Plugin
Mastering loudness control
Move the loudness, not the music.
What It Does
CYANO splits your master at a single point and treats the two halves as different materials. Everything below the threshold is the Bed — the sustain, the room, the body of the mix — and it is passed through untouched, at full level, even while gain reduction is happening. Everything above it is the Crest, and only that is reconstructed.
That makes the threshold something other than a trigger. It becomes a musical Reference Position: the coordinate your mix is delivered from, with Output Gain translating it to the target you need. Peak stops being the control variable and becomes what it always should have been — a result.
Because the Bed is never attenuated, pumping isn't tuned out of the signal path. It's structurally impossible.
Why one is enough
The job is finished inside one window. ANALYZE NOW listens to three seconds of your music and places the Bed/Crest boundary for you, so you start from a measured Reference instead of hunting for one. The engine works there in either topology — CYANO for glue that leaves the foundation intact, CLASSIC when the material wants a conventional character. The delivery stage carries it the rest of the way: oversampling to 8×, a four-stage clipper, true-peak limiting, and loudness targets measured to ITU-R BS.1770-4 / EBU R128. And it shows its work. The Topology Proof waveform draws the original, the preserved Bed, the reconstructed Crest, and the reduction profile as separate traces, while the Topology Status dashboard reports the split, the glue, the dynamics, the delivery loudness, and the harmonic content in real time. You are never asked to trust the result — you can see which part of the music was moved and which part never was. VST3, AU, AAX and Standalone. One threshold, one decision, one master ready to leave.
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Specifications & System Requirements
| Formats | Details |
|---|---|
| Plug-in formats | VST3, AU, AAX, Standalone |
| Operating systems | macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon native), Windows 10/11 (64-bit) |
| License | 7-day trial (1 machine) · Perpetual (up to 3 machines), managed from your modou dsp account |
FAQ
Yes — every product gets a 7-day free trial. There's no separate trial build: install CYANO, then request your trial from inside the plugin or from the License page in modou DSP Central.
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