Expert Sleepers Spectral Conquest v1.0.0 - Manual (Page 6)

Introduction
Spectral Conquest is an effect plug-in that lets you directly manipulate the frequency
spectrum of audio signals.
The incoming signal is analysed via a FFT (Fast Fourier Transform), resulting in the famil-
iar spectrum plot where the full audio spectrum is split into a number of narrow frequency
bands. The outgoing audio is then regenerated by an Inverse FFT. The interesting bit is
that the plug-in lets you modify the frequency spectrum in between.
Spectral Conquest allows you to modify the spectrum in two ways:
• By setting a multiplier for each frequency band. You can simply draw out the multi-
pliers in the GUI.
• By applying a script to the spectrum. Some basic scripts are included with the plug-
in to perform operations such as filtering and gating, but you can also write scripts
yourself to do whatever you like.
Acknowledgements
The underlying technique used by Spectral Conquest is based on the Cycling '74 Pluggo
effect ‘Spectral Filter’, itself based on work by Zack Settel and Cort Lippe.