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It also addresses a very common problem we all face from time to time. Best of all, the plugin will be able to write its own automation data so that the user can edit when the gate will open to avoid destructive editing.Īgain, this looks like a really powerful tool developed for professional engineers.There will be a ‘strike’ feature so that only hit’s on the toms trigger the gate, and not resonances educed by other drums.There’s the ability to ‘train’ the plugin to the sonic character of the toms and the character of the ‘spill’ separately, so that nearby sounds from the rest of the kit don’t trigger the gate.As well as all the usual parameters, there are 3 new features not found on standard gates: I suspect, however, that these gates could of course be used in many other scenarios. This new plugin – which we haven’t seen or heard yet – is apparently aimed at gating toms in a multi-channel drum recording.

If developers like Harrison keep going like this to fight the competition, end users are certainly in for a treat when it comes to technical advances.Ĭheck out this video from Harrison Console’s YouTube channel, explaining the Polarity Maximizer in v3.4: Even I, who spends most of my time inside Pro Tools, am recognising the alternatives that are being developed in exciting ways. This demonstrates the various DAW’s currently available are growing further apart, each becoming an increasingly different proposition. Maybe this will eventually come in another update. I’m really impressed with this tool, I just wish they could rotate phase up to 180 degrees rather than simple inverting, as this would achieve an even more accurate result. I often spend ages with a drum or orchestral recordings, flipping phases to see which ‘voices’ best before applying any other processing. Via reading RMS values of summed channels from a multi-mic recording, it mathematically calculates the best combination of polarity settings across those channels.

It’s very much implemented within the DAW itself, rather than running like a plugin inserted on the channels. It’s a shame they can’t spell it correctly, but otherwise this is one of those features which is likely to prove to be powerful yet so simple. Mixbus & Mixbus32C v3.4: Polarity MaximizerĮxplained in the video below is the new feature found in version 3.4 called ‘Polarity Maximizer’.

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