We're also slightly disappointed to find that the parametric Q still snaps to four fixed settings, the narrowest of which isn't nearly tight enough for surgical work. The Spectral Gate works particularly well in conjunction with the sidechain - ideal for returning the gains of ducked frequencies when the ducking source is silent, for example - but is just a great inclusion, generally, bringing a dynamics-related angle to the plugin that's useful for basing the response of the EQ on the loudness of the signal.įor the average electronic producer, however, it's still a very 'specialist' plugin. The speeds at which the bands rise from zero to full gain and fall back to zero are determined by the Attack and Recovery Time controls. Each band has a GTE button, and with it turned on, that band is activated when the input or sidechain signal crosses the threshold set by the GTE THR slider on the left, and deactivated when it drops below it - or vice-versa in Reverse mode. The other really big new feature added in SurferEQ2, alongside the external MIDI and sidechain pitch tracking, is the Spectral Gate. SurferEQ2's new features certainly up its game, particularly the sidechained frequency ducking, MIDI triggering and Spectral Gate and its ability to dynamically sculpt the frequency make-up of instrumental sounds and vocals without compromising their harmonic balance is truly remarkable. There's also a zero-latency mode, adjustment of the Surf time between notes (1-5000ms), and you can now limit the ranges of the high/low filters in Surf mode. In v2, its original four modes (each defining the resonance, shape and relative depth of each filter) have been doubled to eight. As well as making SurferEQ2 a more viable option for polyphonic material, the sidechain and MIDI inputs enable frequency- specific ducking of one signal, opening up a new range of potential usage scenarios.Īvailable to the centre band only, SurferEQ's Harmonic Filter cuts or boosts the harmonics of the target frequency, although, as noted in our original review, it's better suited to creative sound design than corrective work.
The sidechain, meanwhile, does exactly what you'd expect, swapping the pitch detection over from the main input signal to an external one. MIDI triggering works in three modes: incoming MIDI overrides the internal pitch detection internal pitch detection is disabled and Surfing bands are toggled on and off and follow incoming pitch via MIDI note on/off and internal pitch detection is disabled and MIDI notes override internal pitch detection and act like an audio gate.
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