The Dark Eight

The whole line · Eight VST3 plugins, Windows x64, Linux x64 and ARM64

The Dark Eight panel

Eight Dark plugins, one licence file, one payment: Dark707, DarkerBox, DarkLight, DarkMatter2, DarkOperator, DarkOrbit, DarkSubstrator and DarkWave. DarkMath is sold on its own.

Bought one at a time the eight come to EUR 159.60, so this saves EUR 39.65. That is within twenty five cents of two plugins free, and it beats buying singly from the seventh onwards.

Runs on Windows x64 and on Linux x64 and ARM64, in any host that takes VST3 plugins or in DarkRunner. Not on macOS.

Not on sale yet. Ordering opens once licences can be delivered; mail peter.vdpas@mnemonics.eu if you want one before then.

What you get

After you pay, a mail brings your licence and a link to your downloads. Open the link, give it the licence file and the address the mail went to, and pick the download for your computer: Windows, Linux, or Linux on ARM for a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB. All eight plugins are there, each with a download of its own. The link keeps working, so come back for the latest version whenever there is one.

Each download holds three things: the plugin, DarkRunner to play it without a DAW, and something to install both. On Windows that is an installer that sets it up for you alone and wants no administrator. On Linux it is install.sh, the same idea and no root either. The .vst3 is in there loose as well, for dropping into a VST3 folder by hand.

Windows puts up a blue box reading Windows protected your PC the first time you run it. That is SmartScreen. Quietening it means buying a code signing certificate and renewing it every year, which I would rather not pass on. What the box tells you is that the publisher is unrecognised, which is all it means: nothing has been found wrong with the file. Click More info, then Run anyway.

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