Variety of Sound Releases preFIX Alignment/Mix Plug-In
Variety of Sound is a great website that features a bounty of very unique plug-ins. Manned by a mysterious scientist and lover of music, the presumed human being spends his time creating VST plug-ins that are inspired by what our current tools of the trade simply lack.
You will be fixated with the preFIX from Variety of Sound.
The preFIX is a Freeware (yup!) frankenstein of sorts in that it is a combination of a Sidechain Path and EQ filter, a Gate/Expander, Phase Alignment tool, and an X-factor feature dubbed as “Advanced Control”.
Here is what Variety of Sound has to say about the new tool:
preFIX is a pre-mixing and audio alignment tool which typically takes place upfront the mixing process. It provides a clever tool set to clean-up, fix and align audio tracks (typically taken from recordings) concerning overall frequency correction, phase alignment, spatial stereo field corrections and routing. It contains a complete gate/expander solution with a dedicated and comprehensive sidechain filtering path as well.
Features:
• Main audio path filter
• Baxandall style shelving filter with pristine audio quality
• Smooth butterworth high- and lowpass filter with switchable characteristics (12 and 24dB per octave)
• Both are oversampled and match their analog model curve behavior
• Sidechain path EQ and filter
• Whole spectrum “tilt style” balancing filter with adjustable center frequency
• Smooth butterworth high- and lowpass filter with switchable characteristics (12 and 24dB per octave)
• A dedicated parametric peaking EQ
• Internal/external sidechain switchable
• Sidechain listening option
• Gate/Expander
• Adjustable threshold between -80 and +6dBFS
• Freely adjustable knee from hard- to soft-knee behaviour up to 1:2 downward expander mode
• Range limiting option (floor)
• Channel link switchable
• Envelope follower section with attack, hold and release control
• Attack timing features console style peak timings as well as two rms modes
• Additional gate pre-open timing option
• Phase alignment
• Analog style stepless signal phase corrections
• Detailed options for adopting phase response curve regarding polarity, frequency center and width
• Additional digital signal delay option
• Phase control switchable to channel 1, 2 or both
• Advanced control
• Detailed output channel routing with six different modes
• Stereo image rotation option visually supported by a goniometer
• Output level control with special mono mode to mix in channel 1 and 2
To discover what hidden capabilities lie within this wonderful double entendre of a device, you can download it for FREE by visiting Variety of Sound.