Codwaves – Quance Resonance Suppressor v1.0.0 for WiN

Quance analyzes your sound, finds peaks that are fatiguing to listen to, and reduces them while you play. The harmonics, transients, and timbre that shape your sound remain unchanged.

This problem is familiar to every engineer

When you remove harshness, you often lose something important in the mix. Vowels lose clarity, snare drums lose definition, and while the mix becomes smoother, it can seem less powerful.

Quance was created to solve this problem. Hundreds of self-tuning spectral filters operate only where the spectrum is causing problems, and only as many as necessary. Protection systems work in conjunction with the detector to avoid clipping that could harm the sound.

You choose the cleaning level yourself using a simple control. Quance automatically determines where to apply cleaning and updates the settings every few milliseconds.

Created by professionals

Quance started with a question: what if engineers helped design a resonance control system? We studied existing tools and decided to make them better. Then we did what every developer should do: we shared our prototypes with leading audio engineers and producers and asked how we could improve them.

The feedback we received was helpful. Could this be added? Could this be simplified? Every conversation focused on workflow and performance, and every round of feedback contributed to the plugin’s development. Quance is the result.

When we started receiving letters like this from highly qualified professionals, we realized that we had achieved our goal.

Intelligent learning: starting with the sound itself

Play the part that bothers you and press “Learn.” Quance listens, finds the most noticeable, persistent resonances, and focuses on them, matching each width with its peak. It also narrows the detection range around the problematic area.

Some issues don’t always occur. Hissing sounds may appear in certain words, while room resonance may only occur on one note. A cymbal may sound harsh in the chorus but not in the verse. Click once to start an infinite loop, which will listen to the problematic section and notify you when it’s resolved. Click twice to start a fixed eight-second loop.

The Learn function works according to the selected mode, so vocal processing differs from drum processing. The function never changes the Amount setting, and the entire result can be undone in one step. Save the result, refine it, or delete it.

Tone and transient protection: clean without sacrificing performance

Tone Protect monitors the fundamental frequencies, overtones, and formants of the voice, preventing them from being attenuated where it could be harmful. When boosting vocals, vowels retain their timbre. Turn down the cello, and its sound remains unaffected.

Transient Protect recognizes the attack of a percussion instrument, whether a consonant or a pluck, and attenuates them. A wide attack can sound like resonance, but Quance can distinguish between the two. Snare drums retain their snap, and vocals retain their clarity.

Both functions vary depending on the mode. Drums mode focuses more on transient protection, while Vocals mode focuses on tone. If you’re experiencing pitch-related issues, such as ringing or a “howling” room effect, turn off the protection and let Quance handle the problem.