OEKSOUND Bloom (NEW)

[DCrown]

If it's not Scandinavian, I don't need to explain. I thought Oeksound is from Norway, but does not matter

Does not matter indeed.

makes sense!

[simon.a.billington]

A bit more detail on it:

"Bloom is an adaptive tone shaper. It analyzes the character of a signal and applies corrections to the perceived tonal balance for a more even and refined sound.

This lets the user shape the tone and character of a track, for example by adding warmth, brightness, or clarity. Bloom’s adjustments are dynamic and context-aware. This makes the plug-in quick and intuitive to use and helps keep the material sounding natural even when making radical changes.

When its main “amount” control is turned up, Bloom aims to make the sound more balanced. It does this in a way that is context-aware, constantly changing based on input, and tuned by ear by oeksound’s engineers. The result can work as an efficient starting point in the mixing process, offering a quick way to even out and refine the tonal characteristics of a sound.

Four frequency balance sliders can be used to further shape the tone to taste, enabling both fine adjustments and radical transformations. These sliders change the overall tonal balance that Bloom is working towards, rather than making absolute cuts or boosts as found in an EQ. An additional squash mode engages a form of frequency- dependent compression. Other features include attack and release controls, mid/side operation and low-latency mode.

Bloom is oeksound’s first studio plug-in in four years, following Soothe (2016), Spiff (2018), and Soothe2 (2020). Its philosophy is similar to oeksound’s previous plug- ins: using highly efficient algorithms, tuned by ear, to shape audio in quick and musical ways. But Bloom steps away from explicit problem-solving and towards color and tone- shaping. It can be used to fix audio, but also to sculpt it creatively."

Yeah it reminds me of a similar tool iZotope has for its Neutron suite, Sculptor.

I can't say which one is better, it's not for me to decide as "best" is highly subjective to users and a given content.

[tonycore]

What does “context-aware” mean in this…context? What context are they referring to? The genre of the music? The timbre of an instrument? The density of the overall sound of the track?

[elxsound]

What does “context-aware” mean in this…context? What context are they referring to? The genre of the music? The timbre of an instrument? The density of the overall sound of the track?

From the videos, context-aware seems to refer to the incoming content, as in it will react different to a vocal vs a guitar or synth.

It seems the intended use is per instrument, not an entire mix 

[tonycore]

Thanks - I gather “context-aware” means it analyses some aspect or aspects of the incoming signal and applies some sort of processing based on that analysis. I would be very interested in some further info about that analysis, what aspects of the sound are they looking at, and also how that analysis is applied to their processing. I suspect we’ll never get a lot of detail on that, so it’s going to be an “if I like the sound of what it does, I might buy it” kind of thing…I do like Oeksound plugins that I have...

[motomotomoto]

I’m willing to bet that “context aware” just means it’s dynamically adjusting to input frequencies. Watching the video it appears to be just like Gullfoss (or stabilizer, TEOTE or wavesfactory equalizer, take your pick of these plugins) BUT you can adjust the curve yourself with those sliders (which none of the others can do). This allows for it to be a powerful tone shaping tool and imo a worthy evolution of the concept if executed well.

[simon.a.billington]

I’m willing to bet that “context aware” just means it’s dynamically adjusting to input frequencies. Watching the video it appears to be just like Gullfoss (or stabilizer, TEOTE or wavesfactory equalizer, take your pick of these plugins) BUT you can adjust the curve yourself with those sliders (which none of the others can do). This allows for it to be a powerful tone shaping tool and imo a worthy evolution of the concept if executed well.

This is pretty much as I understand it. But an AI would have studied thousands of examples of what am ideal, good sounding instrument should sound like and use that as a baseline in knowing what to adjust.

But the user has the capability to intervene or completely veto the results to shape it according to the context inside an entire mix and their own personal needs.

[Ploki]

There’s no ideal baseline- it’s music

[motomotomoto]

I’m willing to bet that “context aware” just means it’s dynamically adjusting to input frequencies. Watching the video it appears to be just like Gullfoss (or stabilizer, TEOTE or wavesfactory equalizer, take your pick of these plugins) BUT you can adjust the curve yourself with those sliders (which none of the others can do). This allows for it to be a powerful tone shaping tool and imo a worthy evolution of the concept if executed well.

This is pretty much as I understand it. But an AI would have studied thousands of examples of what am ideal, good sounding instrument should sound like and use that as a baseline in knowing what to adjust.

But the user has the capability to intervene or completely veto the results to shape it according to the context inside an entire mix and their own personal needs.

I’m not aware of any plugins like this using any “ai” curve creation. As far as I know they are all pink noise curve based. Izotope and smart eq have profiles that are instrument trained but those are static eq based afaik.

[tonycore]

It seems to me that training on pink or white noise would not be much different than our just applying a spectral compressor such as MSpectral or DSM Pro or Ceilings of Sound with their pink or white noise curve invoked...just musing here...

[briefcasemanx]

Anyone know how this compares to Pigments 5?

[filulilu]

Anyone know how this compares to Pigments 5?

The synth?

[gelly-vapor]

pigments is a synth , bloom is a fx...

[Ploki]

this has to be a reference to some other thread here lol

Sounds lovely. And those vibrant colors! How does it compare to Pigments 5?

Anyone know how this compares to Pigments 5?

[martinjuenke]

Anyone know how this compares to Pigments 5?

Yes, I do know.
But I don't tell.