Apogee Soft Limit vs EQ510
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Apogee Soft Limit
This app emulates analog tape warmth and rounds transients to add harmonic richness without clipping. It provides tools to achieve more headroom in your mixes, offering adjustable controls for threshold, drive, and output.
- Analog tape emulation
- Rounds transients
- Adds harmonic warmth
- Adjustable Soft Limit Threshold
- Auto Makeup
- Drive and Output Trim
- Oversampling
- Input, Output, and Soft Limit Meter
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Soft Limit has been an integral feature of Apogee converters since the AD-500, our first standalone A-D converter released in 1991. And now, for the very first time, this simple but highly effective analog tape emulation is available on iOS devices. Soft Limit was created to help round transients and add harmonic warmth, without clipping the signal and thus helping you achieve more headroom in your mixes. Features: • Adjustable Soft Limit Threshold • Auto Makeup • Drive • Output Trim • Oversampling • Input, Output, and Soft Limit Meter
EQ510
This audio plugin emulates a legendary vintage equalizer, offering the flexibility of digital with authentic analog sound. It adds smooth drive and color through a vintage output transformer, enhancing your music production workflow.
- Vintage American equalizer emulation
- 500 module modeling
- Vintage output transformer for drive and color
- Digital flexibility with analog sound
- Enhanced music production workflow
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Flexibility of digital, real sound The 510EQ is a lightweight plugin modeled after the famous American equalizer used as a 500 module and amplified with a vintage output transformer to add smooth drive and color. At Aurora DSP, we're always striving to improve your workflow and create plugins that will stay in your arsenal forever. We bring the advanced features of classic gear to modern musicians, engineers and producers.
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Verdict
Apogee Soft Limit and EQ510 both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Apogee Soft Limit's written reviews are positive against 0% of EQ510's. EQ510's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $9.99) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On rating, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Apogee Soft Limit costs $9.99 and EQ510 $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Apogee Soft Limit against 5.0 for EQ510. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EQ510 has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Apogee Soft Limit's written reviews are positive against 0% of EQ510's.
| Parameter | Apogee Soft Limit | EQ510 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 149 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apogee Electronics Corp | Aurora DSP |
Customer experience
Apogee Soft Limit
EQ510
In-app purchases
Apogee Soft Limit
No in-app purchases
EQ510
No in-app purchases
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