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LP-64 Multiband noise/crackling/clipping in lower mids


Terry Kelley

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Hopefully someone can check this - play something with a fair amount of low mid-range/upper bass and solo the lower mid-range band in LP-64. Do you hear noise like it's being over-driven or clipped?

I was mastering  a low volume section with a fair amount of lower mids and could hear some noise and start soloing tracks and it didn't change. Then I soloed each band in LP-64 and found it was in the lower mid band. To be sure, I switched interfaces, speakers and headphone and it was still there. I loaded several other projects and it was still there. I disabled all effects on all of the tracks and it was still there. It's something to do with LP-64. Disable LP-64 and it's gone.

I switched to Sonitus Multiband and it's clean. Weird. Maybe it's something upstream I am missing? I reinstalled it from the old discs and it didn't change.

I like LP-64 and hate to have to switch although there are plenty of alternatives.

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Try increasing your buffer size. First thing that comes to mind is that the LP-64 is more CPU-intensive than the Sonitus Multiband due to its use of linear-phase filters. The phrase "some noise" could mean a lot of things, one of which is dropouts caused by buffer exhaustion.

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6 hours ago, Promidi said:

Have you tried in non linear precision mode? (Under Expert settings)

 

16 minutes ago, Terry Kelley said:

Hi Bit,  I tried all of the standard fixes and it doesn't work.  It's sounds like something is being over driven.

Promidi,  Expert Settings?

Probably talking about two different plug-ins.

The LP-64 Multiband looks like this:

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The LP MB (aka L-Phase Multiband) looks like this:

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Notice the Expert button in the bottom left of the freq display

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1 hour ago, Terry Kelley said:

Ah, never played with that one.

Yeah, that's the newer one. But definitely set it to "Expert, Precision: Non Linear" mode for mixing or the look-ahead buffering for linear phase will really kick your session's tail! 🤪

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4 hours ago, Terry Kelley said:

Guitar Center shows it for $129. Didn't try ordering it.

I'm trying to figure out what's happening with LP-64. Maybe I do need to dump it,

Well considering that LP-64 Multiband has been around since Sonar 8, it has most likely not been tested and updated for quite a while...

I wouldn't advise buying any old Cakewalk Sonar related products from Guitar Center or elsewhere either.

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I just figured someone might go "yep or nope." LOL. I didn't think we get into a deep alternative analysis. ;)

I fired up Reaper and tried various combinations of EVERYTHING and I think the noise is an artifact of the filtering itself. You don't notice it normally so I'm not going to dig any deeper.

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