The maker behind the plugin
About Audio Tech Hub.
CustomTone 2 is made by Audio Tech Hub — a one-person VST company run by Paul Jones, the engineer behind a dozen commercial plugins you may already own.
The short version.
Musician since a kid. Developer almost as long. Full Sail in 2011, paid plugin work since 2015, and Audio Tech Hub founded in 2019 after a decade of building instruments as a hired developer. Twelve-plus distributors — and every shipped plugin has my engineering in it from scratch: UI, DSP, and the build pipeline nobody talks about.
What I ship.
Commercial instruments — not toys, not demos with the paint still wet. Samplers, synths, effects, and MIDI-FX that sit on the same shelf as plugins from Arturia, Native Instruments, and Spectrasonics, sold through the same distributors.
Why CustomTone 2.
CustomTone 2 is the generative instrument I always wanted to build: a node-based Motion Map driving four engines — Harmony, Motion, Texture, and Finish — shaped by five macros and an Evolve button that mutates a patch into ideas you'd never dial in by hand. It's written in C++/JUCE and ships as VST3 and AU for macOS and Windows. One purchase, lifetime updates.