The limiter is punchy but can introduce a lot of distortion compared to Elephant or Pro L.ĭynamics is pretty cool, but again there are better, cheaper, non ilok tools with more flexibility, better interfaces and better maintained updates.ĭMG Audio Essence stomps all over Supressor and is nearly half the sonnox's regular price!ĬonundraAgreed on all the alternatives. The eq is nice but equilibrium has it's curves and a lot more besides. It works on a lot of things because it's pretty neutral. The 'effect' is just a dry wet! Not sure why Mr Frindle isn't more open about it's simplicity, there's not a lot to it. I've nulled it to -64db with cable guys free waveshaper (cm edition). I use the inflator a lot but a developer friend of mine told me it's just a waveshaper and I'm afraid it's true. Warmth isn’t used in this example in the compressor but it is used in the Envolution example where it is also available.They are great but are replaceable with better and cheaper tools these days. However, this is very similar to the language used to describe the effect Inflator has, so perhaps the two processes might share more than a colour scheme. the manual is a little mysterious about what this does, only saying that it imposes “a harmonic profile onto the signal that increases the density of higher value samples within the programme, in order to boost average modulation levels without an increase in peak levels or the risk of digital clipping” Any clearer to you? - nope, me neither.

One place where a little bit of vibe is available is in the warmth section of the Oxford Dynamics. One area where there is an obvious gap in the provision of plugins from Sonnox is that they do clean better than most but they don’t really do dirt. The Oxford Dynamics plugin features a compressor, limiter, gate and expander and while it’s only used in its compressor guise in this example, it’s very capable in all of these roles at the same time.

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