Built the resonance tool I actually wanted to use: Pure Amber (Free VST3)

[Niels461]

Pure Amber

Lately I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time fighting with resonance suppressors. You know the situation: you finally get rid of that nasty whistle in a vocal or the boxiness in a snare, but by the time the resonance is gone, the track sounds dull and lifeless.
I know that some plugins offer similar functionality, but the pricing seems excessive to me.

Since this is going to be my last plugin in the spectral realm, I found it fitting to push myself and try something a bit harder under the hood. I also put a lot of work into the UI to go for something that looks and feels a lot more professional.



The whole goal was to make something that snipes the harsh stuff without making the mix sound like a robot processed it. It’s got this "Auto Pilot" engine that actually listens to the track and ignores your transients, so it’s not just blindly hacking away at your drums or the upfront energy of a vocal.

My favorite part is the "Variation" stuff I put in there. If you’ve ever done a deep cut and felt like it left a weird, dead hole in the frequency spectrum, this fixes that. It injects a bit of organic movement back into the suppressed spots so the processing feels alive instead of static and digital. I also messed around with the Mid/Side logic, so instead of just turning the harsh frequencies down, it can actually push them out to the sides to widen the image while keeping your low end pinned in mono.

Anyway, I’m just happy to have it off my workbench and into my sessions. It’s a VST3 for Windows, it’s completely free for KVR users, and it’s ready to go.

Grab it here and let me know if it helps you out, I would really appreciate any feedback you guys have :

Format: VST3 for Windows
Price: Completely free for the KVR community!
Use this code for 100% off: 209VJQI
https://pleatech.gumroad.com/l/PureAmber

[sinkmusic]

Awesome!
Thank you it looks great and seems very useful

[whassup]

Looks good, description sounds good.
It says minimum price is $9.99.

[Niels461]

Looks good, description sounds good.
It says minimum price is $9.99.

The $9.99 is just the minimum price on the page, but the code provided in the post gives 100% off. Just enter the code at checkout and it will reduce the price to $0.

[michal5]

Hi,
How to download this ?
thank you

[michal5]

OK, got it, my adblocker disabled the license and the download. thank you once again

[kernaudioio]

the M/S approach for pushing harshness out to the sides instead of just cutting it is something i've thought about a lot. it's a clever reframe: if the energy is already there, redirecting it spatially is less destructive than attenuation. the tradeoff is that anything already hard-panned or wide in those frequency ranges can get unpredictable, so getting the thresholds right per band matters a lot.

the transient-ignoring detector is the key thing to get right in this kind of processing. most of the artifacts people associate with resonance suppressors come from the detector reacting to attack transients and pulling down fundamental energy on the release. good that you spent time on that.

one question: how are you handling attack/release in the M/S redirector vs the suppressor? same envelope detector or separate?

[loopdon]

Hope the dev can be reached here. How about adding Paypal? I‘d love to get my hands on this.