Monitoring3
TL;DW: Monitoring3 is Monitoring, but with Ten Nines into Dark as the wordlength reducer.
Here’s a little update for users of Monitoring! Monitoring is the end-of-2-buss plugin that allows you to check your mix in lots of different ways. You can get 24 or 16 bit output out of it (as in, direct to CD format for saving as 16 bit), lots of reference sounds like SubsOnly, SlewOnly, PeaksOnly that will let you hear your mix in a very different way (if it’s way out of balance when you can only hear the deepest subs, or the brightest highs, you can re-adjust things.) PeaksOnly shows you a fake and unnatural sound that will enhance the inaudible peak energy and highlight anything that might be too loud because it’s heavy on peak energy. You’ve got four variations on Cans for headphone mixing (which gives you crossfeed in the form of allpassed, blurred audio a bit like what PeaksOnly does), you’ve got mono and side checks, narrowed-bandwidth checks like Aurat (including one-side mono versions to more closely resemble use of a real mono mix-check speaker) and even utilities like VoiceTrick, which gives you mono with one speaker out of phase: position a mic exactly between the speakers and you can lay vocal tracks without headphones if you need to (not perfect, but it should work).
In short, Monitoring, but with one little change. Everything is the same, but now Monitoring3 uses Airwindows Ten Nines into Dark for the wordlength reducer. This was originally built into Console8: I’ve decided that was silly, especially since I make use of Monitoring a lot and had overlooked its usefulness. So if you’ve never heard of these, they’re final dithers (especially to 24 bit) with lots of interesting monitoring-check options, and 1, 2, and 3 all offer different wordlength reduction, being otherwise identical. Console8 is also being updated in place, the only change being that it no longer dithers to 24 bit. Instead, you’re to use the dither in Monitoring, or whatever else you wish.
download StarterKit.zip for just the basics
download 64 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Signed M1/Intel Mac AUs.dmg
download Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg
download LinuxVSTs.zip
download LinuxARMVSTs.zip for the Pi
download Retro 32 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac AUs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac VSTs.zip
Mediafire Backup of all downloads
All this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.
The original version, which didn’t apply the ultrasonic filtering on VSTs, is at Monitoring3original.zip(673k)
cheers Chris, your job is very appreciated even by a not-that-skilled user as I am
Hi Chris.. Whats your take on new CLAP plugin format?… Can you do a video on it?…
What is Ten Nines? I can’t find it anywhere on your site.
Gregg, Ten Nines became this: https://www.airwindows.com/vinyldither/
Just tried it in Ardour 7 inside the monitor section processor box, along with an EQ for frequency compensation of the headphone.
Most of the time I use CAN A, occasionally CAN B.
Really awesome! All that I need.
Hello) How to install monitoring?
Mac
Hey Chris
Just to clarify, can I put Monitoring3 on the mix bus and it will do the same thing as Dark (plus its extra functionality?)
Thanks for all your work