Description

Open Wide by Cloudy Samples

Sculpt Your Stereo Image. Safeguard Your Phase.

We’ve all been there: you want that massive, wrap-around-your-head stereo width, but the moment you check your mix in mono, the energy completely vanishes.

Open Wide is a boutique stereo manipulation and mastering processor designed to shape the spatial architecture of your sound with absolute precision. Housed in a sleek, high-end industrial interface, it splits professional stereo management into five core, high-fidelity modules. Whether you are widening a narrow synth lead, gluing group buses, or locking down the low-end of a master for a club sound system, Open Wide delivers massive, three-dimensional space with zero digital artifacts and absolute phase coherence.

The 5-Module Spatial Toolkit

1. Mid/Side Matrix

The ultimate core-to-edge balance.

• Independent Control: Adjust the levels of the Mid (mono/center) and Side (stereo/edges) channels separately to define your acoustic core.

• Clean Edges: Features a dedicated High-Pass Filter on the Side channel to sweep out muddy low-end rumble and keep your side signals crystal clear.

2. Haas+ Split

Psychoacoustic width on demand.

• The Haas Effect: Introduces microscopic, precise delays to one channel, creating the natural psychoacoustic illusion of extreme, organic width.

• Focused Lows: Includes an integrated High-Pass sweep to ensure your lower frequencies remain perfectly centered and unaffected by the delay.

3. Micro-Pitch Shift

Thick, hardware-style spatialization.

• Micro-Detuning: Subtly detunes the Left/Right channels and applies micro-delays to mimic classic, expensive hardware pitch-shifters.

• Controlled Saturation: Use the built-in High-Pass filter to keep the detuned processing strictly within the mid-to-high frequency range, leaving your low-mids clean and punchy.

4. Frequency Split

True stereo from mono sources.

• Crossover Magic: Splits your audio spectrum into alternating Left/Right frequency bands to generate clean, natural width out of flat, mono signals.

• Precision Tuning: Fine-tune the split using Intensity (Dir) and Reso (Q) crossover settings, protected by a dedicated High-Pass control to keep your sub-bass out of the crossfire.

5. Mono Bass

Your low-end anchor.

• Sub-Bass Focus: Instantly forces all stereo information below your chosen crossover point into rock-solid, center-focused mono.

• Full Mono Toggle: Features a hardware-style toggle to smoothly sum your entire mix to center-focused mono for instant, foolproof phase-compatibility testing.

At a Glance

Feature	Specification
Format	VST3 / AU (64-bit)
OS Compatibility	macOS (Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3 & Intel), Windows
DAW Support	Works with all major DAWs (Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, etc.)
Interface	Clean, modern industrial UI with high-resolution metering