I just discovered this section in the settings.
After reading the documentation a few times, I still don't quite understand what the settings do. I think the recommendation is to enable everything except "Global input gain", but I"m not sure.
Can anyone break it down in simple terms with examples maybe?
New "Dry/Wet Affects..." Setting
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- KVRian
- 1094 posts since 23 Sep, 2006
I think I get it, but I admit it's difficult to wrap your head around at first.
Essentially the plugin's global dry/wet can scale these parameters, or not. In the case of panorama, as you reduce the dry/wet to be more dry, any panorama settings on the bands will become reduced. So if you've set band one to be hard left, as you reduce the global dry/wet, band 1's pan becomes increasingly more central. This is what you'd want as the dry/wet become crossfaded and their pans are aligned.
For the gain ones, it's relevant because set incorrectly the dry/wet adjustments would impact the input into the processors. If you were working with dynamics plugins, changing the dry/wet would change how the compressor reacted, which is probably not what you want.
There's probably a ton of implications and use cases that I can't think of right now, but hope that helps you understand a little better.
Essentially the plugin's global dry/wet can scale these parameters, or not. In the case of panorama, as you reduce the dry/wet to be more dry, any panorama settings on the bands will become reduced. So if you've set band one to be hard left, as you reduce the global dry/wet, band 1's pan becomes increasingly more central. This is what you'd want as the dry/wet become crossfaded and their pans are aligned.
For the gain ones, it's relevant because set incorrectly the dry/wet adjustments would impact the input into the processors. If you were working with dynamics plugins, changing the dry/wet would change how the compressor reacted, which is probably not what you want.
There's probably a ton of implications and use cases that I can't think of right now, but hope that helps you understand a little better.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1282 posts since 3 Jan, 2020
Thanks for trying to explain it. So MXXX (and other MB plugins) doesn't actually mix the dry with the wet signal and scales parameters instead? That makes sense because some of the band splitting modes introduce phasing.
But now I'm wondering how MXXX handles the modules. Does it scale the dry/wet setting of each individual module? With all the options available, that seems like a difficult problem to solve.
And does it do the same for linear-phase band splitting modes or does it just mix the dry and wet signal there?
But now I'm wondering how MXXX handles the modules. Does it scale the dry/wet setting of each individual module? With all the options available, that seems like a difficult problem to solve.
And does it do the same for linear-phase band splitting modes or does it just mix the dry and wet signal there?