- Developer: Manley
- Version: 1.0.0
- File Size: 140 MB
- Formats: VST3, AU
- System Requirements: macOS 13 or later
Manley’s first original EQ plugin. Built on decades of analog expertise.
Developed with Manley’s hardware designers, ecliptic combines analog transformer models, filters, and EQs for intuitive Mid/Side mixing and mastering. Shape the center and sides with a single set of controls – all “in the box”.
Parallel EQ bands and interacting curves add depth, air, warmth, and analog character. From subtle mastering polish to bold mix-bus shaping, ecliptic makes your sound bigger, wider, and more alive.
From plugin to hardware? Help shape what comes next.
For nearly two decades, Brainworx has brought legendary analog hardware into your DAW. With ecliptic, we’re exploring the reverse. Try it, tell us what you love and let us know what you’d like us to refine.
Our goal is to refine ecliptic together with you and explore its potential beyond the plugin. Your feedback will help shape its future – and if enough users share our vision, ecliptic will become the next Manley hardware product. Manley’s next classic starts here.
Parallel, not serial
Most digital EQs run their bands one after another. ecliptic’s Low, Mid and High bands sum in parallel, like a classic passive mastering EQ. Boosts blend instead of stacking, so you can push harder and still keep the mix open. This EQ plugin behaves like hardware, because it’s built to be hardware.
Phase that thickens, not cancels
Every stage in ecliptic is a bell or a shelf, even the high- and low-pass. This keeps the parallel paths phase-aligned, so phase shift adds analog-style density instead of hollowing out your sound. The HPF and LPF are shelves voiced to sound like filters, without the typical filter phase shift. Same job. Different side effects.
Bands that behave like circuits
Each ecliptic control drives three or four bands that interact with each other, the way real circuits do. Mid Contour adds a wide ripple, a cut with boosts on either side, to revoice the mids in a way a standard bell can’t. The Mid band overshoots at its edges, just like analog. The Low and High bands are voiced on curves a veteran mix and mastering engineer uses on real records.
Smooth when you ask. Bold when you push
A clean EQ sounds the same at any setting. ecliptic doesn’t. The harder you drive a band, the more colour and analog intensity it adds. Keep it subtle for polish, or lean in for character. Either way, you’re in control.
Features
- Modular creative multi-effect for tone, vibe, and movement
- Build custom FX racks with six reorderable modules: Drive, Circuit, Drift, Comp, Noise, Filter
- Mid/side processing available in every module
- Global Scale control to dial overall intensity in seconds
- Global Movement control for controlled unpredictability
- Designed for fast inspiration and nuanced results without complex plugin chains
- More flexible than classic lo-fi tools, and more musical than destructive FX
- Built from the ground up with celebrated Brainworx tone-shaping know-how
- Drive-dependent analog colour and instability
- One unified set of Mid/Side controls with offset
- Brainworx section: Solo M/S, Delta, Mono and Width
- Metering and auto gain