ORIGINAL: pdarg

I downloaded this last night, and have been working with it. It's unique, and I think it sounds pretty good - maybe even good enough to replace some of my older mastering plugs.

I like the free beta version, but I would be willing to pay a bit for something with more features, etc. Although, as it stands the free version is quite a deal :)

If you want to move these, I would suggest a price in the neighborhood of about $99-$129.

My advice - contrary to most views - is to not sacrifice quality in exchange for conserving CPU demands. The problem with most effects is that they - technically - perform the way they are supposed to, but not at a quality level that rivals the hardware. Keep the quality and advertise it as a special intensive plug that needs to be used alone or just in mastering.

Thanks pdarg! I think I will probably price it lower than that (more in line with other Synthedit releases), but its good to know you think its worth that much.. :)

As far as quality goes, I agree with you 100%! Fortunately the cpu savings have been achieved not by dropping quality, but by replacing the bits of filter code I wrote for the original with highly optimised modules created specifically for this project by David Haupt (one of Synthedit's best module devs). I am a musician and sound engineer, not a c++ developer, so my code is self-taught and rather basic: it does the job, but I don't know the speed tricks! Dave is a bit of a whizz though, so his version does the same job as mine but with doubles instead of floats (64 bit instead of 32) and still manages to run faster!

I have also found the peak sensing mode to be more useful than RMS since I added it.. (its good to have the choice though! ;)) overall, I would say IQ4pro sounds a lot better than IQ4gui..

Dan W :)

Oh . . . and as long as I have your attention:

-Fix the numeric displays to change even when audio is not playing through the plug-in, and also allow a double-click to enter precise numerical data.

-Also, run the range of the high shelf up to 20k, not 14k. You might not think that many would work with that range - but you would be surprised.

-Any chance you would be interested in developing an audio harmonizer plug-in?

20k seems to be the ceiling for most of these types of plug-ins - its sometimes helpful to have that high point so one can create gently sloped roll-offs in the high frequencies.

not yet. I need to learn how to make one, or persuade someone to do it for me.. Its something I am a lot less enthusiastic about than actually designing and using the plug.. like writing the manual! It would all happen much quicker if I didn't have to earn a living..