€399.00
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Six intelligent audio plug-ins for EQ, compression, limiting, reverb, gating and de-essing. Speed up everyday mixing with cutting-edge processing.
smart:EQ 4
The intelligent equalizer
Within seconds, our flagship equalizer analyzes your audio and balances frequencies automatically. Clean up tracks, shape tone and create a spacious mix faster.
Define your mix,
refine your tracks
Empower your mix journey
Keeping the mix context in mind
Unlike usual equalizers that leave the context of a mix out of any processing, This intelligent EQ lets you take control over multi-track unmasking processes easily and get spectral mixing done by simple dragging and dropping up to 10 tracks. This set priorities for each smart:filter, bringing some elements to the forefront of the sonic stage, leaving some in the middle, and pushing some into the background. Switching back and forth between instances is a thing of the past in this innovative tool – any instance within the same group can be remotely controlled from any other instance.
The traditional way to mix a project, starting with individual elements and building a mix piece-by-piece, is the bottom-up method for mixing music. This tried-and-tested approach is still possible in smart:EQ 4, with simple control over the character of each channel of a mix thanks to the plug-in’s spectral shaping.
smart:filter technology by sonible
AI-powered equalization for instant spectral balance
The centerpiece of smart:EQ 4 is the smart:filter – it automatically balances the signal based on a target Profile you choose for your tracks. The smart:filter within each EQ instance comes with a range of features to adjust the AI-powered processing to your liking. Open up the smart:filter widget to tweak the Smoothing parameter for gentler filtering and turn up the Adaptive option to smooth out highly dynamic signals. You can split the green weighting curve of the smart:filter and set a certain frequency range to define where the intelligent algorithms should get to work.
smart:EQ 4’s smart:filter can be used in three modes: 'Track' balances the channel; 'Group' doesn’t affect the channel but reduces masking between it and other group members; 'Track and Group' applies balancing to the channel and makes it subject to unmasking.
smart:EQ 4’s smart:filter can be used in three modes: 'Track' balances the channel; 'Group' doesn’t affect the channel but reduces masking between it and other group members; 'Track and Group' applies balancing to the channel and makes it subject to unmasking.
Calibrate the intelligent processing
Profiles for instruments, vocals and entire mixes
With each generation of smart:EQ, the range of available Profiles grew. smart:EQ 4 sports instrument and vocal Profiles that you can use on single tracks or busses. To give your mix a final spectral polish, use one of the genre-based profiles. If you are chasing a certain sound, load up a reference track to create a custom profile and have smart:EQ 4 emulate its spectral character and balance on your channel or buss. By popular demand, now you can even specify the maximum learning time that smart:EQ 4 should use to analyze the input signal.
Dynamic standard filters, Mid/Side processing, Auto gain,...
All the features for expert tweaking
smart:EQ 4 is a highly versatile EQ that has got you covered with every feature you would expect from a pro-grade equalizer. In addition to the smart:filter, smart:EQ 4’s standard EQ bands sport dynamic behavior, offering a Dynamic Filter Widget with familiar compressor-like controls. These Standard EQ bands can be used alongside or instead of the main smart:filter bands for any instance of smart:EQ 4. There is also an Auto Gain Feature to compensate for level changes, comprehensive Mid-Side processing and an analyzer feature that not only shows you the track at hand but all instances that are in the same group.
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FAQ
Before you ask
No, it is not possible to have different plug-in types in a group.
The communication among instances is based on shared processes. As sandboxing avoids this communication, smart:EQ 4 will not work in fully sandboxed DAWs (for now).
During the learning time, smart:EQ 4 listens to your audio signal to compute a smart:filter. The minimum learning time is 6 seconds (of active audio). Per default, the smart:filter is automatically computed when this minimum learning time is over.
If you want smart:EQ 4 to optionally listen for a longer period of time to your signal, you can choose a longer maximum learning time on the settings page. If a maximum learning time larger than 6 seconds is set, you can either retrieve your result at any time after the minimum learning time has expired (by clicking the ”Get result” button) - or you can wait until the maximum learning time has expired.
Hint: Longer learning times can help to give smart:EQ 4 a „bigger picture” of the overall signal. You can also pause learning and jump to another section to continue learning from there.
Depending on its mode, the smart:filter either only tries to fix imbalances of the current track or it also takes potential masking problems with other tracks into account (when part of a group).
In track & group (tr+gr) mode, the smart:filter looks at spectral imbalances of the current track as well as potential masking problems with other group members. This is the default mode for smart:EQ 4.
In track mode, the smart:filter only looks at spectral imbalances and problems of the current track. Potential masking problems with other group members are ignored. Even when the plug-in is a part of a group, you may want to use this mode if you do not want other tracks to have an impact on the sound of a certain track.
In group mode, the smart:filter only checks potential masking issues with other group members, but does not try to fix potential spectral imbalances of the track itself. Therefore, this mode only shows a filter curve if the plug-in is part of a group. You may want to use this mode if you want to stick to the overall sound of track and only want to embed it a bit smoother into a group of multiple tracks.
Voices of the industry
Testimonials
“Whenever a sound isn’t sitting right in the mix, smart:EQ 4 usually solves it in seconds. It’s become a go-to tool in my workflow.”
– Byrd
“It’s insane. This would not have been possible some years ago and now it’s going to change the way we work completely.”
– Paweł Uszyński
“smart:EQ is one of those plugins I genuinely can’t live without anymore. I use it on pretty much every track or bus.”
– Ilian Bluestone
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Read moreFeatures, specs & changelog
The core of your sound
- AI-powered smart:filter for automatic spectral balance in single tracks and busses
- Spectral mixing via drag and drop of up to 10 instances
- Dynamic standard EQ filters
- Adaptive smart:filter for very dynamic signals
- Minimal latency mode
- Mid/Side processing
- Auto Gain compensation
- Instrument, vocal and genre-based Profiles
- Custom Profiles from reference tracks
- Track, Group and Track + Group processing modes
Plug-in Specifications
- plug-in formats (Mac)
- VST, VST3, AU, AAX
- plug-in formats (Windows)
- VST, VST3, AAX
- supported sample rates
- 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz
- authorization
- machine-based or iLok (see FAQ)
- Apple Silicon support
- Native
- Latest version
- 1.1.1
System Requirements
- PC
- Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Mac
- OSX 10.14+
- RAM
- 4GB
- CPU
- Intel Core i5, Apple Silicon
- GPU
- OpenGL Version 3.2+
1.1.1
- warn if group with same name already exists
- various UI fixes and improvements
- fix crash in Harrison Mixbus
1.1.0
- added beatport access licensing
- avoid problems with corrupted preferences after macOS updates
1.0.3
- improved stability and performance of spectral analyzer rendering
- fixed Reaper default preset applying wrong grouping information and causing 'blinking' group bar
- various performance and UI enhancements
1.0.2
- improved behaviour of "dynamic" UI widget
- improved undo/redo behaviour
- fixed analyzer related display issues
- fixed smart:response not displayed correctly in some cases
- fixed filter type issue when re-adding previously deleted filter band
- fixed copying of group information when copying plugin or applying preset
- fixed ghost instances showing up when mixing VST, AU or VST3 in one session
- various performance and UI enhancements
1.0.1
- fixed smart response not applied on exported audio in some instances
- added Pro Tools EQ sum response
- added over indicators
- fixed learning bug in Bitwig 5
- various UI enhancements
1.0.0
- initial release