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.
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.
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
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.
ADPTR is great. But I wasn't able to get this amount of targeted upward compression with it. I mean it did a good job at that, but not to the degree that Dynamic Grading can do.
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.. 😊
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.
@@ttttiiimmy10bit If I get this viedeo here correctly, then yes. I have can define db ranges for expansion, do nothing, and compression. What is called „upward compression“ here is what I would achieve by raising the output level. And all that for three separately controllable frequency bands. The granularity of the meter that signifies the energy in the frequency band is reduced from here-many-many to ableton-three. So if you wanted this information more detailed, you would need to add a separate spectrum analyzer. If there‘s anything I‘m missing here, don‘t hesitate to point it out.
Are you sure? I have it and find it difficult to use. But if it can do something like that, it would become a much more interesting free plugin. Melda is usually producing very good plugins.
@@ErixSamson they're both just mapping an input to an outpug gain if you use the draw curve thing in melda. just different ui. see the xy graph on the right? that's the same curve you can draw in melda. any compressor where you can draw your own transfer function can do this stuff. using something like mdynamicsmb you can even go far beyond what this does. it's just a bit fiddly ui wise, as melda plugins tend to be.
Yea, especially the multiband version. The crossovers can split signal in various ways; spectrally, degree of transientness, amount of stereo width, etc. While here, i'd like to nominate Image-Line's Maximus as alternative to the plugin featured in the above video. It allows arbitrary remapping of dynamics. This includes actual level inversion, where volume grading transfers in opposite direction -- something unachievable in Playfair Audio's plugin. ie. Dynamic Grading can only transfer progressively louder input to progressively louder output, not progressively attenuated output.
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?
hey, which one of meldas comps do you mean? I have them all, but I havent seen a comp who hast different dynamic areas with different comp settings like this. Or have I overlooked something. I am interested ...
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.
Never heard of this thanks for sharing!
I love those plugins, wish I could still use them! RIP Roger Nichols.
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.
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 👍
That is a super smart dynamic plugin. Thanks for the discovery.
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
Stellar vid. would love to see master bus applications of Dynamic Grading!
Sounds quite natural when you brought the ghost notes up/closer to the loud snare hits. Impressive.
Thanks for the video🤝
can you do a video showing what plugins you use for vocal mixing
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.
Intriguing…but how transparent is it? …and wonder if you could demonstrate it on vocals? Apparently their website has no vocal demo either!
try a demo on your vocal ?
Really like it - but a bit expensive! No alternatives? ADPTR perhaps - which has all of these as modules?
ADPTR is great. But I wasn't able to get this amount of targeted upward compression with it. I mean it did a good job at that, but not to the degree that Dynamic Grading can do.
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.. 😊
Sold!
It seems to be a downwards plus a upwards compression...
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.
Nice visualization and ui. But my built-in ableton multiband compressor is probably what I‘ll stick to
can you do the same shit with that then ???
@@ttttiiimmy10bit If I get this viedeo here correctly, then yes. I have can define db ranges for expansion, do nothing, and compression. What is called „upward compression“ here is what I would achieve by raising the output level. And all that for three separately controllable frequency bands.
The granularity of the meter that signifies the energy in the frequency band is reduced from here-many-many to ableton-three. So if you wanted this information more detailed, you would need to add a separate spectrum analyzer. If there‘s anything I‘m missing here, don‘t hesitate to point it out.
ADAPTR sculpt also tries to achive the same type of result, I think
mcompressor does essentially the same, it just visualizes it differently
You mean Melda?
@@marceloribeirosimoes8959 yes
@@marceloribeirosimoes8959 yeah
Are you sure? I have it and find it difficult to use. But if it can do something like that, it would become a much more interesting free plugin. Melda is usually producing very good plugins.
@@ErixSamson they're both just mapping an input to an outpug gain if you use the draw curve thing in melda. just different ui. see the xy graph on the right? that's the same curve you can draw in melda. any compressor where you can draw your own transfer function can do this stuff. using something like mdynamicsmb you can even go far beyond what this does. it's just a bit fiddly ui wise, as melda plugins tend to be.
MDynamics or even MDynamicsMB, give it a spin, thank me later.
Melda plugins in general are really good.
Yea, especially the multiband version. The crossovers can split signal in various ways; spectrally, degree of transientness, amount of stereo width, etc.
While here, i'd like to nominate Image-Line's Maximus as alternative to the plugin featured in the above video. It allows arbitrary remapping of dynamics. This includes actual level inversion, where volume grading transfers in opposite direction -- something unachievable in Playfair Audio's plugin. ie. Dynamic Grading can only transfer progressively louder input to progressively louder output, not progressively attenuated output.
Ableton Multiband
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?
Waves mv2
Melda has had plugins, with way more control than this, for almost a decade
hey, which one of meldas comps do you mean? I have them all, but I havent seen a comp who hast different dynamic areas with different comp settings like this. Or have I overlooked something. I am interested ...
Almost 200 dollars.
Forget it...
kilohearts dynamics
No plugin is indispensable ........when you have hardware
The only indispensable tool is your own skill set. Doesn't have anything to do with hardware or software.
False. Hardware us extremely limited. There's doesn't even exist any kind of hardware peice that can fully replicate a ProMB of MSpectralDynamics
Up voting your own comment is a loooseeer move.
Flux Solera