Zynaptiq UNCHIRP​

Codec Artifact Removal & Transient Retrieval​

UNCHIRP is a plug-in for removing the most obnoxious artifacts associated with lossy audio encoding and other FFT based processes, such as spectral de-noising. Reduce musical noise, suppress high frequency chirping (also known as underwater sound, warbling or the tweeties), fix transient smearing, and restore lost high frequencies – UNCHIRP does it all in one go. If you need to salvage poorly encoded music, speech that has gone through a low bit rate uplink, material that has been de-noised too strongly, or footage recorded with consumer mobile devices – or if you simply want to add contour and vibrance to already great sounding recordings – UNCHIRP is your (only) friend.​

The future seems promising

 

Antidigital enhancer! artefact-killer!
Something brand-new! POWERFUL
Zynaptiq are cool guys who bring us plug-ins with innovative technologies......
Also, i think it's a good idea for restore audio after hard hiss removers - unchirp can kill bubbling water sound after denoiser, and enhance audio a bit. What do ya think guys?

 

Looks interesting, Zynaptiq always unveils something interesting. Thanks Evorax.

 

That's exactly what i've thought about when i found out unchirp. The noise reduction artifacts, hahah.

 

Cataaaaa, my PMs are aging badly.

 

Alternatively, I've been doing exciting for years with some success.

What you hear as artifacts is actually the absence of HF material due to over-quantization. Exciting makes some high-frequency material and so is a somewhat correct approach.

 

using this feels like beeing in a epsisode of csi:miami, just like all of their plugins *yes*

Too bad it is so cpu demanding (at least their other products are) I Hope they will work on that later, or that our consumer cpu's will get much faster soon

Till then I'll be freezing tracks over and over and over XD

 

Well, i think that new technologies and algorithms will require more CPU power, so the optimization will be alot harder for the developers too, because they can't sacrifice any of the plugin's quality. If they wanna keep coming with special tools, the cpu consumption will get higher and higher. I'd rather hope for the " improving consumer cpus" part, but that would mean extra money spent as well. Maybe we still have to face a few years of freezing... but i'm not complaining about... i've got used to it, especially with a great feature such as StudioOne's one.

 

Sorry mate, I will get on it. I have too many projects going on and I'm fucking tired man. Haven't even eaten in like 12 hours. I read your last message already so when I get a moment after I eat something I will respond.

 

"Well, i think that new technologies and algorithms will require more CPU power, so the optimization will be a lot harder for the developers too, because they can't sacrifice any of the plugin's quality. If they wanna keep coming with special tools, the cpu consumption will get higher and higher." -Evorax

It depends on how complex the algorithm is, and how well the devs optimize it. Keyword is OPTIMIZE in most cases. Specialist tools don't have to break the CPU if you do it right. You can usually make a moderate CPU drop with only a slight quality decrease, which should be acceptable for most users. Conversely, for slight quality increases, a disproportionate hike in CPU often happens. It just so happens that ZYNAPTIC chose one of the most Intensive CPU ways (AI/NN iirc).

I have also tested Zynaptic UNCHIRP

Most Zynaptic products don't work for me or aren't worth it for me. This one is no exception.

For the amount of CPU it consumed (1-1.5 cores), the amount of enhancement it did was unwarranted. In terms of absolute CPU usage, it's also unbearable.

In The manual it says, some components do transient enhancement, DynEQ, and Exciting (which I stated above in a prev. post). You can already do this since a few years ago, and with much less CPU usage .

There's simply (almost) no reason to have Unchirp. FOr general enhancement of HQ sources, you can use the above too. If you've got a low-bitrate source, chances are there's other problems in the source, like imaging, which this won't fix.

It also failed to undo some modulation I added in, which it also claimed to fix. Sample for all of the above was また あした (TSF Project Bootleg Mix) with some Noise Reduction applied with Tone2 Akustix.

Other Zynaptic products

UNVEIL: Lots of CPU usage, and doesn't really remove reverb. I tried this on Marvin Gaye's "What's goin' on" with what sounded like a long plate reverb. In fact, Acon Digital deverberate and Izotope RX3 actually work. For transient or phase-based Surround upscaling, you can use a mixture of pi+Mashtactic and/or DTS Neural upmix. All use much less cpu.

UNFILTER: Lots of CPU usage, and failed to unEQ the sample I gave it to: "Get It On! Doppleganger" from the 2nd Impression album. You can hear a mid cut if you listen to it, UNFILTER didn't undo it. Manually EQing it (it's not hard), will.

The ONLY thing which worked, was PITCHMAP. And even then that has very few use-cases for my workflows.

 

Native Instruments worked with Zynaptiq in developing Molekular and I really like those effects. *yes*