Bootsie (aka Variety Of Sound) has officially announced preFIX, his upcoming freeware audio alignment tool, and scheduled its release for May 16th.
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.
Check out the complete feature list below. All in all, another sweet release by Variety Of Sound, very excited about this one!
Features
Main features of preFIX:
- 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
Links
preFIX KVR Forum Thread: click here
Variety Of Sound Website: click here
Variety Of Sound On Facebook: click here
