ZAP Bundle II EDU

Important Note: This is an educationally discounted version of the ZAP Bundle II and is available for full-time students or faculty at an educational institution only. Please check your eligibility before purchase on the Educational Discount Help Centre Article.

Once purchased please send your order number and proof of educational status to support@pluginboutique.com.

The full version of ZAP Bundle II is also available.

The Cutting Edge, Season 2

The version 2 upgrade of Zynaptiq’s highly acclaimed ZAP Bundle combines all eight of our AI and source separation based plugins into a single, value-packed processing suite. Restore your sound's natural frequency response, remove reverb and masking effects, reduce codec/denoiser artefacts, and modify pitches within mixed music on the fly. Create unheard new hybrid sounds, drones and morphing transitions, and boost or attenuate drums in mixed music. Add punch to your drum stems, mutate, beautify, cross-filter or polish your sounds, and even add the only ultra-lush, musical reverb that tracks your audio’s harmonics. All in real-time, with a lightning-fast workflow, and with award-winning quality. Add the future of audio processing to your toolkit now with ZAP II – The Zynaptiq Audio Processors Bundle, Version 2

What's included in the ZAP II Bundle:

UNVEIL

De-Reverberation & Signal Focusing Processor

Boost or suppress reverb in your recordings, and fine-tune overall clarity, with award-winning quality.

UNVEIL is a real-time, de-mixing based plug-in that allows attenuating or boosting reverb components within a mixed signal of any channel count, including mono sources, as well as modifying reverb characteristics. Additionally, UNVEIL allows you to bring the key features of a recording into focus, or move them to the background, by attenuating or boosting perceptionally less important signal components. Based on our proprietary, artificial intelligence-based MAP (Mixed-Signal Audio Processing) technology, UNVEIL allows fixing previously unusable location audio and dialogue, tightening up live music recordings, removing reverb and “mud” from musical signals, as well as creative sound design.

Key Features:

• Audio engineers can attenuate reverb in recordings
• Film mixers and dialogue editors can remove reverb from dialogue and location sound
• Music producers can turn vintage drum-loops rich in reverb into dry recordings, and vice-versa
• Foley artists can remove ambience from sub-optimally captured sounds
• Mix and mastering engineers can bring key mix elements into focus by attenuating components commonly referred to as "mud"

UNFILTER

Adaptive Tonal Contour Linearization

Remove resonances, roll-offs, comb-filtering and solve any other type of EQ problem including mastering applications automatically, with award-winning precision and quality.

UNFILTER is a real-time plug-in that removes filtering effects, such as comb filtering, resonance, or excessive equalization – effectively linearizing the frequency response of a signal automatically. UNFILTER can also apply a detected filter response to another signal, or export it to disk as an impulse response, and can even perform mastering grade adaptive, free-form, and graphic equalization. Whether you're in music production, film post, game audio, broadcast, sound design, forensics, or engineering – UNFILTER makes time-consuming and often impossible tasks as effortless as adjusting one control.

Key Features:

• Automatically detect and remove resonances, equalization, roll-offs and the effects of comb filtering from musical,  location, dialogue and surveillance recordings.
• Apply the measured filter response to other signals to place them in the same "acoustic world".
• Export the measured filter response to or import it from a linear- or minimum-phase impulse response file (WAV).
• Mastering grade adaptive, free-form and graphic equalization.
• Extremely steep 96dB/octave shelving high-pass filter.
• Output limiter for unsupervised use in batch processing applications.
• Highly time-efficient workflow and UI

UNCHIRP

Codec Artifact Removal & Transient Retrieval

UNCHIRP is a plug-in for removing the most obnoxious artefacts associated with lossy audio encoding and other FFT based processes, such as spectral de-noising. Reduce musical noise, suppress high frequency chirping (also known as underwater sound, warbling or the tweeties), fix transient smearing, and restore lost high frequencies – UNCHIRP does it all in one go. If you need to salvage poorly encoded music, speech that has gone through a low bit rate uplink, material that has been de-noised too strongly, or footage recorded with consumer mobile devices – or if you simply want to add contour and vibrance to already great sounding recordings – UNCHIRP is your (only) friend.

Key Features:

• Suppression of high frequency "chirping" artefacts.
• Reduction of "musical noise" artefacts.
• Transient Synthesis to augment or replace smeared, over-limited or otherwise compromised transients.
• Psycho-Acoustically optimized Treble Boost circuit with Enhance and Excite modes.
• Break-Point Curve Editor based frequency-dependent processing.
• Side-only algorithm mode for working with joint-stereo encoded material.
• HD algorithm mode for increased quality processing with higher CPU load (off-line processing recommended).
• SYNC parameter allows processing to be synchronized to signal transients for increasing clarity.
• Output limiter for unsupervised use in batch processing applications.
• Highly time-efficient workflow and UI.

PITCHMAP

Re-Write Mixed Music In Real-Time

PITCHMAP is the world's first and only plug-in that allows processing the pitch of individual sounds within mixed signals in real-time. It lets you change the melodies and harmonies of any recording by simply playing your own on a MIDI keyboard or creating a pitch map using our stream-lined GUI, and optionally corrects any tuning issues at the same time. As if that weren't enough, PITCHMAP provides functions to suppress individual sounds within a mix, and can apply advanced synthesizer-like sound transformations to your audio. In short, it is an inspiring musical instrument, a precision corrective tool and the only processor that literally lets you shape music with your hands.

MORPH 2

Real-Time Structural Audio Morphing

MORPH 2 is a real-time plug-in for structural audio morphing, the sonic equivalent of one object slowly changing its shape to become a different object - for example, one face becoming another. Super-charged with a selection of 5 different morphing algorithms, a stunningly clean formant shifter as well as a lush reverb that seems to extend sounds much like some highly revered vintage hardware boxes, MORPH 2 opens up a whole new universe of sounds to explore. Create seamless morphing transitions, new hybrid sounds that combine aspects of existing ones, physically impossible instruments, the furthest-out creature and robot voices, talkbox-esque effects and other outrageously unique new sounds. Whether you're a sound designer for film or games looking for that signature sound, or a music producer or remix artist wanting to create new content from existing recordings...look no further, MORPH is for you!

Key Features:

• 5 Unique feature-aware structural audio morphing algorithms.
• Morphs between two input channels or input and side-chain.
• Dual morphing circuits with crossfade option.
• High-quality formant shifter.
• Uses cutting edge signal transform technology for superb fidelity and intelligibility.
• Both inputs can be mixed into the output or switched to solo.
• Built-In Hall Reverb.
• Fully real-time for immediate results.
• MORPH 2 X/Y Morphing Control

UNMIX::DRUMS

Boost Or Attenuate Drums In Mixed Music

UNMIX::DRUMS is the world’s first audio plugin that allows attenuating or boosting drums in mixed music, in real-time. Using advanced source signal separation (a.k.a. de-mixing, unmixing, sound extraction, sound isolation) technology under the hood, UNMIX::DRUMS provides frequency dependent drum level control that ranges from up to +18dB of boost to virtually complete removal* – while always sounding great. Whether used on a full mix or on a drum bus, UNMIX::DRUMS can be used to shape and enhance the impact of your drums in a unique new way. Sporting an intuitive multi-level GUI, frequency-dependent control of key parameters, a sample-accurate sub-bass (re)synthesizer, our high-precision analyzer display, M/S operation and an output limiter, UNMIX::DRUMS opens up exciting new options for mastering, music production, sample-based music creation, mash-up artists, remixers and DJs.

* Actually achievable amounts depend on input signal specifics.

Key Features:

• Source Separation-Based Control of Drum Level in Mixed Music.
• SMOOTH and PUNCHY Boost Modes.
• Sample-Accurate Sub-Bass (Re)Synthesizer.
• Frequency Dependent Control of Key Parameters.
• Intuitive 3-way GUI Design.

ADAPTIVERB

Harmonic Tracking Resynthesis Reverb

ADAPTIVERB is a revolutionary reflectionless reverberation plugin. Unlike traditional acoustic room modelling using reflections, ADAPTIVERB focuses on creating depth, harmonic richness, and butter-smooth harmonic tails without obscuring the source or perceptually moving it back. Built using ray tracing reverberation, adaptive similarity filtering, and a revolutionary new AI technique similar to the technology that enables self-driving cars to avoid collisions, ADAPTIVERB can create lush spaces, smooth drones, and far-out textures while optionally filtering dissonance – so it never gets in the way of your sounds.

Key Features:

• Revolutionary new reverberation approach with unique sonic characteristics
• Bionic Sustain Resynthesis creates stunningly organic tails, eliminating noisy components from the input for clear, harmonic results free of graininess
• Harmonic Contour Filter (HCF) circuit for removing effect components not in tune with the input, a captured harmonic fingerprint, or a set of notes defined using an on-screen keyboard
• Filtering and pitch quantization based HCF Keyboard modes to conform the effect to a specific key
• HCF HOLD mode for creating cross-filtering effects
• Ray Tracing and Allpass based reverb engine
• Input FREEZE function for creating drones, pads or infinite reverb type sounds
• SIMPLIFY function that recreates the input’s harmonic content with a small amount of oscillators for additive synthesis type sounds — without the warbliness
• RICHNESS parameter for adding octave, fifth or unison interval harmonics into the reverb
• Pre-Processing section including harmonic synthesis based AIR
• More than 400 presets covering a broad range of effects, including bread-and-butter reverbs, “invisible” reverbs, instrument-/voice-colored reverbs, cross-filtering, adaptively filtered delays, and pads/drones that play without input signal
• MIDI control of all key parameters

WORMHOLE

Otherworldly Audio Effects Processor

From beautifully shimmering detuned guitar widening and glassy ambient octave-shift tails, to surreal ambiences, starship drones, alien, monster, and robot voices — WORMHOLE is the new indispensable multi-effects powerhouse for sound designers, music producers and film composers alike. Combining ultra-clean pitch/frequency shifting, eccentric spectral warping, dual lush reverbs, and unique dry/wet morphing, WORMHOLE delivers sounds so unearthly you’ll swear they’re from a parallel universe.

Key Features:

• High-quality multi-effects processing ranging from the sublime to the extreme.
• WARP spectral inversion & warping module.
• SHIFT unique topology combined pitch-/frequency-shifting module with SMOOTH, TIGHT and two DETUNE modes.
• Dual lush randomized hall reverbs.
• Unique dry/wet morphing. 
• Very wide +- 4 octaves pitch-shift and +-4000Hz frequency shift range, fully aliasing free, with 96dB/oct (!!) carrier and side-band attenuation.

System Requirements

Mac:

• Apple Mac computer
• OSX 10.8.x or newer
• Intel CPU with at least 2 Cores; i7 or better recommended.
• Apple AU (AudioUnits), Steinberg VST 2.4, VST 3 or Avid RTAS/AAX compatible Host software
• For AAX Native 32-bit, the minimum required Pro Tools version is 10.3.6
• iLok.com account for machine- or iLok 2 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 7 or newer
• CPU with at least 2 Cores; Intel CPU recommended, i7 or better recommended.
• Steinberg VST 2.4, VST 3 or Avid RTAS/AAX compatible Host software
• For AAX Native 32-bit, the minimum required Pro Tools version is 10.3.6
• iLok.com account for machine- or iLok 2 based activation (of full as well as demo versions)
• Internet Connection for Software Activation (though not necessarily on the computer used for audio)

Formats:

On MacOS X:

• Apple AudioUnits (32/64bit)
• Avid RTAS
• Avid AAX Native including AudioSuite (32/64bit)
• Steinberg VST 2.4 (32/64bit)
• Steinberg VST 3 (32/64bit)

On Windows:

• Avid RTAS
• Avid AAX Native including AudioSuite (32/64bit)
• Steinberg VST 2.4 (32/64bit)
• Steinberg VST 3 (32/64bit)

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!
• While they are highly optimized, our plug-ins use a LOT of CPU due to the complex nature of the magic they perform. Please use the free trial to evaluate whether your system has sufficient resources to utilize the software effectively! We recommend setting your playback buffer size to at least 512 or ideally 1024 samples for optimum performance. 
• As our plug-ins sport unique features not found in any other software, we highly recommend reading their manuals to ensure you get the most out of them!