Dynamics
TL;DW: Dynamics is a combination compressor gate.
Dynamics started with a request: the gate, from CStrip, on its own. Then I thought, what if I included the compression too? I could tweak both and see if I could make ’em better for the new plugin. And then I thought, what would it be like if I combined them into a single dynamics object?
I think it worked.
Dynamics can be very transparent, or you can crank the speed and intensity to be hyper-squished… but since it’s a single plugin, you can hypercompress AND gate as a unit. That means you’re triggering the gate off the source audio, you’re able to control the closing of the gate like it’s raw sound, but the sound you’re gating is the compressed one. And that means terrific control and cleanness on the sculpted, tightened sounds. I’ve designed it so you can make it gate on almost anything, and squish very aggressively. It’s unlinked so you can use it on a stereo submix with distinct parts for each side, or put it on a mono track to control and shape it.
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery Chris!!!!
Bernhard from Germany
Hey Chris, I was curious to ask you something….
People hype the Inflator from Sonnox a lot, for many years. But it always seems that opinions vary in what it does exactly… making it a bit of a black box kind of plugin.
It seems like it could be a dual stage saturator, adding odd and even harmonics. Paul Third on youtube matched it closely with Melda saturator and waveshaper together, adding those 2 kinds of different saturation.
I’m no expert, was just curious what an AW Inflator might sound like, or if you had an opinion if its worth the hype it generated for many years. I defer to your opinion on these matters of subtile sonic voodoo magic :-)
@Rich
Lots of AW inflators available. Tube2 gives me a close feeling i get with oxford inflator, but with less aliasing than sonnox one. Mojo is also a inflator, and some others i don’t remember