Triple-Stage Processing

Beyond the conventional Attack-Sustain division found in most transient shapers, Trinity Shaper introduces Body, a unique middle stage that forms its distinctive Triple-Stage processing. Powered by Three-body Technology's innovative detection and processing algorithm, Triple-Stage ensures precise identification and adjustment of audio elements, delivering unparalleled freedom in dynamics control.

What is the ‘Body’ stage?

Take a drum hit, for example. In two-stage transient shapers, the initial 1-10 ms of the hit is typically identified as the Attack stage, while everything that follows is grouped into the Sustain stage. This approach simply overburdens the Sustain stage, which contains not only the decay and reverb of the hit but also potential noise from the recording. Consequently, any adjustment to the Sustain affects all sounds occurring after the initial 10 ms of the transient.

Trinity Shaper’s Body stage uniquely targets the content 20-50 ms after transients to isolate most of the 'decaying' part of a drum hit, hence giving you the freedom to adjust the decay and sustain (the 'tail') parts separately.

Additionally, the lengths of Attack and Body stages are fully customizable in Trinity Shaper, allowing you to target specific audio segments with surgical precision.

Outstanding Sound Quality

ADAA (Anti-Derivative Anti-Aliasing) technology, which also appeared in our Cenozoix Compressor, is now integrated into Trinity Shaper to significantly reduce aliasing and digital distortions.

The refined envelope detection algorithm significantly reduces distortions and purifies the processed sound. Whether you’re boosting or reducing any of the stages, exceptional transparency is always guaranteed.

The complete time-domain processing further blocks FFT artifacts introduced by frequency-domain processing throughout the production.

'Focus' Filters

In single-band mode, you can use the High Pass and Low Pass filters to 'focus' your processing on a specific frequency range at each of the three detected stages.

When boosting snare Attack, we can focus on the low-mid frequencies to tighten the snare tone without emphasizing the high-end clicks.

When boosting Body, we can focus on the high-mid frequencies to increase the punch without muddying the lows.

When attenuating Sustain, we can focus on the high frequencies to reduce harshness in the tail while preserving the ringing.

Multi-band Mode

Transient Shaper also provides multi-band mode that excels at processing complex audio content. When enabled, it splits the audio into 4 customizable frequency bands, allowing for even more precise dynamics modifications.

While single-band mode can effectively handle individual instruments, multi-band mode offers greater flexibility for ‘taming’ a bus or the entire mix. Attack, Body, and Sustain can be adjusted and monitored separately on each band. The ‘Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks’ algorithm in multi-band mode achieves zero processing latency, and zero static phase shifting when no gain processing is applied.

Oversampling

Trinity Shaper supports switchable 2x, 4x, 8x, and 16x oversampling options, ensuring pristine sound quality under any extreme condition.

Lookahead

Transients are always accompanied by rapid volume changes, requiring boosts and attenuations to react swiftly. To prevent sudden shifts in volume envelopes that can occur with rapid transients, Trinity Shaper features a switchable Lookahead function, enabling advance detection of the signal to effectively smooth the curve of transients.

Lookahead OFF

Lookahead ON

Analog Modeled Clipper

Clipper (Limit) is another essential tool for transient shaping. Instead of using a cold digital clipper, Trinity Shaper implements an optional analog-modeled clipper, delivering a more transparent and warm sound with fewer artificial traces.

Flexible Side Chain Controls

Side Chain Mode

Supports two stereo processing modes: Left/Right and Mid/Side.

Stereo Linking/MS Linking

The channel linking can be adjusted to process anywhere from 100% stereo linked compression to 100% dual mono compression.

Side Chain EQ

An 8-band parametric side chain EQ, featuring intuitive controls and extreme customizability powered by our well acclaimed Kirchhoff-EQ.