CNTRLLD SPECTRA — press kit
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WHAT IT IS (one line)
SPECTRA is an adaptive spectral shaper for mixing and mastering, with a target
curve you can draw yourself.

SHORT (50 words)
CNTRLLD SPECTRA is an adaptive spectral shaper. It measures your mix as it plays
and evens out what does not belong — resonances, masking build-ups, holes — while
Follow blends between an absolute reference and your material's own balance. Six
draggable nodes let you redefine the target the correction steers towards.

LONGER (120 words)
CNTRLLD SPECTRA combines two ideas that usually come in separate plug-ins: a
spectral balancer that compares your music to a reference curve and steers
towards it, and a perceptual corrector that leaves your macro balance alone and
only evens out what sticks out of it. The Follow control blends between them
without steps.

What neither of those offers is here as well: the target is editable. Six
draggable EQ nodes are added to the target itself, so the automatic correction
works with the shape you drew instead of fighting it.

Three variants share one curve — Live at zero latency, Standard at 4 ms, Master
in full linear phase — and every one of them can work on mid and side separately.

KEY POINTS
- Two correction paths: Shape (slow, tonal) and Compress (fast, catches resonances)
- Recover lifts dips, Tame holds peaks — hardest around 3 kHz, where the ear is most sensitive
- Target: Follow, Tilt (dB/oct) and Loudness (ISO 226 equal-loudness contour)
- Six editable nodes: bell, low shelf, high shelf, low cut, high cut; aimed at stereo, mid or side
- Width in the manner of a classic analogue widener: only the side is filtered,
  mid untouched, mono sum unchanged, no saturation
- Build-ups and breaks are recognised, so a drop does not come back louder than the track
- Identical output at every buffer size, tested bit for bit from 1 to 2048 samples
- Optional true-peak limiter, auto gain, Hear Change, metering
- About 7 % of one core at 48 kHz on an Apple M2 Pro, with everything turned up

THE FACTS
Developer:      CNTRLLD (Netherlands)
Product:        SPECTRA
Formats:        VST3 and AU (macOS). Windows VST3 in preparation.
Requirements:   macOS 11 or later, Apple Silicon. 44.1–192 kHz. Mono or stereo.
Latency:        Live 0 ms · Standard 4 ms · Master 100 ms (+1.35 ms with the limiter on)
Copy protection: a signed licence checked on the user's own machine. No activation
                server, no iLok, no dongle. Works offline.
Trial:          30 days, nothing held back
Price:          EUR 149; EUR 99 introductory price at launch
Website:        https://cntrlld.com
Press contact:  support@cntrlld.com

WHAT IS IN THIS KIT
logo/         wordmark in SVG and PNG (dark, light, transparent)
screenshots/  the interface at 1600 px wide, as the plug-in draws it

USING THESE FILES
You may use everything in this kit to write about SPECTRA: reviews, news,
videos, shop listings. Please do not alter the logo's proportions or colours, and
do not present CNTRLLD or SPECTRA as your own product or as an endorsement of
anything else. Screenshots are of the real plug-in and are not retouched.

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