Hmm... it's been a while. I've been working with great people and teams in plugin development since the early 2000s, and I haven't been in this 'business' for almost five years. I didn't know the passion and ideas were still so strong.
Been into recording and mixing drums for 30 years now (on-off), and started drumming myself around 2017. And still, the frustration was there, or even grew:
The longer you work on mixing real drums, the worse they become. You lose focus and concentration, hearing fatigue kicks in, and you end up fiddling with nuances instead of working with the big picture. Mix revision numbers like 'mix 27, snare +0.5dB at 215Hz' tell a long story when you haven't cared about the vocals coming out as a mess. I messed up a lot of mixes through 'perfection' this way, and thought I had experience. If yours is similar, I hear you.
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Meet auto-scan equalization (static & dynamic, auto-pinpointing the dominant frequency spots), meet onboard multi-layer sample triggering (and feed external VSTi/samplers), meet super-simple de-bleeding, analogue-modelled compression, tape & tube simulation and much more.
I tried to limit myself to 2 - 3 knobs per 'task', hence the sections, but as always it's a balancing act. Every additional knob kills a kitten.
I reckon it'll speed up many workflows dramatically, kind of a mixing-engineer's Pareto principle. 'In the ballpark' in no time. Yet I think it 'delivers' right away, and I've put in a lot of personal flavour.
You can test-drive the Trial Version for 14 days, without limitation. The regular price is €/$ 79, but for the next 4 weeks (until July 16), the plugin can be purchased with a 25% intro price of €/$59.25. Authorization is a simple online & offline process. No dongles, no iLok, no subscriptions.
Love & cheers,
Sascha
