A few years ago, I heard of a plug-in that was said to be great for automatically phase aligning two sources. I forgot the name of the company but I wasn't using the latest version of Pro Tools full time at the studio so I forgot about it. A year later, Frank Filipetti told me about a plug-in he couldn't live without called Surfer EQ. I looked into it and it was made by the same company, Sound Radix. When I finally heard about yet another plug-in from sound Radix that everybody was raving about (called Drum Leveler), I decided to try Drum Leveler. This was last year. and I was finally using Pro Tools 11 on a regular basis. I was particularly interested in Drum Leveler because, like Sound Radix's other plug-ins, it was revolutionary in its design and functionality.
I downloaded the demo and found that, while I could choose presets from the Pro Tools preset pop-up menu, I couldn't change any parameters. I contacted the developer and explained the situation and asked if they could look into it. well, the folks at Sound Radix couldn't have been nicer and were very interested in solving the issue. They asked me to make screen-capture QuickTime movie of how I interacted with the plug-in and how I worked with VoiceOver in general. They told me they thought they knew what the problem might be and that they'd work on it at some point. Again, this was late last year. Two days ago I received a link to a beta of the next Drum Leveler with some new features and the problem was solved and I could control all parameters with VoiceOver. Further, and more importantly, Sound radix had added some functionality and support for VoiceOver directly into the JUCE platform for software development. JUCE is a platform that is used by many audio plug-in developers who create cross-platform plug-ins. Once officially incorporated into JUCE (which will happen any day), any developer compiling plug-ins of any format for any DAW will automatically accommodate VoiceOver for interacting with the AAX version of the plug-in. I have no idea if this affects other DAWs and platforms but I would imagine, since it is cross-platform, that it would. At any rate, this was an unexpected fringe benefit of the developers at Sound Radix to contribute to the JUCE project. Further, Sound Radix will be updating the rest of their plug-ins which will fix VoiceOver control within those plug-ins. Currently, they have four plug-ins: Auto Align, which aligns phase relationships between two sources, π, which auto aligns multiple sources, Surfer eQ, which is too crazy to try to explain and Drum Leveler, which is a transient designer capable of independently controlling separate transients. There is a bundle of all four plug-ins for $599. Each plug-in is also sold separately. For anybody who owns individual plug-ins, they do have periodic sales and introductory offers from time to time. For example, when Drum Leveler came out, it was 99 dollars and now it's 149 dollars and, in honor of π day (3 14 15), their π plug-in, normally 249 dollars, is only 99 dollars. Again, mind you, the current downloadable versions of the software don't work well with VoiceOver but do work with control surfaces. As soon as I hear about the updates, I'll let the list know. The point is that this developer has really been very supportive and has potentially helped a number of other plug-in developers by contributing modules to the JUCE project for software development. SoundRadix.com Keep them on your radar. Slau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
