- Publisher: Ircam
- Product: ASAP
- Release: TCD
- Version: 2.0.0
- Format: SAL/AAX/VST3/ARA
The Ircam Lab ASAP v2.0.0 is a comprehensive suite of audio plug-ins designed to push the boundaries of sound manipulation and transformation. This collection offers musicians, sound designers, and audio engineers a powerful set of tools to creatively shape their sounds, providing endless possibilities for both artistic expression and technical precision. With major improvements in usability, interface design, and performance, ASAP v2.0.0 is set to enhance your production workflow like never before.
New Features in ASAP v2.0.0
The latest update of ASAP introduces several groundbreaking features that improve performance, user experience, and integration. Here’s a closer look at the most exciting additions:
- Enhanced Psycho Filter: The update introduces a free drawing mode, offering even greater flexibility in sound sculpting. The energy clipping filter mode and a refined isolation mode provide more precise control over the spectral content of your sound, making it easier to create intricate sonic landscapes.
- Stretch Life with Transient Preservation: Stretch Life now includes an option to enable or disable transient preservation, which helps maintain the integrity of percussive elements while stretching or compressing audio. Plus, the tape mode allows you to stretch or compress without altering pitch, opening up new creative possibilities.
- Whisper/VAX Neural Network Models in Stretch Life: These neural network models allow for more accurate marker generation and automatic voice recognition, making it easier than ever to work with voice and complex rhythmic patterns.
These updates provide an optimized user experience, focusing on improving both creativity and efficiency in your audio production process.
Core Features of ASAP v2.0.0 Plug-ins
The ASAP collection includes a range of plug-ins designed to cater to both creative sound designers and technical audio engineers. From spectral transformations to formant shaping, these tools offer unparalleled control over your sound’s texture, pitch, and dynamics. Let’s explore the core features:
1. Spectral Remix
What It Does:
Spectral Remix allows you to manipulate the harmonic, noise, and attack components of your sound. Whether you want to emphasize or hide background noise, vocals, or percussive elements, this plug-in lets you control the balance of these spectral components, giving you total creative freedom.
Key Uses:
- Emphasize or reduce background noise.
- Isolate specific sound elements such as vocals or percussion.
- Creative sound design by reshaping spectral components.
2. Spectral Clipping
What It Does:
Spectral Clipping expands and compresses the energy of spectral components within a specified threshold. This plug-in helps to silence low-level sounds like background noise while limiting high-energy peaks, such as sharp high-pitched signals.
Key Uses:
- Remove unwanted low-level noise.
- Control and limit high-energy peaks.
- Sculpt your sound’s dynamic range with ease.
3. Spectral Crossing
What It Does:
Spectral Crossing combines the amplitudes and frequencies of two audio sources (a side-chain sound and a main sound) to create a hybrid audio signal. This plug-in facilitates the creative transformation of one sound into another by blending their spectral characteristics.
Key Uses:
- Gradually blend two audio signals to generate a hybrid sound.
- Transform one sound into another by crossfading their spectral components.
- Experimental sound design by mixing phase and amplitude characteristics.
4. Spectral Morphing
What It Does:
Spectral Morphing takes the spectral characteristics of one sound (the side-chain) and applies them to a different sound (the source). This plug-in can be used to create unique transformations, such as making an instrument “speak” by applying the spectral characteristics of a vocal sound.
Key Uses:
- Apply spectral characteristics from one sound to another.
- Create vocal-like qualities in instrumental sounds.
- Experiment with unique timbral transformations.
5. Formant Shaping
What It Does:
Formant Shaping allows you to modify the formant resonances and vowels in a sound, making it perfect for vocal manipulation. You can alter the vowel sounds in a voice or even vocalize instruments like a drum kit.
Key Uses:
- Change the spoken vowels of a voice.
- Transform instruments, such as a drum set, into vocalized sounds.
- Experiment with vocal qualities and resonance shifts.
6. Psycho Filter
What It Does:
Psycho Filter provides an innovative way to manipulate your sound’s spectrogram, allowing you to control specific frequencies and components with precision. With the ARA 2 integration, this filter enables complex surface editing, offering both technical corrections and creative sound transformations.
Key Uses:
- Apply surface filters to reduce or enhance specific parts of the spectrum.
- Compensate for unwanted artifacts in recordings.
- Create complex sound textures and evolve sound elements over time.
7. Pitches Brew
What It Does:
Pitches Brew offers an intuitive interface for pitch and formant manipulation. By modifying frequency curves, you can transpose pitch and formants independently, preserving the spectral envelope and fundamental frequency of your sounds.
Key Uses:
- Transpose pitch without altering timbral characteristics.
- Change formants to modify vocal quality or instrument tones.
- Redraw and manipulate frequency curves for innovative pitch effects.
8. Stretch Life
What It Does:
Stretch Life introduces a revolutionary approach to time-stretching and audio compression. With its intelligent algorithms, this plug-in maintains the pitch of harmonic elements while preserving the random characteristics of noisy sounds. The result is high-quality time-stretching with minimal artifacts.
Key Uses:
- Stretch or compress sound without pitch distortion.
- Synchronize tracks or resample audio with superior quality.
- Create time-based transformations with real-time visual feedback.
ASAP v2.0.0 Compatibility
ASAP v2.0.0 is designed to integrate seamlessly with your digital audio workstation (DAW). The plug-ins are compatible with the following formats:
- VST3, Audio Unit, and AAX formats for real-time use.
- ARA2 Integration for smoother workflows and direct editing within your DAW.
- macOS 10.15 and higher (64-bit), Windows 10 & 11 (64-bit), and Linux (64-bit) compatibility.
If your DAW doesn’t support the ARA2 extension, the Psycho Filter, Pitches Brew, and Stretch Life plug-ins are also available as standalone applications, offering you full flexibility.
Unlock Your Free Sound Transformation Tools!
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to explore the cutting-edge features of ASAP v2.0.0. Download the free versions of Spectral Remix, Spectral Clipping, and Formant Shaping now and start transforming your sound in creative and technical ways. Want even more power? Upgrade to the premium features like Psycho Filter, Stretch Life, and Pitches Brew to take your sound design and production to the next level.
Download ASAP v2.0.0 for Free!
Experience the next evolution in sound manipulation with ASAP v2.0.0. Download now and unlock the future of audio production at your fingertips.
The appmodels are almost a full GB in size. If you plan to offload your asapmodels to another drive or partition than C:, make a folder anywhere you like whether it be Ircam\asapmodels or just in your sample location, such as Samples\asapmodels or Samples\Ircam\asapmodels. Once you placed your asapmodels folder where it permanently will stay, drop a symlink to it inside C:\ProgramData\IrcamThen when you install, it is all already done. You can still do this after install, same as always, if you choose.
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