IN FINAL TESTING · KEYTRACKED EQ

CHAMELEON PANTHER

Four bands that ride the harmonic series of the note your music is actually playing, moving with it in real time, without ever putting a filter in front of your master.

AU VST3 macOS · UNIVERSAL
Chameleon Panther plugin interface

Tracking a G1 at 49 Hz, bands riding the root and the octave.

EQ that follows the music.

Plenty of EQs know what key you are in. Chameleon Panther tracks the note itself, and puts its bands on that note's harmonics as it moves.

KEYTRACKED

Bands ride harmonics, not frequencies

Four bands sit on chosen partials of the detected fundamental. The bass moves from G to C, the bands move with it.

PARALLEL

Nothing filters your dry path

A sweeping band is a sweeping phase response, so no band sits in the signal path. Boost only, tapped off the dry and summed back in.

MID BY DEFAULT

Mono-safe by construction

Wet added equally to both channels is identical to adding it to Mid alone. The sides come back bit-exact.

TWO DETECTORS

Polyphony doesn't fool it

Chroma analysis finds the key across the full band; a separate tracker on the mono sum places the bands.

DEPTH GATE

No note, no effect

Detection confidence fades bands, tilt and match toward transparent on unpitched material. It never holds a wrong note across a master.

MATCH

Level-matched by measurement

Measures real dry and wet levels instead of estimating from the knobs, so the A/B is honest. On by default.

BANDS
4, each on a selectable harmonic (1× to 16×)
FORMATS
AU · VST3
LATENCY
Zero
RANGE
Boost only, 0 to +6 dB per band
STATUS
In final testing
IN FINAL TESTING

Chameleon Panther started life as a guitar pedal. We built a keytracked EQ for SmashBoard, watched it chase the bass around, and thought: what would that do across a whole master? Enough that it needed different maths — the pedal shared one Q across every band, which stops being right once the bands are octaves apart. A happy accident that joined the family late and earned its place. It is built, universal, and going through its final listening checks before release. $49 USD individually, or $169 USD as part of the Elemental Mastering Suite. Join the list and we'll email you the day it's ready. $5 from every purchase goes to BC Children's Hospital Foundation.

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