SpecCraft

Cut narrow, boost wide, and on the fly.

SpecCraft is a next-generation dynamic resonance suppressor, spectrum compressor, and smart EQ that specializes in eliminating the greatest enemy in your mix: unwanted resonances. Whether it’s harsh shrills or muddy booms, SpecCraft identifies them all and dynamically applies matching suppression to every audio frame.

But that’s not all! SpecCraft also fills the void left behind by generating real-time spectrum compensation curves, ensuring no loss of dynamics or artifacts due to resonance suppression. With SpecCraft, your mix remains clean, balanced, and full of life from start to finish.

• Perfected Resonance Suppression: Focus on unwanted resonances. SpecCraft’s concise controls enable quick location and effective suppression through intuitive clicks and drags.

• Real-Time Adaptive Threshold Control: Utilizes an amplitude-based algorithm to continuously find optimal thresholds for resonance suppression, allowing for automated, manual, or hybrid adjustments.

• Self-Adaptive Spectral Compensation: Balances audio by applying narrow Q cuts to remove harsh resonances and broad Q boosts to enhance frequencies, preventing flat sound with dynamic adjustments.

• Dynamics Compensation: Psychoacoustic algorithm restores loudness lost during resonance suppression, maintaining perceived audio energy.

• Formant Boost: Compensates for suppressed resonances to preserve the distinct spectral envelope of sounds, maintaining their character.

• Treble Compensation: Adjusts high-frequency response to maintain presence while reducing harshness, functioning as a de-esser when needed.

• Spectrum Slope: Allows adjustment of the spectrum display from 0 dB/OCT to 12 dB/OCT, ensuring balanced interaction with threshold curves for varying audio content.

• Priority Curve: Offers fine-tuning of processing across frequency bands, enhancing the frequency envelope's precision.

• Profiling: Apply custom frequency response curves as thresholds dynamically, with options for preset profiles or real-time capture.

• Ultimate Sound Quality: Maintains high audio quality standards across all features, ensuring excellence in resonance detection and suppression.

• Zero Delay Feedback Level Detector (ZDF): Delivers superior sound quality with rapid filter changes, enhancing performance for fast percussive sounds and varying sibilants.

• Analog-modeled Resonance Suppression/Compensation: Models classic hardware for a natural, warm tone, transcending typical digital dynamics processing.

Zero Latency Mode

Like many frequency-domain processors, SpecCraft uses linear phase filters by default, making it ideal for mixing. However, real-time applications are just as important! That's why SpecCraft also includes a Zero Latency Mode. When activated, SpecCraft switches to minimum phase filters, enabling zero-latency processing. This makes it perfect not only for mixing but also for live performances, arranging, and other real-time demanding scenarios.

• Lookahead: A longer Attack can preserve more natural transients, but it also risks allowing resonances thereof to escape unprocessed. SpecCraft offers an adjustable Lookahead feature, ensuring that even with minimal Attack settings, musical transients are preserved while resonances are effectively controlled.

• Oversampling: SpecCraft supports switchable 2x, 4x, and 8x oversampling options, effectively eliminating any aliasing.

Flexible Side Chain Controls

• Side Chain Mode: Supports two stereo processing modes: Left/Right and Mid/Side.

• Stereo Linking/MS Linking: The channel linking can be adjusted to process anywhere from 100% stereo linked compression to 100% dual mono compression.

• Side Chain EQ: An 8-band parametric side chain EQ, featuring intuitive controls and extreme customizability powered by the well acclaimed Kirchhoff-EQ.

More Features

• Real-time frequency display
• Side chain monitoring
• External side chain
• Dry mix
• 25+ presets
• Preset selector
• Undo/Redo
• A/B switching
• User-defined default settings
• Customizable behavior settings
• Theme customization
• Resizable GUI
• Full-screen mode
• Extreme CPU optimization
• GPU accelerated GUI
• Apple silicon native support
• MacOS Retina / Windows high-DPI support

With SpecCraft, your mix maintains clarity, balance, and energy from beginning to end.

Mac:

• macOS 11 or higher
• 64 bit
• Intel or Apple M1 CPU
• RAM: 4GB

Windows:

• Windows 8 or higher
• 64 bit
• Intel or AMD CPU with SSE 4.1
• RAM: 4GB