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Sorry but your comparision video contains points, that a simple false. Iam using logic almost a decade now, and logic never forgots any automation information. I would recommend not switching daws and learn one good. Bye the way, what does cubase and all the updates cost? I bought logic once for 199 euros with a ton of very good stuck plugins and instruments + sound library and it took years to pay a new logic version because my mac got old. Ive tried cubase long time ago and iam using a lot of automation and the color style of the lines are , until today!!! ,simple confusing.

I like the idea of having a known SPL listening level, but either my phone's SPL meter is not even in the right ballpark, or I'm doing something wrong, because I can only hit 80dB SPL if I max out my monitor controller (which is a terrifying thing to do!). Pretty sure I'm gain-staging sensibly, because the main buses in my daw sit at around -18dBFS=0dB RMS, and those then go via mixer+outboard+master bus and come back mixed down into the daw at approx unity gain (about 8dB of digital headroom), then to monitor outs.

i think nobody talks about it (on youtube)

When my ears start playing tricks, I use reference tracks to stay oriented.

great stuff

I am a Digital Performer user (for over 30 years now), no complaints! I've done a lot of all kinds of productions, ...recording, mixing, mastering, in and outboard processing, synths, midi etc and synced with film/video material! ...i must say, i don't need another DAW! Digital Performer is very flexible and customiseble and stabile! ...if a DAW crashes often, the reason is normally some of the (third party) plug in(s) on open project!

I am a Digital Performer user (for over 30 years now), no complaints! I've done a lot of all kinds of productions, ...recording, mixing, mastering, in and outboard processing, synths, midi etc and synced with film/video material! ...i must say, i don't need another DAW! Digital Performer is very flexible and customiseble and stabile! ...if a DAW crashes often, the reason is normally some of the (third party) plug in(s) on open project!

The question remains: does it go beyond FabFilter's Saturn?

Thank you SO much for introducing me to MAAT, Mark. 🙏🏼 I knew within moments that FiDef was for me! i just got their Santa Cruz EQ & immediately felt the same way - i’ve plenty of great EQ’s but this thing somehow manages to add &/or remove the essential tweeks needed to the instrument, real or not, without it sounding EQ’d at all! + the 2BC multiCORR - Multiband Correlation plug is absolutely brilliant!!! There’s a good video out there about it but i’d love to get your take on it in relation to the jazz/prog soundstage. Shanti.~*

Great, I like how you keep identifying important topics and share your insights.

Thank Mark. That was an interesting, usefull, and educative contribution.

I know you said you need to chain plugins together to get similar effects, but I'd like to point out that Bitwig has Transient, loud and even Harmonic split containers, so you just chuck a compressor on the the tail or the transient for instance, add and map some modulators, save the preset and you've got your more "advanced" compressor.

can’t Cubase‘s Squasher do da job?

Thanks for all the comments! Just so you know, I have ADPTR Sculpt and Flux Solera. I tried to reproduce this same kind of precise upward compression on both of them. I couldn't get either of them close to what Dynamic Grading is able to do in this particular use case (snare ghost notes). Both Sculpt and Solera are great plugins and I use them both. But my experience is that Dynamic Grading can go farther. So it's very useful when I need that. Like on a very dense arrangement where ghost notes need to cut through.

Flux Solera

Thanks for the video🤝

It seems to be a downwards plus a upwards compression...

Keen to watch this, I was sold by their advertising but during a mix I found I rarely draw for it. Keen to learn how to use this effectively.

Ableton Multiband

Reaper has a stock plugin called “general dynamics” that can do all of that (and then some..) But the GUI of this one is really much more intuitive 👍

I use Cubase 13 pro as my main DAW and the Reason Rack. I use Reason for some tracks but Cubase is on another level.

Really like it - but a bit expensive! No alternatives? ADPTR perhaps - which has all of these as modules?

Sold!

kilohearts dynamics

Melda has had plugins, with way more control than this, for almost a decade

Waves mv2

Yes, one more delay plug-in! but this one is a Nice featured delay. I use the bx500, mostly for it’s ducking feature, which serves my purpose for delay plug-in.

Great tool, just a pity it's not resizeable, such a tiny plugin on a huge screen. Almost impossible to see what you're doing watching on a smartphone using earbuds.. Thanks for the video.. 😊

MDynamics or even MDynamicsMB, give it a spin, thank me later.

No plugin is indispensable ........when you have hardware

Sounds quite natural when you brought the ghost notes up/closer to the loud snare hits. Impressive.

I mean, technically, it's a gate followed by a compressor/expander followed by another compressor/expander (all in series) but it's laid out in a way that facilitates a different understanding of what's going on with your dynamics, plus a unique way of metering said dynamics. A very cool plugin

ADAPTR sculpt also tries to achive the same type of result, I think

Is this as if one used a wave shaper that is scaled a certain way giving more resolution in like the upper 40 dB towards 0? Does it produce distortion?

That is a super smart dynamic plugin. Thanks for the discovery.

Thanks Mark! Quite impressive, especially if you only have few instruments, you can add different character to an otherwise relatively even Track. On acoustic guitar/voice singer/songwriter this might Sound great. I like how it handles acoustic guitars 😊! You might get there also with other tools, but that seems more time consuming than this plugin.

There was already a plugin with the same concept in 2004: Elemental audio Neodynium. I loved it. Unfortunately, the founder of the company died and it was discontinued due to copyright disputes.

Almost 200 dollars. Forget it...

Nice visualization and ui. But my built-in ableton multiband compressor is probably what I‘ll stick to

mcompressor does essentially the same, it just visualizes it differently

Intriguing…but how transparent is it? …and wonder if you could demonstrate it on vocals? Apparently their website has no vocal demo either!

Thanks for another great review video. I'd be interested in your opinion of how this compares to The Oven plugin if you've had the chance to compare?

Nice video! I like to use gates for ducking.

U-He Colour copy and Valhalla Delay are my go-to’s

I really enjoy this type of video that deals with the most important approaches to mixing and mastering, thanks for doing these!

Thanks for the review! I’m glad you liked it. Btw, my dog really loves this saxophone 😁

Thanks for the video, I have to confess that I bought this a while back (suckered in by the loyalty discount😉) but it never quite clicked with me. Unlike you I found the interface to be a bit daunting and there's also a "CPU-hog" issue which turned me off. However, your video has inspired me to have a proper deep dive with it and just take the time to learn it properly and then I can make a more informed decision whether to add it back to my toolbox.

What you might like then are the PSP delays, the blue one has more controls than you might have ever seen.

I love both

I bought it near release. Excellent plugin.