Product Description
Looking for the great Sony plug-ins for Pro Tools LE without all the cost? This is your solution. Bundles includes the Sony Dynamics plug-in, EQ plug-in, and Inflator plug-in at a reduced package price.
The Sony Oxford EQ Plug-in
The EQ plug-in is based on the OXF-R3 EQ section. It is a fully functional 5-band application with selectable shelf settings on LF and HF sections. Additionally, separate variable slope low pass and high pass filters are provided. The EQ also features 4 different selectable EQ types that cover most of the EQ styles currently popular amongst professional users, including some legacy styles which are renowned for their artistic capability. The use of novel coefficient generation and intelligent processing design provides unparalleled performance that surpasses analogue EQ in both sound quality and artistic freedom. This plug-in may well provide all the EQ you will ever need.
Features
Five band parametric design
Selectable shelf settings on LF and HF sections
LF and HF Filters providing up to 36dB/Octave slope
Four selectable EQ types
Fully decramped HF response
Support for sample rates up to and including 192kHz
Fully automatable (including separate automation for A and B settings)
Includes mono and stereo versions
The Sonly Oxford Inflator Plug-in
The Inflator is a unique process that can provide an increase in the apparent loudness of almost any program, without obvious loss of quality or audible reduction of dynamic range, yet avoiding damaging increases in the peak level of the signal. The Inflator process can also bring power, presence and warmth to program material and even provide headroom overload margin above digital maximum with a subtlety and musical character reminiscent of tube systems.
The Inflator was developed in response to requests from mixing and mastering engineers who are required to compete on the basis of the overall apparent loudness of their final results. Use the Inflator to produce louder mixes than you thought possible without overloads or compression pumping, or use it to add natural warmth and character to acoustic or jazz mixes. Use it on single instruments to add presence, softness and depth, or use it on percussion and drum tracks to produce amazing dynamic presence, tightness and volume.
Features
Increases the loudness of almost any program material.
Creates warmth, character and dynamic excitement, similar to that of analogue systems.
Provides virtual headroom above digital maximum to allow percussive peaks to pass without causing signal overload.
Creates artistic effects ranging from subtle tube-like harmonic characteristics for warmth, presence and 'in your face' fatness, to outright saturation distortion modeling.
Features two modes of operation - direct and band split - for maximum flexibility and artistic creativity.
The Sony Oxford Dynamics Plug-in
The Oxford Dynamics plug-in is modeled on the extremely flexible and capable unit used in the OXF-R3 professional mixing console. Resulting from many years research into professional dynamics applications, it offers separate Compress, Limit, Expand, Gate and side chain EQ functions, with full independent control of all parameters. Features such as selectable time constant curves and variable soft compress functions allow the user to confidently tackle all common uses of compression, from subtle unobtrusive level control and mastering functions to the production of great artistic effects. The use of a feed-forward architecture with logarithmic side chain processing, making use of look-ahead techniques, ensures exemplary sonic characteristics and dynamic accuracy, with an artistic capability simply unavailable from other single units, analogue or digital. This highly sophisticated and professional product has the power and flexibility to obviate the need for many of the separate applications most users keep for specific uses.
Dynamic signal level control has grown in complexity and popularity from humble beginnings to an essential part of the sound production process. Originally conceived as a method to automatically correct for performance variation and broadcast transmission limitations, dynamic control has evolved beyond this to engender whole artistic cultures and idioms, resulting from a continuous expansion of the artistic effects provided by such processes. As a result of these trends, many diverse types of compression mechanisms have been developed over the decades aimed at a very wide range of uses and effects. By providing an unusually wide range of control along with multiple timing laws and operational subtlety, the Oxford Dynamics section can achieve impeccable results in the widest range of uses, from sensitive almost imperceptible dynamic compression on vocals and program to instrument harmonic enhancement and dramatic artistic sound effect.
Features
Channel Dynamics with separately controlled sections for Compressor, Limiter, Gate and Expander.
Channel Dynamics includes fully featured 2 Band side chain EQ which can also be used in signal path.
Selectable linear and exponential time constant curves.
Highly accurate logarithmic side chain processing.
Fully variable soft ratio function for extreme program tolerance and highly musical compression.
Variable harmonic enhancement for extra loudness, presence and 'punch'.
Selectable re-dithering function for word length reduction in mastering situations.
Extremely low signal path noise and distortion, below -130dBr.
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