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Time to pull the trigger if you're interested. Sale was supposed to end Aug 2nd - but is still going on. Don't know if it will be extended. @e-cue thanks for the suggestions. I sprang for the 3 pack ($150) to pick these up. Trying to decide on the 3rd.

More on soft knee compression... as shown in the image with soft knee some compression starts happening before the 'Threshold' point (vertical line) is reached and ratio continues to increase as level rises until both hard and soft knee compression are the same (where red & orange lines merge). More info: https://higherhz.com/dynamic-range-compression-how-to-use-whats-knee/ https://www.uaudio.com/blog/audio-compression-basics/

Not seeing it...

Be sure that you use a good 'wind' screen! I'll get my hat.

From what I understand they are not the same thing. Picture this - you have a vocal where the de-esser kicks in 10% of the time. Now you drop the gain on the track - other de-essers will now kick in much less because the track is quieter but the detection threshold is still the same. With relative threshold you still have it kicking in 10% of the time because threshold is relative to content not a set threshold triggering level. So this way your quieter vocals sections aren't more sibilant than the loud ones. At least that's what I'm gleaming from what the video was saying.

@jude77 so in the situation where you want to drop a vocal on to mix... Do you need to route the mix to a bus then apply the Trackspacer on that bus feeding to the Master Bus? Or do you just drop it on the Master Bus?

Yeah kinda, but that's the worst definition of knee (for compressors, limiter, de-essers) I think that I've seen. "A soft knee setting applies compression differently to a hard knee setting. A soft knee setting will apply the compression gradually until the full ratio amount is reached. This makes the transition from uncompressed to compressed smoother and more transparent." quoted from: https://www.mixinglessons.com/knee-setting-on-a-compressor/ (saved me from word-smithing from memory) With soft knee the compression starts at a lower ratio once it hits threshold, signals blow threshold are not compressed. I've got great respect for DMG but he needs to talk to his technical writer. Edit: I've been looking into this further... Apparently some systems classify the threshold as starting midpoint on the knee when there is a knee - so viewed from that perspective DMG's definition is correct.

Key word is if... you can probably get close with MAutoDynamicEQ but not sure how close. With MAutoDynamicEQ you can split the audio into up to 8 bands (as I recall), Trackspacer has 32 bands. I haven't A/B'd them to check and see if that really makes an audible difference or if one is more of a hassle to set up than the other. Here's a Chandler video on setting up MAutoDynamicEQ to do this kind of frequency masking with a couple of examples. He's choosing to use only one band in his example which I think would have less than optimal results with material whose frequency spectrum varied over time or if you were trying to use it with fitting vocals over a whole mix; but I haven't had a chance to try it yet. Anyway... more information to complicate your buying decision.

On sale till Aug 14th Wonder if AudioDeluxe will be the only 3rd party vendor?

Ditto on both the above. Haven't used their instruments much, mainly because of the amount and type of material that I've been working on recently as opposed to a lacking on their part. The one item of Output that I currently use more than all their stuff combined is Thermal (which isn't currently for sale) - love its combination of saturations and modulations. I'm sure in some cases that I could get similar results with Saturn but Thermal just feels more intuitive.

Softube $39 for Tape Echose or Vocoder (reg $99) sale ends July 30th Softube Tape Echoes Softube Vocoder

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I might have bit for that price. But for $49 $34.66... (my special price from PSP) I'll have to pass on this GAS. I have too many tooob imulators as is. If you don't and need more you can check out: https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2021/01/20/free-saturation-vst-plugins/ or https://blog.landr.com/8-free-vst-plugins-warm-sound/

For me the Kontakt 7 is still taking 4+ minutes to load or scan, but have high hopes that since they've been able to fix my NA issue that a fix for my Kontakt 7 won't be far behind.

Holy Frudgenuts! Subsequent runs of NA are now loading in under 10 seconds!!! They're finally caching data! Yay! Now they just need to apply the same technique to Kontakt 7.

1st run is still as slow as a constipated tortoise. Finally came up but was showing "Loading Products" screen for over 5 minutes. Will try again later to see if anything changes...

Even though I stopped subscribing to it ages ago still sad to see another milestone of my youth crumble away.

Those who know you & love you have always known. We were just too kind to let you know that we knew. Now that you know that we knew and that we know that you know we knew we can move on to the we know you know we knew that you knew we knew and can pretend we're all nubes that know nothing and can dispense with intense tongue twisters. OK? BTW regarding your sister... Does she still sell shiny sea shells at the sea shore along with sandwiches of albacore and chocolate s'mores? Though often made hasty, they were quite tasty.

Your FOMO is calling... collect. Will you accept the charges? Offer valid until August 9th. (can you still make a collect call? or have I just found another way to date myself?)

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Is that just today or was that this weekend?

"Evolution Series 40% off Mid-Year dale" who's Dale and why would I want his services?

Nope, spending my time creating snarky forum posts. You?

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