Spectral VST Plugins

MXXXCore is a special licence, which includes only the basic building blocks. You will use MXXX as if you had the full licence, but not all processors will be available.

How to Get the Remaining Processors into MXXXCore

MXXXCore of course provides all of the modules MXXX does, but you need a licence to get the rest of them. For example, if you own MSpectralDynamics (or any bundle, which contains that plugin) then it will be enabled in MXXXCore as well. MXXXCore will not allow you to insert a processor you don’t own nor open a preset that uses it, and will tell you what you need to purchase in order to get it.

The following shows which licences you need to get any of the modules working in MXXX with MXXXCore licence. You can also use any bundle that contains a required plugin.

Modulation

Processor to unlock and the products that will unlock it:

• Autopan – MAutopanMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Chorus – MFlangerMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Phaser – MPhaserMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Rotary – MRotary (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Tremolo – MTremoloMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Vintage Rotary – MVintageRotary (Product that would unlock the former processor)

Spectral

Processor to unlock and the products that will unlock it:

• Character – MCharacter (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Frequency Shifter – MFreqShifterMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Harmonizer – MHarmonizerMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Ring Modulator – MRingModulatorMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Transformer – MTransformer (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Vibrato – MVibratoMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Vocoder – MVocoder (Product that would unlock the former processor)

Equalizer

Processor to unlock and the products that will unlock it:

• Comb – MCombMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Dynamic Equalizer – MAutoDynamicEq or MDynamicEq (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Freeform Equalizer – MFreeformEqualizer (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Freeform Analog Equalizer – MFreeformAnalogEq (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Equalizer – MAutoEqualizer or MAutoDynamicEq or MDynamicEq (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Equalizer Linear Phase – MAutoEqualizer or MEqualizerLinearPhase (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Wobbler – MWobbler (Product that would unlock the former processor)

Dynamics

Processor to unlock and the products that will unlock it:

• Auto-Volume – MAutoVolume (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Drum Enhancer – MDrumEnhancer (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Drum Leveler – MDrumLeveler (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Dynamics – MDynamics or MDynamicsMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Limiter – MDynamicsLimiter (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Modern Compressor – MModernCompressor (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Spectral Dynamics – MSpectralDynamics (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Transient – MTransient or MTransientMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)

Reverb & Delay

Processor to unlock and the products that will unlock it:

• Convolution – MConvolutionMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Delay – MDelayMB (Product that would unlock the former processor) 
• Granular – MGranularMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Reverb – MReverb or MReverbMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Rhythmizer – MRhythmizer or MRhythmizerMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)

Stereo

Processor to unlock and the products that will unlock it:

• Stereo Generator – MStereoGenerator (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Stereo Spread – MStereoSpread (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Stereo Processor – MStereoProcessor (Product that would unlock the former processor)

Distortion

Processor to unlock and the products that will unlock it:

• Amp – MAmp (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Bit-Fun – MBitFunMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Distortion – MDistortionMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Saturator – MSaturatorMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Wave-Shaper – MWaveShaperMB (Product that would unlock the former processor)

Utility

Processor to unlock and the products that will unlock it:

• Auto-Align – MAutoAlign (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Compare – MCompare (Product that would unlock the former processor)
• Multi-Analyzer – MMultiAnalyzer (Product that would unlock the former processor)

Synthesis

Processor to unlock and the products that will unlock it:

• PowerSynth – MPowerSynth (Product that would unlock the former processor)

Introducing clarity on demand.

Smooth Operator combines equalization, spectral compression and resonance suppression into a singular creative experience that’s instant and intuitive. Use it to perfect your tonal balance and add a touch of ‘hifi’.

Our spectral detection algorithm adapts to your audio 44,100 times per second and automatically eliminates fatigued frequencies. This gives you full control to shape your signal and bring out more definition.

Highlights:

• Brings out clarity and smoothness across instruments, vocals and mix busses.
• Allows for creative tone shaping without artifacts or harsh resonances.
• Intelligent algorithm that automatically detects and resolves fatigued frequencies.

What is Spectral Processing.

The easiest way to understand Spectral Processing is to think of it as manipulating the building blocks that make up a digital signal – rather than the actual signal.

Our algorithm uses Fast Fourier Transform – or FFT – to break the incoming audio into tiny particles, which are analyzed and processed separately, before being put back together as audio. This all happens in realtime and allows for a much more surgical approach to resonance detection and rebalancing than what would be possible with traditional audio effects.

While most spectral tools focus on audio restoration, we wanted Smooth Operator to be all about creative expression. The plugin is meant for shaping your tone.

Use it to compress, EQ and ‘purify’ in one simple process – and know that Smooth Operator has your back when it comes to automatically eliminating artifacts.

Smooth Operator comes loaded with 63 presets created by friends of BABY Audio – including:

• Preston Reid (Ciara, Toni Braxton, Lil Uzi Vert)
• David Nakaji (Post Malone, Aminé, Lil Eazzyy)
• Rob Kleiner (David Guetta, Sia, Britney Spears, Giorgio Moroder)
• Steven Holness (Adele, Jason Derulo, Paul Weller)
• Neenah (Winne, Mr. Probz, Nana Fofie, Joe Budden)

Display options.

• Switch between three color modes (Pink / Green / Blue)
• Plugin window fully resizable

Introducing Insight 2: Intelligent Metering for Music & Post

Insight 2 is a comprehensive metering and audio analysis plug-in that is a core component of award-winning post production studios, music studios, and broadcast facilities. It is perfect for visualizing changes made during mixing and mastering, troubleshooting problematic mixes, monitoring the intelligibility of your dialogue, and ensuring compliance with broadcast loudness standards.

With Insight 2, you can immediately detect potential mix problems through real-time visual monitoring and colour-coded alerts. Customize your view by choosing the meters you want to see, set your preferred targets, and resize the window to fit your current workflow.

You can also route any audio track in your DAW to Insight 2 to quickly check loudness, levels, intelligibility, phase, frequency content, and more.

With layouts and targets for every stage of post and music production, you can deliver the optimum mix the first time around. Save time and money when mixing and mastering audio by monitoring your audio with the highest accuracy. Keep an eye as well as an ear on your mix at all times with Insight 2!

Insight 2 now supports the Netflix loudness spec!

Get Insight Into Any Mix

Get a complete set of meters that can be customized and form fit to any session. Gain valuable perspective on any aspect of your mix, from loudness, intelligibility, spectral balance, and more.

Whether you’re measuring loudness for broadcast compliance, ensuring clear dialogue for film, or managing a complex 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos session, Insight 2 is the metering tool for the job.

Let Your Dialogue Be Heard

Don’t let your dialogue get lost in the mix! Insight 2’s new Intelligibility Meter takes the guesswork out of setting dialogue levels and provides you with a clearer picture of how an audience will experience the dialogue, no matter their listening environment. Mix with confidence using visual benchmarks that confirm your dialogue is sufficiently clear.

Perfect for music and post-production

• Updated look and feel
• Re-designed to be easier to use
• Current loudness standards
• Multichannel support up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2
• Ensure that dialogue is clear in the mix with the Intelligibility Meter
• Resize the meters and window as small or large as wanted
• Colored warnings available for Level meters
• Expanded inter-plugin communication with iZotope Relay

Introducing the Intelligibility Meter

Setting the dialogue level can be subjective and situational. Insight 2’s Intelligibility Meter takes the guesswork out of setting dialogue levels and provides you with a clearer picture of how an audience will experience the dialogue.

You can now measure the intelligibility of your dialogue compared to the rest of the mix to ensure that your dialogue level can be clearly heard in different listening environments. iZotope’s own powerful DSP is used to determine when levels in your mix are preventing the dialogue from being clearly heard.dialogue

NEW STYLE

Updated Look & Feel

Insight 2 has an updated design that matches the rest of the iZotope family. The most important targets have been emphasized to make Insight 2 easier to read at a glance.

Resizing

Now you can easily resize individual meters in the main window by clicking and dragging between two-meter frames. Additionally, the main window can now be resized to be as small as the smallest meter—perfect for throwing your loudness meters up in the corner of your third monitor!

Customize Your Layout

Insight 2 is customizable and flexible for your perfect setup. You can display and resize any meter you want or select one of the many Layouts designed for specific post and music production settings.

NEW FEATURES

Intelligibility Meter

A brand new addition to Insight 2, The Intelligibility Meter provides guidance on whether dialogue is likely to be overshadowed by the loudness of the rest of your mix.

Using iZotope Relay or other compatible plug-ins, Insight 2 takes information from your dialogue track and gives you the best recommendation on where your dialogue should be when compared to the rest of your mix. Select from different target Listening Environments, ranging from low to high noise, to check how the intelligibility of your dialogue holds up for listeners in those spaces. Now it’s even easier to ensure your dialogue tracks are loud and clear on any sound source!

MultiChannel Support
Analyze your audio in surround sound up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2.

Deliver for Today’s Standards
Set your loudness targets for EBU R128, BS.1770-1, BS.1770-2/3/4, ATSC A/85, OP-59, and more.

Sound Field
Analyze the channel spread of your audio in stereo or surround.

Spectogram
The Spectrogram lets you view your audio on a 3d topographical plane.

Custom UI
Display and resize any meter you want and create your own unique workspace.

iZotope Relay: Communicate Across Your Session

Perform detailed analysis by routing audio from any tracks or buses to Insight 2 with Relay. Enjoy the flexibility of using any plug-in while still getting all the benefits of our innovative new tools across your entire mix.

Get a clear picture of how your tracks stack up against your entire mix using the included iZotope Relay plug-in. Any channel with the Relay plug-in on it can be viewed in Intelligibility Meter and on the Spectrogram inside Insight 2, letting you visually compare your track to the rest of the mix.

Relay is also compatible with iZotope’s Visual Mixer plug-in, letting you adjust the levels, pan, and width of your tracks in a visual space.

Important note: Visual Mixer is available seperately in Neutron 2 Advanced and is not included with Insight.

Relay features:

• Inter-plugin communication with compatible iZotope products (Intelligibility Meter, Tonal Balance Control, Masking Meter, Visual Mixer, and more)
• Delay Offset: align multi-mic’d sources and correcting phase issues in your tracks
• Phase Invert: quickly compare and contrast the phase of tracks in your mix
• Sum to Mono: audition your stereo audio data to see how it translates to mono listening formats
• Swap Channels: Switch left and right channels of any stereo track to audition the stereo image and check for balance issues
• High Pass Filter: Clean up and control the sub frequency content in your tracks with a simple High Pass Filter in Relay

Meters in Insight 2
Easily show or hide meters with the meter selection buttons at the top of the screen.

Insight 2 includes meters for:

• Loudness
• Levels
• Sound Field
• History
• Intelligibility
• Spectrum
• Spectrogram

MMultiAnalyzer is a unique multitrack analyzer and sonogram, which looks inside your audio material and reveals problems and frequency collisions quickly, easily, and with astonishing accuracy. Just put an instance on each track you are interested in and the plugins automatically find each other.

Spectrum Analyzer, Sonogram, Collision and Loudness

The plugin is not only extremely easy-to-use, it also lets you look into your material with ways not possible before – multitrack sonogram, collision detector and loudness comparison.

Unique Features to Make Your Audio Easily Understandable

Standard analysis may sometimes be a little confusing. With unique features, such as normalization, super-resolution and deharmonization, you can quickly understand your audio material and reveal problems you are looking for.

Features

• The most advanced user interface on the market – stylable, resizable, GPU accelerated
• Unique visualisation engine with classic meters and time graphs
• exceptionally versatile modulators
• Adjustable oscillator shape technology
• 4 multiparameters
• M/S, single channel, up to 8 channels surround processing…
• Smart randomisation
• Automatic gain compensation (AGC)
• Safety limiter
• Adjustable up-sampling 1x-16x
• MIDI controllers with MIDI learn
• Very fast, optimised for SSE/SSE2/SSE3 processors
• Global preset management and online preset exchange
• Supports VST, VST3, AU and AAX interfaces on Windows & Mac, both 32-bit and 64-bit
• No dongle nor internet access is required for activation
• Free-for-life updates

Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi is a unique multiple tracks real time spectrum analyzer: it lets you visualize the spectral content of several audio tracks on the same screen with extreme smoothness and high resolution, for both time and frequency.

It is the ideal solution for mixing: you can use it as a frequency overlap detector and actually see which part of the spectrum every single instrument uses. It is now also possible to easily compare the spectrum of several instances (for EQ matching or response curve measurement) thanks to the new ‘Diff’ view which displays the difference between several curves.

Just like with Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Pro plug-in, the frequency analysis can be fine tuned in details, and three modes are offered for each channel: instant, peak or average response of several audio tracks can be displayed on the same graph (the plugin supports up to 16 curves). Zooming capabilities and coordinates display let you exactly measure the characteristics of the spectrum for each audio track. Thanks to the advanced routing capabilities you can define different settings for each track and thus adapt the analysis for each audio signal you want to analyze. Our multiple tracks tutorial shows you how simple multiple tracks spectrum analysis can be.

The four memory slots let you store any curve in memory: it helps you make comparisons between several setups or portions of your audio project very easily.

Thanks to included window opacity management feature and advanced layout customization capabilities, you can adapt the plug-in user interface to your personal needs and enhance your workflow. It is also possible to create a completely custom user interface using Blue Cat’s skinning language.

Main Features:

• Mono, stereo or mid/side multiple tracks real time spectrum analyzer: visualize and compare the spectrum of several audio tracks on the same screen.
• Unique data sharing technology with multi-core processors support.
• Compute and display the difference between spectra for easy EQ matching and response curve measurement.
• Total control over the analysis parameters, with slope and offset correction.
• Smart interpolation algorithm for extreme display smoothness.
• Spectrum view with zooming and precise measurement capabilities as well as note info display.
• Multiple display sizes
• Instant, peak and average curves display for each track.
• Choose a name for each curve for easier sharing.
• Save the curves for easy A/B comparison.
• Opacity control for the user interface.
• Custom absolute and relative threshold control.

KR-Fatter STR is a modular hybrid plug-in processor using two different proprietary time and frequency domain DSP platforms in a single unit.

KR-Fatter STR can be used to enhance the spectral content of audio signals containing vocal, instrument or synthesized sound recordings. By using different combinations of the available modules KR-Fatter STR allows the creation of different effects like Fattening, Spectral Coloring, Imaging, Harmonizing, Pitch Shifting, Delay, Modulation and other Special effects.

Special attention was given in the design of this processor in the use of “Naturally perceived” randomization of the available functions in order to produce a spectrally evolving output. These randomizations implemented using Fractal algorithms can transform dull static audio signals into vibrant, rich and natural sounding recordings.

The available modules and functions can be employed in both serial and parallel fashion to achieve different results. KR-Fatter STR can create up to an additional 4 stereo copies of the input signal which can be processed individually by applying modular effects and mixed together in a final master stereo output bus.

Features

• Generic pitch-shifter: generate pitch related variations of the original audio signal.
• Animated pitch variation: produce animated pitch variations.
• STR color (STR transform filter): design thousands of different spectral color variations of the original input audio spectrum.
• Low frequency oscillator (LFO) modulation: give vibrato effect.
• Phase: add naturally perceived phase related variations.
• Amplifier: add naturally perceived amplitude related variations.
• Shelving equalizer (EQ): use to spectrally balance individual channels and/or the whole mix.
• Delay: use to create delayed copies of the input.
• Panning: use to create imaging effects or expansion.

The spectro-dynamic compressor | Putting dynamics into shape smart:comp 2 automatically delivers transparent, precise results; providing you with the creative tools that will transform your sound from nice to extraordinary.

• Spectral processing for tonal and dynamic balance
• Automatic parametrization with a single click
• Tools for creative dynamics shaping

Already purchased smart:comp 1 in the past? Take advantage of the upgrade offer here!

FEATURES

Audio compression powered by AI

Incredible sound – your tracks deserve nothing less

smart:comp 2’s AI-powered automatic parametrization, spectral compression, and ducking abilities when used with an external sidechain all aim for one goal: clean, well-balanced compression results that remain true to your input signal – no matter whether you are working on single instruments, instrument busses or entire mixes. By analyzing the characteristics of your material, its intelligent processing will enhance transparency and preserve crucial details without compromising the integrity of the signal. Supported by such a sound base you are free to go ahead and let your creativity flow.

sonible’s smart:engine drives the intelligent processing of smart:comp 2. It’s a content-aware system based on deep learning technology, a vast amount of data, psychoacoustic principles and extensive hands-on mixing experience. Choose a profile and let smart:comp 2 learn your track. The plug-in takes only a few seconds to deliver extremely precise compression results.

Inspiration hits with more possibilities

Tap the full potential of shaping dynamics

Shaping dynamics to achieve distinctive sounds has never been easier than with smart:comp 2. This exceptionally versatile compressor is packed with features that enable you to give any track your unique vibe. Gradually shape the character of the compressor with the style dial and give your results a darker or brighter vibe using the color dial. The free-form transfer function with its templates allows you to achieve sophisticated level mapping.

You can also fine-tune the temporal attack and release behavior without restrictions and apply a different compression to the ambience and center by using mid/side processing.

Smooth handling and real-time monitoring

Everything you need at a glance

Working with smart:comp 2 is straightforward and intuitive. All crucial compression parameters take center stage – their handling will feel as familiar as working with a common single band compressor. With input level riding you can focus directly on shaping the dynamics of your track instead of worrying about level issues. Having more insight means making better informed decisions. smart:comp 2 provides you with real-time monitoring elements such as instant impact prediction which immediately reflects every parameter change across the entire signal, compression mapping and an RMS level histogram that outlines the overall dynamics of a track.

smart:comp 2 is an invaluable assistant – whether you’re a mastering/mixing professional or an aspiring talent.