SpectralSmoothe by Aqua Node – Spectral Plugin VST3

Spectral Smoothe is a real-time spectral freeze and smearing processor built around cepstral (homomorphic) magnitude smoothing, which keeps its held/stretched textures noticeably smoother and less “buzzy” or phasey than ordinary spectral smoothing. It offers several freeze behaviours (from a fully static hold to a slowly evolving drone) plus a granular Stretch mode.

Spectral Smoothe processes the incoming signal continuously through an FFT, using a cepstral lifter to smooth the magnitude spectrum before resynthesis, and optionally freezes or stretches that spectrum on command.

Depending on Freeze Mode, that smoothed spectrum is held static, left to slowly evolve, or continuously re-analyzed from the live input.