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new features for Pro-MB
Well, if you don't have use for attack, release, ratio, knee, lookahead, stereo link and freely configurable external and internal sidechains, none of which you get in Q3, I don't know what else you look for in a multiband compressor... I hope one happy day they'll give us the frequently requested steeper slopes / narrower bands, but other than that, I can't really think of any situation where using MB I've thought, "if only you could also do THIS"... What would you guys like to see added to it? Just curious...
Cheers,
I join to Cabirio's question, Pro-MB is a monster.
Anyway, Pro-Q3 has bells/shelves/notch dynamic filters, and Pro-MB uses band-pass filters
Their behavior is entirely different, and are not for the same purpose
I only used Pro-MB as kind of dynamic eq since I asked FF and was told that was not planned. For real compression I'd like to work with comps having real attack & release times and I favor the Pro-C2 compression styles ^^ It's easier right now to just load some of the Blue Cat Audio multiband hosts and insert Pro-C2. That's why Pro-MB is kind of useless now for me.
I don't fully understand how Pro-C2 is a replacement for Pro-MB, since it's a single-band compressor.
If you prefer "real" values of attack/release in milliseconds that's understandable.
You should know, however, that the attack/release/knee values in Pro-C2 are also program dependent (according to the styles), so the values are actually a bit different than what is written.
Anyway, I really doubt FF will release a Pro-MB major update soon.
Even if they will, they will probably stick to their program dependent algorithms.
"I don't fully understand how Pro-C2 is a replacement for Pro-MB, since it's a single-band compressor." - Yroth
"It's easier right now to just load some of the Blue Cat Audio multiband hosts and insert Pro-C2." - Marcel
The BCA plugins offer 3rd party plugin hosting. There is e.g. MB-7, an up to 7 band mixer. Using it you can do any multiband processing with the plugins you want. Pro-MB has some advatages over that though I can understand it "lost value" for some users since the Pro-Q3 update if you're not doing classical compression with it.
Hi all, thanks for the gorgeous Pro-Q3 sidechain update! Is there any Pro-MB feature update planned? Now that they have the dynamics incl. external sidechain listening in overlap (though not completely) I personally don't have much use for Pro-MB anymore. It would be nice to hear from you about that before I take any actions I might regret later on :-)