Sonnox

The DeNoiser Plug-In with its integrated de-hisser delivers surgical broadband noise reduction in real-time.

The process is based on a continual analysis of the input signal in order to build a noise profile. Alternatively, use Freeze Mode to sample a section of audio containing just target noise.

Simply define the threshold below which noise is removed and use the Reduction slider to taste.

We understand the delicate balance between removing noise and retaining the character of your original recording, so have added a Warmth control to return some richness and added a DIFF function to audition only the removed noise.

MAIN FEATURES

• Separate DeHiss, Detect & Remove Sections for intuitive use 
• High-resolution display of input signal & its noise profile 
• Frequency Bias Curve to fine-tune noise threshold & reduction 
• Mid-Side mode to de-noise only side content 
• Warmth control for sweetening after noise removal 
• Make-up gain for true A/B comparisons 

A unique and powerful Plug-In to increase loudness, without sacrificing sonic quality or dynamic range.

Add power and presence to your mix without the pumping of compression, or use on individual channels to bring them forward and add weight. Perfect to help vocals cut through the mix.

When driven harder, Inflator delivers tube-like musical warmth and provides the ‘sonic glue’ you need to gel your mix together!

The Inflator is a unique process that can provide an increase in the apparent loudness of almost any programme, without obvious loss of quality or audible reduction of dynamic range, yet avoiding damaging increases in the peak level of the signal.

The inflator process can also bring power, presence and warmth to programme material and even provide headroom overload margin above digital maximum with a subtlety and musical character reminiscent of tube systems.

Use the Inflator to produce louder mixes than you thought possible without overloads or compression pumping, or use it to add natural warmth and character to acoustic or jazz mixes.

MAIN FEATURES

• Fully 64-bit compliant
• Adds presence and tube-like warmth
• Increases perceived loudness of any material
• Provides virtual headroom above digital maximum
• Direct and band-split modes

Modify the transients in your tracks by either increasing or reducing their attacks. Sounds simple, though our bespoke adaptive process working in the background is anything but.

Fortunately the interface keeps things straightforward, with two main controls quickly allowing you to bring ‘soggy’ drums to life or give more punch to a bass.

But TransMod is just as relevant to any electronic sound as it is to acoustic ones – pulling transients forward in your mix, or pushing them further back by making the ambience around them more evident.

And all this is accomplished without the tonal changes associated with compression.

MAIN FEATURES

• Harden or soften attacks and transients 
• Radical or subtle changes – with up to 24db of boost/cut
• Add harmonic enrichment for extra loudness, presence & punch allowing peaks up to 6db above digital max without clipping 
• Increase or reduce the effects of room ambience
• Achieve a fabulous gated overdriven drum kit in seconds

Oxford DeClicker

Accurately and transparently remove pops, clicks and crackle using three discrete sections. Each has a threshold and sensitivity control to define the number of events that are detected and removed. The unique Events Graph shows the level and duration of each pop, click and crackle as it’s detected in three separate colour-coded groups. 

Sometimes there will be events detected that represent audio we want to keep rather than remove. So we built the Exclude Box to further refine the number of repaired events, and also Dialogue Mode for independent control over speech in programme.

MAIN FEATURES

• Three Dedicated Sections: DePop, DeClick and DeCrackle 

• Graphic Feedback of the Energy/Duration of Detected Events 

• Excitation Displays to Help Accurately Set Thresholds 

• Exclude Box to Select Events that Shouldn’t be Repaired 

• Dialogue Mode: Independent Settings when Speech is Detected

Three Audition Modes:  

• Listen only to removed events 
• Full processed signal
• Dialogue Mode side-chain

Have you become frustrated with the results of unreliable drum gating using traditional tools; chatter, misdetection, choked or lost ghost notes? Are you tired of overly complex and manual workflows?

Then meet the new Oxford Drum Gate; it’s swift and logical workflow solves these problems and delivers the fastest, most musical and transparent results available. At the heart of the Drum Gate is intelligent drum-hit detection. First, the Plug-In detects them all with tailor-made transient detection. Then, you simply decide which ones to keep.

Detection

Need to reduce spill on a snare track in a dynamic mix of backbeats, ghost notes, and cross stick hits? No problem! Just click the Snare button.

Decay

Tired of fighting abrupt and un-musical gating? Do you want to keep the natural ring of toms and remove the spill around them? Easy! Use Drum Gate’s adaptive Decay section to quickly focus on the resonance of each tom, in real-time, according to the velocity of each detected hit.

Leveller

Wish you could improve the consistency of the drummer’s performance? Of course you do! Conform louder main hits and softer background articulations to two separately controlled target level ranges in the Leveller section.

MIDI

Want to augment/replace individual drums with samples and confidently retain the dynamics from the original performance? Piece of cake! It’s delivered by Drum Gate’s hit detection and MIDI triggering functionality.

MAIN FEATURES

• Precise transient detection and intelligent drum-type matching to effortlessly separate the hits you want to keep from the spill you don’t.
• Create custom drum profiles to isolate unusual drum types or fix the occasional kick, snare, or tom mismatch.
• Decay curve which adapts to the velocity of each drum hit, giving you consistent spill reduction on dynamic performances.
• Spectral decay editor lets you preserve the resonance, ring, or rattle of each drum hit while quickly clamping down on the spill.
• The leveller’s dual target and amount controls let you improve level consistency without losing the contrast between loud hits and soft ghost notes.
• Real-time MIDI output and MIDI file capture, for accurately triggering drum samples.

The Ultimate 5-Band Dynamic EQ

Have you tried to control boomy or harsh frequencies using a traditional static EQ but found you compromised the integrity of the original recording? Then found that writing automation lost you precious time and sounded unnatural? Perhaps you’ve heard that a multiband compressor is the answer but it left you scratching your head?

Then the Oxford Dynamic EQ is the tool you need, providing just the required amount of processing when you need it and takes little time to set up.

5 bands of the ultra-musical Type-3 EQ curve can be overlapped to bring unparalleled control and characteristic Sonnox transparency to your single sources, instrument groups and 2-bus alike.

The Dynamic EQ introduces unique features such as the option to engage the effect by onset (transient) detection – very useful when working with drums and percussion. Additionally, mid-side processing can be used to enhance a vocal without affecting side-channel balance or to open up a mix by focusing low end energy in the centre.

This highly-tweakable space-carving capabilities of the Dynamic EQ will be a welcome addition to your mixing arsenal.

MAIN FEATURES

• 5 bands of the Oxford Type-3 EQ curve which offer proportional-Q, often considered the most musical EQ curve-type
• All bands can overlap fluidly without the static phase distortion or low-frequency artefacts associated with multiband compressors
• Each band can process and/or detect from mono, stereo, mid or side channels
• Flexible per-band internal/external side chain controls
• A clear and informative GUI simplifies the often-complex workflows associated with multiband dynamic plug-ins
• Flexible upwards/downwards compression and upwards/downwards expansion
• Engage the effect either by setting a level threshold or by using the unique onset detection feature for very precise transient processing

Whether you’re a bedroom producer or a Grammy-winning pro, you want to take control to develop your own musical voice.

Claro will empower you to make informed musical decisions in a unique and intuitive way.

Claro is a comprehensive EQ Plug-In that serves the production process from composition to final mix, with three distinct views, progressively adding deeper insight and precision to prevent mud, clutter, or harshness, helping you blend your tracks into a clear and balanced mix.

How does Claro benefit you?

Staying focused is difficult, it slows the production process and kills creativity.

Specifically designed to offer “Vibe first, detail later”, Claro has three distinct views which help to build your EQ intuition and confidence without interrupting the flow. You’ll be guided towards making the right decision for you, first time, every time.

After having reduced masking from your previously muddy mix, have you ended up with something lifeless or sterile?

Of course, you have, but were you aware that not all masking is bad all of the time? Masking can impart body, thickness and presence to your tracks. Claro identifies masking and empowers you to learn and choose whether it is problematic or positively contributing to the tone you’re trying to achieve.

Resonance isn’t always bad.

Resonances are the sharp, tonal characteristics that ring over time, as the overtones of a bell. They can cause things to sound harsh or boxy, and while you might be tempted to notch out or remove all of the resonances, they also help determine that sound’s character, including its pitch.

When searching for resonant areas to tweak, Claro shows precise peaks and highlights those that resonate most over time.

You don’t always refer to audio in specific Hz, so why should your Plugin?

Claro’s friendly, intuitive interface guides you towards frequency ranges using familiar words such as ‘Mud’ and ‘Harshness’ in addition to Hz. A piano keyboard is also displayed to set your EQ band to a specific note helping you to work musically.

Produce | Tweak | Mix

Three Distinct Views

Claro sustains focus and accelerates your workflow through three distinct views.

The first is the PRODUCE view, offering a fast, creative EQ that actively promotes your musical creativity while removing unnecessary distractions and complex technical terminology.

TWEAK view then opens up more correctional possibilities, providing you with the cleanest, most flexible filters. The real-time analyser adapts to your moves and helps to identify problematic resonances.

Finally, use the MIX view to understand and assemble your mix. Every track is simultaneously displayed for you to prioritise, explore interactions and swiftly address frequency collisions between competing tracks.

Claro is an equaliser that aids the production process from composition to final mix. Progressively adding deeper insight and precision, Claro maintains focus and accelerates your workflow through three distinct views.

Produce – Tone

Build EQ intuition and confidence without interrupting your flow.

Broad EQ moves while creating, even if they’re subtle, often inspire you to make different musical decisions.

Focus on where the energy is and discover what tonal characteristics you want to achieve.

Produce – Width

Mid-side EQ is often essential for cleaning up stereo synths and loops or creating space for vocals, and it’s just as quick as Tone shaping.

Flip to Width mode to see the side-channel energy and tweak it.

Too much rumble in the sides? Mono the bass with the Low Cut Filter.

Tweak

Sometimes you’ll need to dive into finer details, tweak filter resonance, adjust left/right and mid/side balance, or attenuate areas that contribute to boxiness or harshness.

Claro’s adaptive spectrum analyser follows the channel (stereo, left/right or mid/side) and the Q of the band you’re adjusting to show you what you need to see.

No more boosting and sweeping. Claro identifies resonances and highlights them so you can be in control of how much or little you wish to attenuate those resonances.

Mix

View all Claro instances across your project and see how the audio interacts.

Drag & drop tracks to explore corrective EQ moves across any combination of tracks from the same window.

Yellow highlights indicate where each track in your mix competes against, or masks, your chosen reference track. Areas of masking can lead to it sounding boomy, muddy, or harsh.

Use the Invert EQ function to apply corresponding boosts to one track and cuts to another to reduce masking and give each track its own spectral space.

Features

• Claro’s EQ is highly flexible, with each of its 26 bands offering:
  • A clean, musical-sounding EQ that resembles the well-loved Neve types, their modern derivatives and the SSL G Series, as well as many high-end outboard equalisers.
  • Left, Right, Mid, Side, Mono, or Stereo channel processing giving you the capability to correct, widen, narrow, or make space within each track. 
  • A wide 20hz – 40kHz range. The extended high-frequency range offers a smooth, airy quality – excellent for vocals and mix busses. 
  • Variable Q, including resonance and overshoot on the cut and shelving filters, respectively, giving you the ability to mimic classic synth filters and hardware EQ curves. 
  • Variable slopes on all band shapes, up to super-steep (120dB per octave) for surgical work and treating precise audio bands
  • Claro’s automation is smooth and artefact-free, unlike most premium EQs.
• Auto Gain uniquely keeps your track at the same loudness, no matter the signal content or how you choose to EQ it.

Important Note: This software is available for Apple platforms only and will not function on Windows systems.

From bedroom to pro, producers and mixers are looking for a convenient way to quickly reference commercial tracks and gain more insight into their mix.

Ensure your mix stands strong against your favourite productions using ListenHub for macOS. Use it to easily A/B against songs from any streaming source such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube or your own media player.

Instantly listen to just the mid or sides, low-mids or highs and discover if your dynamics are competitive or crushed. ListenHub’s unique set of monitoring tools gives you the insights to make better mixing decisions.

Access ListenHub directly from your Mac or the free iOS and Android app for tablets and smartphones. ListenHub takes the immediacy, flexibility and tactile nature of a hardware monitor controller and marries it with the complete transparency of software routing. It can be used as a zero-latency plugin or a system-wide app hosting AU plugins on each output.

ListenHub is the audio control toolbox that places essential referencing and monitoring solutions at your fingertips

Listening to the same thing on repeat – this is what happens to us when you lose all objectivity; you become fixated on some details and miss others altogether. The bigger picture, the mix and the music are entirely lost. ListenHub gives you the perceptual resets and consistency required, so you can hear with fresh ears again.

Perceptual Reset

• A/B your mix with your favourite songs. Hear where you’re competitive and what you need to tweak.  
• Solo different stereo channels to check mono compatibility, low-end focus and explore the stereo field.
• Isolate frequency bands for fresh perspectives and focus on overlooked details like kick and bass relationships.
• Don’t be fooled into thinking the loudest reference sounds the best. Remove any loudness bias by automatically matching the input level of all inputs.

Repeatable Results

• Stepped volume controls provide quick, repeatable listening levels for consistent mixing decisions.
• Simple loudness and dynamics metering keep you grounded. Stay green to stay competitive; it’s that simple.
• Spectral meters display the frequency content to ensure a balanced mix, reflective of your chosen reference tracks.

Get the free ListenHub app for your iOS or Android device, freeing up your screen space and unlocking the limitations of other plugins.

Enhance Your Workflow

• Audio meters are often intimidating because they are contextless and show many different standards. ListenHub features easy metering tools that help you stay on track with your music. These are meant to complement your ears, not replace them!
• Stop spending time looking for, buying, or downloading your reference tracks. Stream them from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Tidal or from your own local storage.
• Take full advantage of powerful room correction and simulation software from Sonarworks, Steven Slate and others using our AU plugin hosting. Apply plugins to any of ListenHub’s outputs with your chosen settings automatically applied.
• Now, you can have different Sonarworks profiles for different sets of speakers or headphones without having to load profiles each time.
• Slate VSX can be used on all your system audio. You’ll soon become more familiar with your headphones, using them for mixing, streaming, and entertainment and the results will translate better than ever before.

Features

• Multiple simultaneous inputs to reference a variety of sources, your system audio, files imported into your DAW, and your in-process mix.
• Easily switch between multiple outputs for different sets of monitor speakers or headphones.
• Host AU plugins on any of the outputs, with any configuration.
• Band solos in conjunction with the spectral analyser to identify issues, or reference specific frequency ranges of mixes you like.
• Channel solo to check mono compatibility and stereo width.
• Stepped volume control for precise and repeatable listening levels.
• The Match Input Loudness button automatically corrects level differences between your reference tracks.
• ListenHub’s Auto-mute instantly catches loud bursts protecting your ears and your speakers.
• Want to ensure a dynamic and exciting mix? ListenHub will tell you if your mix is crushed, loud, competitive or lively.
• Use the Short-term LUFS meter to ensure a consistent level between different parts of your arrangement.
• Set your short-term loudness to the loudest part, and everything else will fall into place.
• Stop worrying about integrated loudness as each streaming service will apply loudness normalisation to your track, regardless.

VoxDoubler is presented as two separate Plug-Ins that focus on the two most common vocal doubling workflows.

Vocal performances lie at the very heart of a song. Doubling vocals is a really effective way of adding more contrast, drama and presence to the story of your song.

It’s therefore hard to imagine much of recorded popular music without the special quality that double-tracked vocals bring to a mix, either used over an entire track or just to help a chorus or key lyric connect with a listener.

MAIN FEATURES

• Generate believable double and triple vocal tracks to create width, depth or add thickness
• Humanise section to adjust the Timing and Pitch of the doubles relative to the original vocal
• Depth control to push the new doubled voices deeper into the mix
• Tone control to prevent sibilant doubles from becoming distracting, or to brighten those that are too muddy
• Track/Aux mode allows you to apply the effect in place or, for more advanced control, mix it in parallel on an aux return
• A more cost-effective alternative, both in terms of initial outlay and speed of use, than more complex and manual processes
• Engineered for vocals, but try it on instruments too!
• Hallmark Sonnox audio precision, transparency and reliability

Why VoxDoubler?

You want believable and natural sounding doubles but don’t have access to your vocalist, or the time required to:

• Record extra takes in order to comp doubles
• Transfer a lead take into an external editor, make copies of it and then manipulate the pitch and timing of them
• Maybe you like the speed of using a classic stereo imager, chorus or harmonising effect, but aren’t so happy with the rather unnatural artefacts that can often occur?

Enter VoxDoubler. Bespoke designed to give you the best of these two approaches; ease of use, real-time processing and results that sound as lifelike as if the doubled parts were actually multi-tracked.

Saving you time, money and maintaining your creative flow.

Widen

Generates two new mono voices and pans them to the left and right of the original vocal.

Great for:
Widening a mono performance, ranging from subtle enhancement to a stack of hard-panned voices

Or why not try:
Manually processing the new doubled voices separately, then mixing them back in parallel with the original

Thicken

Generates a new stereo doubled voice and overlaps it with the original vocal.

Great for thickening a:

• Mono performance, emulating the effect of singing the same part twice
• Stereo group of voices by doubling each voice

The Oxford SuprEsser is both a very highly-featured professional De-Esser and a Dynamic EQ. There is a simple mode for quick fixes, but also an advanced mode for increased functionality and fine-tuning.

The combination of an intuitive FFT display and three listen modes enables the user to easily see and hear exactly where the problem frequencies are, allowing the rapid reduction or removal of the offending audio. As well as being able to trigger the full band compression, only the offending frequencies can be carefully carved out.

Since the SuprEsser can operate at all frequencies, ‘plosives’ and other annoyances can also be removed effortlessly, making it more than a simple De-Esser. Additional features include Automatic Level Tracking, Linear Phase Filtering and a Wet/Dry blend control for final balancing.

A new concept is born – a simple and intuitive De-Esser, PLUS access to a much more sophisticated frequency specific compressor, giving complete control over aggressive frequencies wherever they may be in the audio spectrum. With the Oxford SuprEsser, you can take out unwanted frequency peaks as and when they occur – unlike applying a fixed EQ to the whole channel.

MAIN FEATURES

• 64-bit compliant (AAX / AU / VST)
• Highly featured professional De-Esser
• Linear Phase Dynamic EQ
• Transparently controls aggressive frequencies
• Automatic Level Tracking follows energy levels (no need to automate threshold)
• Large intuitive graphic display makes finding frequencies very easy
• Full Spectrum Operation (20Hz -20KHz)
• Three different ‘Listen’ modes
• Very easy to use
• Advanced Mode for ultimate control of the Dynamic EQ
• Many creative as well as corrective uses
• Presets giving good starting points

As a De-Esser, the Oxford SuprEsser is designed for the treatment of sibilance and fricatives in vocals, and the treatment of unwanted whistles and ‘spirant’ artefacts associated with wind instruments.

However, it can equally be applied to removing low-end ‘plosives’ and thuds from over-close vocal work, without affecting components nearby in the frequency spectrum, keeping the low-end in tact. For the most natural-sounding results, the SuprEsser de-esses only the frequency band you set – so you won’t end up with an over-de-essed lisp-like voice with all the top end gone!

Detailed visual feedback is provided thanks to the highly intuitive graphical display, allowing quick identification of the frequencies that need treatment and where to set the threshold. The threshold level and peak hold levels of the user-definable band are shown on the graph, alongside the FFT display of the narrow band signal, which includes retention of the peak level and the frequency containing the most energy.

At the heart of the Oxford SuprEsser is an enhanced version of the compressor section of the Oxford Dynamics plug-in, which is renowned amongst professional users for delivering precise and transparent control of peaks. Around this is built a pair of cross-over filters to make the compressor react only to the defined frequency band. These linear phase filters are modelled on the filters from the Oxford EQ, making the SuprEsser useful for precise mastering work as well as mixing work.

Three listen modes allow the user to listen to the mix, the output of the band-pass filter (‘Inside’) or the output of the band-reject filter (‘Outside’).

The Oxford SuprEsser comes complete with many presets to act as good starting points, alternatively, the advanced section gives full access to all controls for precise correction or even creative use.

Plug-in Formats

• Native: AAX, RTAS, Audio Units and VST

Fast and effective removal of buzz, hum, whine and whistles.

Use the intuitive display to help isolate the fundamental frequency – it’ll constantly give you feedback on the top contenders – or define it manually with the help of a tone generator.

Don’t worry if the fundamental wanders, the default Auto Tracking Mode will follow it in real time. The harmonics of your problem fundamental frequency will also be tracked.

All that remains is to engage the default comb filter or the optional parametric EQ, and then fine-tune the content that’s removed using DIFF auditioning.

• Ultra high resolution detection and removal of unwanted: buzz, hum, whine and whistles
• Separate Detect and Remove Sections for intuitive workflow 
• Very accurate setting of fundamental over 3 frequency ranges 
• Tracking Mode to follow fundamental and its harmonics
• Comb filter for tight removal over many harmonics
• Parametric EQ for more musical removal over fewer harmonics
• Audition removed buzz for confident fine-tuning