Based on the Transient Emphasis section of the award-winning Elevate Mastering Limiter, Punctuate from Newfangled Audio is a multi-band transient modulator based on the critical bands in the human ear. Punctuate’s intelligent algorithms allow you to control the transient emphasis or suppression of all 26 critical bands with just four controls. This makes for an incredibly powerful, but very easy to use, transient modulator.

Transient shapers are used by top mix engineers to either crank up or soften the transients of instruments, emphasizing either the attack or sustain. However, traditional transient shapers work on the whole signal at once, modulating the whole frequency range when the transient snap is only happening in one band. Punctuate uses a model of the human ear to run a set of transient shapers across the whole spectrum of human hearing. This allows you to tailor the attack of a whole range of instruments, busses and whole mixes without altering the entire frequency range. The result is unparalleled transient shaping power-focused where you need it, and not where you don’t.