MAutoVolume beta available - need opinions! :)

[MeldaProduction]

Hey folks,

so here's another "experiment". After several requests from the customers to do something like Vocal Rider, here it is. This beta is for Windows only, Macs have to wait.

The idea is to stabilize the volume of a track to a predefined level or to the side-chain level. So it is basically designed for the lead tracks - vocals, saxophones, bass ...

And here are the links:
Windows 32-bit
Windows 64-bit

Let me know what you think .

Cheers!

[Svama]

Hi Vojtech,

perfect, perfect and again perfect.
I own Waves Vocal Rider, but I have to say your plugin is easier and I achieve better results.

Which bundle do you want to add this plugin?

Who like to buy my Vocal Rider?

Thanks and greetings

Marek

[MeldaProduction]

Perfect! Thank you! It will probably be only in MTotalBundle, but there should be some insane introductory price as usual

[Svama]

Hi Vojtech,

I bought the MMastering and MCreative Bundle seperate. If I will buy the pro versions of your free plugins, is this the same like the MTotalBundle in total?

Thanks and greetings

Marek

[MeldaProduction]

I bought the MMastering and MCreative Bundle seperate. If I will buy the pro versions of your free plugins, is this the same like the MTotalBundle in total?

I'm afraid not. There are some things outside of all 3 bundles - MReverb, now this MAutoVolume, MFreeformEqualizer, and the biggest thing is yet to come .

[Svama]

Hi Vojtech,

is there an upgrade price from MMastering and Mcreative Bundle to MTotal Bundle? What can i do to get MTotal Bundle? I already own MMastering and MCreative?!

Thanks and greetings

Marek

[MeldaProduction]

Marek, please contact me via info@meldaproduction.com, I rather solve these things privately.

[jens]

I bought the MMastering and MCreative Bundle seperate. If I will buy the pro versions of your free plugins, is this the same like the MTotalBundle in total?

I'm afraid not. There are some things outside of all 3 bundles - MReverb, now this MAutoVolume, MFreeformEqualizer, and the biggest thing is yet to come .

But is there actually any difference between a single wide band in MMultiBandReverb (which is part of Mcreative) and MReverb?

[VibraSound]

Hi Vojtech,

Is it possible to emulate Vocal Rider with a simple one band compressor ?
Maybe with slow attack/release and rms detection ?

[geroyannis]

I tried it in a couple of projects and it worked pretty well. So, besides a downward compressor it's also an upward compressor, right?

[SuperFly76]

I'm on the road for the next week. Can't wait to get back to the studio and give this thing a try.

I love the idea of waves vocal rider but the sidechain input doesn't work with vocal rider in any of my hosts. I seem to recall sidechain working fine with your plugins so I should be set.

[Rathead]

Checking this out - will report later but levels seem a bit skew-wiff.

[Rathead]

Greetings!
Great fun to play with this, thank you!
Possibly suggest default sensitivity could be 50% rather than 100%.
Default setup with 100% sensitivity and normal input levels is a bit - um - intense.

Range, speed and Noise floor work really well, particularly suited to bringing up low recorded levels which the plugin excels at. Background sensitivity didn't seem to behave as I might have expected. What is its design aim?

Gain settings are quite critical and I found the plugin overall to be a bit fussy to adjust. Because there is the possibility of both gain and attenuation, I found it necessary to readjust both input and output gain settings after changing the sensitivity, range or speed.

Once set up though, it sounds wucking fonderful! It is easily the best 'levelling' effect I have used. With a bit of tweaking of levels, and maybe control interactions, I think you have an outright winner here.

Please note that I have not tried it with sidechain yet. It took me two hours to really come to terms with it and the sidechain tests will have to wait until tomorrow.

Hope this helps,

Sir Ratty III

[paterpeter]

Hi Vojtech,

This could again be a very useful tool! I haven't tested it practically much yet, but the concept seems to make sense. I know one can probably achieve similar results with a slow compressor with a fitting processing shape, but I like special purpose plugins that are easy to use.

Out of interest: what is the range (ie milliseconds) of the speed parameter?

I'm not sure I use the plugin correctly, though. With the default settings I get some heavy spikes if there is a short silent part between words.

For example, here's a vocal sample I processed with MAutoVolume using only the default settings:


The upper wave form is the original file, the lower wave form is the processed file. See the spike at the end of the first part? I understand what could cause it: there is a short part before it that is rather quite compared to the rest. MAutoVolume tries to compensate for that and increases the gain. When the next word starts the gain is still very high and it takes some time (=> speed setting) to catch the now higher input level. This manifests into this spike.

Am I doing something wrong or is it just that the default settings are too extreme? I mean +/-24dB gain is a lot, right? Maybe +/- 6dB or a sensitivity of <100% would be a more sensible default value.

Maybe a two speed settings in place of one could be useful: one that controls the speed of gain increase and one that controls the decrease. A slower increase and faster decrease would reduce the spikes after inter-word gaps. Think attack/release wrt to gain decrease.

Regards,
Andre

[MeldaProduction]

But is there actually any difference between a single wide band in MMultiBandReverb (which is part of Mcreative) and MReverb?

Not really, mostly lower capabilities of MReverb and CPU usage.