oeksound soothe2 1.0.5 Mac download

The 1.3.3 update fixes playback overloads in Logic that appeared when the GUI first opened, plus automation glitches in Pro Tools. A few new factory presets round out the release.

soothe2 is a dynamic resonance suppressor. It tames harshness and ringing without the tedium of detailed EQ moves. Think of it as a way to let one sound make room for another.

Softens edgy vocals and room resonances

• Softening vocals and speech that sound edgy or brittle.
• Cleaning up imperfect recordings, like a room with a nasty resonant frequency.
• Working on individual channels, buses, or even the master bus.
• Stereo processing, or isolating specific parts of the signal for targeted correction.

Real-time processing on Intel and Apple Silicon

• Hard mode handles difficult material; soft mode is for delicate fixes.
• It works in real time, so you can hear the result as you adjust.
• Runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, from macOS 10.14 up.

More surgical than multiband compressors

Compared to a multiband compressor, soothe2 is more surgical. A multiband comp splits the signal into fixed frequency bands and reduces level. Soothe2 finds resonances wherever they occur and pulls them down, which means fewer phase artifacts and less coloration on vocals or acoustic instruments.

De-essers are another common tool, but they target a narrow sibilance range. Soothe2 covers the whole spectrum. You can clean low-end rumble and high-end harshness with the same instance. For voice-over work, that saves a slot in your chain.

Some equalizers offer dynamic EQ bands that do similar work, but setting the frequency, Q, and threshold for each band takes time. Soothe2's analyze-and-reduce approach gets you to a usable result faster. Once you know the sound, you can fine-tune, but the plugin does the heavy lifting on its own.

Start with Sensitivity and Hard/Soft toggle

• Start with the Sensitivity control. Turn it up until you hear the plugin start working, then back it off slightly. That keeps the correction natural.
• Try the Hard/Soft toggle. Hard mode catches more aggressive resonance; Soft mode leaves the transients intact on delicate sources like overhead mics or acoustic guitar.
• Use the side-chain filter if you only want the plugin to act on a specific frequency range. For example, filtering out low frequencies prevents the bass from triggering unnecessary high-end reduction.

Mix engineers and podcast editors

• Mix engineers working on dense pop or rock tracks get the most out of it. Vocals, guitars and cymbals often fight for space; soothe2 clears them without pulling down the whole mix.
• Voice and podcast editors who receive raw audio from untreated rooms. One pass of soothe2 in Soft mode reduces room resonances and sibilance faster than manual EQ rides.
• Sound designers processing field recordings or synthesized material. The plugin adapts to unpredictable content, so you can clean up a single recording without building a custom EQ curve for every sound.