Mastfrog Technologies is a software company focused on tools for digital audio and audio engineers.
Zen Punchifier takes a digital-first approach to managing transients in audio, to make your tracks or mixes more up-front and “in-your-face”. It subtlely, transparently, reduces the volume of transients above a threshold using a unique algorithm that minimizes artifacts.
This plugin offers eight bands of dynamics processing, taking the unique approach of selecting a separate, mathematical dynamics curve to be applied to each adjustable frequency band.
Zen Widener is a multi-band stereo image enhancer that works by subtracting center content from a stereo signal and choosing the center-point.
Mixen is an iOS app that lets you take your mixes with you, without imposing on you or forcing you to store or organize things in a particular way, or storing your audio anywhere but where you put it. It’s an awesome music player that does all the things music players do - like playlists and tags.
Just some of the features:
Mixen integrates well the audio system in your car, or AirPlay. And Mixen always remembers where you left it - if you were paused in the middle of a song when it was shut down, you’re at that exact spot the next time you open it.
Theriphone is a fun little app that turns your iPhone into a theremin - pitch, volume, vibrato, waveform mix and whether or not playing uses a chromatic or continuous scale can all be mapped to where you’re touching the screen, or to any of the pitch, yaw, roll and compass heading sensors, or acceleration.
Mastfrog, LLC, is a company focused on producing quality software, primarily in the domain of digital audio.
Mastfrog’s DSP plugins have their DSP code written in Rust, a high-performance, memory-safe language that is ideal for digital signal processing code, and much more difficult to make mistakes with than the C programming language which is traditionally used for DSP.
Our audio plugins are currently Audio Unit v3 plugins for Mac OS. But one of the reasons for choosing a platform-independent language for all the code that does the heavy lifting is so we can port it easily. Future plans include iOS and VST versions of our plugins.
“Mastfrog” is a software-generated name - what better sort of name can there be for a software company?
The frog-spyglass logo was one of the last pieces of artwork created by Erik Schuessler, done gratis on a whim one day during a respite from chemotherapy. He was a fantastic artist, and is missed. The gift of the logo is deeply appreciated.