soundmagic spectral FOR MAC OS X  

b0.5 ©2007 Michael Norris

 

ABOUT

SoundMagic Spectral is a FREEWARE suite of 23 Audio Unit plug-ins that implement real-time spectral processing of sound. This groundbreaking set of effects give you unprecedented control and creativity in the processing of audio, whether from static audio files or live audio streams. SoundMagic Spectral builds on the work of the OS 9 software known as SoundMagic DSP, and takes it to even more exotic sonic realms.

 

 

 

COMPLETE EFFECTS LIST

Included in SOUNDMAGIC SPECTRAL are the following plug-ins:

Spectral Averaging • Spectral Bin Shift • Spectral Blurring • Spectral DroneMaker

Spectral Emergence • Spectral Filterbank • Spectral Freezing • Spectral Gate and Hold

Spectral Gliding Filters • Spectral Granulation • Spectral Harmonizer • Spectral Partial Glide

Spectral Pitch Shift • Spectral Pulsing • Spectral Shimmer • Spectral Shuffle

Spectral Stretch • Spectral Tracing

Chorus • Comb Filter Bank • Grain Streamer • Idee Fixer • Mr Filterbank

 

 

 

DOWNLOAD

Click here to download SoundMagic Spectral Beta 5 Universal Binary

 

 

 

AUDIO EXAMPLES GALLERY

(Please note: there may be a pause of a few seconds after you press the buttons before the soundfiles begin playing)

 

ORIGINAL SOUNDFILES:

Badinerie from Bach's Suite in B Minor

Female Initiation Song from the Central African Republic

 

SOUNDFILES PROCESSED WITH SOUNDMAGIC SPECTRAL:

Badinerie with Spectral Blurring Badinerie with Spectral Filterbank Badinerie with Spectral Dronemaker Badinerie with Spectral Freezing Badinerie with Spectral Gate & Hold Badinerie with Spectral Granulation Badinerie with Spectral Harmonizer Badinerie with Spectral Shimmer Badinerie with Spectral Shuffle Badinerie with Spectral Partial Glide Badinerie with Spectral Stretch Badinerie with Spectral Tracing Badinerie with Spectral Emergence

Initiation Song with Spectral Bin Shift Initiation Song with Spectral DroneMaker Initiation Song with Spectral Gate & Hold Initiation Song with Spectral Gate & Hold 2 Initiation Song with Spectral Gliding Filters Initiation Song with Spectral Granulation Initiation Song with Spectral Granulation 2 Initiation Song with Spectral Harmonizer Initiation Song with Spectral Pitch Shift Initiation Song with Spectral Pulsing Initiation Song with Spectral Shimmer Initiation Song with Spectral Stretch Initiation Song with Spectral Tracing Initiation Song with Spectral Tracing 2 Initiation Song with Spectral Emergence

 

 

 

VERSION HISTORY

Beta 5: • fixed a crash in Spectral Stretching • fixed a crash in Spectral Pulsing • added some nice pulsing effects and delay vs. freq parameter to Spectral Gate & Hold • added some new options to Spectral Tracing for retaining/removing at different ends of the loudness spectrum • added a new "variance quantization" parameter to Spectral Stretching, allowing for interesting pitch variation effects • Idee Fixer now passes auval • made the default "Randomize Phases" settings more appropriate to each effect

Beta 4: Fixed some serious bugs with Spectral Dronemaker and Spectral Emergence. Added bin shift to Spectral Gate & Hold

Beta 3: Some new envelope possibilities in Spectral Gate & Hold, new plug-in "Idee Fixer"

Beta 2: Now validates correctly with auval, which means it can run in Logic; some code optimization across the board

Beta 1 UB: Now compiled as Universal Binaries

Beta 1: First beta release

 

 

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 and a G4, G5 processor or Intel Mac.

 

An Audio Unit host (one of):
Ableton Live (4.0 or higher)
Amadeus
Apple GarageBand
Apple Logic Pro (or Emagic Logic 5.5.1 or higher)
Apple Logic Express
Apple Soundtrack (version 1.10 or later)
Apple Soundtrack Pro
Arizona AudioXplorer
Audiofile Engineering Wave Editor
BIAS Peak, Peak LE, and Peak DV 4.0 or higher, and Peak Pro
Celemony Melodyne 2.0 or higher
DSP-quattro 1.2 or higher
Freeverse Sound Studio 3.0 or higher
Illposed Ouroboros (free beta)
Intuem (2.0.1 or higher)
Max/MSP (using au~ external available from my website)
Metro (6.0 or higher)
MOTU Digital Performer (version 4.1 or higher; best with 4.52 or higher)
Numerology (version 1.2 or higher?)
Plogue Bidule
Rax (free beta)
Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack Pro
Freeverse SoundStudio3
SynthTest
TC|Works Spark XL and Spark LE (2.8 or higher)
WaveBurner

 

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