PUNCH
Intelligent Dynamics Contouring
Intelligent Dynamics Contouring
We're thrilled to announce PUNCH, Zynaptiq's brand-new intelligent dynamics contouring plug-in! Add organic, musical punch and contour to your sounds, tracks, stems or mixes with its mastering-grade, intelligent impact inductor PUNCH. Built on expertise in source separation, signal statistics, frequency domain processing, and filter design, PUNCH adds anything from airy snap to beefy long attack compressor overshoot impact to smooth dynamics contouring to your audio easily, quickly, and with Zynaptiq quality.
PUNCH works equally well for individual sounds and complex material like mixed music, even if excessive dynamics processing was applied that would leave traditional transient shapers nothing to go on, and applies its processing to all sound components separately, with up to more than a hundred bands of exquisitely engineered filtering. Throw in two alternative algorithms, a transparent sounding output clipper, support for up to 16 channels for immersive workflows, and Zynaptiq's trademark workflow, and you're all set for punchy, present and transparent sound in seconds!
PUNCH works equally well for individual sounds and complex material like mixed music, even if excessive dynamics processing was applied that would leave traditional transient shapers nothing to go on, and applies its processing to all sound components separately, with up to more than a hundred bands of exquisitely engineered filtering. Throw in two alternative algorithms, a transparent sounding output clipper, support for up to 16 channels for immersive workflows, and Zynaptiq's trademark workflow, and you're all set for punchy, present and transparent sound in seconds!
FEATURES
- Add punch to your audio, with adjustable release time ranging from very short snap transients via medium length impact attacks right up to smooth dynamics expansion, for individual sounds or full mixes.
- Add airy presence, mid-range twang, meaty ooomph, give your sounds more contour, or reduce over-compression effects on mixes...and anything in-between.
- Intelligent, advanced statistics based CRYSTAL and SMOOTH processing algorithms with reconstruction based on 10 or 100+ super-clean minimum phase bands, respectively.
- Easy frequency dependent processing using our BIAS functionality and visual hover menus.
- Transparent sounding, oversampled or multi-band output clipper.
- Zero latency processing.
- Support for up to 16 channels for immersive workflows.
- Optional 64-bit processing.
- Fully vectorized GUI with zoom up to 200%.
SPECIFICATIONS
PUNCH supports channel counts from mono to 16 for immersive workflows, and all common sampling rates from 44.1kHz to 192kHz, depending on available CPU resources. PUNCH runs as 64-bit AAX Native, AU, and VST 3. The plug-in supports macOS 10.15.x or newer, on Intel & Apple Silicon processors, and Windows 10 or newer. PUNCH uses PACE copy protection, requiring a free ilok.com account, and can be activated to the hard drive of your computer or an iLok 2 or newer USB dongle. PUNCH is single user/seat licensed, but allows dual activations for convenience.
FORMATS
This software is available for a variety of 64-bit formats.
On macOS:
On Windows:
On macOS:
- Apple AudioUnits (AU)
- Avid AAX Native including AudioSuite
- Steinberg VST 3
On Windows:
- Avid AAX Native including AudioSuite
- Steinberg VST 3
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Mac
Windows
- Apple Mac computer
- macOS 10.15.x or newer, 64 bit.
- Apple Silicon CPU, or Intel CPU with at least 2 Cores (i7 or better recommended).
- Apple AU (AudioUnits), Steinberg VST 3 or Avid AAX Native compatible Host software, processing audio as 32 bit float.
- iLok.com account for machine – or iLok 2/3 based activation (of full as well as demo versions)
- Internet Connection for Software Activation (though not necessarily on the computer used for audio)
Windows
- Windows 10 or newer
- CPU with at least 2 Cores; Intel CPU recommended, i7 or better recommended.
- Steinberg VST 3 or Avid AAX compatible 64-bit host software, processing audio as 32 bit float.
- iLok.com account for machine- or iLok 2/3 based activation (of full as well as demo versions)
- Internet Connection for Software Activation (though not necessarily on the computer used for audio)
COPY PROTECTION
This software uses the latest PACE copy protection, which allows you to place your activation on your machine or on an iLok 2* (or newer; not included). You will need a free iLok.com account to use our software, even for the the demos - but you do not necessarily need the iLok 2 dongle, if your machine has internet access (activation of a system without internet connectivity requires an iLok 2 device). All required software is installed along with our plugins, but we generally recommend downloading the latest versions directly from iLok.com.
*Please note: the older, first generation (blue) iLok is not supported!
*Please note: the older, first generation (blue) iLok is not supported!
