Elevayta 'FreEq Boy' - V2.02 - Transferable Licence!

[Space Boy]

A new update of ‘FreEq Boy’ is available!

Version 2.02 includes the following improvements:

• Transferable License!
• Improved compatibility with a variety of hosts.
• Improved frequency display and button response.
• Fix on presets not being remembered between sessions in some hosts.

'FreEq Boy' is a windows based VST plug-in that provides the functionality to capture, store, merge and apply EQ curves from different audio sources. 'FreEq Boy' also allows freehand drawing of stereo EQ curves and, in this new version, the possibility to import user defined stereo EQ curves from a simple text file description. So, if you are into designing your own EQ curves, this is the tool for you.


If you didn’t yet try 'FreEq Boy' then a demo (v1.07) can be downloaded via the Elevayta web site or the following link:

Download 'FreEq Boy' from Share-it!

The download is fully working for 14 days. Full instructions are included (full features, amd much lower CPU usage, are available to registered users only).

If you are not familiar with ‘FreEq Boy’ then consider some of the features:

’FreEq Boy’ features.

• Capture, save and merge EQ curves from different audio sources.
• Multiple EQ capture memories (4 Presets).
• Draw EQ curves completely freely using the mouse.
• Export and Import user defined EQ curves from ASCII text files.
• Auto save and reload of last EQ curve.
• Full Wavelab compatibility.
• See/hear the audio signal conform in real-time.
• Independent, or linked, left and right channel EQ curves.
• User variable/high res. FFT convolution engine.
• Store/retrieve individual EQ curves.
• Fully latency compensated and PDC compliant.

[ezeeboogie]

Cheers!

I love your plug ins! The new features look very cool! I'll have to check out the ASCII text file business!

As usual, another top update!

Any news on what's going to happen to Choir Boy?

[Hengy]

has the update been sent out to registered users?

[Space Boy]

has the update been sent out to registered users?

The update has been sent out to those that purchased a license for FreEq Boy. This does not include those that received FreEq Boy for free as part of the offer I had on Clone Boy and Wider Boy Pro.

If you got FreEq Boy free with Clone Boy or Wider Boy Pro, and you are interested in the update then just drop me an email.

[Hengy]

ahh of course , thanks for clearing that up

[kylen]

bump...

I guess I missed the significance of this tool when this update came out. After purchasing the very reasonable license ($12 US greenbacks) I put FreEQ to use in my ongoing listening tests. In another thread someone was looking for steep filters and I got turned on to FreEQ - since I've been dabbling with multi-band crossovers both wide and narrow this looked like a good tool to try. Let me tell you - you can make a steep filter with this guy, like >100dB/octave if I had to guess (and I'm guessing), and there is no distortion or nasty stuff happening at the crossover points I've created - just pure sound till you hit the crossover and fall off of a 100dB cliff.

Anyway - formerly I had to do this inside Adobe Audition with the Frequency Band Splitter which was an off-line operation and you can't hear what you're doing and you have to render the splits, etc.

Now for my listening setup I have 7 tracks of the same mix and FreEQ inserted into each track for lowpass, bandpass and hipass filtering. This gives me the ability to solo subbass, bass, lomid, himid, presence, lotreble, hitreble bands and hear whats in those bands - or mute them and hear what that removes from the entire mix. Since the slopes are so steep it's pretty clear what a band contributes to the entire sound now. Very cool !!!

Why don't I just use a normal eq and sweep - yech I never did like that resonant view of life...only when I have to. FreEQ has a steep bandcut notch sweeper too - maybe in the future a steep (non-resonant)bandpass sweeper would find it's way in FreEQ Boy!

Anyway - this is just one example of what to do with FreEQ - for those of us who want to hear inside complex mixes but there are too many other frequencies in the way...

Nice Tool Paul!

PS: I'm using Sonar4 as a host which has PDC for plugin latency delay compensation. I don't know if that matters or not for my listening tests - just thought I'd mention it.

[declassified]

Nice review! Why not post it as a review?

I just ordered a FreEq license I had to enter a challenge code and it sais the code is "hardware-specific" so I assume that when I reinstall windows, the code will be the same. Am I right? After all, Windows is software, isn't it?

And, how many times can I change the challenge code, for example when I add a new soundcard to my computer...?

[Space Boy]

I just ordered a FreEq license I had to enter a challenge code and it sais the code is "hardware-specific" so I assume that when I reinstall windows, the code will be the same. Am I right? After all, Windows is software, isn't it?

I am converting the 'FreEq Boy' license to a transferable license this weekend. By tomorrow, I will have a version that you can install as many times as you like and on as many PCs as you like (using a single license key).

'FreEq Boy' will then be in-line with all my other plug-ins that now have a fully transferable license.

Paul

[declassified]

Nice!

Post #666 btw

[Space Boy]

Kylen

A tip on making sharp bandpass filters using the ASCII file import.

Let's say (for example) that you want a band-pass filter from 500 Hz to 1800 Hz. First set the 'EQ Window' to the highest resolution (12 is highest but you can also use lower if is suits your needs).

Next open a .txt file in notepad and type the following:

Code: Select all

0.0 0.0 0.0
500.0 0.0 0.0
500.0 1.0 1.0
1800.0 1.0 1.0
1800.0 0.0 0.0
20000.0 0.0 0.0

Now save the file.

Go to the Export/Import page in 'FreEq Boy' and set the import option to 'Rational' (see below):


Now click 'Import EQ' and load the .txt file you just created.

Viola! your band pass filter is available in 'FreEq Boy' (as shown above). You can make a separate .txt file for each band you want to extract.

Now, you can save the band-pass you just made as a Preset. You can also use each of the 4 EQ banks, make a different band-pass for each bank and save all banks as a single Preset.

[kylen]

Thanks Paul - that's very cool I was doing it a different way - I won't mention the harder way since this is mucho easier!

Why did you choose Rational for the import?

[Space Boy]

Thanks Paul - that's very cool I was doing it a different way - I won't mention the harder way since this is mucho easier!

Why did you choose Rational for the import?

There are 4 options for import (Direct, Spline, Poly and Rational). They all treat the data in a different way.

• 'Direct' assumes that you have explicitly defined all of the frequencies and all of the amplitudes from 0 Hz to 20 kHz.
• 'Spline' takes a sparse list of frequencies and amplitudes and performs a spline interpolation between them.
• 'Poly' performs polynomial interpolaton instead of spline.
• 'Rational' is like a 'join-the-dots', so you only need to define the transition points for the filter.

This is why you need to use 'Rational' in the example above.

Paul

[kylen]

Thanks Wide Boy - that makes sense ! Nice curve manipulation features BTW...

[Space Boy]

As promised, 'FreEq Boy' has been updated to V2.02.

Version 2.02 includes the following improvements:

• Fully Transferable License!
• Improved compatibility with a variety of hosts.
• Improved frequency display and button response.
• Fix on presets not being remembered between sessions in some hosts.

For more details, see the top of this thread.

Paul

[declassified]

Cool!

I already bought it, but the license hasn't yet arrived.

I'm curious how the CPU load will be compared to 1.7