Eventide Physion

From the geniuses at Eventide, a new breakthrough in sound design- employing their newly innovated Structural Effects technology, you can now separately process the attack and decay of a sound.
 
What it is:
An effects plugin that allows you to split a sound into transient (attacks) and tonal (decays and sustains) parts to assign different effects. 

How we use it:
Remove transients from piano or guitars to create bowed effects. 

Why it's cool:
The first plugin of it's kind utilizing their Structural Effects technology. Physion is the first plug-in to use our ground-breaking Structural Effects™ technology - A new method for processing audio. Physion allows you to split a sound into its transient and tonal parts, process each component separately with Eventide effects, and then recombine. With the ability to add effects and dynamic controls to the transient and tonal sections, you can produce a wide range of effects, from the subtle to the extreme.

Split audio into “Transient” and “Tonal” components
Separate, modify and reassemble any sound
Fine-tune the split using the four “Structural Split” controls.
Six Integrated Transient Effects: Delay, Tap Delay, Dynamics, Phaser, Reverb, Gate + EQ
Seven Integrated Tonal Effects: Delay, Compressor, Pitch, Chorus, Reverb, Tremolo, EQ
Waveform display for clear tracking of Transient/Tonal audio in real time
Artists Presets by: Richard Devine, Chris Carter, Suzanne Ciani, Joe Chiccarelli, John Agnello, Stewart Lerman, Steve Rosenthal, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Sasha, Colin Newman and more.
Radically re-shape a sound by soloing the Tonal and Transient channels. Tighten up drums by dropping the tonal section, or tune a guitar into an ambient sweep by losing the transients

Six Transient Effects

Delay - A standard Delay echo effect with Tempo Sync capability and low and high cut filtering.
Tap Delay - A multi-tap delay-line with Tempo Sync capability. Useful for rhythmic delays, wacky comb filtering, volume swells, or unique reverberant sounds.
Dynamics - A combined Compressor/Limiter and Expander/Gate (function is determined by Ratio control).
Phaser - A classic multi-stage allpass based Phaser effect, which can be controlled via LFO or Envelope.
Reverb - A room Reverb designed with high echo density, imparting a fast and smooth build-up of reflections. This pairs nicely with transient sounds to create a sense of space without obvious echo slap back.
Gate + EQ - A Gate followed by a 3-band overdrive-able EQ.

Seven Tonal Effects

Compressor - A standard Compressor/Limiter.
Chorus - Multi-voiced chorus with randomized modulation
EQ - A 3-band overdrive-able EQ.
Delay - A standard Delay echo effect with Tempo Sync capability, modulation, and low and high cut filtering.
Reverb - A large space Reverb designed with lower echo density (compared to Transient Reverb) and targeted high modal density with little to no modulation to avoid a chorusing sound on the tails. This allows the tonal audio to breathe in the space, yet evolve into dense pad-like reverberant tails.
PitchShift - A 3-voice Pitch Shifter with +/- 1 octave shift per voice and an overall fine tuning control. Useful for retuning drums, creating harmonies, or micropitch chorusing/double-tracking all without transient slap back or smearing.
Tremolo - A standard Tremolo effect which is driven by an LFO in (optional) combination with the Envelope of the plug-in’s input.

Compatibility
Mac OSX 10.7+ (including Sierra), Windows 7+ (including 10) AAX, AU, VST. No iLok dongle required.