Are you looking for the best spectral analysis VST plugins? You found the right place. We’ll show you below the best spectral analysis plugins in both free and paid format.
MMultiAnalyzer Spectral Analysis by MeldaProduction (Paid)
MMultiAnalyzer is a unique multitrack analyzer and sonogram, which looks inside your audio material and reveals problems and frequency collisions quickly, easily, and with astonishing accuracy. Just put an instance on each track you are interested in and the plugins automatically find each other.
Features
- The most advanced user interface on the market – stylable, resizable, GPU accelerated
- Unique visualisation engine with classic meters and time graphs
- exceptionally versatile modulators
- Adjustable oscillator shape technology
- 4 multiparameters
- M/S, single channel, up to 8 channels surround processing…
- Smart randomisation
- Automatic gain compensation (AGC)
- Safety limiter
- Adjustable up-sampling 1x-16x
- MIDI controllers with MIDI learn
- Very fast, optimised for SSE/SSE2/SSE3 processors
- Global preset management and online preset exchange
- Supports VST, VST3, AU and AAX interfaces on Windows & Mac, both 32-bit and 64-bit
- No dongle nor internet access is required for activation
- Free-for-life updates
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Blue Cat’s Oscilloscope Multi Spectral Analysis by Blue Cat Audio (Paid)
Blue Cat’s Oscilloscope Multi is a unique multi-track real-time waveform renderer and comparator. It lets you visualize and compare the contents of several audio tracks on the same screen thanks to its X-Y view. The plugin offers stereo or mid-side channel waveform extraction as well as several synchronization modes. The zooming and precise measurement capabilities let you analyze the waveform in detail and the XY phase scope view will help you track phase issues within an effect chain or while recording with multiple microphones.
Features
- Multiple tracks real-time oscilloscope: visualize and compare the waveform of several audio tracks on the same screen
- Waveform display with loop, flow and trigger modes
- Histogram display
- Dual-channel XY phasescope view (Lissajous) for easy phase cancellation and mono compatibility issues detection on multiple tracks or within an effect chain
- Latency compensation capability to align waveforms
- Choose a name for each curve for easier sharing
- Animated zoom for all displays
- Precise measurement capabilities
- Save the curves for easy A/B comparison
- Left-Right or Mid-Side operation modes
- Unique data sharing technology with multi-core processors support
- Opacity control for the user interface
- Native DSP code for optimal performance
- Full MIDI control and automation support with silent, zipper-free parameters update, advanced response control and MIDI Learn
- No CPU load on idle: when the plug-in is fed with silence, the processing smoothly shuts down, to optimize the CPU usage of your DAW
- Skinnable and customizable user interface with transparency management
- Smooth Bypass: activate/deactivate the plug-in with absolutely no noise
- Undo/Redo
- Import/Export presets in a host independent format
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spiral Spectral Analysis by Photosounder (Paid)
Spiral is a music analysis plugin. It’s a fresh take on spectral analysis focused on allowing you to see and understand music and the notes that make it up instantly. This is achieved mainly by coiling the spectrum into a spiral framed by a chromatic circle, thus allowing you to instantly see what’s happening musically and spectrally. Several other factors help you see better what you’re listening to:
Features
- The colours represent position in the stereo mix which means that quite often instruments have their own colour.
- Portions of the sound can be recorded in Spiral’s memory and then played back at a much slower rate (between 0% and 100%). This is quite necessary and handy when writing down notes or analysing chords.
- Analysis resolution can be adjusted. You’ll want to lower it when analysis notes played very fast as it gives you more precision in time, and increase it when analysing complex chords, bass instruments or when tuning an instrument.
- The spiral visualisation can be rotated so that you may have the root of the scale on top and thus be able to recognise notes more readily.
- By clicking on the visualisation you can create overlays that represent the harmonics for a given note. Adjusting those overlays can greatly help you in identifying the individual notes that make up a chord.
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Insight 2 Spectral Analysis by iZotope (Paid)
Insight 2 is a comprehensive metering and audio analysis plug-in that is a core component of award-winning post production studios, music studios, and broadcast facilities. It is perfect for visualizing changes made during mixing and mastering, troubleshooting problematic mixes, monitoring the intelligibility of your dialogue, and ensuring compliance with broadcast loudness standards.
Insight 2 includes meters for:
- Loudness
- Levels
- Sound Field
- History
- Intelligibility
- Spectrum
- Spectrogram
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Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Pro Spectral Analysis by Blue Cat Audio (Paid)
Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Pro is a real-time spectrum analyzer with advanced functionalities. It uses the same smooth algorithms as its little brother (Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst free plug-in). It has been designed to provide extreme smoothness and high resolution for both time and frequency. The frequency analysis can be fine-tuned. Manage precision and rate and apply an offset or slope to the measured spectrum. Two threshold systems are available and the time response can be changed thanks to the attack and release parameters.
Features
- Mono, stereo or mid/side real-time spectrum analyzer
- Total control over the analysis parameters, with slope and offset correction
- Smart interpolation algorithm for extreme display smoothness
- Spectrum and spectrogram views
- Animated zoom for all displays
- Precise measurement capabilities, with note info display
- 3D waterfall view with full 3D control
- Solid or wireframe 3D surface display
- Instant, peak and average curves display for each channel
- Save the curves for easy A/B comparison
- Opacity control for the user interface
- Custom absolute and relative threshold control
- Native DSP code for optimal performance.Full MIDI control and automation support with silent, zipper-free parameters update, advanced response control and MIDI Learn
- No CPU load on idle: when the plug-in is fed with silence, the processing smoothly shuts down, to optimize the CPU usage of your DAW
- Skinnable and customizable user interface with transparency management
- Automation and MIDI output: record output parameters as automation curves or send MIDI CC messages to other plug-ins for powerful side chain effects
- Smooth Bypass: activate/deactivate the plug-in with absolutely no noise.
- Undo/Redo
- Import/Export presets in a host independent format
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MLoudnessAnalyzer Spectral Analysis by MeldaProduction (Free)
Features
- M/S, single channel, up to 8 channels surround processing – our plugins can handle not only mono and stereo signals, but also mono/stereo encoding, separate channels and encodings, and up to 8 channels of surround audio, which makes them ideal for audio production for movies, games etc.
- Extremely advanced and easy-to-use user interface – our products are always designed to enhance the workflow. You can easily change all values, fine-tune each control in multiple ways. Easy orientation in a standardized GUI, textual editing and smooth visualization with almost unlimited zooming are standard in all of our plugins. Moreover our plugins are the world first (and still the only ones), which support resizable and stylable GUI’s.
- Very fast, optimized for SSE and SSE2 processors.
- Fully automatable.
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Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Spectral Analysis by Blue Cat Audio (Free)
Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst is a free spectrum analyzer plug-in that lets you monitor the spectral content of your audio signal in real-time. This plug-in has been designed to provide extreme smoothness and high resolution for both time and frequency: unlike most spectrum analyzers, Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst is able to display continuous variations even with a very high-frequency resolution, thanks to its unique smooth interpolation algorithms.
Features
- Mono and stereo real-time spectrum analyzer.
- Total control over the audio to frequencies transformation.
- Smart interpolation algorithm for extreme display smoothness.
- Zoomable display with multiple sizes.
- Custom absolute and relative thresholds.
- Full MIDI control and automation support with silent, zipper-free parameters update, advanced response control and MIDI Learn.
- No CPU load on idle: when the plug-in is fed with silence, the processing smoothly shuts down, to optimize the CPU usage of your Digital Audio Workstation.
- Skinnable and customizable user interface with transparency management.
- Smooth Bypass: activate/deactivate the plug-in with absolutely no noise.
- Undo/Redo.
- Full-featured integrated presets manager.
- Any sample rate supported.
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