Download Big Blue Limiter
System requirements
Windows: 10, and up
Mac OS X (Intel or Apple Silicon ): 10.11 (El Capitan), and up
Big Blue Limiter is available in VST2 & VST3 (64-bit), AU (64-bit), and AAX (64-bit) format
Native Apple Silicon support
System requirements: Windows 10 and up, or Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and up
Formats: VST2 & VST3 (64-bit), AU (64-bit), AAX (64-bit)
Please note that a valid license is required in order to use this product. Don't have a licence yet? You can request a demo license, or purchase your license below.
Release Notes
Big Blue Limiter 2.0.1
release date: 01 January 2026
New Features
- mono-version
Big Blue Limiter 2.0.0
release date: 19 March 2025
New Features
- VST3-version
- native Apple Silicon Support
- resizable GU
Big Blue Limiter 1.2.0
release date: 4 March 2023
Bug Fixes
- The plugin didn’t show up or crash in the latest versions of Logic and Ableton Live
Big Blue Limiter 1.1.9
release date: 15 June 2020
New Features
- Installer will remove unused files
Big Blue Limiter 1.1.8
release date: 28 November 2019
Bug Fixes
- Big Blue Limiter didn't adapt correctly after a buffer size change.
New Features
- MAC OS X Catalina (10.15) compatibility
- User friendly installer for MAC OS X
Big Blue Limiter 1.1.7
release date: 2 August 2016
Improvements
- Metering
Big Blue Limiter 1.1.5
release date: 20 December 2015
Bug Fixes
- The 'Russian bug': unresponsive GUI on OSX when language was set on Russian or other languages using non-western characters. several stability improvements
New
- Windows 10, Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) & Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) are officially supported
Big Blue Limiter 1.1.4 (MAC only)
release date: 1 February 2015
Bug Fixes
- Yosemite compatibility update (unresponsive number boxes fix)
Big Blue Limiter 1.1.3
release date: 21 November 2014
New Features
- AAX version
Bug Fixes
- several bug fixes and stability improvements
Big Blue Limiter 1.1.2
release date: 3 December 2013
New Features
- 64-bit VST version sometimes caused a crash on Windows systems with more than 4GB memory
- sample rate wasn't retrieved correctly from the host (AU): attack/decay times were off at non-44.1 sample rates
- latency wasn't communicated correctly to certain hosts
- several memory leaks
Big Blue Limiter 1.1.1
release date: 16 June 2013
New Features
- 64-bit VST & AU version for MAC OS
- extra large GUI for easier reading on high resolution screens
Improvements
- 32- & 64-bit installation for Windows is now combined in one installer
- drag & drop authorization was removed (to simplify the authorization process & enhance compatibility with ProTools 10)
Bug Fixes
- knob & slider parameters didn't show up correctly in native editors and external controllers.
- peak light got stuck at a local maximum on MAC OS

