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aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:26 pm

I already have Stereo Spread but since Generator is on sale was wondering if it's just the little brother of spread or does anything Spread can't do?

jmg8 · Post by **jmg8** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 9:58 am

Well i use them for different tasks.
MStereoSpread is for width control of an existing stereo signal.
MStereoGenerator is for creating stereo from a mono signal.

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 3:20 pm

jmg8, not correct. MStereoProcessor is for controlling stereo signal. Both MStereoSpread and MStereoGenerator are artificial stereo processors, but very different ones. In my opinion, MStereoGenerator sounds more natural, so it is useful more for ambient performances, MStereoSpread is for contemporary stuff, since it doesn't introduce any ambience or anything. I use MStereoSpread personally. Anyways more info here:

https://www.meldaproduction.com/guides/stereo

mljung · Post by **mljung** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:43 pm

MStereoSpread is one of the few plugins in Meldas collection that got a misleading name

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Mads

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 9:47 pm

Really?

why?

It spreads mono into stereo

mljung · Post by **mljung** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 7:29 am

I would rather say it makes or generates stereo out of mono.

Think about us who have purchased the MTotalBundle - in that long line of plugins (many will seldom be used and quite a few overlap each other), you'll easily been mislead by a name such as MStereoSpread.

There's also a limiter which in fact is a saturator (as far as I recall), but I always forget which one it is.

So good descriptive names are so important

(most are fine

)

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Mads

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:17 am

Hehe yeah I know, many many plugins... And the MLimiter f** up will follow me forever probably

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Anyways the overlap is actually very small - look at Waves, UAD etc., they have like gazillions of eqs, comps... :vomit:

And most other companies have names like Solera or R42

. So I think the situation is not that bad

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mljung · Post by **mljung** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:54 pm

MeldaProduction wrote:Hehe yeah I know, many many plugins... And the MLimiter f** up will follow me forever probably .

MLimiter - yes that was it. Why don't you put the info (as a note) into the plugin, then make an Mlimiter2 or why not MRealLimiter

to replace the saturator

With your abilities some fix you should be able to cure it somehow

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Mads

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:57 pm

Hehe there is MDynamicsLimiter

. Sadly this one is uncurable without breaking backwards compatibility

. For the record, it technically IS a limiter by definition. But not according to the classic understanding, which in audio community is often more than definition

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wildcafe · Post by **wildcafe** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 10:24 pm

The most important reason why I'm using MStereoSpread instead of any other plugin is it's mono compatibility! It's the only plugin I know which is mono-compatible as it only pans several frequencies while getting great widening results...

Soundplex · Post by **Soundplex** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:18 am

wildcafe wrote:The most important reason why I'm using MStereoSpread instead of any other plugin is it's mono compatibility! It's the only plugin I know which is mono-compatible as it only pans several frequencies while getting great widening results...

No, I know there is at least 1 similar plugin in the stereo bundle from vengeance. Don't know what its name was.

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 12:28 pm

It's definitely not the only one, but it's rare as designing it properly is very complicated...

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Stereo generator or spread?