Signal Processors

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Pitch-correction software has lots of uses besides putting vocals in tune! We uncover the creative roles to which today’s pitch processors can be employed.

Multimedia’s T-Racks mastering suite is a modular program: basic core functionality is free, and users build up a collection of tasty processors by making in-app purchases from the company’s Custom Shop.

McDSP’s SA2 Dialog Processor is based on hardware originally conceived by Academy Award winning re-recording mixer Mike Minkler...

Cobalt Saphira is the first of Waves’ new Cobalt series of plug-ins. It’s an enhancer effect, but one which goes way beyond conventional harmonic enhancers.

Although not as well-known as the classic Fairchild 660, the Telefunken U73b is in many ways its European counterpart.

The first step towards treating room acoustics is identifying the problem areas — and that’s where FuzzMeasure can help.

This intriguing program aims to give your vocals the inhuman touch.

Thanks to the addition of powerful pitch-correction and manual time-warping features, Revoice Pro 3 offers a complete vocal-processing toolkit.

A Waves plug-in based on the original hardware Dbx 160 designed by engineer David Blackmer in the early 1970s.

Acoustic guitar modelling Plug-in.

Whilst PSP’s basic design remains the same, with a graphic display of the overall EQ curve and controls for up to five parametric EQ bands. Almost every aspect has been enhanced in some way or another.

With the VST protocol now supported, more people than ever can use CEDAR’s industry-standard restoration tools.

Can Sonarworks’ calibration plug-in help to make mixing on headphones less of a compromise?

No control room is acoustically perfect, but the right correction system can help to deliver more accurate monitoring.

I discovered this very handy software, created by the makers of AA Translator almost by accident after searching for a way of batch–interleaving pairs of mono WAV files.

Auto-Tune is said to be the biggest-selling plug-in of all time. How does the new version shape up against the competition?

The latest version of iZotope’s RX adds some interesting features — but do they have musical applications?

If your audio is soiled, SoundSoap 4 offers new tools to restore it to gleaming whiteness.

Flux FX is an ambitious iOS effect processor created by guitar legend Adrian Belew and developers. It provides a chain of up to five versatile effects, each with an X-Y pad for performance access, plus a step sequencer for capturing pad motion.