HoRNet HarmoniQ by Hornet Plugins (Released on iOS)

NoiseHorse

@Gavinski said:

@Fear2Stop said:
If one already owns Type A, could this still be useful for mastering?

This would be pretty different from Type A from what I can see (I don’t have this). This will analyse your audio and allow you to filter out frequencies that don’t fit with the scale and key you are playing in, for example. A bit like Scaler EQ, I think. Could be useful for cleaning up muddiness etc in a way that Type A is not designed to do. Might not be a must-have though, people have been mastering fine for decades without these kind of things

Ah, good point Mr Gavinski. However it is analyzing and EQing tracks which reminds me of how LP4I Mastering Assistant analyzes and does some slightly different EQing to help Master a track. I’m trying HarmoniQ with various Compressors/Limiters to see what happens.

Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr

@knewspeak said:

@Simon said:

@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr said:

@jimhanks said:
I wonder if this would be good for reducing wind noise from wind instruments 🤔

Reduce enough wind noise from a flute and you get a sine wave.

LOL!

Well reduce enough harmonic content for any sound and it will be a sine wave.

I meant that without the wind it would not sound like a flute. But that sounds like an interesting use for this app that I would not have thought of.

Simon

@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr said:

@knewspeak said:

@Simon said:

@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr said:

@jimhanks said:
I wonder if this would be good for reducing wind noise from wind instruments 🤔

Reduce enough wind noise from a flute and you get a sine wave.

LOL!

Well reduce enough harmonic content for any sound and it will be a sine wave.

I meant that without the wind it would not sound like a flute. But that sounds like an interesting use for this app that I would not have thought of.

OK.

But I still find it funny.

The thought of someone carefuly using this app to remove unwanted wind sound and suddenly ending up with a sound like Animoog's INIT patch makes me laugh...

Fear2Stop

@Simon said:

@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr said:

@knewspeak said:

@Simon said:

@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr said:

@jimhanks said:
I wonder if this would be good for reducing wind noise from wind instruments 🤔

Reduce enough wind noise from a flute and you get a sine wave.

LOL!

Well reduce enough harmonic content for any sound and it will be a sine wave.

I meant that without the wind it would not sound like a flute. But that sounds like an interesting use for this app that I would not have thought of.

OK.

But I still find it funny.

The thought of someone carefuly using this app to remove unwanted wind sound and suddenly ending up with a sound like Animoog's INIT patch makes me laugh...

😂

Fear2Stop

@Gavinski said:

@Fear2Stop said:
If one already owns Type A, could this still be useful for mastering?

This would be pretty different from Type A from what I can see (I don’t have this). This will analyse your audio and allow you to filter out frequencies that don’t fit with the scale and key you are playing in, for example. A bit like Scaler EQ, I think. Could be useful for cleaning up muddiness etc in a way that Type A is not designed to do. Might not be a must-have though, people have been mastering fine for decades without these kind of things

True… tbh I don’t think it’ll make much of a positive difference in my music … any muddiness in the sound is generally intentional!

filo01

@Gavinski said:
Sounds very similar to Scaler EQ? Anyone have both and compared them?

From the NinoBeatz "iPadOS & iOS AudioUnits" FB page:
"James Zen Ophelia
I found HarminiQ to eat way too much CPU. Scaler EQ on the other hand is far more versatile and excellent. I requested a refund for HarmoniQ."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1704410769839550/posts/3856720574608548/?comment_id=3856853334595272

Samu

@Gavinski said:

@Fear2Stop said:
If one already owns Type A, could this still be useful for mastering?

This would be pretty different from Type A from what I can see (I don’t have this). This will analyse your audio and allow you to filter out frequencies that don’t fit with the scale and key you are playing in, for example. A bit like Scaler EQ, I think. Could be useful for cleaning up muddiness etc in a way that Type A is not designed to do. Might not be a must-have though, people have been mastering fine for decades without these kind of things

I'd go as far as to say (after quick listening test) that Type A adds 'coloration' while HarmoniQ does it's best to remove/reduce it creating to what to my ears like sounds a super sterile output which doesn't klick with me at all...

richardyot

I have a track where the vocal has a grating timbre so I've made a comparison between HarminiQ and Scaler EQ:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c21k4ujb5ipripzk2vaza/RPReplay_Final1723797381.MP4?rlkey=k0nr1nt83yjdrzzjdy6ti4i1z&dl=0

Scaler EQ is a bit more configurable, and in the video you can see me removing some of the scale notes to push the processing even further, but in this particular example I actually ended up preferring the results from HarmoniQ.

Gavinski

@Samu said:

@Gavinski said:

@Fear2Stop said:
If one already owns Type A, could this still be useful for mastering?

This would be pretty different from Type A from what I can see (I don’t have this). This will analyse your audio and allow you to filter out frequencies that don’t fit with the scale and key you are playing in, for example. A bit like Scaler EQ, I think. Could be useful for cleaning up muddiness etc in a way that Type A is not designed to do. Might not be a must-have though, people have been mastering fine for decades without these kind of things

I'd go as far as to say (after quick listening test) that Type A adds 'coloration' while HarmoniQ does it's best to remove/reduce it creating to what to my ears like sounds a super sterile output which doesn't klick with me at all...

Yeah, there are definitely dangers in taking too much harmonic stuff out, right!

Gravitas

@Gavinski said:

@Samu said:

@Gavinski said:

@Fear2Stop said:
If one already owns Type A, could this still be useful for mastering?

This would be pretty different from Type A from what I can see (I don’t have this). This will analyse your audio and allow you to filter out frequencies that don’t fit with the scale and key you are playing in, for example. A bit like Scaler EQ, I think. Could be useful for cleaning up muddiness etc in a way that Type A is not designed to do. Might not be a must-have though, people have been mastering fine for decades without these kind of things

I'd go as far as to say (after quick listening test) that Type A adds 'coloration' while HarmoniQ does it's best to remove/reduce it creating to what to my ears like sounds a super sterile output which doesn't klick with me at all...

Yeah, there are definitely dangers in taking too much harmonic stuff out, right!

I've just purchased Harmoniq.
You can't use a specific key like scaler eq or I haven't figured out how it would do that.
Toneboosters by the way has a keyboard that can assist in finding troublesome frequencies
using the keyboard and the spectrum analyser.
Harmoniq works similar to Klevgrand's Brusfri by taking a sound print and processing that.
It focuses on the main frequencies that are resonanting predominately.
Say you have three guitars all resonating at C2, G4 and F7 it will detect those freq's up to a point
and attempt to reduce those frequences for you.
I've just tried it on my electric guitar to reduce some unwanted hum and it did a reasonable job.
I wouldn't have minded more cut however it is what it is and I'm going to be testing it out for guitar usage.