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Eventide Debuts New Fission Plugin Incorporating Structural Effects

Method for separating transient and tonal components of a sound, making it practical to modify the individual components independently.

Eventide has introduced Fission, a new plugin incorporating the company’s proprietary Structural Effects method for cleanly and completely separating the transient and tonal components of a sound in an approach that makes it practical to modify the individual components independently.

Structural Effects makes use of frequency-and-time-domain-sifting to, in effect, deconstruct a sound.

Fission offers multi-effects for the transient and tonal sections, enabling modifications from the subtle to the bizarre. It’s a tool for working with classic effects like delay, EQ, and reverb, and is also designed for loopers dream.

A novel Focus control makes it possible for Fission users to “guide” the separation, while the ability to “solo” and mix the deconstructed audio allows for forensic and subtle changes. For example, users can modify, delay, or remove the transient plucks of a guitar part without affecting the tone; retune a snare drum without touching the crisp transient; modify, delay, or remove the tonal component of a piano line for a more staccato sound, and more.

“We named the main separation control FOCUS, because we didn’t know what else to call it,” states Eventide managing director Tony Agnello. “This may sound silly, but if you have a knob that does something really useful and you don’t know how to label it, it’s a clue that you may be onto something new.”

Eventide senior DSP engineer Russell Wedelich adds, “Structural Effects is a new approach for modifying sound. If you can imagine that any sound is a combination of tonal and transient components, our method can be thought of as sifting sound. We’ve developed a ‘sieve’ which cleanly separates the smooth gold (tonal) from the jagged sand (transients).”

The new plugin bundles an array of sound-splitting presets from world-class creative performance and recording artists (including Richard Devine, Chris Carter, Suzanne Ciani, Joe Chiccarelli, John Agnello, Stewart Lerman, Steve Rosenthal, Erin Tonkon, and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith).

Fission is available now (as an AU/AAX/VST plug-in for Mac OS 10.7+ and Windows 7/8) for 45 days at an introductory price of $97 USD — rising to an MSRP of $179 USD thereafter — from Eventide dealers and the company website.

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