realtime mp3 (or other compression) for mix buss use?

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realtime mp3 (or other compression) for mix buss use? 2008-08-21T12:35:54+00:00 Hello there hard working and brilliant people putting your hard earned programming skills to good use and benefit of everyone else (and hopefully a livelihood of your own)! (and I am NOT being sarcastic here - just in case your flame-o-meter is already reaching the red). If you will permit me I'd like to hear your feedback on the following concept: For years now it has been customary far mixing and mastering engineers to check their work on other formats then the (at the time of writing) 2-speaker stereo system - this being the case to ensure an equal fidelity on other systems such as mono or more recently surround (which is I should ad not a testing option used by very many people because of the sheer logistics it involves). So far so good. In my job as an audio engineer I find an increasing amount of my work end up reaching the end use in form of compressed audio format such as mp3 or the Itunes borne mp4. Also much of the audio ends up being presented on forums such as myspace where the compression is very high and the fidelity therefore lower. Because of this I am more and more getting to a point where I feel it mandatory to check my mixes in compressed format, just as I would check them for mono-compatibility. This is a bit tedious at the moment though as it seems my only option is to do a mix down and test this audio file for "compression-compatibility". It would be great if I could insert a plug-in on the master mix buss in my DAW that would allow me to hear and adjust the mix in real time in a compressed format. So my simple questions are these: 1 Is there already a plug in out there that would do something like this? I have searched everywhere I could think of and so far I have only seen various forms of bit/samplerate changing plug ins, but they don't do exactly what I was thinking. 2 Would developing such a plug-in be a simple task or am I just hoping for way too much? I am in no way trying to come up with a business plan here, so I wont be able to back anyone going into such a task, but I do feel there will be a demand for such a plug, and I for one would love having it in my arsenal. So even though nobody is already developing or will consider development of such a plug-in, maybe you could give me some pointers as to the difficulty of such a task? Any answer will be most welcome! Thanks J.A. Hvitnov Copenhagen, Denmark Vulkanizer https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=120651

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Post by plastique » Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:04 pm

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I'd be interested to hear the results too (maybe the bitrate could also be adjustable on the plugin ?). I can imagine it could also be abused as some sort of bitcrusher effect given the right parameters.

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