Registered Focusrite hardware customers can access the offer from their Focusrite accounts. The free availability of SurferEQ 2 Boogie coincides with a 25% discount off SurferEQ 2, making the cost only $149, down from the original price tag of $199. We've spent over a year researching and meticulously developing an accurate, real-time pitch-detection engine with virtually no octave errors.From the 29th March to 3rd May, Focusrite has teamed up with Sound Radix to offer a free SurferEQ 2 Boogie plug-in – a version of the SurferEQ 2 plug-in – developed exclusively for Focusrite customers. One of the biggest challenges in designing a real-time pitch-detection algorithm is avoiding octave errors while keeping the algorithm efficient enough for real-time processing. In addition to the HIGH-PASS, LOW-PASS, SHELF and BELL-shaped filters, we've developed a unique, four-mode HARMONIC FILTER which enables to control the entire harmonic series of an instrument using just a single band of EQ.

SURFEREQ's analog-like, asymmetric filters sound natural even when pushed to extremes. We've made every effort to preserve the size, energy and transients of the sound source while developing SURFEREQ's filters algorithms (No cookbook EQs here!). SURFEREQ follows the pitch of a monophonic instrument or vocal in real-time and can adjust any of its bands accordingly, thus 'Surfing' the sound waves.Īny of SURFEREQ's seven bands can be set to SURF mode to track the pitch of the instrument or vocal source and adjust its frequency relative to the notes being played.įurthermore, SURFEREQ's pitch can be controlled via MIDI notes, allowing its EQ bands to be played using a keyboard, thus creating a unique timbre-shaping musical instrument. SURFEREQ tracks the pitch of a monophonic instrument or a vocal source and can adapt its bands' frequencies relative to the music in real-time, maintaining the natural harmonic balance of the sound source and making it possible to shape the source's timbre relative to the notes being played. While being effective for broad tone-shaping and room resonance correction, standard EQs do a poor job at maintaining the vocal or instrument's timbre as the music changes.

However, sound equalizers have always been static. Synthesizer filters can track the pitch to maintain the timbre of the sound throughout the instrument's voices. SURFEREQ is a ground-breaking pitch-tracking equalizer plug-in that tracks a monophonic instrument or vocal and moves the selected bands with the music.

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