Another apparent downside: there do not appear to be any functions exposed for automation. This means you don't have the option of lightening up on the effect in one part of the song and bringing it in more aggressively somewhere else. 

When ducking a vocal, you'd probably want less of the effect for early verses and more of it later on during the big chorus crescendo, where the vocal is most likely to get buried.

Maybe the developer will be enhancing the plugin over time. That would be great, but my understanding is that the coding was outsourced to a third party so future enhancements probably depend on how well the product sells out of the gate.


EDIT: Sorry, the above is incorrect. There is no automation in the DEMO version, but the full version is fully automatable.

OK, one last observation. The detector seems to be mono-summed, so that instruments that are hard-panned (and therefore not masking the center vocal) are attenuated the same amount that they would have been had they been panned center and actually causing a problem. 

This is a big limitation, I think. It would be much more transparent if it were either a true stereo effect or worked in Mid/Side. Ideally, you only want to attenuate sounds that actually mask the reference track.

For me, I've decided to pass on this one for now, but I'll definitely come back to it if there's ever a rev 2.

Couldn't one just...you know...mix their track better?

yorolpal


Couldn't one just...you know...mix their track better?

That would take ALL the fun out of buying plugins!!!