SurferEQ
Mac OSX
Windows
VST
VST3
Audio Unit
AAX Native
Description
Description
RADICALLY MUSICAL, CREATIVE TIMBRE SHAPER
SURFEREQ is a groundbreaking pitch-tracking equalizer plug-in that tracks a monophonic instrument or vocal and moves the selected bands with the music.
Synthesizer filters can track pitch to preserve the timbre of the sound across the instrument’s voices. However, audio equalizers have always been static. While effective for broad tone shaping and room resonance correction, standard EQs do a poor job of preserving the timbre of a vocal or instrument as the music changes.
This is where SURFEREQ comes in.
SURFEREQ tracks the pitch of a monophonic instrument or vocal source and can adapt the frequencies of its bands to the music in real time, preserving the natural harmonic balance of the sound source and allowing you to shape the source’s timbre to match the notes being played.
RELEVANT TO THE MUSIC
SURFEREQ follows the pitch of a monophonic instrument or vocal in real time and can adjust any of its bands accordingly, effectively “surfing” the sound waves.
SURF ON
Any of SURFEREQ’s seven bands can be set to SURF mode to track the pitch of the instrument or vocal source and adjust its frequency to match the notes being played.
In addition, SURFEREQ’s pitch can be controlled via MIDI notes, making it possible to play its EQ bands using a keyboard, creating a unique timbre-shaping musical instrument.
We have done everything to preserve the size, energy and transients of the sound source while developing SURFEREQ’s filter algorithms (no recipe EQs here!). SURFEREQ’s analog-like, asymmetrical filters sound natural, even when pushed to the limit.
In addition to HIGH-PASS, LOW-PASS, SHELF and BELL-shaped filters, we have developed a unique, four-mode HARMONIC FILTER that makes it possible to control an instrument’s entire harmonic series using just a single EQ band.
SUPERIOR PITCH DETECTION
One of the biggest challenges in designing a real-time pitch detection algorithm is avoiding octave errors while keeping the algorithm efficient enough for real-time processing. We have spent over a year researching and carefully developing an accurate, real-time pitch detection engine with virtually no octave errors.
Features
- Groundbreaking pitch-tracking equaliser
- Original asymmetric, morphing EQ algorithms
- Innovative Harmonic Filter
- Sidechain input enabling external pitch detection
- Spectral Gate (normal and reversed)
- 3-mode MIDI control, including an innovative EQ Instrument mode
- Zero-latency mode
- Spectrum analyser and Spectral Level Meters
- Undo/redo
- 64-bit internal processing
System Requirements
macOS
Windows
