N.º 04 · Vocal over beat

Easy Vocals

The vocal on top. The beat intact.

PRIVATE BETA VST3 · WINDOWS x64
The interface is a character

One knob: SPACE. It sits on the beat, listens to the vocal through sidechain, and its reactor breathes with the voice — meters and coach line tell you exactly what it's carving, only while it's carving it.

Nothing on screen is decoration: every meter and every reaction is fed by the real engine.

What it actually does

Spectral ducking for one job: making room for the vocal inside the beat. It analyzes voice and beat in 26 log-spaced bands (120 Hz–12 kHz) and only dips a band where BOTH collide at that moment.

No collision, no movement: it never pumps in the gaps. If there's no vocal at all, the output is bit-exact passthrough.

The dip lands 100% on the Mid channel and only 35% on the Sides — the center opens for the voice while the beat's stereo width stays put.

Below 120 Hz and above 12 kHz the beat is untouchable — kick, 808 and air are always safe.

Level-independent: adaptive references mean SPACE responds the same whether the vocal comes in at -20 or -6 dB.

Zero samples of audio latency. The vocal arrives by DAW sidechain — or by the Se7en Audio Server's internal group A, with no manual routing.

Every claim above is backed by the shipping code — how we measure is documented in the methodology. Methodology →

Specs, no smoke

Controls SPACE (0–100%) · Power · SC Source · Processing mode
Detection 26 log bands, 120 Hz–12 kHz · attack 8 ms / release 160 ms
Depth Up to 12 dB per band, perceptual taper (50% ≈ 4.5 dB)
Latency 0 samples
Format VST3 · Windows x64 (validated) · runs local or on the Se7en Audio Server

Part of the line

The heavy engine, outside your DAW.

Every Se7en plugin can hand its heavy DSP to the Se7en Audio Server — a separate process, outside your DAW's audio thread — and the plugins can feed each other through internal sidechain groups, no DAW buses. No server? It always sounds: local processing is instant fallback.

How the engine works

Free download

Get it first

Easy Vocals is in private beta. The list hears about the release — and the launch price — before anyone else. No spam.

Straight answers

How is this different from regular sidechain compression?
A sidechain compressor ducks the WHOLE beat when the vocal appears. Easy Vocals only dips the exact frequency bands where the two actually collide, only while they collide — the beat keeps its punch everywhere else.
Where do I insert it?
On the BEAT (instrumental bus or master of the beat), with the vocal feeding its sidechain input. With the Se7en Audio Server running, it can receive the vocal from internal group A with zero routing.
Will it thin out my beat?
The dip is surgical (per band, only during collision), the sides keep 65% of their energy, and below 120 Hz nothing is ever touched. When the vocal stops, the beat is bit-exact again.

The rest of the line

N.º 01/7
Mastering / loudness
The Button

Demo live

Try the demo

N.º 02/7
Leveling
The Gain Master

In the lab

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N.º 03/7
Stereo width & motion
Chorus Horus

In the lab

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Who builds this

These tools come out of a working studio — built by a producer with 25 years of records for his own sessions first. If you make music and already have an audience, the studio also takes collaborations.

Collaborations