Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, Eventide revolutionized the audio industry in 1975 by creating the world’s first commercially available digital audio effects unit, the H910 Harmonizer. Since then, its legendary studio processors, effects pedals and software plug-ins have been heard on countless hit records.
The culmination of a multi-year effort, SplitEQ works in a fundamentally different way from traditional EQs. It’s a new approach for corrective and creative rebalancing, enhancing, repairing, and widening any musical signal or other audio source. By dividing the incoming audio into separate Transient and Tonal streams, Eventide’s powerful Structural Split engine, effectively changes the perspective on dynamics processing, enabling a more refined and effective approach.
“We’re incredibly proud of what our developers have accomplished. They've built on the Structural Split technology at the heart of our earlier plug-in, Physion, to do something truly groundbreaking: SplitEQ is a fundamentally new type of musical tool,” says Eventide’s founder, Richard Factor.
SplitEQ takes the sound of structure into account. It splits any sound into two streams, mimicking human perception of its tonal and transient elements. After that, users can cut or boost only that part of the sound on which they’re focused. This makes SplitEQ a precise corrective tool but also a new type of creative tool for adding dimension to mixes through its independent Left/Right and Mid/Side panning options.
As one of SplitEQ’s developers, Peter McCulloch, put it: “We can all hear the transient and tonal parts of a sound, shouldn’t our EQs?”
To guide the user visually, SplitEQ features an innovative real-time spectrum analyzer, which becomes helpful as it is possible to solo only the transients, a single band, or only the transients on a single band. This can be used to track down problematic resonances or transients by displaying the tonal and transient streams separately. It's also possible to scale the EQ curves together or independently.
The toolset includes Peak, Notch, Bandpass, High-Shelf, Low-Shelf, Tilt Shelf, High-Pass, and Low-Pass filter types with slopes from 6 to 96 dB/octave, a comprehensive library with over 150 presets, A/B buttons for quick auditioning of two presets or settings, plus Undo/Redo functionality.
SplitEQ is available for Mac and PC in VST, AAX and AU formats for an introductory price of $99 (regular price $179).
www.eventideaudio.com/SplitEQ
