KVR Audio

JHVenn · Post by **JHVenn** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:29 pm

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Greetings guys, from the makers of the acclaimed Free Clip and Quick Haas plugins comes yet another completely free plugin for you all!

Utility is a free, lightweight, universal general purpose all in one digital channel strip plugin offering precise controls over various aspects of an audio signal, from mid/side processing to soft clipping.

Features include:

input routing with separate pans for the left and right channels, or alternatively a pre mono balance control to decide how the left and right channels are blended for conversion into mono
gain, and individual left and right channel gains, mutes
pan and phase inversion of either channel
width control, along with separate mid and side gain sliders and mutes
maximally flat minimal phase high and low pass 12db/octave filtering
optional hard and soft clipping at 0db
everything is fully automatable with sensible parameter ranges/scaling

Download Here!

KVR product page.

Currently available as: Windows VST (32 and 64 bit), Audio Unit (macOS)

If any issues are found, please let me know and I will patch them immediately!

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 4:16 pm

Thanks.

Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:02 pm

Awesome, thank you!

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:55 pm

You guys rock, please keep this useful tools coming.

kinwie · Post by **kinwie** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:17 pm

Thank you very much Venn Audio
It's a fantastic tool and finally can replace the old Free-G.

The independent Left-Right volume and mute feature is absolutely helpful.
Been so long using multi-mono version of ProTools Trim plugin to adjust the L/R volume balance.

I use the 32-bit version and everything works great so far. CPU hit is 0%.
Just 1 request if possible, a keyboard type-in value feature

And other Venn's plugins are just awesome!

BRBWaffles · Post by **BRBWaffles** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:05 pm

This is excellent. It has all of the tools you'd need for stereo manipulation with only one minor exception that I can think of, if I really wanted to nitpick gratuitously. A mono bass feature would complete this.

JHVenn · Post by **JHVenn** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:36 pm

Thanks for the feedback guys, I will certainly consider keyboard type-in for the next update.

BRBWaffles wrote:This is excellent. It has all of the tools you'd need for stereo manipulation with only one minor exception that I can think of, if I really wanted to nitpick gratuitously. A mono bass feature would complete this.

You could try splitting the signal into two instances of utility, one with the high pass active and one with the low pass, both at the same cutoff frequency, and set one with the low pass to mono - although I suppose this would defeat the purpose of "all in one".

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:04 am

nice little plugin, but I wish the controls were exposed for automation and it looks like they aren't.

JHVenn · Post by **JHVenn** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 2:42 am

Dewdman42 wrote:nice little plugin, but I wish the controls were exposed for automation and it looks like they aren't.

Everything is absolutely automatable, towards the end of the video is an example of the high pass filter being automated.

BRBWaffles · Post by **BRBWaffles** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:17 am

JHVenn wrote:Thanks for the feedback guys, I will certainly consider keyboard type-in for the next update.

BRBWaffles wrote:This is excellent. It has all of the tools you'd need for stereo manipulation with only one minor exception that I can think of, if I really wanted to nitpick gratuitously. A mono bass feature would complete this.
You could try splitting the signal into two instances of utility, one with the high pass active and one with the low pass, both at the same cutoff frequency, and set one with the low pass to mono - although I suppose this would defeat the purpose of "all in one".

This was the first thing that I tried, but I wasn't sure if there were any phase issues at the crossover point. It felt like something was missing when I was A/Bing it.

JHVenn · Post by **JHVenn** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 6:20 pm

By the way guys, if any of you had issues with validation with logic, a hotfix is now available for the audio unit download.

Tp3 · Post by **Tp3** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 8:53 pm

The Clipper overshoots ?...

JHVenn · Post by **JHVenn** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 9:10 pm

Tp3 wrote:The Clipper overshoots ?...

If the clipper is on, it will clamp the output to 1.0 at maximum and will not exceed that.

Tp3 · Post by **Tp3** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:01 pm

JHVenn wrote:
Tp3 wrote:The Clipper overshoots ?...
If the clipper is on, it will clamp the output to 1.0 at maximum and will not exceed that.

I managed to clip a lot more...

Are there conditions or the clipper at "on" will ALWAYS "clamp the output to 1.0 (0.1 here... sometimes 0.2) at maximum" ? ie. is it the FINAL out stage ?

I think that part needs an explanation...

JHVenn · Post by **JHVenn** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 4:11 pm

Tp3 wrote:
JHVenn wrote:
Tp3 wrote:The Clipper overshoots ?...
If the clipper is on, it will clamp the output to 1.0 at maximum and will not exceed that.
I managed to clip a lot more...

Are there conditions or the clipper at "on" will ALWAYS "clamp the output to 1.0 (0.1 here... sometimes 0.2) at maximum" ? ie. is it the FINAL out stage ?

I think that part needs an explanation...

Apologies, when I say "1.0", I mean in terms of gain, or in other words 0dbfs. So if you have selected hard clip, the output will not exceed 0dbfs. If you have selected soft clip, your peaks will get reduced as they get closer to 0db, so some might peak at -0.1 or -0.4 rather than at 0 immediately, but they should definitely not exceed 0dbfs.

edit: and yes it's definitely the final stage.

Utility - free lightweight digital track control/channel strip plugin