Inear Display, developer of exciting experimental plugins, is out of business. This is how you can secure the plugins for the future.
The plugin market is very dynamic. New developers are constantly joining, while others often disappear without much fanfare. Now, one of my favorite developers is gone, apparently forever.
Inear Display, developer of unique experimental plugins, has been out of business since April 2025. I’ve just found out about it now, so it’s time to say goodbye.
Inear Display Out Of Business
Inear Display was a French one-man business run by developer Thomann Hennebert. In addition to his work at Inear Display, he is also responsible for the development of the Glitchmachines plugin.
The fascinating thing about his plugins was that none of them were conventional. It didn’t offer a standard delay or reverb or the 100th virtual analog synth with two or three oscillators.
They all had an experimental touch and possessed features that made them special. Inear Display plugins are great for immersing yourself in noisy and bizarre soundscapes and discovering new corners of sound shaping.
The last plugin, Inear Display, was released in 2024. This was a 2.0 update for the Gorgon FX processor. It’s a brutal, dirty distortion plugin with comb filtering, FM ring modulation, and more.
These are other ID plugins we’ll remember.
- Bref: a random percussive synth plugin based on the Ephemere experimental drum synth
- Litote: a granular FX processor with four simultaneously active engines using an XY pad
- Interstice: dual-band delay that splits the signal into two bands (low/high) and processes them differently
- Ephemere: a wild glitch and noisy experimental drum synth plugin
- Regressif: a free, dirty, multi-FX plugin with a multimode filter, distortion, sample-rate reduction, and bit-crushing paired with modulation
- Antagone: a glitch delay plugin with output mangler, built-in distortion, and plenty of modulation
- Lancinantes: a drone Synthesizer using additive oscillators, and more
- Incipit: three delays with pitch shifting and filtering meet modulation
- Cruelle: filter meets distortion effect processor paired with plenty of audio rate modulation
- Amalgame: a 6-slot experimental multi-FX processor with classic and crazy algorithms, each individually programmable and modulable
It’s worth noting that when Inear Display was still operating, he offered his old, outdated plugins as free downloads. Gorgon v1, for example, was one of them. You can probably find them on different websites, offering free plugins.
How To Access & Save The Plugins?
In April, he announced that he had ceased operations and that his plugins were no longer available for purchase.
Registered customers can still access their products from Gumroad and will be able to do so for the next months. Thomann Hennebert advises that you should ensure you download and back up a copy of your installers.
If you haven’t registered a Gumroad account, you can still access your purchases using the link in the corresponding receipts. See this page for further information. In case of issues accessing your purchases, you can email the developer using the email address provided on their website.
Here are some videos I made with Inear Display plugins in the past.
Sad to see that Inear Display went out of business. His creations were always inspiring and different from other plugins.
RIP Inear Display and wish you all the best, Thomas, on your further journey.
More information here: Inear Display
anyone sharing these? usually a company will make their plugins free to play after shutting down. so I’m sure sharing these for preservation purposes is o ay
no illegal sharing here. It’s not a usual thing that companies give away their plugins if they go out of business. Some companies did it, many didn’t.
it’s unfortunate that there is not an inexpensive way fro developers who are forced to shut down cannot maintain a minimal site to continue to sell their creations at a nominal price with the caveat there will be no further development.