hornetplugins.com Reviews 225

TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

4.5

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Reviewers overwhelmingly had a great experience with this company. Customers consistently praise the products for their excellent sound quality, ease of use, and innovative features, often highlighting their significant impact on mixes and overall production. Many consumers are impressed by the accessible pricing, considering the high quality and performance to be an outstanding value for money. The user experience is frequently described as positive, with efficient and well-designed interfaces. However, some customers also noted occasional issues with the user interface, such as unresponsiveness or crashes in specific DAWs, and a few mentioned a desire for improved graphics or more detailed documentation. A small number of people reported problems with plugin functionality, including bugs in displays or controls, which led to dissatisfaction and, in some cases, a decision not to purchase again.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Hornet plugins are easy to install, easy to use, very performant and absolute world class sounding. They also have well thought out and layed out UI:s, makes them very nice for serious studio work... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Hornet Audio plugins are absolute gems — they sound amazing, work flawlessly, and cost just a fraction of what they’re worth. I use them in every mix because they truly make a difference. It’s rare to... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I love using Hornet plugins because I think they are innovative and good. They seem to be coming up with forward thinking designs that are a little bit different. I use the Molla spring, the Jamming... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The plugins they create are really excellent. Not just for their price, but also compared to much more expensive ones. I can also install them as many times as I like (I perform formats on my PC many... See more


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HoRNet Plugins is a plugin audio developer which focuses on speeding up your work with smart tools that get the job done


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4.5

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TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I love using Hornet plugins because I…

I love using Hornet plugins because I think they are innovative and good. They seem to be coming up with forward thinking designs that are a little bit different. I use the Molla spring, the JammingRock amp sim and the Chorus60 a lot on guitar, and I use their Ha2a compressor on the drum bus. Nice.

26 December 2025
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Quality plugins

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Quality plugins, fair pricing. Trusting the customer as there are are no annoying licence security troubles.
Wait for the regular discounts and there are no regrets. I have nearly all plugins over the time.
They are strong in gain, volume and limiting.
(The Magnus is one of the best for loud out there.)
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But the sound sculpting is not so much mine. Too clean, flat, liveless for me...
No presets, you have know what you do.
If there are bugs, it needs much time to be resolved, as it is a small business.

In the end it is taste. Try the demo before buying!

24 December 2025
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Buggy plugin. Support stop responding and ignored requests for refund

Purchased TotalEQ MK2 in November and experienced unresponsive UI when minimizing window, as well as full crash when using Bell 2 curve in Live 11. Support acknowledged that it is a known bug and mentioned that it will be addressed in the next update. However, as there are still no news of such update and no further response for 1 month, I asked for a refund. As of today, I have not gotten any new response and it seems like Hornet is just going to ignore the feedback indefinitely.

Update: Hornet Plugins has provided their response and the software update has been tested ok. Wish the support team could at least be more responsive and communicate the updates in active tickets.

6 November 2025
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Reply from hornetplugins.com

Hi Jason, we released version 2.0.6 on November 26th that fixes all the issue you mention and since then we haven't had reports. Have you tried that update you probably missed the announcement.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Useful, reliable, affordable

HoRNet´s Plugin catalogue became larger over the years and thanks to their Sales I got almost every plugin. All I have to say is, most of their Plugins are very reliable and I learned a lot about Mix & Master when using them.
In the meantime I found out, any Mix & Master plugin of other manufacturers became less interesting and I´ve uninstalled those expensive yet less useful plugins.
Not only I got a better understanding about Harmonics & EQ, even at intermediate level, having implemented HoRNet Plugins in the Mix & Master chain, the results improved drastically compared to those more expensive plugins by other manufacturers so I can focus more time on the arrangement process.

Good job - keep going on !

28 November 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Just awful

Just awful. Tried to buy a plugin, I could pay it but not download it because it would stop downloading every other minute even though it was only a couple MBs. It's certainly not my connection 'cause I was on video chat at the same time and that went fine.

4 December 2025
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Reply from hornetplugins.com

I’m sorry to hear about your experience. Sometimes network issues can occur, but you can download the plugin at any time using HoRNet DoIn (our installer) or through our website on the “my account” page.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

You can't miss with the ZeroEQ

Hornet plugins have been great for a long time, but now with the advent of the new zeroEQ, I think something magical has been reached! I could fix a badly mixed song in seconds with it and it is something that has never happened before with any other plugin! Thank you Hornet!

28 November 2025
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