tranQuilizr G2

Overview

tranQuilizr G2 is an equalizer plug-in employing fully configurable eight bands.

Graphical Equalizer Area

Graphical Equalizer Area represents band settings and total equalizing curve. Horizontal axis is for frequency, from 1Hz to 50kHz. Vertical axis is for gain, from -24dB to 24dB.

Frequency range can be changed by bottom scroll bar (drag and wheel), +/- zoom buttons.

Gain range can be selected from 4, 9, 15 and 24dB. Selector buttons are on header panel.

EQ Point Display

EQ points correspond to eight bands. Point color is set by band type.

Orange: Peaking Equalizer
Skyblue: Shelving Equalizer
Green: Baxandall-style Shelving Equalizer
Gray: HiCut/LoCut Filter

Current channel settings is displayed above points.

EQ Point Operation

When mouse cursor hovers over eq point, the point will be highlighted.

Equalizer Point can be dragged. Horizontal drag changes frequency of the corresponding band, and vertical drag changes gain.

Table 9 Mouse Operations of equalizer point
Operation	Action
Left Drag	Frequency and Gain Change
Left Double-Click	Toggle Band In/Out
Right Click	Display Popup Menu
Ctrl + Right Click	Toggle Band Solo

Band Palette

By clicking EQ point, band palette pops up.

Palette includes following controls:

Band Enabled
Band Solo
Frequency
Gain
Type
Channel
Filter Slope

Band Palette can be suppressed by the button on the header panel.

Modifier Keys

EQ Point drag behavior is altered while pressing modifier keys. Command modifier key is available only in macOS.

Table 10 Default modifier keys of equalizer point
Modifier Key	Button	Action
Ctrl	Drag	Frequency Only
Shift	Drag	Gain Only
Ctrl + Shift	Drag	Bandwidth / Filter Slope
Alt	Drag	Bandwidth / Filter Slope
Command	Drag	Frequency Only
Command + Shift	Drag	Bandwidth / Filter Slope
(none)	Wheel	Bandwidth / Slope
Ctrl	Wheel	Type
Shift	Wheel	Channel
Alt	Wheel	None
Command	Wheel	Type

Actions are configurable from plugin menu.

Band Control Area

tranQuilizr G2 employs fully configurable eight bands.

Band name can be edited. This doesn’t affect to sound.

IN button toggles band on/off. When lighting, band is enabled.

Solo button toggles band solo mode. When lighting, band is in solo mode. When at least one band is set to solo mode, all other bands are bypassed.

Band type can be changed by Type Selector.

Table 11 Mouse Operations of type selector
Operation	Action
Left Click	Show drop-down menu
Left Drag	Choose next or previous item
Wheel	Choose next or previous item

Frequency Knob controls center frequency or cutoff frequency.

Gain Knob controls gain.

Bandwidth Knob controls bandwidth of peaking and shelving equalizer.

Table 12 Bandwidth-Q relationship
Bandwidth (oct)	Q
10	0.0313
5	0.182
2	0.667
1	1.41
0.5	2.87
0.2	7.21
0.1	14.4
0.05	28.9

Slope Knob controls slope of LoCut and HiCut filters. Slope can be chosen from 6, 12, 18, 24, 36 and 48dB per octave.

Mode Selector controls equalizer mode.

A: Minimum-phase equalizer. (default)
B: Maximum-phase equalizer.
C: Conventional biquad equalizer.

Channel Selector controls processing channel of band.

Table 13 Channel settings
Plugin’s channel configuration	Available settings
Mono	None (grayed out)
Stereo	LR, L, R, M, S
3 or more channels (surround)	ALL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Total Control Area

IN button toggles plugin’s bypass state.

Gain Knob controls output gain.

Auto Gain Button toggles automated gain compensation availability. When enabled, plugin automatically calculates compensation gain amount from current band settings. Hi-Cut and Lo-Cut bands will be excluded from compensation gain calculation.

Auto gain does not affect to gain knob settings. When both controls are operated, both gains are processed independently.

Monitor Channel Knob selects monitoring channel.

Table 14 Monitor channel settings
Plugin’s channel configuration	Available settings
Mono	None (grayed out)
Stereo	LR, L, R, M, S
3 or more channels (surround)	ALL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

MS Balance Knob controls Mid-Side balance of output signal. This control is available only when the plugin is configured as stereo.

Bandwidth Style Selector controls gain-bandwidth relationship for peaking and shelving equalizers.

Table 15 Bandwidth Style
Setting	Result
Standard	Gain does not affect to bandwidth.
Gentle	Bandwidth gets increased when absolute value of decibel gain increases.
Focus	Bandwidth gets decreased when absolute value of decibel gain increases.
Hybrid	Bandwidth gets increased when boosting, gets decreased when cutting.

Quality Selector controls internal oversampling ratio. Normal setting is appropriate for track manipulation. High and Extreme settings are nice for submix and total.

Table 16 Quality and Design CPU Load
Setting	Design CPU load (single thread)
Normal	2%
High	7%
Extreme	15%

Algorithm Selector button group selects internal sound processing algorithm.

Spectrum Analyzers

tranQuilizr G2 has two different spectrum analyzers. Each analyzer can be toggled buttons on header panel.

From left, there are Graph Analyzer toggle button, Belt-Shaped Analyzer toggle button and Analyzer Settings button.

Belt-Shaped Analyzer

Belt-Shaped Analyzer represents levels of each frequency using hue and brightness.

Graph Analyzer

Graph Analyzer represents levels of each frequency as position of graph line.

Analyzer Settings

By clicking Analyzer Settings button on the header panel, analyzer settings panel appears.

Smoothness selector controls graph smoothing amount. Smaller values are nice for finding signal peak, larger values are nice for reviewing total frequency response.

Sensitivity selector toggles auto gain control of analyzers. When Auto is selected, plugin will determine gain for display. When Manual is selected, user can adjust it.

If you’re mainly using belt-shaped analyzer, Auto option will be nice. For graph analyzer, Manual option mitigates graph flapping problem.