Module Reference · Glitch & Destruction
Spectral Freeze
Spectral Freeze grabs the full sonic fingerprint of a moment and holds it as an infinite drone. Capture manually, automatically on hits above a threshold, or on a tempo grid - so freezes land on the beat. A resolution control trades how fast the freeze responds against how smooth it sounds.
The frozen material is a playground: time and frequency blur smear it into wash, denoise strips it to the tonal core, pitch shifts it two octaves each way with slow drift, and shimmer and sparkle controls keep the frozen tone alive instead of ringing statically - while the dry signal's hits can punch through so the rhythm survives the ice age.
Why it hits different
The GhostWare take.
- Hit-triggered and tempo capture modes freeze in time with the music.
- Blur, denoise and sparkle controls sculpt the frozen sound itself.
- Transient pass-through keeps grooves alive inside the drone.
In the shot
Reading the panel.
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SPECTRAL DISPLAY
The frozen sound, drawn across the frequency spectrum.
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FREEZE / THAW
The big moment: latch the spectrum, thaw it back on command.
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BLUR DECK
Time / freq blur, denoise, tilt and drift shape the frozen tail.
Control Showcase
Every control, explained.
17 controls, named exactly as they appear in the plugin.
Freeze grabs the current spectrum and holds it as an infinite drone; Thaw releases it.
Freeze resolution: small reacts fast, large is smoother and more precise (FFT size).
Smears the spectrum over time - even unfrozen audio turns to wash.
Blurs energy across neighboring frequencies for softer, cloudier spectra.
Strips low-level spectral noise from the freeze so only the tonal core remains.
Recycles the frozen spectrum into itself for slowly mutating drones.
How freezes are taken: Manual (the Freeze switch), Transient (auto-freeze on hits) or Tempo (freeze on a beat grid).
Hit level required to trigger a Transient capture.
Beat grid for Tempo capture mode.
How fast an automatic freeze lets go.
Adds gentle randomness inside the freeze so it shimmers instead of ringing statically.
Tilts the frozen spectrum darker or brighter.
Pitch-shifts the frozen material, up to two octaves each way.
Slow random pitch drift of the frozen tone.
Locks left and right freezes together; lower values let the sides drift apart.
Randomly nudges tiny slices of the frozen spectrum for granular sparkle inside the freeze.
Passes the dry signal's transients through the freeze so rhythm survives.