Minimal Audio Morph EQ $49
Bored with your regular EQs? This new Minimal Audio EQ with its morphing design could be just what you need to spice things up
Morph EQ (AU, VST, VST3, AAX) is a flexible EQ processor from Minimal Audio and as the name suggests it can be used for morphing effects, as well as more typical EQ duties. You get unlimited filter bands and seven filter types (high, low and band pass, high and low shelf peak and notch) with +/- 36dB gain where relevant. Main features also include series or parallel signal flow, optional gain dependent filter width, and an output limiter with both gentle saturation and punchy soft clip settings.
You have unlimited filter bands with independent channel assignment (stereo, left, right, mid or sides), but there’s also a whole bunch of very handy global controls (Shift, Pinch, Spread and Scale). Shift and Scale both change all frequencies or all gains collectively, and are particularly handy from a time-saving perspective. Pinch, meanwhile, expands or contracts the overall frequency spread of the bands and is certainly interesting from a creative viewpoint.
Overall though, our favourite here would be Spread. For any stereo filters this lets you gradually offset the filter frequencies between left and right channels. Spread has a more marked outcome on more complex sounds, or where the filter curves are more dramatic (band pass for example). Nevertheless, we found that it was really great for creative changes to the stereo image.
Further features include frequency analyser display, context sensitive tooltips, global wet/dry mix, three gain scales, individual filter auditioning, input and output gain (-inf to +10dB) and undo/redo for filter changes. One thing that has not been included is individual band bypass, however we understand that this may be added in the future.