[FR] MCompare Peak Spectrum Analyzer
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 642 posts since 24 Mar, 2021
MCompare is among one of my favorite tool for mastering, although i think a peak spectrum analyzer would be so much useful, so we can compare and check both master and our reference visually too.
The idea is to have a spectrum analyzer that also enable to hold peaks (just check "Hornet MultiFreq" with peak enabled) that shows both tracks simultaneously but just listening one of them (as it is right now).
Otherwise to achieve the same stuff you need to make inconvenient routing making a submix, and stuff i'd love to avoid cause it may mess up with the mix and other stuff
here you find a very raw mockup i made just to give an idea
The reason of this request is because when you have a reference to match may be very handy (and it is) also to check the spectrum, expecially on the lower part of the spectrum that may look trickier on headphones or without a sub.
And so also the scale of the frequency should be more detailed (as logaritmic scale) between 0 to 100 hz to give a more accurate reading of this area, that is something lots of analyzer fail with imo.
Ps: the average knob on mmultianalyzer isn't the same as a an maximum hold peak visualization.
For reference as the analyzer should work, just check the hornet analyzer with peak enabled to see how it behave cause it's well made
The idea is to have a spectrum analyzer that also enable to hold peaks (just check "Hornet MultiFreq" with peak enabled) that shows both tracks simultaneously but just listening one of them (as it is right now).
Otherwise to achieve the same stuff you need to make inconvenient routing making a submix, and stuff i'd love to avoid cause it may mess up with the mix and other stuff
here you find a very raw mockup i made just to give an idea
The reason of this request is because when you have a reference to match may be very handy (and it is) also to check the spectrum, expecially on the lower part of the spectrum that may look trickier on headphones or without a sub.
And so also the scale of the frequency should be more detailed (as logaritmic scale) between 0 to 100 hz to give a more accurate reading of this area, that is something lots of analyzer fail with imo.
Ps: the average knob on mmultianalyzer isn't the same as a an maximum hold peak visualization.
For reference as the analyzer should work, just check the hornet analyzer with peak enabled to see how it behave cause it's well made
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MeldaProduction MeldaProduction https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=176122
- KVRAF
- 14039 posts since 15 Mar, 2008 from Czech republic
Well we have MMultiAnalyzer for that. The thing is MCompare doesn't really "play" nor access other sources/files if they are not played. Then entire engine would have to be rewritten to allow otherwise and it would take more CPU, so currently not planned.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 642 posts since 24 Mar, 2021
Maybe there is an intelligent workaround you could apply to MMultiAnalyzer, but it needs a real max peak option, cause right now afaik there isn't.MeldaProduction wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:38 am Well we have MMultiAnalyzer for that. The thing is MCompare doesn't really "play" nor access other sources/files if they are not played. Then entire engine would have to be rewritten to allow otherwise and it would take more CPU, so currently not planned.
The idea is a toogle you can click to store the max peak with different color, so we can overlap more "color" to compare them.
i.e. in the left section where different istances are detected, just to add something like a color toggle where when engaged will enable a max peak reading, creating the max peak with that color.
So when i click the "blue" and hit play, the curve will be readed and stored with the max peak till i click it again over the blue.
Then in MCompare, i can toggle the reference track, and with MMA placed later, i can click "yellow" instead and see the new yellow reading overlayed with my previous blue.
I don't know if my explanation is clear, i hope so. The point is to being able to let the analyzer to detect and store the max peak from different sounds in the same track, and so telling to the analyzer what's one and what's the other, may be a good and easy solution to this.
I hope you can consider it, cause it's very useful and i found no other plugin doing that.
Thanks
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- KVRian
- 574 posts since 28 Oct, 2014
I know this isn't everything you are looking for, but I have been using this plugin for 15 years or something, and I have yet to find anything that matches it's ease of use.Frankie.T wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 10:43 am
The idea is a toogle you can click to store the max peak with different color, so we can overlap more "color" to compare them.
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The point is to being able to let the analyzer to detect and store the max peak from different sounds in the same track, and so telling to the analyzer what's one and what's the other, may be a good and easy solution to this.
I hope you can consider it, cause it's very useful and i found no other plugin doing that.
Thanks
Any input can be stored to ABCD. Peak, max peak, average.
In fact I have 2 on my master. One for referencing against tracks, and one for general duties.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 642 posts since 24 Mar, 2021
Thank you very much for your reply._al_ wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 2:17 amI know this isn't everything you are looking for, but I have been using this plugin for 15 years or something, and I have yet to find anything that matches it's ease of use.Frankie.T wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 10:43 am
The idea is a toogle you can click to store the max peak with different color, so we can overlap more "color" to compare them.
...
The point is to being able to let the analyzer to detect and store the max peak from different sounds in the same track, and so telling to the analyzer what's one and what's the other, may be a good and easy solution to this.
I hope you can consider it, cause it's very useful and i found no other plugin doing that.
Thanks
Any input can be stored to ABCD. Peak, max peak, average.
In fact I have 2 on my master. One for referencing against tracks, and one for general duties.
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I'll check the demo asap (hopefully they offer a demo) and if works like i need i'll buy it!
Edit: it looks like comes with the "curves storage" as you wrote, and it can also save them as file, and this is awesome, thank you for your suggestion, this makes the job!
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- KVRian
- 574 posts since 28 Oct, 2014
Well don't make the same mistake I did.Frankie.T wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 6:46 am
Thank you very much for your reply.
I'll check the demo asap (hopefully they offer a demo) and if works like i need i'll buy it!
Edit: it looks like comes with the "curves storage" as you wrote, and it can also save them as file, and this is awesome, thank you for your suggestion, this makes the job!
Buy the multi-instance version!
When I was buying, I couldn't understand why FreqAnalyst Multi cost less than FreqAnalyst Pro, so I guessed the pro had more functions...
Then shortly after I bought it, he upped the multi price to match the pro
Multi has changed a lot since then, so I'm not sure what the differences are now, but demo both and see for yourself
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 642 posts since 24 Mar, 2021
I will, thank you!_al_ wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 1:21 amWell don't make the same mistake I did.Frankie.T wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 6:46 am
Thank you very much for your reply.
I'll check the demo asap (hopefully they offer a demo) and if works like i need i'll buy it!
Edit: it looks like comes with the "curves storage" as you wrote, and it can also save them as file, and this is awesome, thank you for your suggestion, this makes the job!
Buy the multi-instance version!
When I was buying, I couldn't understand why FreqAnalyst Multi cost less than FreqAnalyst Pro, so I guessed the pro had more functions...
Then shortly after I bought it, he upped the multi price to match the pro
Multi has changed a lot since then, so I'm not sure what the differences are now, but demo both and see for yourself
Edit: I checked Multi, but it gives a combined reading from other channels more than "Pro", like MMultiAnalyzer, at least this is what i saw. And so probably "Pro" may be better (considering i have MMA)
They should have made one plugin only imo, there is no sense to buy both
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- KVRian
- 574 posts since 28 Oct, 2014
Ah ok. When I bought Pro (over a decade ago), they both appeared identical, except one operated in multimode.Frankie.T wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 6:42 am
Edit: I checked Multi, but it gives a combined reading from other channels more than "Pro", like MMultiAnalyzer, at least this is what i saw. And so probably "Pro" may be better (considering i have MMA)
They should have made one plugin only imo, there is no sense to buy both
Maybe an oversight on my pert.
But yeah, you'll be happy with Pro. Think it even has a function where it can write an automation lane from it's detectors lol