IRCAM ASAP v1.2.1 x64 VST VST3 AAX AU WiN macOS LiNUX [FREE]

FREE | WiN/macOS/LiNUX | 38MB/161MB/60MB
AudioSculpt As Plug-ins - A set of audio plug-ins that allows transforming sound in a creative way.


ASAP is a set of audio plug-ins that takes over and adapts some of the features of AudioSculpt in order to be used in digital audio workstations. You are invited to play with the sound representation and the synthesis parameters in order to generate new sounds. The plug-ins can also be used in order to correct the defaults of the sound and to improve audio rendering. Thanks to the ARA2 integration, the spectral transformations are integrated into your editing workflow. The plugins are based on the SuperVP audio engine developed by the Ircam analysis-synthesis team.

The ASAP plugins set contains:
• Spectral Remix [Free]: The plug-in allows you to control the balance of the harmonic, noise, and attack components of the sound. Beyond many original approaches, the plug-in can be used to highlight or hide certain audio elements and characteristics such as background noise, vocals, percussive sounds, and so on.

• Spectral Clipping [Free]: The plug-in allows you to expand and compress the energy of spectral components within a range of thresholds. It can be used to silent low-level sounds such as background noise or to limit high energy peaks such as high-pitched bird calls.

• Spectral Crossing [Premium]: The plug-in allows you to cross the amplitudes and frequencies of a source sound and of a side-chain sound to generate a hybrid sound. The plug-in can be used to creatively interpolate and transform one sound into another by gradually mixing the phase and amplitude components of the two audio signals.

• Spectral Morphing [Premium]: The plug-in allows you to apply the spectral characteristics of a side-chain sound to a source sound in order to transform its timbre. By using a voice sound as the side-chain on an instrument sound as the source, spectral morphing can be used to make the instrument speak.

• Formant Shaping [Premium]: The plug-in allows you to modify the vowels and play with the formant resonances of the sound. It can be used to change spoken vowels of a voice or to vocalize instruments such as a drum set.

• Spectral Surface [Premium]: The plug-in allows you to draw shape filters on the sound spectrogram and to control their gain and the fades. The sound representation and the effect interface, made possible thanks to the ARA 2 plug-in extension, allow the creation of very complex and precise surface filters to reduce or increase specific parts of the spectral components of the sound. The plug-in can be used to compensate for annoying artifacts in the sound as well as to transform the sound creatively.

• Pitches Brew [Premium]: The Pitches Brew plugin allows you to transpose the pitch and the formant of sounds by drawing and modifying their frequency curves. The pitch transposition modifies the fundamental frequency of the sound while preserving its spectral envelope and the formant transposition modifies the spectral envelope of the sound while preserving the fundamental frequency. Based on the ARA extension, the plugin offers a visual representation of the original fundamental frequencies, the expected pitches, and the formants with curves allowing many original editing such as redrawing, transposing, stretching, copying, and so on.

• Stretch Life [Premium]: The Stretch Life plugin allows you to stretch and compress sound in creative and original ways. Thanks to an intelligent algorithm, resulting from many years of work and experimentation, the temporal transformations offer an exceptional rendering quality by preserving the pitch of the harmonic components of the sound and the random characteristics of the noisy parts. Thanks to the ergonomic interface allowing real-time visualization of the transformations on the spectrogram, the plugin opens up new creative and original possibilities. The many marker editing operations provide fast and efficient solutions for sound engineers to synchronize tracks, resample audio files, and more.

Version notes (ASAP) -
- Fix: Pitches Brew - Crash when the temporal zoom is very important ~10ms (#220)
- Fix: Stretch Life - Stretch Life - The constant stretch defined by the host is not supported (#219)
- Fix: Pitches Brew - The F0 analysis score should correspond to the estimated periodicity rather than the confidence value (#217)
- Fix: The authorization window hides the file browser window (#195)
- Fix: ARA - The plug-in view mode accessibility is not always consistent with host support and plug-in instance context (#194)
- Fix: ARA - The playing state is not well updated when used as region Fx in Reaper (#180)

The plug-ins are available in the VST3, Audio Unit and AAX formats (with the ARA extension for processing that requires entire audio information) and are compatible with macOS 10.13 and higher 64bit (Universal 2 - Intel/Silicon), Windows 10 & 11 64bit and Linux 64bit.