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How about a multiband compressor?
Love the Fabfilter plugins. Have 5.
I'd really like to have a multi- band compressor with external sidechain and mid/side processing done the Fabfilter way. There isn't one out there.
It would be an extremely useful tool to dynamically get one instrument out of another's way.
(There are a few multi-band compressors out there but they all lack either the external side chain or the mid/side capability. I use one with the external side chain function and split the audio into mid and side. Takes four buses in Logic where one could do.)
Any plans?
Kirk — Jul 7, 2011
Hi Kirk,
Yes, we definitely have plans to make something like this in the future! It high on our list :-)
Cheers,
Would be better to revise Pro-C and add a multiband mode to it..
I personally never really understoud what a digital multiband compressor can add to what a single can't.. Place an EQ or filter before the compressor and voila, no multiband compressor needed..
But that's just my humble opinion!
I'll keep on bagging for a sampler!
Yes do it up like the Waves C6 with external side chain per band, I would by this 100%
putting an eq before a compressor does not make it a multi-band compressor... I think it would be cool, although I wouldn't have a lot of use for one. Pro-C's side-chain capabilities will probably fill most people's appetite. I honestly think it would serve a much smaller demographic than fabfilter is used to.
Floris,
Very glad to hear it's on the list. Consider my copy already sold!
Kirk
Dylan,
"I honestly think it would serve a much smaller demographic than fabfilter is used to."
My 2 cents:
Yes, I bet you're right. At least for now. I wonder though, as we start to loose our nostalgia for analogue equipment and begin to really take advantage of the things that digital processing can do for our sound, if more and more sound engineers will get interested in things like a multi-band compressor with external sidechain and mid/side processing.
It's actually a very useful thing, I think; not just a specialty tool. In many places (maybe most) where most folks use simple static EQ to reduce frequency masking, a dynamic process seems superior to me. There's no need to compromise the personality of the masking instrument when it's not masking. It sounds much more natural to my ears that way.
Try getting the kick out of the way of the bass using a multi-band compressor, like C6, instead of notching it with EQ. You might like it. With mid/side processing the trick works really well with guitar and piano and other instruments where you can let the bass through the centre while leaving the sides of the masking instrument alone. Clear and natural, I think.
So, if I'm right, the market share for this kind of tool might be worth cornering for Fabfilter by getting in early. 'Course I'm prejudiced - I want the them to build me the tool. ;)
Multiband compressor a la FabFilter?? yes please!
honestly, they could add one more band to Pro-C's side-chain, not even give it it's own separate compressor and no one would even dream of using a multi-band. I don't know what the future of audio processing is, but I'm pretty sure 99.9% of people will never step near a multi-band comp to get to where they're going. Its too redundant... the only piece of audio I've ever heard that I thought might have used one was something from Mogwai, but I just laughed to myself and said "there is no way in hell one would even bother". Maybe someone can tell me what I'm missing?
One guy more who'd love to have a fabfilter MBC (have 3 Plug-ins already)!!
I already suggested this on facebook but if you guys are going to make a multiband compressor you can go the extra mile and pleeeeeeeeeeeease make a multiband compressor/expander!