Not Just Another Dither/CD
The votes are in, and the Internet has spoken. We’ve got a name for the new noise shaping variant on Naturalize, after a January of wild suggestions. Seems most people simply wanted to emphasize that this was not your ordinary dither, not your daddy’s TPDF.
This is the plugin (two, in fact) that beats all the other ones, including the original Naturalize. In normal use, this ‘dither’ (in fact it’s not a dither at all: it’s the Benford realness stuff from Naturalize, run with a noise shaper, and all the added random noise taken OUT) will make any fixed-point output sound like infinite resolution. It’s AU, Mac and PC VST. It has a switch for 16/24 bit operation (defaults to 24) and a ‘DeRez’ control where you can get low-bit NJAD audio if you like, or if you want to audition its noise floor behavior.
The output levels are low, without a bunch of extra energy coming from the noise shaper: it’s pretty well behaved, though like any hyper-performance ‘dither’ this is really meant for output formats. I don’t think any harm can come from repeatedly using this in processing, but you can always use a normal TPDF if you want no change in tonal balance (plain TPDF dither only adds broadband noise: more opaque, but if it builds up it won’t accentuate anything: dithers with a lot of high frequency energy can end up exaggerating that.)
This is supported through my Patreon, so the more people hear about it the better: pretty much the whole industry can use Not Just Another Dither and Not Just Another CD, to enhance their monitoring and mixing, and to produce high-res output files and CDs. It should make your audio sound better, no matter what your audio is.
That’s my wish for you :)
NotJustAnotherDitherOriginal, for those that need the less-well-working version without DeRez or a switch between 24 and 16 bit :) The original plugin comes in two forms: NotJustAnotherDither which is 24 bit, and NotJustAnotherCD, which is 16 bit.
Appreciate you uploading this early! Perfect timing as I’m about to export a song for youtube and need to dither down to 16 bits. Big fan of what you do Chris!
Thank you for this and for all of your other amazing plugins Chris. I’ve almost completely replaced all my mixing plugins with your’s now !
Dear Chris,
First off, thank you so much for the great plug-ins, AMAZING Mate! :o)
Second, I’m using the Ocenaudio DAW (https://www.ocenaudio.com/), and none of your plug-ins are working with it, could you please give me some advice as to how to set them up to work?
Thank you very much.
I don’t know how to use Ocenaudio. Do other VSTs work? Could it be that they don’t work because they haven’t implemented a way to do generic VSTs? Or, could it be that you’ve only tried plugins like Not Just Another Dither, which have no interfaces and will show up as blanks (but still work)?
Hi Chris.
Just wanted to let you know that on Wavelab 10 latest update your latest ‘NotJustAnotherDither’ is not working.
I just get 32bit float output on bot settings 24/16.
Hello.
I’m a little confused.
I accidentally found out about you and your dither.
But I don’t understand how to install this plugin. I have MAC 10.15.7 Catalina.
I downloaded your folder – but there is no automatic installer (as in other plugins from other companies)
I tried to manually drag and drop into folders with VST and components.
But when I start Studio One – the program writes – Error! These plugins cannot be tested on a Mac.
What to do? How do I install your plugin?
2) How do you generally use your Dithering?
I have a project with 48 / 24bit descriptor. I want to make a mixdown for mp3 – 48 / 16bit. And also 44.1 / 16bit (from the 48/24 project).
Please explain how to use your plugin correctly?
Many thanks.
I installed this plugin on my PC running studio one. The DAW scans it and recognizes the plugin, but when I open up the plugin there is nothing. The plugin is blank. What’s going on here?
Dear Chris, how do I use the Derez setting to emulate 8 bits, so that I can hear the same noise as in your video?