![]() ![]() This marvel of mind-over-MIDI could justifiably be described as a kind of MIDI "anything box'. So what exactly does the upgrade bring? More importantly, for those still deciding whether to take the plunge or not, what extra features are there to attract you to Cubase? First and foremost has to be the Dynamic MIDI Management facility accessed via the Edit menu. I had a sneak preview of just what v1.5 would offer a few months ago, but such is the pace of development, the upgrade, when it actually appeared, included a host of features which weren't even mentioned at the time. Under normal circumstances, my first question would be, has it been worth the wait? But I doubt anyone's had enough time to exhaust the possibilities of v1.0 to the extent that they've been waiting for an update just yet. So here we are, six months down the line and Cubase v1.5 is with us. All too often we're confronted with equipment that's come off the production line and (from an R&D point of view) been forgotten about. Though this is not the place to enter a "hard versus soft' debate, I have to say I find the idea of a manufacturer putting time and effort into a system after you've parted with your cash, singularly attractive. Say what you like, but there's something rather gratifying about finding a system which you have grown familiar with suddenly become able to do other things - or the same things that much more easily. it still did its thing surprisingly well, so yeah.ONE OF THE less auspicious aspects of shelling out on a dedicated sequencer in preference to one of the many software-based systems, is never knowing the pleasure of sifting through the post one morning and finding the disk and manual updates which effectively give your machine a new lease of life. That could just be a case-by-case thing since my only use of it so far was one song with 14 vocal tracks (three layers of low growls, three layers of high screams, five layers of clean singing and three layers of weird noises) and I did just chuck it on the master (the vocals were their own project file because I'm using an ancient potato laptop, OK?) instead of individually to each type of vocals, but I mean. ![]() At first it was a little confusing and didn't seem to do much, then I went way overboard with the settings, but when I finally found the sweet spot, it did exactly what it was supposed to do without the annoying process of having to adjust all those sibilants manually! The reason I'm not rating it five stars is because even after getting it to target almost all sibilants, it does still miss some occasionally. so, I searched for a de-esser plugin, saw I already had this one and gave it a go. I already downloaded this some time back and forgot about it, but today while mixing vocals in 14 tracks, I couldn't be arsed to manually lower the sibilants and just EQ'ing wasn't good enough. Not only that, but the entire process is highly CPU efficient, allowing you to use more instances in your project. The result is a very natural and pleasing vocal with harsh "s" sounds under control no matter what distance the singer is in relation to the microphone. Instead, it uses a modified form of the Sleepy-Time Records transient detection algorithm (previously found in the KVR-DC2012 entry: Transient) coupled with fast frequency detection and phase-cancellation methods to remove unwanted sibilance, regardless of the input level. Lisp's internal algorithm doesn't rely on traditional threshold/frequency-based techniques found in most current de-essing systems. Just set the reduction amount and let Lisp do the rest! ![]() Internally tuned to the human vocal range, Lisp can automatically detect and lower annoying "ss", "teh", and "ch" sounds in your audio by tracking both the amplitude and pitch of its input in real-time. Lisp is new type of de-esser that aims to speed-up this process with its automatic sibilance detection algorithm. Whether you use a traditional de-esser, sidechained compressor, dynamic EQ, or even edit your tracks manually, cleaning up sibilance problems in your vocals can get pretty tedious. Lisp is a level-independent sibilance processor. ![]()
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