, Song Athletics' signature piano plugin, playing: a chord lit on its keyboard
    Song Keys bySong AthleticsWill Evans
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    1. 01It’s in your browser. Just open it and go.
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    Maks Padalak (left) and Dominik Bilski (right) in the studio
  4. We provide a custom installer, a licensing system and your customer support.

    1. 01We give you your own custom installer.
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    The Song Athletics installer: My plugins, with Song Keys (its window as the thumbnail) not installed yet and an Install AU + VST3 button
    Song Keys’ licence screen: Sign in to activate Song Keys, through the Song Athletics installer, with a Retry button
    The support chat inside the Song Athletics installer: support tells a customer to rescan plugins, and the customer writes back that it worked
Testimonials
Will Evans seated in his studio room, resting his head on his hand

As someone who is very passionate and protective of the culture around music-making, I was really cautious about working with AI in software development. Soon after trying out their engine, however, I was filled with excitement – for the first time since being involved in plugins I was able to create prototypes in real-time, myself, which as a non-developer with lots of ideas was incredibly liberating. Then, having Maks and Dominik, as experienced engineers themselves, to work with to refine and finalise the plugin for commercial release, I felt confident that what we were creating was a strong product, that would perform robustly with customers. It’s out there now, on people’s computers across the world, and I’m looking forward to what we go on to do next...!

Will EvansSong Athletics · Spitfire Audio ex-CEO
Metta and Glyde, two bearded men standing back to back against a black background

When I first discovered pluginmaker.ai, it genuinely blew my mind. What started as an exciting idea has now become a huge part of our business. We’ve gone from building our very first plugin, Refine, to launching Lumina, and we’re now developing our third and most ambitious plugin yet, SONR.

Maks and Dominik have been absolutely brilliant throughout the entire journey. They’re always approachable, incredibly helpful, and genuinely passionate about what they’re building. The platform itself just keeps getting better and better, with new features, improvements and possibilities constantly opening up.

Creating our own range of audio plugins was something we’d wanted to achieve for years, but pluginmaker.ai has made it possible in a way we never imagined. It’s given us the freedom to turn our ideas into real, commercially available products, and we’re now creating things that would have seemed completely out of reach not so long ago.

It’s genuinely been a game-changer for our business, and the most exciting part is that it feels like we’re only just getting started.

Lee WallsMetta and Glyde · MAG Signature Sound
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  • The Song Keys plugin window: a piano keyboard under a white flower mark, with the sound and effect controls around it

    Release 003

    Song Keys

    Out now on Song Athletics

    Will Evans seated in his studio room, resting his head on his handByWill EvansSong Athletics

    Grand and upright pianos, an electric piano and synths, all in one plugin.

    Get Song Keys
  • Lumina plugin window: a three-band dynamics processor with a Depth knob and four modes

    Release 002

    Lumina

    Out now on MAG Signature Sound

    Metta and Glyde, two bearded men standing back to back against a black backgroundByMetta and GlydeAdam King · Lee Walls

    Three-band dynamics. Compression and expansion work together, steered by one Depth control.

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  • Refine plugin window: a tone shaper with an EQ curve and six macro knobs

    Release 001

    Refine

    Out now on MAG Signature Sound

    Metta and Glyde, two bearded men standing back to back against a black backgroundByMetta and GlydeAdam King · Lee Walls

    Tone shaping with fixed bands. Add weight, warmth or air; take out mud and harshness.

    Get Refine
A note from our CEO

People make great plugins, but AI makes the process faster and enables a new level of creativity.

We started building pluginmaker a year ago.

What we've learned since then is that the best plugins never came from one prompt. They came from people who really know music production, know exactly what they want, and keep coming back to it, version after version, until it's right. AI didn't replace any of that. It made every round faster, and it let people try ideas that used to need a whole dev team.

There's no point pretending AI isn't a huge part of making software now. Anyone can vibe-code a simple plugin these days. But making professional music tools that people will actually pay for still takes a lot of work from experienced engineers.

And even a great plugin is only the start. Then it needs an installer, a licensing system, someone watching for problems, fixes when something breaks, and someone answering your customers. That's why we started The Plugin Studio. We take care of all of that, so you can focus on building the best tool you can for the best thing in the world: making music.

Maks PadalakCEO, The Plugin Studio
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