Outboard — Help
User manuals and guides for the Outboard plugins. Choose your plugin below, or dive straight into the Outboard-EQ manual.
Welcome to Outboard help. Choose a plugin below — or browse the full Outboard-EQ manual further down.
Plugins
- Outboard PalmML — New. A hybrid guitar instrument: 400 real palm-mute recordings excite a note-locked Liquid engine, with 112 presets and a guitar-focused effects chain.
- Outboard-60 L — an immersive six-voice analog polysynth with a resonant Liquid engine, a Luminous grain layer and a Smart arpeggiator.
- Outboard-AutoEQ — one-click automatic EQ that listens to your track and makes a few precise moves toward a balanced, release-ready sound.
- Outboard-C — a compressor that runs from clean and transparent to full of character, with a live transfer curve.
- Outboard-EQ — an 8-band mastering equalizer with dynamic EQ, spectral dynamics, per-band character stages and full mastering metering. Full manual below.
- Outboard-Slab — a one-knob "commit" fattener that adds weight and glue in a single move.
Outboard PalmML manual
Outboard-EQ manual
Pick a topic from the list below, or start with Quick start if you're new.
Introduction
Using Outboard-EQ
- Overview
- Knobs and interaction
- EQ display
- Band controls
- Filter types
- Filter slopes
- Dynamic EQ
- Detector modes
- Spectral dynamics
- Phase modes
- Solo
- Stereo and M/S
- Surround and Dolby Atmos
- Hardware character (Op-Amp & Tape)
- Pultec low-end
- Density stage
- Transient designer & SplitEQ
- Global stages (master bus)
- Spectrum analyzer
- EQ Match
- Output meter
- MIDI learn
- Macros
- Undo, redo, A/B