Alloy was designed to give you the essential mixing tools you need for every project in a self-contained and completely configurable interface. Alloy combines six key processors that let you precisely shape the sound of your tracks and busses. Smooth out vocals or slam your drum buss with a Dynamics section that combines the best characteristics of analog and digital compressors. Add body or take the edge off with an 8-band Paragraphic EQ. Take the bite out of harsh vocals and cymbals with a smooth, transparent De-Esser. Add tube and tape-like warmth, or even a little grit, with the Exciter. Give percussive sounds more snap or less “room” with the Transient module. And keep peaks under control, or pump up the volume, with the Limiter. Alloy gives you forward thinking features like a fully customizable signal chain, dual compressors that work in parallel or series, single- and multiband side chaining, and exclusive Harmonic Scaling Exciter technology.
Alloy can also simplify your studio workflow with a huge selection of MacroPresets. These intelligent presets let you take advantage of just the tools you need for the task at hand. MacroPresets customize Alloy’s screen to show you just the sliders and meters you need, giving you powerful preset signal chains with simple controls.
Key Features in Alloy:
• Six essential tools: Equalizer, Exciter, Transient, Dynamics, De-Esser, and Limiter
• Analog-modeled and digital processing algorithms
• Advanced multiband sidechaining support
• Elegant, highly efficient user interface
• Extensive metering and spectrum analysis tools help you get better results
• Over 100 MacroPresets by professional engineers
• Integrated undo history with comparison tools
• User-definable signal routing
• Zero Latency operation mode
• Extensive automation support
• CPU-efficient and optimized for today’s low-latency DAW environments
• Supports sampling rates up to 192kHz
Highest Audio Quality
All modules within Alloy use highly optimized audio signal processing to achieve the highest resolution and sound quality possible. All of the modules in Alloy are designed to work together seamlessly. By carefully matching crossovers and other internal processing, Alloy eliminates phase and artifact problems encountered when chaining together separate plug-ins. In addition, the sound quality and characteristics of each of the modules is tuned to complement the others, providing consistent and high quality results.
Alloy uses analog modeling to give each of the modules a smooth natural sound. For example, the Equalizer recreates the soft limiting exhibited by a vintage valve equalizer, while the Exciter mimics the "musically pleasing" harmonic saturation of vacuum tube components, tape, and other analog processors. Alloy’s compressor can deliver the smooth release characteristics of vintage optical compressors, or the more crisp sound of later FET compressors.
Powerful Audio and Visual Feedback
We wanted to provide visual feedback wherever possible. Your ears and your eyes can be a powerful combination and each processing module is complemented with useful spectrums, meters, graphs, and level histograms.
We also wanted to make it easy to get audio feedback by providing extensive solo/bypass controls and histories with functions for A/B comparisons. The Alt-click function on the EQ is an example of this as well. Wherever possible, we wanted to give people ways to really hear what they were doing.
Intuitive Design and Easy to Use
We tried to make Alloy as easy and intuitive as possible from including a complete set of modules in a single plug-in system, to context sensitive help, to the little things like mouse wheel support. There is a lot of power in Alloy, but we think that in no time at all you'll be making the most of it and getting great results with ease. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or you’re simply ready to take your productions to the next level, Alloy is the complete solution you need.