Plugin Alliance announces the availability of Zip — further cementing Unfiltered Audio’s partnership with a plugin solution for difficult dynamics challenges and unique effects using Analysis modes and synth-like modulators.
Zip’s six Analysis modes — Amplitude, Quietness, Brightness, Darkness, Noisiness, and Tonalness — spark deeper compression or expansion based on signal level, frequency content, or noise feeding its Input.
Zip’s four Envelope Styles — Classic, Goopy, Quick, and Extreme — modify the processor’s attack and release curves, tailoring them to the engineer’s specific needs.
Zip’s eight different internal modulators, as well as a patch to an external ROLI Lightpad controller, can be used — up to six modulators at once — on most of Zip’s controls. Each modulator can be routed to multiple destinations using simple drag-and-drop technique, unlocking a world of driving rhythmic effects synchronized to the tempo of the host DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).
Its continuously variable Color control provides post-dynamics processing in seven modes, respectively offering phase-modulated distortion, soft saturation, bitcrushing, and four 2-pole cutoff filters (two of which feature cutoffs modulated by Zip’s Analysis modes).
Zip is available for purchase — as an AAX AudioSuite, AAX Native-, AU-, VST2- and VST3-supporting plugin for Mac OS X (10.8 through 10.12), Windows (7 through 10), and Pro Tools 10.3.10 (or higher) — exclusively from Plugin Alliance at an introductory promo price of $99.00 USD through to November 30, 2017, rising to $149.00 USD thereafter.
Fully-functional, 14-day trials are available to anyone registering for a free Plugin Alliance account here.
