Surreal Machines is an audio software company founded by Matt Jackson and Peter Dowling, who met through the Max/MSP community before collaborating on DSP code together. The company specializes in plugins that pair careful analog emulation with modern digital workflows, with much of the underlying audio code built in Cycling '74's Max/MSP gen~ environment before being ported to VST, VST3, and AU formats.

The lineup centers on the Dub Machines bundle, which contains Modnetic — an emulation of 1970s tape echo with spring reverb, bucket-brigade chorus/flanger/phaser, and tone-shaping sections — and Diffuse, a hybrid plugin combining analog-modeled delay with reverb algorithms inspired by early digital units. Impact is a transient designer for shaping attack and sustain, while Crack is a free, slimmed-down transient shaper available for desktop and iOS, and Microfuse is a free echo/reverb tool derived from Diffuse.

The brand has built a following among electronic and dub-influenced producers, and Dub Machines has been distributed in Max for Live form alongside its plugin versions, giving it a presence in both the Ableton Live and general DAW communities.

Surreal Machines has 4 products cataloged on Equipboard, including Delay Plugins, Transient Shaper Plugins, and FX Bundle Plugins.