MD/E Monolith Duck/Expand

The deal

$29 at PluginFox (down from $69), a 58% discount. This is an ongoing sale with no listed expiration date.

What it is

MD/E Monolith Duck/Expand is a dynamics plugin from AYAIC's M3 Breakout Series, built around hard-limited duck and expand groups. It drops onto any track, before or after other plugins in the chain, giving you dedicated ducking and expansion control without routing through a separate compressor or sidechain setup.

Who it's for

Mixing and mastering engineers who need precise, surgical control over how one signal reacts to another - think vocal-over-music ducking, kick/bass interaction, or expanding transients that get buried in a busy mix.

Key features

• Hard-limited duck/expand group processing built for fast, clean gain reduction and expansion
• Works in AAX Native, AU, VST2, and VST3, so it fits into any major DAW
• Runs natively on Apple Silicon and Windows 7+ 64-bit machines alike
• Licenses via iLok with USB, Machine ID, or Cloud options, so a physical dongle isn't required