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The Missing Pieces to Make Pro-Q3/MB Truly Perfect
The simple gesture of singing praises is not enough to justify so profound an impact Fabfilter made. But still there are two missing pieces to make Pro-Q3/MB Truly Perfect:
1. Dynamic operations triggered/driven by spectrum ratio rather than loudness.
Fabfilters are topnotch, but if the input signal weakens its loudness or the instrument moved further away from the microphone, they may not produce enough gain required to trigger the dynamic operations, resulted in unwanted timbre changes across soft and loud passages. The solution is to split the input signal into triggering band + remaining band and weight their ratio against each other. By doing this, we can make the triggers almost independent of the loudness, so that proper dynamic operations can be applied to not only loud parts but relatively soft parts as well.
2. Formant EQ for vocals
A "Learn" function to feed the AI with samples of a given vocal so that the plugins can analyze and recognize the normal voices, fricatives and falsettos and process then accordingly.
The above two features are not easy to implement even in the lab, and are even harder to make their way into a finished commercial product that meets or exceeds pro's expectations, but they are the killer, the cherry of the cake, and they are the last two missing pieces to make Pro-Q3/MB a true masterpiece.
Totally unnecessary, mix with your ears fam. I mean they can add what they want as long as it's optional and not forced function. You've gon too far down the rabbit hole fammo, turn back.
The first request would classify as a transient designer, and not compression/expansion controls. it would be independent of threshold, and probably work in an unstable manner. could be interesting - but a a bit much