Stillwell Audio has a major update live today: a new website, improved purchasing, updated plugins, and something new for engineers, musicians, and producers who care about sound first. It’s a practical step forward, focused on making the tools easier to buy, install, and use.

A better way to buy

The new Stillwell Audio website is built around a cleaner purchase and delivery process. Checkout now runs through Stripe, with simplified delivery after purchase and license files that are easier to install.

Licenses can be installed by dragging the license file directly onto the plugin interface. There are no customer accounts to create, no activation servers to contact, and no background authorization checks deciding whether you can open a session.

Updates across the lineup

A large portion of Stillwell Audio plugins have been updated, including 1973, CMX, and Event Horizon. These releases preserve the original behavior while improving the parts of the experience around the sound.

There are also v4 releases of Bombardier, Dyno, Major Tom, The Rocket, Transient Monster, Vibe EQ, Bad Buss Mojo, Oligarc Filter, Verbiage, Bitter, Psycho Dither, and schOPE.

Across the updated lineup, the emphasis is on improved performance, resizable high-resolution interfaces, and smoother workflows. The goal is refinement, not reinvention: keep the tools familiar, preserve what people already rely on, and remove friction where it has accumulated over time.

A new release: Fe26

Fe26 is a new transformer-inspired tone stage from Stillwell Audio. It is built around signal-dependent behavior, so the effect can sit quietly in the path or become more obvious as the input level increases.

It lives in the space between utility and character: subtle when you need support, more apparent when the source asks for weight, density, or movement.

Stillwell Audio has always been focused on one thing:

It’s about the sound.