Tracktioneers - recommend your fave spectrum analysis plugin

[rockstar_not]

I'm looking for either a freebie or less than the cost of Tracktion plugin that does spectrum analysis as a plugin.

I use Tracktion for music at home, and for vehicle sound simulation for one of the American carmakers - where I basically take recordings of various sources of vehicle noise, and simulate driving operating conditions by turning these sources on/off, etc.

I'd like to view an FFT spectrum of the signal as it's being tweaked. I'm not concerned about latency.

I actually use some fairly sophisticated audio analysis software from Head Acoustics, but one thing they lack is a 'mixer' type function.

So, does anyone have a recommendation for this? It needs to be a 'live' analysis - so using freebies like Audacity or Goldwave, which both have spectrum analysis on existing files, won't cut it for me.

Thanks,

Scott

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

I think Elemental Audio's Inspector will do what you need. Check here...


http://www.elementalaudio.com/products/ ... index.html

Useful, it is. And free! The download is 5.1MB because it has demo versions of two other EAS plugins, but it's worth the time just for Inspector.

[rockstar_not]

Thanks Woolyloach.

If I had some fish food flakes, I'd send 'em your way.

[P.T.]

CPlugs at;

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage ... hitehurst/

Also, Voxengo span which is also free.

[IIRs]

Another vote for inspector.

Its not so much the RTA I use it for these days, as the level metering: having a peak meter superimposed on an RMS meter is really useful when judging how much compression to use at the mastering stage..

[Rock Hardbuns]

Voxengo span serves me very well too.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Thanks Woolyloach.

If I had some fish food flakes, I'd send 'em your way.

Thanks - I'm stuffed on Tetra Bits right now, though.

[IIRs]

CPlugs at;

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage ... hitehurst/

Also, Voxengo span which is also free.

Just grabbed the CPlugs, as I've been wanting a good stereo meter.. unfortunately as soon as I inserted a C_SuperStereo in my mix bus I got a memory access violation warning and a total Tracktion lock-up.

Use at your own risk people!!

SPAN is cool though, I'd missed that one.

[koolkeys]

Another vote for Inspector. Great plug with lots of options and meters.

Koolkeys

[djsubject]

waves PAZ analiser is good but to costly inspector is verry good for free & check the demo EQ's aswell, there sexy as f**k (in a sound sort of way)

if dont beleave me ask vally

[P.T.]

CPlugs at;

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage ... hitehurst/

Also, Voxengo span which is also free.

Just grabbed the CPlugs, as I've been wanting a good stereo meter.. unfortunately as soon as I inserted a C_SuperStereo in my mix bus I got a memory access violation warning and a total Tracktion lock-up.

Use at your own risk people!!

SPAN is cool though, I'd missed that one.

It must be system specific.

It works fine on my machine in Tracktion.

[ricupad]

another vote for inspector, the feature list says it all:

Spectrum analyzer
- Peak or Average
- Fast or Slow
Customizable alarms for:
- Headroom
- Channel balance
- Number of times audio waveform is clipped
- Number of consecutive samples clipped
- Total number of clipped samples
Peak meters
RMS meters
Channel balance meter
Customizable meter caution and warning zones
Headroom displays/readouts
Clip counters/readouts
Supports sampling rates up to 192 kHz
Altivec/Velocity engine optimizations
Multi-processor/Advanced multi-processor (AMP) capable

[johnsholme]

weird, but i use samplitude 7.23a. I've been a samp. user since version 2.5... samplitude is going to a dongle setup, so i'm abandoning it for my new love T2 AND not to stray from the topic... i realize samp is anything but a free plugin, but thats' what i use, works great!

[muser]

Yet another vote for Inspector. One aspect I appreciate particularly is its small and efficient GUI, which takes up very little space but gives you lots of info.

[AD80]

Inspector.