Every unmasking plugin carves blindly. Carver shows you exactly where two tracks are fighting for the same frequencies — a live conflict heatmap, not a hunch. Then it carves only that, in real time.
macOS & Windows · VST3 / AU / AAX · 14-day money-back guarantee
The red glow is the Conflict Heatmap — your mix showing you exactly where it's fighting itself.
Kick and bass. Vocal and guitars. Voiceover and music. When two sources want the same part of the spectrum, both turn to mud — and no amount of static EQ fixes it, because the collision only happens some of the time.
Put Carver on the track you want to clean up — the bass, the background music, the pad.
Send the track that should win to Carver's sidechain — the kick, the vocal, the lead. Carver tells you if the routing isn't right yet.
That's it. Carver builds the inverse EQ curve and rides it in real time, only while the sidechain is actually playing.
Real mixes, one button. No processing tricks — just Carver on the second track, sidechained from the first.
Esta es la sección que más convierte de toda la página y ahora mismo está vacía.
Necesitas grabar 3 ejemplos A/B reales (bypass vs. Carver) y exportarlos a
Web/assets/audio/ con estos nombres:
kick-bass-off.mp3 / kick-bass-on.mp3
vocal-music-off.mp3 / vocal-music-on.mp3
podcast-off.mp3 / podcast-on.mp3
Crítico: los dos archivos de cada par deben estar nivelados en loudness (mismo LUFS integrado). Si el "on" suena más alto, la gente lo elegirá por volumen, no por calidad — y tu demo estará mintiendo a tu favor de una forma que se nota. El player de abajo ya funciona; solo faltan los archivos.
Unmasking plugins attenuate. Carver tells you where, why, and lets you shape the response by frequency.
Every other tool shows you two curves and lets you guess. Carver compares both signals band by band and lights up red exactly where they're both loud and at similar level — which is the literal definition of masking. The taller the flame, the worse the clash. You stop guessing where the mud is.
One release time for the whole spectrum is always a compromise: fast enough for the highs distorts your low end, slow enough for the lows smothers your air. Tilt scales the release time per frequency from a single knob — lows recover slowly and cleanly, highs snap back instantly. The green curve shows you the real release time at every frequency as you dial it.
Your ear isn't a spectrum analyzer. The same energy masks far more at 3 kHz than at 50 Hz. Perceptual weights the analysis with equal-loudness contours (ISO 226), so Carver stops cutting low-end conflicts you were never going to hear. Your track keeps its body.
Live — 32-band dynamic EQ, 0 samples of latency,
bit-perfect passthrough at rest. Track and monitor with it on.
Mix — STFT engine with ~513 bands for denser, more surgical carving when
you're mixing down. One click apart.
Hear exactly what's being removed. The most honest way to set Amount.
Audition the sidechain as the detector hears it — filters and all.
Carve only the center, only the sides, or one channel. The rest passes untouched.
Low-cut and high-cut handles right on the display. Bound where Carver acts.
Dry/wet that's phase- and latency-aligned. No comb filtering, ever.
Two full snapshots of every setting. Compare by ear, not by memory.
Real starting points: Kick vs Bass, Vocal Clarity, Master Glue, Side Carve…
Drag the corner. Size is remembered per instance.
| Item | Spec |
|---|---|
| Formats | VST3, AU (macOS), AAX |
| macOS | 12 (Monterey) or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · signed and notarized |
| Windows | 10 or later · 64-bit · signed |
| Live engine | 32-band dynamic EQ · 0 samples latency · bit-perfect at rest |
| Mix engine | STFT, 1024-pt Hann, 75% overlap · ~513 bands · 1792 samples (DAW-compensated) |
| Max attenuation | Up to ~24 dB per band |
| Attack / Release | 0.1–200 ms / 5–2000 ms · Release Tilt ±100% |
| Sidechain filters | Low-cut & high-cut, 20 Hz – 20 kHz |
| Channel modes | Stereo · Left · Right · Mid · Side |
| Real-time safe | No memory allocation in the audio thread |
Carver is Xibalba DSP's first release. Early buyers get it at the founder price — and every 1.x update free.
Instant download · License key by email
Conecta #buy-btn a tu checkout real (Gumroad / Lemon Squeezy) y
#trial a la descarga del demo. Si decides no ofrecer trial o cambias la
política de máquinas/garantía, edita también el texto de arriba —
ahora mismo promete: 3 máquinas, updates 1.x gratis y 14 días de devolución. Son promesas
contractuales, no relleno.
The category standard analyzes the sidechain and applies an inverse curve — Carver does that too, and does it well. What Carver adds: a heatmap that shows you where the masking actually is instead of making you guess; a release that can be tilted across the spectrum from one knob; a perceptual mode that ignores conflicts your ear can't hear; and two engines so the same plugin works at zero latency while tracking and surgically while mixing. If you already own something in this category and it's working for you, the honest answer is that you may not need Carver. Try the demo and let your ears decide.
Yes — Carver has to be told which track should win. That's one send or one menu, depending on your DAW, and Carver shows you the exact steps inside the plugin until the signal arrives. There's no way around it: a plugin that doesn't know what to protect can't protect anything.
Not in Live mode — it's 0 samples, and at rest the audio passes through bit-perfect. Mix mode uses an FFT engine that reports 1792 samples to your DAW, which compensates automatically. Switch freely; you'll hear one brief click as the DAW renegotiates.
Anything that hosts VST3, AU or AAX: Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Reaper, Cubase, Studio One, FL Studio, Bitwig, and others. Use VST3 in Live (AU sidechain is unreliable there), AU in Logic, AAX in Pro Tools.
No. You buy it once, you own it, and every 1.x update is free. No account required to run it — the license activates once and then works offline.
Email within 14 days and you get your money back. No forms, no justification. Try the free demo first, though — that's what it's for.
A small independent shop. Carver is our first plugin, which means you're early: you get the founder price, and you get a developer who actually answers support email. More about us →