Immersive audio production, including Dolby Atmos^®

With Immersive Audio being the new driving force in the entertainment industry a new era in audio production is taking shape. Elixir supports up to 32 channels of processing making it the indispensable tool for Immersive Audio production, including Dolby Atmos^® workflows. You can either control the dynamic of the multiple 7.1.2 beds you are sending to the Dolby Atmos^® renderer, or, limit your monitoring level.

Quick and easy setup

Elixir’s straightforward user interface makes it exceptionally easy to achieve great results, even under a tight deadline. Simply set the input level, adjust the Threshold according to the amount of limiting desired, and finally enable Make Up for gain compensation and loudness addition – That’s it!

Frequency Dependent Transient Processing

The Frequency Dependent Transient Processing provides the option to process only a certain part of the frequency spectrum, making BitterSweet Pro act like a dynamic equalizer driven by Transients and/or Sustain.

Explained:

When Frequency Range is set from 20 Hz to 20 KHz the processing is performed on the full band, now changing the value of the low cut off frequency turns it into a High shelve dynamic eq and setting the high cut off frequency turns it into a Low shelve dynamic eq, when setting both, it turns it into a peak dynamic eq.

On any case the gain can be adjusted with the Static Gain parameter, and the slope can be set with the Frequency Order parameter, from 6dB per octave to 12, 18 and 24 dB, the higher the Frequency Order is the steeper the slope of the frequency response becomes.

Geek Panel

The Geek Panel, an ”advanced settings” option, provides extended control of the transient processing envelope as well as different options for monitoring of the signal within the plugin.

Multiband Crossovers

Alchemists five bands are divided using carefully tuned state-of-the-art IIR (Infinite Impulse Response) crossovers with selectable slopes (from 18 dB per octave to 54 dB per octave) and variable corner frequencies.

Full control over the processing

In addition to the common controls on a dynamics processor; ratio, attack, release, Alchemist offers control over the fundamental characteristics of the dynamics processing on each band, all in order to provide full control over the processing even in the most demanding situations.

Envelope, Time and Detection Settings

• Extended envelope settings with full control of Attack, Hold and Release with Manual, Auto and Advanced release modes.
• Zero attack time for the dynamics processing by introducing a delay reflecting the attack time into the signal path.
• Eight different detection modes interacting with the time and envelope settings as well as with the integration times for the RMS detection. Includes specific “Feed Backward” modes inspired by vintage hardware architectures for producing a naturally “beefy” sound.
• Dynamic Factor – Amplifies or diminishes the extracted real-time dynamics information.
• Dynamic Velocity – Controls the speed of variation on the extracted dynamics information.

Dual Preset Slots and Parameter Morphing

The built in preset manager and the preset morphing slider, provides instant and intuitive control of all parameters and controls. In a second, with a simple one-click operation, everything is copied from one of the two preset slots to the other, even during playback.

The two Preset/Parameter slots, A and B, can be loaded with two full set of parameters at the same time, and except for only A/B comparing two sets of parameters, the morphing slider will allow to mix them, and to record the morph with the host automation.

Advanced detection and analysis

To perform the most detailed analysis of the material possible, a side chain section featuring a three-band equalizer for generating true frequency sensitive processing, as well as input options for an external sidechain signal, is provided.

Side Chain Section Details

Each of the three eq-bands provides; Gain, Frequency and Q-Factor, as well as five different Filter Types:

• 12 dB per octave high pass filter
• Low shelving
• Parametric
• High shelving
• 12 dB per octave low pass filter

The external side-chain input is available in AU (Mac OS X) and AAX Native & DSP (Mac OS X & Windows) only.

Open up the sound and increase the dynamic impression

On each of the four dynamics processing sections two parameters are provided that are kind of unique to dynamics processing; Dynamics Ratio and Level Independent Detection (L.I.D), using the dynamic range content of the signal and not just the signal levels as standard processors do.

Details:

• Dynamics Ratio is controlling the amount of auto-ratio determined by the signal dynamics and the manual ratio setting. This literally opens the sound, increases the dynamic impression and keeps some crest by adjusting, in real time, the ratio of every dynamic processing section in regards to both the current ratio settings and the signal content (mainly dynamic range).
• Level Independent Detection (L.I.D) controls the amount of auto-threshold determined by the signal dynamics and the manual threshold value, providing processing of the audio signal independently of the sound level and instead in regards to the signal dynamic range.
• A Maximum mode can be engaged on the L.I.D control, allowing for processing that accounts for the maximum

Dual Preset Slots and Parameter Morphing

The built in preset manager and the preset morphing slider, provides instant and intuitive control of all parameters and controls. In a second, with a simple one-click operation, everything is copied from one of the two preset slots to the other, even during playback.

The two Preset/Parameter slots, A and B, can be loaded with two full set of parameters at the same time, and except for only A/B comparing two sets of parameters, the morphing slider will allow to mix them, and to record the morph with the host automation.

Adaptive Processing Control

The adaptive processing algorithm in Syrah can be defined by a Mode setting parameter, which his is one of the most significant controls on Syrah defining how the algorithm automatically tries to adapt the processing to the audio material.

Modes:

• Dynamic Soft
• Dynamic Deep
• Static

By selecting one of the two provided dynamic modes, a range of parameters becomes dynamic and will vary in sync according to the audio analysis, aiming at a result that is closer to the original material.

LCD Waveform Display

The LCD display shows the actual waveform and offers a variety of settings to customize the display content.

• LCD On/Off
• Scroll Waveform Speed
• Scroll Waveform Freeze
• Display Input Waveform
• Display Output Waveform
• Display Gain Envelope

Instant and precise operation

The logical and comprehensive user interface contains instant shortcut functions to enhance and simplify the user workflow.

Each of the five color coded band sections is covering the complete frequency range and offers -/+ 24 dB gain with dynamic instant gain controls allowing you to:

– Multiply the gain by 2 (x2) affecting the gain value of the band-section.

– Divide the gain by 2 (/2) affecting the gain value of the band-section.

– Invert the gain with just the flip of a switch, converting the band-section positive values to negative and vice versa.