am I the only one that thinks eqs should all be vertical instead of horizontal?? it just makes sense. high end at the top. low end at the bottom.

Fun fact: Elastique, the pitch shifting algo that Reaper, Cubase, Studio One and FL Studio (among others) uses is made by zplane. They have some very smart people who are at the forefront in DSP development and progress.

that guitar reverb example is one of the coolest things you’ve shown on this channel. really cool plugin and demonstration of what it’s capable of. thanks!

Unless your sounds are separated in the stereo field how would you isolate them if overlapping with other sounds? Your example is contrived to make the plugin look as if its useful. The affiliate link is not proof of your independence.

Should be fun for producers who work with samples

This plugin seems incredibly useful for situations where you need to isolate something and apply additional processing to the "selection". That won't be possible in many mixes, but this looks like a great tool to have in the toolbox. Really cool..

I've very rarely see a tool or plugin that I am in constant need of. This is a game changer. The amount of clients who have no access to their original projects but still need something lowered or boosted is astounding.

This opens up completely new possibilities for sampling, wow :) like it

When I first got this I thought, hey, how about more than one isolation rectangles? Then I engaged brain and saw that using two or more instances on the split signals is the way to go… Great video by the way. Thanks.

I find this awesome to identify bursty issues in an audio file. There's lots of tools that can do the same, and more and more AI tools that will clean it up, but if I look at it through Peel beforehand, it helps me dial more targeted settings that I don't have the skills to 'hear' yet

I had Zplane deCoda first. A standalone program that was/is useful for instrument practise, enabling the isolation and susbstituting of parts for learning purposes. When PEEL came along, I grabbed that too. It doesn't get a whole lot of use in my rig currently, but it is a useful tool nevertheless. As you pointed out, you have to watch out for artefacts when there's not a lot going on to 'mask' them. Still good though 👍

Yes, will be grabbing that. Thank you for the review

There's value in simplicity. It takes most people weeks/months/years to really get to grips with how a certain 'simple' tool like a compressor, EQ, whatever,... works and behaves. The danger with product like this, is that it potentially brings people further away from understanding the fundamental essentials and jumping straight into spectral isolation etc. Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic that tools like this even exist, but there's always a certain learning curve you have to go through as an engineer (like with most jobs). We have to be aware there's a danger in tools like A.I. assistants, auto-leveler aids, etc. A fundamental understanding and experience of the basic principles of audio can't be bypassed by using a magic tool. I'm convinced it's easy for people to think that certain tools will solve their audio related issues, when in reality it's their lack of basic understanding and coming to grips with the fundamentals of audio that is the real problem. Tools like this can add to the confusion. Worst of all is that their marketing is mostly aimed at the widest possible audience, promising them a solution for their ignorance. This is just a general statement and by no means 'targeted' at Wytse or PEEL specifically.

Didn’t know I wanted this. I’m going to pick it up now though. Seems like it could be really useful.

It would be cool if you could do multiple boxes, each with it's own external routing, and also a mix control for each to set how much each box effects each section. Very nice plugin!

Great video as always. Love this tune!

Love you man, great content as always!

This should be made with a built in exciter / suppressor so you can brighten and darken the harmonics/subharmonics above and below. That's a plugin I have always dreamed of. Also a rudimentary version of the magic rx highlighter with this capability would be insane. Edit: I appreciate everyone telling me that I can use my own exciters I did watch the video too, but it was a work flow recommendation. I still love yall though x

This is so cool and very useful, great for reviving tracks.

I've been using this for the past 2 or 3 years to extreme filter samples, now thanks to you my secret weapon is out. LOL!

Interesting tool! The best use I can think of is as a very precise and surgical denoiser, like if you have a stereo field recording, and you want to isolate a specific thing! I don't see a lot of use for it in production if you've still got the project file. Of course a much easier way to add some reverb to the guitar would be to... add some reverb to the guitar!

this one is probably the most interesting tool i´ve seen around for years. So many aplications.

Boy! How I could have done with this on Scarlet & Blue, a restorative mastering project.This would have saved me so much time in post editing. I had to duplicate a track, EQ out everything below and above say the vocal or the guitar solo, add FX and processing, and then had to blend it back in to make it sound natural. This is far more accurate and a whole lot quicker! 😎

Huh. Not what I expected, and definitely more useful than I thought in specific use cases!

Personally I use spectralayers as it allows for even deeper processing, on individual phrases, you can separate different elements and add reverb to the end of a vocal phrase without touching anything else, removing noise etc

This sounds better than many of the "stem separation" stuff I've seen so far. This could actually be useful for learning songs, or perhaps recording a cover while removing the original part from the backing track. Your example of mastering projects with a suboptimal mix is also one that came to mind. This plugin seems to be pretty versatile.

Great Concept ! really useful tool

Hmm! Very interesting! Thanks for the reviews, you are the best!

This plugin got bashed when it first came out. I never understood why . It’s useful! But the negative reviews made me not dig in. People got into the old “This old plugin does the same thing” thing. Well, I never heard of that “old plugin” so it’s news to me! Besides, a plugin + the creativity of the user makes all the difference in the world. I bet there are thousands of plugins that need a revisit. Especially if they’ve been updated. Love that song! Darude has a decent palette.

I got this. But unfortunately since the UI is missing screw holes it just dropped and bounced off the task bar and broke. So had to zip the license file and email it back.

It's been three months or more that I have taken a break entirely from Music Production,Audio Engineering and I won't be producing for the next one year It's totally a different feeling...I still watch your videos when I find some time...I really love your videos I still remember the first video I have watched...It was the Mastering Comparison between Izotope and other Platforms and It was really cool...

great for mastering

Not sure I'd use it for regular mixing (those artifacts are pretty over the top, I've heard better sounding 56kbps mp3s) but as a creative production and sound design tool there's so much potntial here, and the price is even fair! I've been doing MIDI transcriptions of classic breakbeats recently and I can tell this is a lot better than the tools I've been using.

thats pretty cool actually. I've been wanting something like this for a looooooooooong time

This is very cool! Thank you for doing this review. It's like a very cool, visual side chain thing.

I've had peel for a long time. The latency deterred me from using it more. It seemed to be best used for post-production. I'll try resampling or routing the signal to a different channel to see if that helps. Thanks for the review!

Zplane has the deCoda plug with this same feature, it's really good. I guess having this plug as a separate thing is good too.

Zplane have been ahead of the game for years. In fact you probably already use their tech as it is licenced in other daws and plugins, especially if you've ever time stretched something.

Now, this is something new and really GOOD!, thanks

That's cool. It would be nice to hear it on a more dense mix.

Pretty remarkable processor. If you can automate the frequency and with parameters you could perform some fun fx processing with it.

Zplane has been making great plugins for a while. Love that company

what a cool concept

this is amazing for sample-based artists

I like it. Seems like they could just add a gate to it or something to tighten up the leaking background noises. But yeah, when you isolated and routed the lead guitar and then added the delay, a light bulb went off in my head. I needs that. You can take a boring section and add such variety to it by switching to the solo guitar, then bringing in the delay then bringing back the background with the delay. same section but now you have ear candy for the listener. Great for arranging.

That's cleaner isolation than I've heard with stem separation software. Seems like it could have many potential uses

Too many artifacts for me but I can see applications in correctional mastering. I really found the display the most interesting part as I found it easy to determine the frequency density better than a standard RTA/FFT display.

Super cool plugin for forensics and problem-solving. I see this as a good compliment to RX for nerdy stuff. One thing you didn’t try was creating two boxes at the same time. It must do that, right? I could see some uses for multiple boxes.

you looked much more excited about this plugin in the thumbnail than in the video

That is an awesome plugin for fixing a finished mix. Thumbs up

That is definitely a useful tool!........Your exercise of adding verb to gtrs could be used everywhere. So many possibilities. I've never had any of these isolation plugins, so I don't know how it stacks up to others. Very affordable too 😉👍

Bloody hell!!! I need this

There was already something like this in old Cakewalk Sonar called R-Mix, it had an ellipse shape and rectangular shape and allowed you to shift the selection I think. Too bad the plugin is defunct and 32 bit only. But it did the same thing and sounded the same

at this point im convinced this stuff is just magic

this is just amazing. whoever said mastering engineers shouldn't try to fix mix problems was out of their mind. if you can help an element in a mix, do it. i'm buying this like...now. EDIT: HOW IS THIS $40

This is very cool.

How very cool. A great tool.

I did buy the ecoda from zplane but it sadly did not do what I thought it would do, it does work like ripx BUT you can't extract anything so it just analyse the notes and chords...so not sure if that peel is an useful tool for me

Can be a great de-essing tool...or a transient suppressor maybe...have to check it out, thanks for the video!

Brilliant.

I feel like the only thing I’d use this for would be a remix. Just taking slices of the various frequency modulations could be fun though. For $39 it’s worth the risk. Thanks.

PEEL is also embedded in zplane's deCoda, which is great for learning songs!

Ok this is great for sampling.

Very cool 👍

Very interesting what can be done with this. There's going to be some APEEL for this plugin.

I wonder if the box is mappable to an lfo it would be super fun for sound design

whats the song in the background? so relaxing

In my opinion they should just release the visualization as a standalone thing so I can listen to music and chill in a dark room.

Great video as always, could you please make a review on Space Control by Acustica?

Thanks for showing this really useful tool. Sadly there are no multiple output supportet in cubase... if this comes with an update i would buy it.

Well done! I was not expecting that with the reverb. Beautiful and clever 👌

Hm.. I don't know man. This software isn't really that great if the elements in the song you're using isn't already clearly separated and divided in the first place. Which is the case in your example. To me it sounds like you make the claim that this plugin is some kind of real time LALAL.AI-replacement, which it's absolutely not. And it would NEVER fix anything even close to "every mixing issue". I'm having a real hard time wrapping my head around how you who is such a perfectionist could recommend something like this? I mean c'mon, It's just a "fancy" band pass filter in disguise. And beside this you say you're not affiliated with the creator, but still have an affiliated link to PB and PEEL in the description? 🙄 I mean I understand if you need to make money and need to do stuff like this, but can't you just be honest about it? This whole setup seems shady and deceptive and has actually changed my perception of you and you content. Which is a tad sad, I really like your stuff. /Jono from Sweden!

buying ti right now

You could use it to isolate a part you wanna learn or in karaoke lessen the vocals volume to allow people sing over..

It would be really cool as a problem finding tool if you could send it a whole mix and have it tell you what source tracks you are hearing the content from in the rectangle. Like sometimes, especially from a live recorded session or stage session, you are hearing some muddy rumble coming from somewhere and you have to go through a bunch of different tracks to find out that it's a bleed into one of the drum mics or a vocal mic or something. With a tool like this, you could easily and quickly find the problem sound and then find out which tracks its coming from to go and fix it properly.

i can probably build this in fl studio patcher .. am i right ?

Is the reason you didn’t use your usual track that it wouldn’t work with usual track? Is it possible that this really only works with this one track because the tracks are separated in a very odd way that makes them very separate and therefore separately addressable? This was unlike any other presentation I’ve seen you make, it seems deceptive. Please tell me I’m wrong because I follow you all the time. I know I’m wrong because I’ve seen a lot of your videos. I apologize for questioning you. But I’m convinced that the track used to demo the plugin shows the plugin in its very best light, and I can’t think of another track that places instruments this way in a stereo field. Thank you for what you do, and thank you for hearing me out. I’m 72, worked in the recording industry from the time I was 23, but as an arranger,not an engineer. I have learned so much from watching you. So again, thank you.

realy cool tool

I would love this tool for cleaning up old recordings. It's affordable, but I'm just some poor neet so can't do this now.

I could see using this to compress a terribly mixed vocal for mastering or something of that nature

This is going to be vital for handling 2-tracks without the original stems as you said. Especially since you can fine tune selections, unlike a typicall track splitter algorythm. Sonible please take notes, lol.

Don't Spectralayers & Izotope RX do this as well?

Now I know! Just made a comment on Leland Sklars latest "Comparison" video where he says that's he who plays the bass on a new released song. The song was from 1973 and I did'nt know it was possible to "exclude" everyone else on the track and just single out one instrument. Wondering about copyright issues?

I bought this about 2 years ago and emailed the company then with my view that this could be a great "visual mixing" aid. But there is an issue, like say when 2 mono guitars are panned L&R. For some reason they smear visually across the middle. Below was my comments to them... _____ I bought PEEL 2 days ago and love it! However my main usage would be a "visual mix tool" to help me see where I place instruments and how I EQ them to have their own spaces as I create music. I was wondering if you can tell me if there is anything to learn from the dots. density etc? I'm a bit confused about how you made them work. First I hope you can develop it a bit more have an input dial or sensitivity slider. On weaker signals it will help to SEE whats going on better when I have a track solo'd etc. I turned up the gain going in... and that works for me, but of course it gave the actual music too much gain. I noticed when I panned hard left... 1 mono acoustic guitar, the visual signal was very nice and defined in one area of the X&Y field. However when I doubled that guitar and panned hard right... the two guitars blurred across the whole image with dots... making it LOOK like it does when I add reverb etc.. instead of what I expected to have two clear images of my tracks panned L&R. Is this intentional? It kind of messes up how I'd use the plugin. Is there any way in the future to have a Preference setting to choose clear images of mono instruments like that?

hmm, why not just use the isolated signal for the wet path of your effect? i.e. as a prefilter to the send?

I recommend you take a look at the spectral analysis of the Bee Gees song Stayin' Alive. Stunning -sound engineering, and you can SEE it in the spectral domain! incredible. just incredible

does it work with Adobe audition?

okay sick

Cool plugin. Although I recently tried a decent AI tool online. It can split a song into various parts such as vocals, bass, drums etc.. So using your track as an example, I think that AI might separate the guitar, piano and percussion parts more effectively than the plugin. But that's not from within the DAW, so this plugin has at least that one advantage.

Thats the one i scrolled down and someone else remembers mashtactic lol and it did more than this does lol !!! Biters lol !!!!

Only now are you testing it?? 😂 Brilliant plugin!

It's actually a vocal extractor.

Pretty cool plugin, wasn’t gonna buy, but it’s actually pretty affordable, so what the heck, got something to do now on Friday night.

I guess you didn't replace Fabfilter with Sonible Smart Reverb...

isn't it sort of like spectralayers?

Mixing drum loops can be great

Amazing

You can kinda do this with spliteq

It's too bad it doesn't have full functionality with Logic Pro. It's only $40, but I probably won't buy it since it seems like I'd only be able to use it as a listening tool and not a separation tool.

That pkugin has been out for donkeys years you could do squares or circles and move multiple instances around to pull out more audio frequencies cant remember if its the same company but thats an ancient plugin and it was good back then i remember lol !!