HISSTools Freeze

HISSTools Freeze is a lightweight plugin for spectral freezing and morphing based on DSP built in FrameLib.

• HISSTools Freeze was originally built for teaching purposes at the University of Huddersfield.
• It supports several different freezing/morphing modes that allow control over the evolution of the output sound.
• A randomisable multi-band filter allows the user to add movement to the sound.
• A full manual can be found here.

Formats / OS:

• HISSTools Freeze is curently provided as AUv2 (mac only) and VST2 / VST3 (mac / windows).
• Other formats are support by iPlug 2 but not yet configured to build correctly.

To Install the Plugin:

• Automated builds of the plugin can be found on the releases page of GitHub (the latest version is at the top).
• If you do not need to build from source you are strongly advised to download the official builds linked above, rather than to download the source code / repository available directly from the frontpage of the repo on GitHub.

To Build the Plugin:

• You will require a fully setup version of iPlug 2.
• This repo is designed to be placed in a subfolder of the iPlug 2 repository (e.g. iPlug2/Projects).
• The HISSTools_PluginLib repo is also required to be placed next to this one before building (e.g. iPlug2/Projects).
• The FrameLib repo is also required to be placed next to the iPlug 2 repo before building (i.e. at iPlug2/../FrameLib).
• You must build the FrameLib libs (for 'Deployment' on mac or the 'Static' configuration on windows) and place the resultant libs in the following location in this repo before building the plugin:
  • Mac:
    • ./dependencies/build/libframelib_objects.a
  • Windows:
    • ./dependencies/build/framelib.lib
    • .dependencies/build/framelib_objects.lib
• The supplied Xcode workspace and Visual Studio solution should then build the valid plugin formats (AUv2 / VST2 / VST3) correctly.

HISSTools Freeze Makes Use Of:

• iPlug 2 - a C++ audio plug-in framework for desktop, mobile (iOS) and web
  https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2

• HISSTools_PluginLib - Common code that provides UI controls / DSP for all HISSTools plugins
  https://github.com/AlexHarker/HISSTools_PluginLib

• FrameLib - A DSP framework for arbitrary size frame processing with arbitrary sub-sample accurate timing
  https://github.com/AlexHarker/FrameLib

Credits

HISSTools Freeze by Alex Harker
CeReNeM - The University of Huddersfield

Contact:

• A.Harker@hud.ac.uk