Axis Utility v.1.1.0

· Spectrum Analyzer

See every frequency, in real time

A real-time analyzer draws the frequency content of your signal in your channel colors. Switch between a smooth line trace, banded octave bars, Scope, or a scrolling spectrogram, then zoom into any region for a closer look. View it as stereo L/R, Mid/Side, mono, or isolate a single channel — Left, Right, Mid, or Side — on its own. A built-in calibration self-test verifies the FFT peak-to-dBFS scaling with one click, and every attack, release, and peak-hold response is documented down to the millisecond.

The Spectrogram now has Horizontal and Vertical orientation, six palettes, three Gamma levels, and Overlap from 2x to 32x for sharper attacks. Window Type is shared by Line, Octave Bars, and Spectrogram: choose Hann, Hamming, Blackman-Harris, Flattop, or Rectangular.

· Sidechain

See your sidechain next to your track

Send a second stereo input from your DAW and see it next to your track, with a level readout on the meters. The sidechain shows on the input meters, Line, Octave Bars, Scope, and the goniometer. See how two sounds fit together: a kick and a bass, for example. Axis Utility only draws it: the sound, the meters of the track, and the latency do not change. It works with your DAW's sidechain routing.

· Scope

Watch the waveform, beat by beat

A new triggered view in Signal or Beat mode. Watch what Phase, Time Shift, L/R Tilt, and the Limiter do to your waveform. Overlay puts the gray Input behind the yellow Out. See where processing changes the wave, and zoom in on the beat down to about 5 ms.

· Pro Tools

Now in Pro Tools

Axis Utility runs in Pro Tools on macOS and Windows as an AAX plug-in, with AudioSuite included in the same plug-in. Quit Pro Tools, install the AAX plug-in, then open Pro Tools again and insert Axis Utility on a stereo track.

· Goniometer

Watch your stereo image take shape

A CRT-style phosphor trail traces the relationship between left and right in real time, so width, balance, and phase become something you can see. Six display modes — Lissajous, Balance-O-Meter, M/S, Polar, Dot, and X/Y — cover everything from a classic vector scope to a simple balance triangle.

· External Windows

Pop the analyzer and goniometer onto a second screen

In the standalone app, right-click the spectrum analyzer or the goniometer and choose External Window to detach it into its own floating window — complete with its own Source, Channel/Mode, and Link Switches menus, independent from the main plugin UI. Open both at once and keep full-size, always-on metering running on a second monitor while you mix on the first.

· Standalone App

Auto-detect your tempo

In the standalone app, use spare inputs of your audio interface as the Sidechain L and R inputs. Patch in a modular rig, a synth, or any source. Scope Beat locks to your sidechain's tempo on its own. Turn on Sidechain Tempo to read the number live at the top right of the goniometer. On Windows, use ASIO.

· M/S Mode & Imager

Reshape stereo width without losing control

Flip into Mid/Side to rebalance center and sides directly, or reach for the Imager to scale stereo width from fully mono to 400% wide. Restrict the effect to the high end with the built-in crossover filter. Your low end stays centered and mono-safe.

· Filter & Channel Tools

Shape the width, fix the channels, keep the bass tight

Set a crossover anywhere from 20 Hz to 20 kHz to keep bass mono while widening the top end. Add L/R Tilt to delay one channel against the other for Haas-style width, placed pre- or post-Imager depending on whether you want that delay re-mono'd by the filter — its label turns amber above ~5ms as a mono-safety cue. Swap channels, invert polarity, solo left, right, mid, side, or full stereo, or flip on DC Block to clear any offset bias from a hardware capture — all from one row of switches.

· Metering

Every number a mix engineer needs

Gradient level meters, LUFS short-term, momentary and integrated loudness, true peak, RMS, crest factor, correlation, and balance — all live.
A rolling mini-graph tracks recent correlation history, and a flashing warning catches mono compatibility problems before they reach a master.

· Phase & Time Shift

Align timing and phase down to the sample

Rotate phase continuously from 0° to 360° without touching tone, or slide the whole signal up to ±50 ms to nudge it against the rest of a mix. Three quality tiers trade a little latency for tighter low-end accuracy.

· Limiter

A safety net that doesn't get in the way

Dial in a parallel blend with the Mix knob, which equal-power crossfades processed and dry signal and keeps the two delay-aligned automatically. A brick-wall limiter sits on the combined output, with a ceiling you set from 0 to −24 dBFS and r8brain oversampling, from None up to 128x, for catching inter-sample peaks before they leave your session. Oversampling at 2x and above adds delay, and your host compensates for it.

· Workflow

Small things that save clicks

Freeze holds the whole display with one right-click on the analyzer switch. With Musical Grid on, hold Shift and use the mouse wheel or drag to switch the grid note. Save as Default Preset makes new instances start from your own settings. Hide the pointer and scale labels when you want a cleaner view, and map your controller to the switches too with MIDI Learn.

· Factory Presets

Start closer to the sound you're after

33 factory programs across six categories cover the situations utility plugins get reached for most: channel fixes, mix bus polish, imaging, and mono-safety checks. Step through them from the preset bar, or save your own.

· MIDI Learn

Put any control under your fingers

Map any MIDI CC controller to nearly every knob and switch in the plugin. Pickup behavior means a hardware knob never causes a jump when it doesn't match the current value.