The winner for hardware is the Universal Audio Arrow. Arrow is a simple interface, on the face of it, but does offer two unison mic preamps and, when combined with the aforementioned onboard plug-ins (Arrow ships with a bundle of 11), you get an exceptional signal chain.
While the winner for software is the Leapwing Audio Dynone. Part of DynOne’s appeal is that it employs both powerful multi-band compression and more subtle parallel compression. DynOne is that it can be equally as useful in both the mixing and mastering processes, but it really comes back to the speed of use.
Read more about this here: https://www.musictech.net/features/gear-of-the-year-2018-product-of-the-year-hardware-software/
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