Adaptive tone

InterTone

An adaptive EQ that holds the tone you set, as the singer moves on and off the mic or a player digs in harder. For vocals, guitars and drums.

Latency
0 samples
CPU
0.01%, Apple M4 Pro
Formats
VST3, Audio Unit
Platforms
macOS, Windows
Channels
Mono, stereo

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The InterTone panel: the display with MATCH / PRE-EQ at its top and the LOW, BODY, PRESENCE and AIR handles over a processing range from 100 Hz to 12 kHz, the pre-EQ as an amber line, LEARNED and ACTIVE above it, and AMOUNT, TILT, SPEED, BOOST, CUT and OUTPUT below, between the input and output meters

On the panel

The InterTone panel with seven numbered marks
  1. 1

    Learn target

    Learns the tone to hold from the input, or from a reference file.

  2. 2

    Tone regions

    LOW, BODY, PRESENCE and AIR raise or lower the target in their range.

  3. 3

    Processing range

    Drag its two edges: the correction acts between them and leaves the rest alone.

  4. 4

    Amount

    How much of the correction you hear, with TILT beside it leaning the target darker or brighter.

  5. 5

    Speed

    How fast InterTone reacts, from 5.6 s at 0 to 0.16 s at 100: slow for a vocal, fast for drums.

  6. 6

    Boost and cut

    The most the correction may boost or cut.

  7. 7

    Match and pre-EQ

    Switches the display between the matching and a four-band EQ in front of it. Shape the sound in PRE-EQ and InterTone holds what comes out.

The target

Learn the tone at soundcheck or from a reference track, or start from a factory target. Then shape it with LOW, BODY, PRESENCE, AIR and TILT. The display shows when InterTone is working and when it is holding.

InterTone's LEARN TARGET menu open: learn from the input or a reference file, factory targets, and load, save and delete your own; the factory targets are female and male speech, pop vocals and rock vocals
InterTone's display in PRE-EQ: four amber nodes, a low shelf cutting 2 dB at 100 Hz, a 4 dB dip at 319 Hz, a 3 dB lift at 3 kHz and a 2 dB high shelf at 8 kHz, with the third node's settings showing beside it

Shape it first

A four-band EQ in front of InterTone. Shape the sound in PRE-EQ and InterTone holds what comes out. Back in MATCH, your EQ stays in view as the amber line. Move the pointer near any node to see its settings and change them.

Nodes
Four: shelf or bell, two bells, shelf or bell
Gain
±12 dB
Q
0.3 to 10

How it follows

SPEED sets the attack: slow for a vocal, fast for drums. The release is ten times faster. Below the wedge on the input meter InterTone stops listening, so it doesn't chase the stage between phrases: the whole curve stays where it is until the sound comes back, so a kick or snare keeps its boost between hits.

The input meter with its threshold wedge, and AMOUNT at 86%, TILT at 0 and SPEED at 100% on a vocal
Speed
5.6 s to 0.16 s
Release
A tenth of the attack, at least 0.1 s
Threshold
The wedge on the input meter

And also

HP at 250.0 Hz and LP at 12.2 kHz, both switched on

Processing range

Drag the two edges on the display to keep the correction to the part of the spectrum that needs it.

HP and LP

First in the chain, so the rumble and hiss they remove never steer InterTone. Each can be 6 to 48 dB/oct.

Targets

Six factory targets for speech and vocals, and your own, learned from any source and saved under a name to load on any track.

Specs

Latency
0 samples
CPU
0.01% of a 14-core Apple M4 Pro, every stage on, mono, 48 kHz
Formats
VST3, Audio Unit
macOS
Apple silicon and Intel
Windows
x64
Channels
Mono, stereo
Version
0.9.21

InterTone user guide

Download

Version 0.9.21 · 3.8 MB for macOS, 2.9 MB for Windows · VST3 and Audio Unit on macOS, VST3 on Windows

Several plug-ins to update? The Suite installer updates them in one go, and you choose which.

New in 0.9.21

A 1.25x window size.

  • It's in the menu (☰), between 1x and 1.5x. Someone asked for a size between the two, and every Interwebbi plug-in gets it in this release.
  • Nothing else changed: no control, default or sound is different, and your projects and presets open as before, at the window size they were saved with.

All InterTone release notes

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