Spotlight
An intuitive stereo shaping audio plugin
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Spotlight lets you to pan and focus a sound using a single control. Move anywhere on the polar surface to pan in that direction. Move inwards to widen the sound, and outwards to focus it. An arc visualizes the real direction and spread of the audio. It changes to warmer colors if the sound becomes too wide, to guide you to ensure mono compatibility. Together, these features support you in shaping the stereo image of a track quickly and confidently, freeing up your mind for higher-level tasks.
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PH · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Music
- Audio
- Electronic Music
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No Developing an audio plugin (VST3/AU) with real-time stereo shaping, phase alignment, and polar visualization requires specialized digital signal processing (DSP) expertise.
What it would actually take: A developer would use C++ and a framework like JUCE to build the plugin, implementing custom DSP algorithms for mid/side processing, stereo panning, and spatial width modulation without phase cancellation. The visualization requires real-time FFT or vector analysis mapped to a custom OpenGL or vector-rendered UI at 60 FPS within an audio thread. This necessitates deep expertise in real-time audio constraints, lock-free concurrency, and digital signal processing mathematics.
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Attention rank: #59 of 264 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.
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