Auburn Sounds releases Lens - Spectral Multi-band Compander (incl. Free Compressor)

[Guillaume Piolat]

Auburn Sounds has announced the availability of LENS, free compressor, expander (paid), and EQ... in the spectral domain with a single transformation.




FEATURES

• Multi-band compression without crossover phase shifts,
• Multi-band expander (FULL version only),
• Constant phase EQ without ringing,
• Up to 64 companders bands, all working together on a stereo signal.
• Bands can be more or less Linked, to continuously switch between full-band punch glue comp, and auto-balancer EQ.
• Simultaneous control of sidechain and output EQ
• Clean 'over-the-top' upwards compression — using a parallel path.

According to Auburn Sounds:

All of this achieve provide profound punch and clarity since it does so much in constant phase.

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LINKS

Available now in two versions:

• LENS Free Edition lacks the Expander section ($0).
• LENS Full Edition has all features ($105, intro $49.35 until 20th September, 2022).

Choose your next step now:

• Download LENS Free Edition here: https://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Lens.html
• Buy LENS Full Edition here: https://auburnsounds.itch.io/lens
• Introduction blog explanations: https://www.auburnsounds.com/blog/Introducing-Lens.html
• Rate on KVR: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/lens-by-auburn-sounds

There is a cost to use the Lens, both in CPU and in latency, and the learning-curve is steep too. But we feel that this path is worth it for you to take. Thanks for your attention.

[El°HYM]

Looks indeed very promising. And as usual the generous Auburn #free - version for people to check out. Bravo!

[Havok]

Looks really interesting, always great tools from Auburn Sounds!

-little note, you put "lacks the Expander section" for both Free and Full versions

[Guillaume Piolat]

-little note, you put "lacks the Expander section" for both Free and Full versions

Thanks, fixed

[onerob]

Pretty incredible that most features are free! A really interesting plugin.

If you've solved ringing on the linear phase eq, you could release a whole separate eq plugin based on that technology. It would be a breakthrough.

Request: A latency-compensated bypass button.

[Vortifex]

Edited

[Guillaume Piolat]

Unfortunately it has some unusual behaviour (or maybe I'm not using it properly). If there's a quieter section in the track, eg. when the drums drop out to leave just the bass and a vocal, the volume will slowly increase and then return back to normal when the drums return. But not only will the volume increase, the EQ effect will change as well, becoming muddier then becoming cleaner again.

If that happens (would be interesting to hear an example), it is probably that your Attack is set differently for bass and treble. Right-click on the comp Attack buttons to set them for both Low and High at the same time.

Your Release might be a bit long too, the sweet spot is usually around ~20ms.

Alternatively, you can Link the Bands more, with the sweet spot being around 70%. 100% is like an (expensive) full-band compressor.

My advice would be to setup selectivity first (and not touch it after), then link bands, then tweak comp, and only then add EQ. But, there are no strict rules there.

[QA_Ben]

Hey you finally made it!! Congrats!
Was nice to help you a little on this project! I hope we will work again together!

[Guillaume Piolat]

Hey you finally made it!! Congrats!
Was nice to help you a little on this project! I hope we will work again together!

Sure, thank you!

[muki]

crashes logic 10.5.1 (mac os mojave) at some point of interaction
crashreport is saved in case of interest (pm)

[DJErmac]

I’ve only tried it very quickly and I must admit this beast is impressive...
At first try I got better results for what I’m trying to do than any preset I’ve tried. Simply because it’s so flexible that you can tweak anything to your tastes.

I’m not a huge fan of the dry/wet feature (would love to simply adjust one knob), and I really have a problem with the plugin immediatly changing the sound on loading without any possible tweaking that makes it fully transparent (I love to start from scratch), but this is one of the most powerful tools I’ve seen in a while, for free !!!

Without these two no-go features I would have purchased the full version btw. A plugin that immediatly changes the sound and you can’t find your original sound back is a final no-go for me.

But in anyway it’s excellent. Congrats and thank you !
(Cocorico !!!)

[perpetual3]

I am very serious when I say that Auburn makes some of the best plugins in the business, with the best business model. One of the best gates, best transient designer, best reverb / delay. This new plugin is indeed a game changer.

[Guillaume Piolat]

New bugfix update solves two compatiblity issues.

Lens v1.0.1:
- AMD Phenom compatibility. No more need for a SSSE3 processor, instead the
minimum instruction set is SSE3.
- Fix crashes in Logic after Logic reloads a plugin internally.


Update your FULL plugins => https://www.auburnsounds.com/faq/I'm-a- ... g-ins.html

Update your FREE plugins => https://www.auburnsounds.com/faq/Where- ... sions.html

[Halonmusic]

wow thanks for this

[Guillaume Piolat]

Lens v1.0.2 changes:

• NEW Can move Dry and Wet slider by the same amount of dB by right-clicking
  on the Dry slider, and dragging.
• The macOS installer should not need Rosetta anymore.
• Fix crash in macOS and Linux when holding several mouse buttons at once in
  the EQ section.
• Fix lack of Gain Map display and wrong UI timings in Linux

Update your FULL plugins => https://www.auburnsounds.com/faq/I'm-a- ... g-ins.html

Update your FREE plugins => https://www.auburnsounds.com/faq/Where- ... sions.html