Enhancer VST Plugins

Contrary to what the name suggests, Little Foot is only small in terms of CPU usage and focus.

The single-minded son of Boz’ Sasquatch 2 Kick Machine, it has just one job to do and it does it extremely well—that’s to put hair on your kick drum.

Little Foot takes sub-bass drops, a time-honored studio technique, refines and streamlines it, enabling you to seamlessly blend a tunable low-frequency sine wave with a kick drum for added power, punch, and deep low end—in one simple, straightforward GUI.

Not just for extreme lows, in these days of earbuds and iPhone speakers, you might want to bring out an octave above the fundamental in order for kick to be heard on tiny speakers. Little Foot can help you there, like no EQ can.

Boz Digital Labs Little Foot—Just the Facts:

• No-manuals-necessary layout
• Instantly add punch and body to your kick drum
• Easily go from natural enhancement to extreme sustain
• Tune your kick drum to match the key of the song
• No time-consuming scrolling through samples, no flams, no phase issues
• Very low CPU usage

Boz Digital Labs Little Foot—Cracking the Code

As every professional mix engineer knows beyond any doubt, you can’t EQ what isn’t there. If a producer tracked a drum kit using a 20″ kick drum with a single-ply resonant head, there’s not going to be very much going on in the sub frequencies. An old trick in the studios to bring out sub frequencies of a kick drum was not EQ, but rather to gate a low-frequency sine wave tuned to the drum’s fundamental to be triggered by the kick and sent to another channel for blending purposes. The combination of natural kick and low-frequency fundamental added “Oomph,” as Boz Digital calls it, without crazy boosts in EQ to eat up headroom.

The standard procedure for sub-bass drops is a tad complicated involving a CPU-hungry virtual instrument channel, aux channel, sidechain gating, busing, pre-fader sends to hear the effect in solo, high-pass filtering, and so forth.

With Little Foot, you get the effect without having to tweak noise gates for attack, hold, and release to get the proper sustain; no going back and forth between sine wave track and kick to check results; and no need for additional plug-ins to tune the sine wave or modify its envelope.

Little Foot lets you do all of that with one simple interface, plus it enables you to individually tune, add sustain, and level-control the “Oomph” signal, and treat the original kick for resonance (which is where the money is on drums). With Little Foot, all you have to do is drop it on your kick drum track and adjust to taste.

Little Foot—Big Easy

Being dedicated to kick drum enhancement greatly simplifies the user interface of Little Foot. Instead of trying to be all things to all low-frequency instruments, Little Foot gives you exactly what you need to craft your kick drum quickly and effectively.

Controls in the Oomph section include Frequency, Sustain, Threshold, and Level. Simply select the sub-harmonic frequency you wish to add, how long it will sustain (short for punch, long for fun), set the threshold to determine when it will kick in (see what we did there?), and set its level (less is more).

The Dry section alongside Oomph is where you dial in the natural sound. It gives you a variable high-pass filter to make room for the sub-drop; a resonance knob that lets you boost slightly above the corner frequency of the HP filter, which prevents the sound from thinning out while eliminating unneeded lows; and finally, a level control to dial in how much dry kick you need.

On the far right of Little Foot is an In/Out level meter and a main level slider in case you get carried away. Beneath these controls is a Reset button in case you lose perspective, and an “About” button, in case you want to meet your maker . . .

Nothing puts the fun back into fundamentals like Little Foot. Download a copy today and get down . . . all the way down.

IGNITE

Ignite mode allows you to dial in rich harmonic distortion in a dynamic way based on the input signal. Ignite can increase the perceived loudness, power and presence of a channel without the pumping effects of a compressor.

More Features:

• Mid/Side, Left & Right Functionality
• Sharp retina display
• Easy to set up. Gives you total control with a user friendly interface. Interactive tool tips can also be activated for even more information.

This product is an individual plugin related to the Parent Plugin: Animate 

Texturize is an inspiring creative tool that adapts to any audio and seamlessly layers dense textures over the original sound. Layer water splashes over hi hats. Add lo-fi vinyl crackle to your piano. Add paper rustling to a snare drum.

Transform any audio by choosing from over 200 original noise sources from retro recording devices, unique foley and organic rainfall, to modular synthesizers and electromagnetic drones. Shape the texture using envelope controls, sculpt the frequency content with high-quality filters, plus import and store your own samples for instant recall. Texturize is a simple and elegant solution to adding texture to any audio.

Transform
Texturize reacts to your audio in realtime, layering your original sound to breathe new life into it. Add rustling leaves to electronic drums to offer a more organic sound, layer reactive vinyl or cassette crackle over your piano for a lofi feel, or add white noise to your melody to help it cut through your mix.

Shape
As audio is passed through texturize, the reactive texture can be shaped around your audio using the plugins ‘rise’ and ‘fall’ controls. Slowly rise to peak volume and slowly fade out, or make it snap with fast rise and fall settings. You can even completely deactivate the shaping controls and solo the texture.

Sculpt
Precise parallel 24db lowpass and highpass filters are included for sculpting the noise sources around your audio. Perfect for reducing sub-harmonics, focusing on high-end crackle or adding depth. You can also adjust the pitch of the texture, perfect for tuning tonal textures to your input.

Texturize Features

• Adaptive envelope follower plugin (vst3/au) with rise and fall controls
• 200+ sounds included with built-in sounds browser
• Sample import with wav, mp3, flac, ogg and aiff formats supported + ‘user’ browser category
• Parallel 24db high-pass and low-pass filters
• Mute the input signal to solo the selected texture
• Deactivate the envelope follower to assist editing or to use texturize as a noise source
• Waveform view for editing start and end points
• Midi control and automation supported
• Plugin window resize functionality
• Native apple silicon support

Over 200 noise sources

We’ve designed a huge quantity of noisy sounds for you to get creative with. Choose from 6 categories – devices, electrowaves, foley, noise, synth fx and tonal.

Sample import

Import your own samples into the user category and recall them for later use in your projects. Import wav, mp3, flac, aiff and ogg formats.

Waveform edit

Sometimes you want to focus on one part of a sample. Easily edit the start and end points of any sample with the built-in waveform window.​

Quick access tools
Mute the audio input to create new and unique rhythmic ideas. Switch off the envelope to use texturize as a noise source or to help you fine-tune the texture to your liking.

Knocktonal is a note-based resonance enhancer, allowing users to boost (or cut) resonances as well as their corresponding harmonic overtones.

Simply put, Knocktonal allows you to tune your drums without the need for destructive re-pitching of samples. Equipped with both Resonance and Subtractive EQ’s, Knocktonal offers complete control over your root notes as well harmonic overtones with up to 30 bands of resonance.

It can be used both statically, or dynamically with separate MIDI input channels for both your additive and subtractive EQ’s.

Knocktonal also has a built-in limiter so you can push your signal as loud as you want for a smooth clean sound. Whether you want to turn your kicks into punchy 808’s, create percussive lead instruments, or simply glue your drums to the key of the song, Knocktonal offers surgical precision over the sound of your drums in the most musical way possible.

Shape your drums with notes, not hertz, the way it’s supposed to be done.

Features:

• Note-based resonance shaping
• Control root notes and harmonic overtones
• Up to 30 bands of resonance
• MIDI input for both EQ’s
• Built in limiter
• Resizable User Interface

FireCobra combines the accuracy of the digital world with the live randomness of the analogue. Behind its simple user interface, there’s more technology than you’d expect.

FireCobra intelligently analyses the audio signal and makes it sound punchier, more powerful and better in general. It makes the mixes better with nearly no time wasted on setting it up.

Just put it on every track you’d like to enhance and set how much. Quick and easy and sounds unbelievable.

Intensify Your Audio Materials

Intensify is the main feature algorithm FireCobra. It intelligently analyzes the input audio and makes the output sound tighter and fuller.

It brings up the drowned and overheard elements that are hard to perceive and attenuates elements, which tend to kill and bury the others. And the best thing is that all it takes is a single knob!

Give it a Smack

The real punch is what you need. Inspired by rare analogue devices the Smack feature creates unique and pleasant harmonic distortion. It makes the audio sound rather dirtier but way more authentic and audible in the mix.

Analogize Your Tracks

The Analogize algorithm is based on a simulation of classic analogue saturation units. Most audio signals benefit from a bit of the analogue warm valve mojo.

CPU-Friendly -Use on Multiple Tracks

Even though the contemporary computers’ performance almost reaches the sky there’s always need to administer it wisely. FireCobra is a highly optimized unit designed to take the most from your CPU and exploit the newest AVX2 and AVX512 architectures.

Realistic 3D Yet Flexible GUI

Photorealistic graphic user interface of the plugin gives you the feeling you are touching the real hardware. But it easily adapts to your needs. You can always drag the arrow in the bottom right corner to change its size – make it smaller to save the valuable screen space, or enlarge it to make it easier to use.

Ridiculously Simple to Use

In most cases, all you need is the DRY/WET knob. Increase its value to get more enhancement and vice versa. Always keep in mind that sometimes less is better and if every track in your mix will be too powerful, the mix will become crowded. But that shouldn’t stop you from experimenting and tweaking your sound the way you wish.

64-bit Audio Quality at ANY Sampling Rate

The plugin provides the maximum audio quality you can get. It uses 64-bit audio processing and can handle any sampling rate. 192 kHz or even higher

Type A is a plugin inspired by a famous vintage tape encoder. The original unit was designed to be a noise reduction system for tape recording (encode stage) and playback (decode stage).

Type A emulates the encode stage, which was often misused as an enhancer, dynamically increasing the top end of a signal without introducing artefacts or altering the harmonic content. The results are similar to a dynamic EQ which adds presence and air to any track in a natural way.

FEATURES:

• Vintage Enhancer
• Multi-band Compressor with 4 Bands
• Adjustable Unit Noise
• Oversample up to 16x
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

You can show/hide the drop-down panel by clicking on the arrow icon in the bottom left corner of the interface.

You’ll get access to:

• Volume for each band
• Compressor Attack and Release
• Noise volume
• VU-Meter source selector

HOW DOES IT WORK?

To limit the amount of noise generated by tape recording, early noise reduction systems used what’s called a multi-band compander (compressor/expander). The unit dynamically emphasizes the high frequencies during the encoding stage (recording to tape), so that during the decoding stage (playback from tape) the signal is attenuated, along with the typical tape noise. Type A emulates the encoding stage only.

The input signal is split into 4 bands (with the highest bands overlapping), dynamically compressed and then summed back with the dry signal. The amount of compression on each band is inversely proportional to the volume of the band. Quieter sounds get brighter while louder sounds remain almost unchanged.

This adds brightness and air without generating any new harmonic content or distortion, resulting in a more pleasant and natural enhancer compared to a typical exciter.

NOISE REDUCTION OR ENHANCER?

Introduced in 1966 with the Dolby A301 first, and then in 1970 with the Dolby 361 (with the CAT 22 card, in photos), the A-Type noise reduction was quickly misused and modded by engineers to enhance their recordings by using the encoding stage only.

The most common mod consists in disabling the two lower bands so that only the high-frequency portion of the signal is compressed, giving even more air to vocals.

This technique was labeled with many names like the Vocal Trick, Stretch Mod, Vocal Stressor, and even the “John Lennon mod”.

Sasquatch 2 is a CPU-friendly kick drum enhancement plug-in that enables you to custom-tailor the sound of any kick drum, acoustic or electronic, with exhaustive creative possibilities, ranging from subtle to extreme and beyond.

Sasquatch 2 is a dedicated kick drum processing plug-in (though that’s not all it can do), that enables you to craft your kick drum sound in accordance with your production needs in any musical genre.

Whether it’s subtle enhancement, massive room-shaking thump, or electronic musical mutation, Sasquatch 2 makes it easy to get the results you want; no option overload, no hours wasted scrolling through Gigs of samples, and no arcane features you’ll never touch. Low end is the crucial part of a modern mix and the most difficult to get under control. If you’ve been struggling to craft a powerful, punchy low end, Sasquatch 2 can give you all that and more in a single, easy-to-use, and affordable plug-in.

Sasquatch 2 – Nature of The Beast

• Craft your kick drum from subtle enhancement to downright musical mutation
• CPU-friendly with straightforward, easy-to-use graphic interface
• Individually tweak and blend “Oomph” (body), “Click” (attack) and “Dry” sound
• Easily create and customize “drops”
• Fine-tuning controls offer a unique set of creative tools for Oomph, Click, and Dry parameters
• Instantaneous triggering; no phase or flam issues
• Selectable trigger modes
• High-pass and low-pass filters with selectable sidechain modes
• A/B comparison plus four levels of “lock” mode lets you experiment and return to original settings
• Icon-based interface for easy visual identification

Modern mixes crave a distinctive tight bass spectrum. MBassador enhances your existing bass content and produces subbass spectrum as well. Pristine musical results within a few clicks.

Make your Bass Audible on Low-End Speakers

Not many people have the access to the studio equipment we use when mixing. That’s especially true when it comes to reproducing bass and subbass spectrum. The first module in MBassador lets you post-process the bass content so that it is stable and tight and contains higher harmonics, so that it is audible even when played on a cheap pair of headphones so many listeners use these days.

Create Deep Sub-Bass so People can Feel the Music

There’s nothing worse than playing your mix on a huge stage with subwoofers just to find out that it’s just not powerful and deep at all – because there’s no sub-bass content. The problem is, it’s almost impossible to actually record sub-bass, because not only it rarely exists in nature, most microphones are just unable to record it. But MBassador can generate it from your existing bass, in a tight precise and musical way.

Features

• The most advanced user interface on the market – stylable, resizable, GPU accelerated
• Unique visualisation engine with classic meters and time graphs
• 4 exceptionally versatile modulators
• 4 multiparameters
• M/S, single channel, up to 8 channels surround processing…
• Automatic gain compensation (AGC)
• Safety limiter
• Adjustable up-sampling 1x-16x
• MIDI controllers with MIDI learn
• 64-bit processing and an unlimited sampling rate
• Extremely fast, optimized for newest AVX capable 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

Silky Smooth Top End Without The Harshness

Oxygen uses a unique process to control & enhance the top-end of any track in your mix, with a smooth & musical character you can’t get from EQ.

Different Oxygen Types

3 different Oxygen types to help you add the exact type of top-end you’re looking for – BITE, PRESENCE and AIR.

Sculpt Your Sound

The built-in compressor has 2 modes. PUNCH mode emphasizes the transients & increases the attack of your top-end. SMOOTH mode gives an overall softened dynamic response for a silky high-end.

The CONTROL knob smartly sets the compression of the algorithm applied to the overall sound.

Add Character

The added harmonics and imperfections in the saturation module allow for a richer, warmer high-end that can be boosted without getting tiring to the ears.

The Side Enhancer found in the stereo version of Oxygen allows you to widen the high-end of your tracks. This can work great on stereo busses, giving extra width and shimmer to cymbals, vocals or other sources. 

Custom Producer Presets

Kickstart your process with over 30 built-in presets from professional producers like Henrik Udd, Max Cameron, Forrester Savell, and more.

Key Features

• At the core of Oxygen lies a smooth crossover filter with three predefined and carefully selected cutoff values, to give Bite, Presence or Air to the sound.
• A compressor that consists of two fine-tuned modes which are targeted specifically to work on high frequencies. And a Control knob that is smartly setting the compression of the algorithm.
• The tape saturation circuit is tuned to work great together with the high frequency parts of a signal. The additional added harmonics and imperfections allow to create a warmer high-end that can be boosted further without getting tiring to the ears.
• The Width found in the stereo version of Oxygen allows to boost the side signal of a sound in a very natural way. This can work great on stereo busses, giving extra width and shimmer to cymbals or other sources.
• Preset system with Producer presets included

Instantly enhance the functionality of your plug-ins and DAW with eleven different signal modification units. Explore new creative possibilities and quickly add missing features.

Each module can easily be inserted, swapped and moved around making new options to correct, convert or tweak your audio.

With eleven single-process modules, SigMod contains many useful, creative functions which are unobtainable or otherwise difficult to engage. Combine these single-process modules in any order to design the precise routing you require. Auto-resizing keeps the signal flow and functionality clear at all times.

Full List of Modules:

• Mid/Side
• Protect
• Mono
• Switch
• Delay
• Phase
• Trim
• DC offset
• Tap
• Mute/Solo
• Crossover

For Your Plugins

Add mid/side functionality to classic stereo compressor and EQ emulations, or get creative with mid/side delays, distortion and many other effects by inserting the mid/side encoder/decoder either side of any left/right plug-in instance.

Insert the Protect unit across your output bus and this safety module will automatically cut in to prevent bursts of noise or feedback howls due to system errors, saving both your nerves and your speakers.

Manual or auto reset options give you the level of protection you need.

Want to try some parallel processing? Drop in the Tap module and you are good to go. Use the Crossover module to split the highs from the lows to apply different effects to different frequency ranges – great for avoiding muddying up the low frequencies or getting creative with automation and sweep effects.

For Your Daw

Several of SigMod’s modules offer easy access to functionality which is either missing from certain DAWs, or at least complicated to access natively. Solo/mute or trim the left and right sides of a stereo signal independently, or easily flip the stereo image in one click. Quickly detect and correct DC offset to retain valuable headroom.

How does your mix sound in mono? Think about how many listeners will be using a phone or a DAB radio with one speaker – the Mono module switches your signal from stereo to mono in one click.

You can also check the phase relationship between your left and right channels with the Phase module.

Very often, an instrument sounds great but feels empty when put in a mix. Myst is an easy way to add depth and thickness to a sound.

The input signal is fed to a chain of slapback delays, colored around one frequency band. The resulting sound is expanded and distorted a little.

This processing chain adds a body to an instrument and adds character.

Myst really stand out when used with bass instruments by making them thicker, but can also be used with leads and pads to add a colored atmosphere.

A broad range of controls are here to help you tailor the sound you need.

• Dry Wet allows you to blend the original signal with the one at the end of the processing chain, while Out Gain controls the output volume.
• Depth controls the number of chained delay units.
• Color sets the amount of post-process distortion and equalization.
• Cutoff controls the frequency of the lowpass filter used to reduce the amount of delay in the high frequencies.

The Holy Grail of Low End plugins

Low Control allows you to quickly dial in a rich, powerful and professional low end that translates across all speakers.

CONTROL

The CONTROL side of the plugin allows you to compress the low frequencies independently from the rest of the signal. Simply dial in the threshold, then select the frequency you want to compress below, then boost back in as much or as little as that controlledlow end as you’d like.

ENHANCE

The ENHANCE side of the plugin allows to add rich harmonic enhancement at a user-defined frequency. Set the frequency slider to lower frequencies for deep sub bass or higher frequencies to help your bass translate to smaller speakers.

The perfect low end from one plugin

Key Features

• Independent low end compression (compresses below the user-set frequency)
• Low end gain to set level of controlled low frequencies
• “Solo Low” allows you to hear only the low frequencies being processed
• Turn on/off the compressor and enhancer independently
• Preset system with factory & artist presets included