About

ForgeDSP is not a company with a plugins division. It is one working DJ and producer who got tired of three things: sample folders that never had the right kick, chord tools that sound like doorbells, and plugins that stop working when you stop paying.

So I started forging my own.

Every ForgeDSP plugin exists because I needed it on a real record first. Kick Alchemist exists because the kicks on finished records are never one sample, and stacking them blind was costing me nights. Aurichord exists because great progressions should not require a theory degree, just good ears and seven pads. The tools ship when they survive my own sessions, not when a roadmap says so.

Hand-crafted is a number you can check

"Hand-crafted" gets thrown around. Here it means a person built every groove and preset by ear, and the counts in our marketing are the real census from the code. When SubForge says 110+ grooves, you could count them. We would rather understate than inflate.

Built colorblind. Readable by everyone.

I am colorblind. I have spent my whole producing life squinting at meters where the only difference between "fine" and "clipping" was a shade of green versus a shade of red I cannot tell apart.

So ForgeDSP has one non-negotiable design rule: no meaning lives in color alone. Every state in every plugin reads by text and shape. SAFE, LOUD, and PEAK are words. Locked and free are different shapes. High contrast everywhere. About 1 in 12 men is colorblind, and every one of them has bought a plugin that was harder to use than it needed to be. Not these.

Pay once. Own it. That is the whole model.

Every ForgeDSP plugin is a one-time license with offline activation. No account, no login, no monthly fee, no phone-home. Buy it, get a key by email, enter it once, make music. Your studio machine never needs to touch the internet.

Windows first, honestly

ForgeDSP plugins are Windows-only right now, VST3, 64-bit. macOS is coming, and we will say so with a date only when it is real. We would rather tell you plainly than let you find out at checkout.

If a tool on this site saves you one of the nights it saved me, the forge did its job.

Adrian Mason, ForgeDSP