Analog Rack Cleaner vs Multiband
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Analog Rack Cleaner
This audio plugin provides high-pass and low-pass filters to remove unwanted low-end rumble and high-frequency noise. It offers a custom tube preamp for analog coloration and works as a standalone app or within other audio applications.
- High-pass filter
- Low-pass filter
- Tube preamp circuit
- Analog coloration
- Standalone app
- AudioUnit v3 effect
- Inter-App Audio effect
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The Analog Rack Cleaner plugin is high pass and low pass filters in a single rack Fx plugin to clear up low-end rumble and high frequency noise. Nembrini Audio has taken the guitarists most preferred analog and digital effect pedals and has repacked it in new rack style plugins easy to use and extremely powerful at the same time, with the addition of a custom design tube preamp virtual circuit which gives color to the signal in a very special way. Just insert the Analog Rack Cleaner plugin in your tracks to hear its beautiful analog tube coloration! Works as a standalone app, AudioUnit v3 effect, or Inter-App Audio effect
Multiband
This audio plugin splits a single audio signal into up to four separate frequency bands. It allows for unique multiband processing using effects plugins not originally designed for this purpose, offering flexibility in audio manipulation for music production.
- Splits audio into up to four frequency bands
- Enables multiband processing with standard effects
- Multi-output mode for direct channel separation
- Link Group mode for DAWs without multi-output support
- Phase-preserving crossover filters
- Uses Linkwitz-Riley IIR crossover filters
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Multiband splits an audio signal into separate channels: one for each of up to four frequency bands. It is useful for doing multiband processing using effects plugins that were not designed for multiband processing. For example, you could do multiband compression using two different compressor plugins, one for bass and a different one for treble frequencies. Or you could process a chorus or flanger effect on the midrange frequencies only, leaving the bass and treble clean. This plugin has two modes of operation: Multi-output and Link Group In Multi-output mode, the app takes a single channel of input and splits it into multiple output channels. Link group mode is a fallback support mode for DAW apps that don't support multi-output audio units. In Link group mode you duplicate the input track several times, once for each frequency band. Then the plugin filters out all but the selected bands on each of your duplicate tracks so that each track contains just one frequency band. It's called "Link Group" because when you duplicate the plugin across two or more tracks you can link the instances together across tracks so that the controls that set the transition frequencies between bands automatically synchronise between all the tracks in the group. HOW IS LINK GROUP MODE DIFFERENT FROM USING HIGHPASS AND LOWPASS FILTERS IN AN ORDINARY EQ TO SEPARATE THE BANDS? Whenever you play two copies of the same track simultaneously you must pay attention to phase alignment. For example, if you copy a track and invert the phase on one copy then the two copies will cancel each other out and you'll get no sound at all. Similarly, if you duplicate a track and process filters separately on each copy, when you combine the two copies back together you will usually get phase interaction at certain frequencies, causing some frequency ranges to be boosted and others attenuated. To avoid this, you would need to use crossover filters that are designed to preserve the phase relationships between each of the bands. The UI of this plugin makes it look like each band is created with a single lowpass and highpass filter pair but that is not the case. In addition to the lowpass and highpass filters we also need several phase compensation filters. Although that could be done with an ordinary EQ plugin it would be quite complicated to configure and test to ensure that no unwanted phase cancellation occurs. WHAT FILTERS DOES THIS APP USE? They are second-order Linkwitz-Riley IIR crossover filters. We use IIR filters to so that when you use many of our plugins in series for real-time performance you don't add audible latency to the signal. ABOUT THE BEAT COMMUNITY We designed this app in collaboration with mr. Ali Ahmet who manages the Beat Community group on facebook. The beat community is a forum for discussion of topics related to mobile music production. It often features special promotions and app give-aways and it's curated so that the forum stays on topic and doesn't get spammed with advertisements. Beat community facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1504577553125121/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Analog Rack Cleaner at 5.0 against Multiband's 4.6. Analog Rack Cleaner also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Multiband's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Analog Rack Cleaner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 32 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Analog Rack Cleaner's written reviews are positive against 73% of Multiband's.
| Parameter | Analog Rack Cleaner | Multiband |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (25 ratings) — better | 4.6 (32 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 72.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 32 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nembrini Audio | Blue Mangoo Consulting Company Limited |
Customer experience
Analog Rack Cleaner
Multiband
In-app purchases
Analog Rack Cleaner
No in-app purchases
Multiband
No in-app purchases







