One bad plugin can hang Sibelius at launch. Ainola disables the troublemakers in one click and brings your whole library back the moment you switch to your DAW. Nothing is ever uninstalled.
Includes a fully featured 14-day trial. No card, no account. Universal, for Apple Silicon and Intel.
Ainola is a macOS app that enables or disables your audio plugins (AU, VST, VST3, CLAP and AAX) instantly, without uninstalling anything, so Sibelius and your DAW start fast and never choke on a bad plugin.
Disable every AU, VST and VST3 except the engine Sibelius needs, so it launches reliably. AAX and CLAP stay untouched. Re-enable your whole library the moment you switch back to your DAW.
Save Mixing, Live or Mastering presets from the current state or a tag, and switch your whole rig instantly.
Tag plugins one at a time or in bulk. Search and sort by name, vendor, format or status.
Spot the same plugin installed in more than one place and reclaim the space.
Disabling renames the file with a standard, reversible suffix. Nothing is ever deleted, and every change is one click from undo.
A modern, native macOS app with an in-app language switcher.
Total storage, a breakdown by format, and your largest plugins at a glance. Spot duplicates and reclaim the space.
Open the disk image and drag Ainola into Applications.
Start the trial with one click. No card, no sign-up.
Buy a license and activate the app you already have. No re-download.
Every license is the complete app, nothing held back: Sibelius mode, the full library view, presets, duplicate finder, disk usage and ten languages, with free updates within v1. One bad plugin can cost you an afternoon. Ainola is a one-time price, not a subscription.
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No. It only renames a plugin file so hosts stop loading it, and re-enabling restores it exactly. Nothing is ever uninstalled.
Disabled plugins will not appear in any host. Run enable all, or your DAW mode, to bring them back instantly.
Ainola needs to modify plugin files in your Library folders, which the App Store sandbox forbids. It ships as a direct download instead.
Access follows your license. If an order is refunded, the license is deactivated and Ainola locks on its next online check.
AU, VST, VST3, CLAP and AAX, on macOS 12 Monterey or later. The build is universal, for Apple Silicon and Intel.
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Ainola comes from M Street Music, a recording, mixing and mastering studio. We ran into the Sibelius launch crash on our own Mac, with thousands of plugins installed, and got tired of renaming folders and losing the whole DAW setup every time just to open a score.
So we built the tool we wanted: one click to a clean Sibelius launch, one click back to a full studio, and nothing ever uninstalled. If it saves you the afternoon it used to cost us, it has done its job.
Kristijan Sinković, M Street Music
Ainola is the lakeside house in Finland where Jean Sibelius lived and worked, named for his wife, Aino. A place built to come home to.
We took the name for the same reason. When a bad plugin locks you out of your session, Ainola is where your whole setup comes back, in one click.
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