Re: [LAU] The future of audio plugins ?

On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:51:01 -0400, jonetsu wrote:
>Now where did you get the notion that this is about creating music ?
>It is about plugins.

"[snip] The Track assistant is a powerful tool that can identify
instruments, and help to get you started by suggesting settings for
individual parameters for the modules within Neutron. [snip] un-bypass
Neutron and turn on Track Assistant. Neutron’s interface will gray out
when it’s listening to the audio on the track. It takes about four to
10 seconds to complete the analysis. [snip] You can see that Neutron
has turned on the EQ module, the two compressor modules and the exciter
module, but bypassed the transient shaper module, as that is not
something you’d usually need to use on vocals.

In the EQ, you will see that five bands are enabled making some small
cuts and boosting certain frequencies with the shelving EQ. Notice that
some of these bands are in static mode and some are in dynamic mode.
All of this is set based on the intelligent analysis done by the Track
Assistant.

In the compressor, you will see that it has created optimal crossover
points for the multiband functions. All the individual parameters on
each band of the compressor are also set to the recommended values.

This is the same thing for the exciter. The crossover is set and all
the parameters for each band are also set.
https://www.izotope.com/en/community/blog/tips-tutorials/2016/10/using-the-track-assistant-in-neutron.html

So this only should happen for effect plugins and not for instrument
and MIDI plugins such as an arpeggiator?

Why not recommending a synth plugin and arpeggio or a scale or chord
progression, too?

I even can't see an advantage by such a default suggestion for audio
engineering only. De facto it means that I at least need to turn off the
exciter and reset the EQ and compressor module settings. This would be
more work than adding a British EQ and if required a compressor, too,
but perhaps I also want an overdrive.

How should the analysis decide what kind of mix I want? Ducking? Vocals
in contrast to the sax, but in harmony with the guitar or vice versa?

This is an approach on the wrong track.

Interconnectedness makes sense to sync timing, for interaction of
parameters and other functionality, where interaction of parameters
easily could become overwhelming.

To get a default set-up for a vocal track as described above, just
templates are required, as long as the user is able to realise that a
vocal track is a vocal track, the user should be able to select the
template with the vocal icon, as easy as turning on the "Track
Assistant".

Regards,
Ralf
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Received on Fri Oct 14 12:15:01 2016