http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id ... 6e6bc4b7a8
The follow-up to Airwindows Naturalize is ready, and it's pretty astonishing! You can hear what it does in the video up top. As usual for Airwindows it's unorthodox, but this time it goes even farther beyond the norm: it was achieved by stripping out all the actual dither from Naturalize, leaving the plugin with no randomness and no noise at all.
It's completely procedural, deterministic: that means it doesn't fall back on any dither noise to soften or direct things. Instead, it uses the Benford realness calculation which makes Naturalize special… uncut, undiluted, just the full effect of that calculation applied directly to the audio.
And then, since that can't work all by itself (which is why Naturalize got a dither added to it), the new wordlength reducer applies noise shaping… and then just as an experiment, it was set up to apply ALL the noise shaping. Every single scrap or hint of the hi-res that was lost, is kept in the algorithm. This was never supposed to work. It was an intermediate stage to show how the thing went out of control, part of a process by which it'd be dialed back until it was functional.
Instead, I got the new wordlength reducer, exactly as you hear it. It makes noise six DB quieter than any TPDF dither, and it's much brighter even than highpassed TPDF. It's like the noise floor turns invisible and just stops mattering. You can listen way down past where you should, with the music always at exactly the right level… and then as you hit true silence, it gates (with a characteristic little noise) to digital black.
This 'ditherless dither' has no name. Why?
So you can name it!
In the poll at http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id ... 6e6bc4b7a8 are a bunch of names to vote on, and a blank slot. The internet will name this new discovery! Please try to stick to things that would fit in a DAW plugin slot, with no non-ASCII characters, and I can't use the copyrighted names of other things (for instance, I probably can't use 'Lightsaber'). On the other hand you can suggest pairs of names, as this plugin WILL come out in 24 and 16 bit forms, and they can have distinct names. If I don't get distinct names, I might go with 'HR' and 'CD' on the ends, or just put a toggle on the plugin for that.
The ditherless dither, this perhaps greatest wordlength reducer ever (listen to the video, there's grounds for that claim) WILL come out on February 1, which is a Wednesday. 2/1/17 is the day it comes out, AU and Mac and PC VST, for free.
Help me name it, Internet. I'm not a government agency and I won't let you down. Don't let me down! Let's choose something awesome, so everyone can smile and enjoy their new tech
