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BASSDRIVE · Post by **BASSDRIVE** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:34 am

de la Mancha wrote:OK, one more time. It's an Imageline plugin. It's a marketing trick/leak. To get reaction to their new compressor plugin, it was leaked under a false name and fake engrish so you didn't know it was gol and crew. Probably to get a truer reaction from the FL haters and Fanboi's alike

Well if that's true, that's pretty fuckin nice of them. It's free and best of all it sounds f**king great.

BASSDRIVE · Post by **BASSDRIVE** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:41 am

BobYordan wrote:Setting A is rather cool using it on a mix.

Will try it on kick today.

Think I will add it to my DAW.

Yeah it does sound good on a mix.

This plug kinda reminds me of that Sonalksis TBK3, but with an enhancer maximiser instead of that "FIERCE" compression.

de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:52 am

The actual compressor/limiter will have more controls, this is just a one knob interface so you can get a flavour. It's an interesting marketing exercise.

BASSDRIVE · Post by **BASSDRIVE** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:09 am

de la Mancha wrote:The actual compressor/limiter will have more controls, this is just a one knob interface so you can get a flavour. It's an interesting marketing exercise.

Well it's pretty amazing for having just one knob right now. That setting "A" sounds great. Hopefully they don't add too many more knobs.

tony tony chopper · Post by **tony tony chopper** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:36 am

It's in the last issue of Computer Magazine...

Is it? Damn.
Ok here's the full story:

FL always needed a good limiter, and apparently people weren't happy with the 2 compressor plugins in FL. So I searched for another good one, thought that XXX (I don't know if I can name it, so..) sounded good, we asked them for cooperation, they were interested but didn't have the time for, so I started mine.
In the meantime Argu had made his own limiter too, but a control-less one, and he wasn't interested in adding more features to it.

So I started a single-band limiter (didn't know shit about compressors but got some good help in the music-dsp mailing list). I realized that the release curves were the most important & added more control there.
Then once it was done I started a multiband version, which appeared to give much better results. Added some non-compression but mastering-related features & called it 'Maximus' (as you can see in YWS).
Then I saved 4 Maximus presets & put them in a black box. 'Soundgoodizer' was rejected as a name, 'YOU WA SHOCK' was voted the worst name ever/marketing suicide, hint that it was a good name (& the plugin made the FOTNS title song sound better).
Vlad suggested some engrish, we turned normal text through english->japanese->english for some good engrish. In the meantime Fred adapted it to VST & Winamp plugins.

So the idea was to fake a release by some japanese. This didn't work too well, because instead of some 'hi, I found this plugin that sounds great', this thread started by 'hi, I'm new here, test my plugin that no one ever heard of'. Of course this started a virus paranoia (a legitimate one, since it was a unknown/obscure plugin), except that it made us realize that users were scared of exe installers, but didn't seem to think that a DLL could carry a virus(??). Weird, considering that in the past, a proper installer was a sign of quality.

Then a further idea was to have it released in the CM mag, still 'undercover', but after some weeks I was told that it wouldn't happen, that's why I let the cat out of the bag. But now it's in the CM mag afterall?

tony tony chopper · Post by **tony tony chopper** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:40 am

Maximus offers 59 parameters btw, a free (Sytrus-like) envelope-based curve for each band, and a complete visual feedback of every compression curve.

multree · Post by **multree** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:48 am

that sounds VERY interesting

ahjteam · Post by **ahjteam** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:55 am

BASSDRIVE wrote:WOW, WTF, this is like a 1 Knob magical plugin. D@mn this plugin freaking ROCKS! Thanks!

BTW, what are the differences between the ABCD?

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 00#2613400

popmoney · Post by **popmoney** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:26 am

Hey tony
Thanks for that.great work.

tonAP · Post by **tonAP** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:01 pm

About the "virus paranoia":
I've a question for tony reflex..or fred chopper

It leaves a YWS_DspIpp.dll (3.080 KB) in my Temp folder... is it ok?
If yes (as I assume), why it doesn't "close the door"?

Thnx

tony tony chopper · Post by **tony tony chopper** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:11 pm

It leaves a YWS_DspIpp.dll (3.080 KB) in my Temp folder... is it ok?

yes, that's because we tried to put everything in a single DLL (better for the winamp version)

stanlea · Post by **stanlea** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:55 pm

Did you say LeftOverLasagne ?

lenieNt Force · Post by **lenieNt Force** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:56 pm

.......... LOOOOOHOHOHOL that page made me cry

lenieNt Force · Post by **lenieNt Force** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:12 pm

Maaaaaaan.... this plugs totally insane btw...... Image-line rox!

BFunKu · Post by **BFunKu** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:34 pm

Sounds Good! But Did anybody try this one out yet?

Hi new to special maximizer!