United Plugins has announced FireSpacer from FireSonic, a plug-in for creating ‘space’ in a mix.
FireSpacer analyses the frequency content of a DAW track real time, and applies an intelligent filter to subtract those frequencies from another to ensure that each instrument or voice is unchallenged in the mix. The degree of processing is determined by the Amount control.
Firespacer it includes four processing algorithms that offer a different sound treatments. Spectral algorithms are more accurate, but exhibit latency and require more CPU power, possibly, while low-latency algorithms use minimum phase filters, which have a broader effect, so are less accurate and may remove more frequencies that do not need to be removed.
The plug-in provides advanced tweaking options all aimed at creating space in a mix – Min Freq controls the minimum frequency to be processed so all frequencies below that will be ignored which is useful for limiting the spectrum range to be affected; Max Freq controls the maximum frequency to be processed so all frequencies above that will be ignored, which is also useful for limiting the spectrum range to be affected; Release controls how quickly the attenuated frequencies increase the level when they stop colliding with higher values giving less transparency but is more effective at collision removal; Release is only useful for spectral modes and controls how precise FireSpacer is at targeting clashing frequencies with maximum accuracy removing only frequencies that are almost identical and, conversely, minimum accuracy removing even frequencies, which are further from each other.
FireSpacer is available as an AAX, AU, VST and VST3-compatible plug-in (using internal 64-bit audio processing capable of handling any sample rate). A fully-functional trial version for macOS 10.10 and newer and Windows 8/10/11 can be downloaded for free.
