Zqueezer

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Easy Squeezy

As producers, we're all looking for that particular something, a simple method for taking sounds beyond their basic forms and enhancing them. Some of us do that by employing complex chains of plugin FX, or even by routing audio through other devices. Zqueezer is an unique approach to give your synths, bass lines, and vocals a distinctive flavor.

Well, this is a challenging plugin to describe. In all honesty, you're probably better off ignoring the science and just downloading Zqueezer and giving it a go to hear all the twisted squelchy bliss for yourself. Zqueezer can act as a kind of "adaptive filter" when used with monophonic source audio by squeezing the sound while emphasizing harmonics and creating a formant-shifting effect. Zqueezer manipulates the overtones for more nuanced polyphonic material, creating a more interesting mix of partial tones and intermodulations. Sounds crazy, huh? It is!

Features

• Squeezed filtering like you’ve never heard before

• Adaptive output derived from complex rendering

• Adjustable Overtone to isolate flageolet tones

• Dry / Wet dial

• Visual feedback

Overtone

This is where Zqueezer shines, with this control assigned to select and isolate the flageolet overtones of the signal. As the dial is pushed up, increasingly fierce results are heard with squeezed frequencies that rise in pitch. As this parameter is increased you’ll hear individual overtones and at extreme values the pitch-shifting effect is similar to a band-pass filter but with far more complexity in the harmonics. Because the filter coefficients keep changing and are derived from the waveform of the sound itself, the filter constantly adapts to the audio.

Gain

Although seemingly simple, this control boosts the “brilliance” of the signal. It corrects amplitude at the output, which is useful for higher fraction values. Think of this control as amplitude correction or normalisation, as it’s very useful when balancing the source audio against the squeezed and squashed version of itself.

Dry / Wet

For creative purposes it’s useful to be able to mix the waveforms that Zqueezer creates with the original source audio. Use the dry / wet knob for this and conjure every kind of processing from subtle brightening, to full-on mangled and harmonically distorted strangulation.

Presets

With many included presets, it’s easy to find the perfect way to squeeze your audio. These factory options can be used on guitars, bass, drums, synths and vocals. The presets include everything from subtle transformations to full-on strangled mutations.