Melda Plugs for the next 4 days...

 
Thanks Larry.
 
Auto Align interests me... although I usually just program my nudge settings for what ever drum kits I am working with in a project and have a semi automated way to deal with drum kit alignment using hot keys.
 
What's the final price of Auto Align?
 
I got a chance to read the pdf manual but I don't see the 2 DAWs that I use the most mentioned in the instructions: SONAR 8.5 and PT11.
 
I'm wondering if the need for side chaining presents any specific limitations to some hosts.

mike_mccue
 
Thanks Larry.
 
Auto Align interests me... although I usually just program my nudge settings for what ever drum kits I am working with in a project and have a semi automated way to deal with drum kit alignment using hot keys.
 
What's the final price of Auto Align?
 
I got a chance to read the pdf manual but I don't see the 2 DAWs that I use the most mentioned in the instructions: SONAR 8.5 and PT11.
 
I'm wondering if the need for side chaining presents any specific limitations to some hosts.

I just picked up Auto Align and it ended up being around $32.
 
Rocky

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I was fooling around with some of the mfreebundle plugs last night.
These are some really good plugs that should not be overlooked. They are worth the asking price.

Hear that little voice whispering in your ear? Saying do it, do it, do it.
 
Seriously, do it.

MSpectralDynamics makes the cut...

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Here's my MSpectralDynamics story...
 
I got hold of MSpectralDynamics by accident. When Melda first added GPU acceleration to the product line, it was incompatible with my ancient video card. I whined to Vojtech about it and he sent me a debug build to help him troubleshoot the problem. The plugin he sent me for testing happened to be MSpectralDynamics. After a few tries, he got the GPU acceleration working flawlessly. I thanked him for his perseverance (he could have just told me to update my card and get lost - many other vendors would have). He in turn thanked me for my contribution with a very kind gesture, basically said "keep the plugin" for your trouble.
 
Now, prior to this the plugin had been neither on my wishlist nor on my radar. I'd seen it and it looked interesting but I really didn't know what it'd be good for. But in the process of testing it, an amazing thing happened: I had my mind seriously blown. This thing was frickin' amazing. 
 
After scraping my brains from the desk and my socks from the floor, I dug into the plugin to see what the deal was. I PM'd a few of my compulsive plugin collector friends, asking them if they had it. None of them did. Not even yorolpal. It seemed to be a well-kept secret.
 
I'll admit that at this point it crossed my mind to keep it a secret. Hey, why not let people think I'm a better mixer than I am, and keep the discovery to myself?
 
But nah, I'm too much of a blabbermouth. So I've been working on an in-depth tutorial/review for about two months now, intended for publication in September's SoundBytes. It's been a long process because every time I figure out something new it can do, I have to revise the piece. And that's been happening about once a week. It happened again just this morning.
 
MSpectralDynamics is now in every new project. My current project contains no less than three instances: one on the vocal bus for leveling, one on the instrument bus for ducking against the vocal, and one on the master for general silky goodness, in front of Ozone. The GPU acceleration makes it practical to have multiple instances, as it greatly reduces CPU overhead on my stressed dinosaur of a computer.
 
So trust me that when I join cclarry in saying "do it", I ain't just whistling Dixie. Be prepared for a little study and experimentation, because it's not like anything you currently have in your toolkit. But once you get the hang of it, oh my.
 
 
 

I'm revisiting MSpectralDynamics now (in demo form), and I'm reminded that I like what it does, but I'm getting artifacts on initial transients, for example at the beginning of a track that starts out with a snare hit or something similar.  Is there an easy way to fix that?   I had the same kind of issue with MTransient. 
 
Bit man, would you be able to suggest a starting point for use on a full mix?  I've tried a few of the presets and getting interesting results by adjusting the threshold and such, but I suspect I may be missing something.
 
I remember when I first demoed this a while back that it seemed similar in concept to Dynamic Spectrum Mapper.  Fair comparison?
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

Hey bit,
 
I believe you are an Ozone fan as well. How do you fit Spectral Dynamics into your mastering process when using Ozone?
 
PS: Thanks for sharing your settings - I intend to try them this weekend!

Bit,
 
So are you using Ozone on individual busses, not just the mastering bus? very interesting!
 
i'm playing with your mastering starting point now. I have always used Ozone, but I created a new chain last night that looked like this:
 

1. MSpectralDynamics
2. Waves LinMB Stereo. I did this based on the videos Mastering in the Box on Groove 3. Maybe unnecessary with the MSD in front of it, but it seems to make a positive impact.
3. Ozone 5 (for Exciter Going to try Ozone 4 today based on your previous comments)
4. Ozone 5 (for stereo imaging - same instances as above just putting separate in this list)
5. Slate Digital FG-X for limiting

I used a trick I just learned up stairs for A/Bing FX Chains and I really like this chain better than the settings I was using in Ozone 5! First time I've manually mastered and gotten better results that tweaking presets in Ozone - feeling pretty stoked. :)
 
Off to play with this a bit more and to try on some other tracks. I will say I have a fast computer, and I don't know if it's MSD or something else, but I've had to really increase my latency and if I turn effects on and off a lot things get out of sync and I have to stop (space bar) and restart audio to get going again...
 
 

smallstonefan
Yes it does. I would like to change my avatar but that feature has been broken for me for weeks.

Same here SS, and they don't really seem to care if they fix it or not...
I know they are completely aware of it...but haven't fixed it...so...

Oh well...it is what it is...

Several of the bundles went on sale this month @ 50% off. Historically, there have been 50% off bundles sales near year end.

Like all the sales this month, bundles were only on sale for a few days. There are no bundles on sale today.

Ok, I'm definitly going to keep these on my watch list then