yet another echo device plug-in? Yes but there’s no other one with all these features.

Ducking
Rhythm preserving ping-pong modes
Modulation
Saturation and Distortion
EQ
High pass and low pass filters
Undo/Redo and A/B comparsion

Together with Mondstein Records we started to build a simple delay with Ducking.
This feature allows you to add loud echos without losing the presence of the source signal. Use it e.g. to avoid an articulation loss.

Then we found all the other useful features including the “rhythm preserving ping-pong” which obviously has never been realised before.
Also apparently no other delay plug-in even offers an EQ for the delayed material.

So in the end DuckDelay became this outstanding delay plugin. Probably the best you can get actually.

Homepage https://www.ismism.de/DuckDelay

SpectraLayers is a new approach to audio editing, with new concepts to transform the way you work. For the first time you can directly edit spectral data, opening advanced sonic worlds, and use innovative enhancements to traditional techniques. Visualize audio in astonishing new ways, including 3D. Work with mixes like they were tracks. Integrate these abilities into your DAW and other tools. And all in a familiar interface that you didn’t realize you already knew.

Major features:
Your new AI partner
Just as audio engineers focus on separating increasingly fine details in sound, the new AI in SpectraLayers Pro 7 uses algorithms to learn from the data flowing through its built-in neural network. In the same way that these algorithms can now accurately determine how to apply color to a black and white photograph, the AI in SpectraLayers Pro can sense discrete events in a sound field and isolate them on independent, colorful layers for processing. AI is changing faster than its history can be written — be at the leading edge with SpectraLayers Pro 7.

Unmix – Tracks to stems
This AI-assisted process in SpectraLayers Pro scans the finished file of a song, allowing you to “unmix” it and extract the different instruments to separate layers, with default settings for vocals, piano, bass, drums, and more. (SpectraLayers Elements allows extraction of vocals only.)

Unmix – Components
Unmix stems into tone, noise and transient component layers. Reconstruct missing noise hidden by tones and transients. Comprehensive learning algorithms clear the path to clean extraction.

Pattern finder
Significant advances in pattern recognition are a hallmark of today’s rapidly evolving AI technology. SpectraLayers Pro 7 allows you to select a target sound and then trigger a search to automatically locate and select every other similar sound in the spectrum.

Voice Denoiser
Perfect for cleaning up location interview recordings, the Voice Denoiser algorithm is trained to recognize and isolate the human voice. You can automatically attenuate everything but the voice for maximum intelligibility.

De-esser
Spectral de-essing is the most precise and least invasive way to tame and shape vocal sibilants. Manual de-essing in SpectraLayers Pro has always been quick and easy. Now, the new automatic de-essing feature makes it even easier. Manual or automatic — either approach is far more accurate than typical waveform-based plug-in processing.

Compatibility: MacOSX; AAX, VST3-ARA2, SAL
Homepage https://new.steinberg.net/spectralayers/

Even though the laws of thermodynamics long ago ruled out the possibility of a perpetual motion machine, EZkeys Hybrid Harp comes very close. The laws of physics may still apply, but fact remains that this peculiar ‘machine’ has an inherent mojo that seems to make sure you’re never short of ideas. It literally runs and feeds off of you and your own imagination.

EZkeys Hybrid Harp presents five individual instruments, all layered, textured and saturated in various capacities to form unique and never-before-heard hybrids of sounds. The undisputed star of the group is an iconic Style 23 harp. In addition to this, a traditional Swedish nyckelharpa (or “keyed fiddle”), two harmoniums, a bowed glockenspiel and a set of ocarinas were sampled. Combined, this seemingly odd group of instruments – that in logical terms have no earthly business sharing the same sonic space – culminate in what must be described as a vastly puzzling audio universe of plucking, percussive, soaring, airy, beautiful and ever-so-slightly dissonant sounds.

Welcome to one of the most multifaceted EZkeys titles yet – one that will trigger parts of your creative mind you didn’t know existed. These are sounds ideal for anything you can imagine. Literally

FEATURE SPOTLIGHT.
Five types of individually captured instrument types: a harp, a nyckelharpa, two harmoniums, ocarinas and a bowed glockenspiel
Each instrument can be called up individually using the ‘Raw Tweaks’ presets
In excess of 40 mix-ready presets, offering creative instrument blends of never-before-heard hybrids of sounds
For any type of music or production – ideally ambient soundscapes, scores and sound design

Homepage https://www.toontrack.com/product/ezkeys-hybrid-harp/

Universal audio editor Steinberg WaveLab is a powerful tool for professional editing, restoration of audio files, editing of high-resolution audio recordings. The software has a wide range of users – from amateurs to recording professionals and is distinguished by the highest sound quality. The editor works under 64-bit Windows operating systems with standard MIDI controllers such as Steinberg CI, CMC, CC121.

In terms of its functionality, WaveLab surpasses many audio processing programs. The editor provides fast conversion of audio files due to batch processing, creation of backup copies and creation of playlists, development of author’s projects for Audio CD and DVD, as well as the unique ability to add sound effects to an audio file right at the time of its playback.
The open architecture of the program allows users to supplement it with new useful functions.
Steinberg WaveLab Elements is the core product of the WaveLab family, providing an impressive set of instruments that will surely meet your requirements while seamlessly integrating into your home studio.

Homepage https://new.steinberg.net/wavelab/compare-editions/