zplane development has just released PEEL, a new spectral isolator EQ plugin designed to enable producers and musicians to get inside their audio recordings and isolate, mute or process single instruments or vocal performances from audio recordings. We have the details.
What Is PEEL From zplane?
zplane tell us that PEEL was inspired by the Focus EQ in their music learning software deCoda, a software tool to help musicians learn new songs very quickly. The Focus EQ helps musicians isolate the parts that they want to learn.
Tim Flohrer, CTO and co-owner at zplane told us…
“deCoda users really liked the Focus EQ and we started thinking we could develop it further for music production too. The ability to solo, mute and process instruments and vocals from existing audio recordings opens up for countless creative possibilities and we can’t wait to see what music producers will do with it.”
Aside from isolating or muting sounds, PEEL also has secondary outputs where the sound that’s been taken out of the mix can be routed to. This feature will enable producers to mute a vocal performance in a recording and then route it to another audio track in their DAW for further processing, like level, pan and effects without affecting the rest of the audio recording. Or it could be isolating the snare from a drum loop and then adding reverb just to the snare.
PEEL is also useful as a mix visualizer. Its spatial-frequency display will give a visual indication of many common problem areas in a mix.
Zplane PEEL System Requirements
OS: Mac OS 10.7 or later, Windows 7 or later
Screen minimum resolution: 1280x800
Min CPU 1.5 GHz
A Host application that supports VST/VST3/AU/AAX plugins
Note that not all DAWs support sending audio from PEEL’s second output to its own audio track.
DAWs that support this feature include…
Ableton Live
FL Studio
Pro Tools
Reaper
Reason
DAWs that DO NOT support this feature include…
Cakewalk
Cubase
Logic Pro
Studio One
Zplane PEEL Price And Availability
PEEL is available today from zplane and from leading online music software retailers for €39.