Quance

Quance (pronounced kew-ants) is a resonance suppressor plugin from CodWaves. It analyses incoming audio, finds the narrow peaks and harsh build-ups that make a recording tiring to hear, and reduces them in real time. Tone and transient protection keep the source character intact while reducing harshness.

A resonance suppressor tames frequencies that stick out of the spectrum, such as vocal harshness, cymbal fizz, snare ring or low-mid mud. Quance uses hundreds of fast spectral filters that move only where the spectrum misbehaves, and only while it misbehaves. That keeps the result far more transparent than a fixed EQ cut.

With a dynamic EQ you choose the bands, frequencies and thresholds yourself. Quance finds the problem frequencies on its own and re-evaluates them every few milliseconds. You can still steer it by hand with up to eight focus points and four detection ranges when you want precise control.

Yes. The Live Zero grade applies reduction through a bank of 48 minimum-phase filters on a causal, sample-aligned path, so Quance reports zero samples of latency. That makes it suitable for tracking, live monitoring, streaming and stage work. Studio grades offer higher frequency resolution for mixing and mastering.

Quance runs as VST3 and AAX on Windows, and VST3, AU and AAX on macOS. It works in any DAW that supports one of those formats, including Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Ableton Live, Studio One and REAPER, on mono and stereo tracks.

Yes. Quance supports macOS 10.15 or newer on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. On Windows it requires Windows 10 or newer, 64-bit.

Press Learn while a representative section plays. Quance listens, places up to four focus points on the most prominent stable resonances and narrows the detection range around them. A single click keeps listening until you stop it, which suits problems that appear only occasionally. A double-click runs a fixed eight-second pass.

Quance is designed to avoid that. Tone Protect tracks fundamentals, harmonics and vocal formants and holds reduction back where a cut would damage them. Vocal mode raises tone protection further. You can also place Protect points over any region you want left completely untouched.

Yes. Load the Sibilance detection range (4 to 14 kHz) or one of the Vocal Sibilance presets, then raise Amount. Because Quance targets the exact frequencies of each sibilant rather than a fixed band, the rest of the vocal stays open and natural.

Yes. Mix mode is slower and broader with a lower reduction ceiling, built for buses and full mixes. Switch on the optional Max Cut ceiling to guarantee no single frequency drops by more than the amount you set, typically 2 to 4 dB on a master.

Yes. Quance offers four stereo modes: Linked, Dual, Mid-Side and M-S Link. Mid-Side treats the centre and sides independently, and M-S Link applies mid/side targeting with one shared reduction so the stereo image never moves.

Arm the sidechain and Quance detects resonances in an external signal while reducing them on the track it sits on. Send a lead vocal into Quance on a guitar bus, and the guitars dip only at the frequencies the vocal needs, with no overall level drop.

Removing resonances lowers the level, and quieter audio often sounds worse in a quick comparison. Engage Match and Quance compensates using a psychoacoustically weighted loudness measurement, so bypass and A/B comparisons tell you about tone rather than volume.

Quance ships with 53 factory presets across Vocal, Instruments, Drums, Mix and Creative categories. Each is named for its purpose, such as Bright Mic Tamer, Podcast Room Ring, Cymbal Harshness, and Streaming Polish.

CPU use depends on the quality grade. The Live grades are the lightest, and Studio Ultra is the most demanding because it doubles the analysis windows. When the input falls silent, Quance pauses analysis to save CPU.

Activation runs through your CodWaves account in the browser, with no serial number to type. Studio machines without internet can use offline activation by exchanging a device file through another computer. If a machine goes offline after activation, Quance keeps working for 14 days.

You pay the same amount every month until the plan total is covered. The monthly amount, the number of payments and the total are the ones shown beside each other in "Choose how to own" above, in your own currency, and again before you confirm at checkout. The plugin unlocks in full from the first payment, and the licence becomes permanently yours when the last instalment is paid. The plan total is higher than the one-time price, which is the cost of spreading the payments. That total is fixed when your plan starts, so a later price change cannot move it in either direction, and nothing is ever added to it for a missed or retried payment.

Yes, from your account, at any time, with no penalty. Instalments you have already paid are never lost: your progress is kept and you can resume later for whatever is still owed. You can also pause instead of cancelling. Either way the plugin keeps working until the end of the month you have paid for, plus a short grace period, and then stops until you start paying again.

Yes. Your account panel shows what is left on the plan and settles it in one payment whenever you want, which ends the monthly charges and makes the licence permanent straight away. You are never charged more than the plan total.

No. A plan is always the regular price, so discount codes, sales, bundles and affiliate pricing do not apply to it. Buying outright always costs less than the plan total, and less again while a sale is running.

Not while the plan is running. An offline licence file cannot be withdrawn once it is issued, so a plan activates online through your CodWaves account, which needs an internet connection on the machine when you first sign in. Offline activation becomes available as soon as the plan is paid off, and buying outright has it from the start.