Mihenk

Transparent mastering. It measures first, and says why. Out October 5 · Standalone app and VST3/AU on macOS · VST3 on Windows.

MIHENK measures, diagnoses and suggests a fix, and every suggestion comes with the measurement behind it. It is one product: the same engine runs as a standalone app and inside your DAW.

Moods

Auto

Load a track: meters show its peak straight away, and the diagnosis lists what it found.

Advanced

The full chain with live layered views.

Diagnosis and scenarios

On load MIHENK lists findings with a severity and a measured reason, for example an input that arrives hotter than a mastering-ready level. Each finding maps to one of about twenty scenarios you can apply in one click, edit and save as your own.

Personal profile

Off by default. When you switch it on, MIHENK learns your taste from your listening notes and can propose, and lock, the settings you keep choosing. It is local, explainable and resettable.

The controls

METERS — Input and output peak and true-peak meters, full panel height, with peak hold.
WAVE / SPECTRUM / LOUDNESS — Live during playback; the spectrum is drawn in layers, before and after each stage.
DIAGNOSIS — Measured findings, each with an APPLY button.
3-BAND — Multiband compressor with 4th-order Linkwitz-Riley crossovers, or the wide glue mode.
AIR — High shelf at 10, 15, 20 or 40 kHz, static or dynamic.
LOW TOOLS — Phase-safe low mono and a low-end tightener.
LIMITER — True-peak limiter with lookahead.
REAR — Command-line and JSON access for scripted workflows.

Price and download

$20 for all four: KORO, YANKI, HAVA and MIHENK. Sign in to enter the Download Room; no key or activation is needed.