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Case No. 12.47 — Open

Public Beta — Mac Trial Available

Dust 12.47

A dusty character machine for adding movement, grit, and hidden texture to your sound.

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macOS (Apple Silicon) · VST3 / AU · v12.47.13 · 19 MB

The actual Dust 12.47 vintage sampler interface showing sampler, noise, jitter, filter, tone, quality, stutter, gate and delay, Vault, machine drift, and level controls

The problem it solves

Clean recordings are easy. Character is not. Getting a track to feel dusty, unstable, and alive usually means stacking half a dozen plugins — a saturator, a filter, a gate, a delay, an LFO tool — and hoping they play nicely. Dust 12.47 puts that whole investigation in one box.

What it does

Dust 12.47 is a character plugin designed to add movement, grit, instability, filtering, gated textures, delay, and analog-style weirdness to drums, vocals, guitars, synths, and full mixes.

Feature 01

Dust & Grit

Saturation and texture stages that make sources feel worn-in instead of processed.

Feature 02

Movement

Motion and instability controls that keep static sounds shifting like real hardware.

Feature 03

Gated Textures

Rhythmic gating for choppy, breathing textures on pads, vocals, and loops.

Feature 04

Delay

Character delay built into the chain for smeared echoes and dusty repeats.

Feature 05

Filtering

Musical filters for lo-fi framing, telephone tones, and radio-dial moves.

Feature 06

Analog Weirdness

The unstable, slightly-wrong behavior that makes a bounce sound like a find.

Best uses

  • Drums that need age, movement, and attitude
  • Vocals that sit too clean on top of a gritty track
  • Guitars and synths that need texture and instability
  • Full mixes and bounces that need a dusty final coat

Demos coming soon

Audio + video demos land here at release — join the case file to hear them first.

Price & availability

Full license: $97 — checkout opens soon, and the case file list gets the launch discount. The free 14-day macOS trial is open now: notarized installer, full feature set, no card. When the trial ends the plugin simply stops processing until a license is activated — your sessions and settings stay saved and come back exactly as they were.

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System requirements

  • macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer), macOS 11 Big Sur or later
  • Formats: VST3 and AU (AU is a macOS-only format)
  • Tested in: Cubase, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, REAPER, FL Studio
  • Trial: 14 days, one machine, activation code delivered by email; the plugin runs fully offline once activated
  • Installer: 19 MB
  • Windows and Intel Macs: not supported yet — planned; join the case file to hear when they land

FAQ

When is Dust 12.47 coming out?

It's in public beta — the free trial is the real, full plugin, tested daily in sessions at Digital Dust Studio. Join the case file for the release date and the launch discount.

Will there be a demo version?

Yes — the free 14-day macOS trial is open now: download it here. Fully functional, notarized, no card.

What formats will it support?

VST3 and AU on macOS (Apple Silicon) today. Windows VST3 and Intel-Mac support are planned; AAX is under consideration.

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