EDIT: By request just adding the link to website directly up here https://kernaudio.io/
some of you might have seen the beta tester thread i posted a while back. wanted to let you know that SMOOTH and WARM are now officially released, and WIDE is in closed beta. you guys have been absolutely amazing, helpful and the best testers in the world.
quick rundown:
SMOOTH: dynamic resonance suppression. 40 ERB bands, spectral processing, finds and tames harshness across the spectrum. one knob gets you most of the way there.
WARM: harmonic saturation with three characters (tape, tube, transformer). Chebyshev waveshaping with alias-free processing. not just a drive knob on a clipper.
WIDE (beta): psychoacoustic stereo expansion. allpass decorrelation, Haas delays, M/S processing. mono-compatible width.
all three share the same architecture: FFT spectral engine, 40 ERB bands, real-time spectral display, under 3% CPU. five knobs max per plugin. VST3 + AU on macOS (Windows coming but VST3 works fine on Windows).
$29 each. no iLok. no subscriptions. permanent license. free demos on the site.
bit of background: i'm jonas, a former touring musician from copenhagen. had to stop performing due to illness (cancer) a few years back, and spent three-four years learning C++ and DSP from scratch. read a lot of papers, built a lot of prototypes, threw most of them away. these three plugins are the result.
i'm a one-person operation, so any feedback is genuinely valuable to me. if you try the demos and have thoughts, i'd love to hear them - good or bad, i need to learn and improve as much as possible.
kernaudio.io
thank you all, and thanks to all the amazing testers in here, you know who you are
