The strength of this Group interaction can be continuously adjusted over a wide range and all member tracks need not have the same priority – there are three hierarchical “layers” with the top Level 1 being the “lead” level – it has the highest priority and will stay the focus of attention as smart:EQ interactions take place. When a group is created, SEQ3 combines the spectral information from all signals in the group in order to automatically detect and correct for masking effects. This is the Group mode where multiple instances of smart:EQ 3 can be loaded into several tracks or buses and set to communicate and share data between all of them. That alone might be worth the price of admission, but there is more, actually a lot more in the form of interactive curve adjustments between up to six tracks or buses. It does increase CPU load significantly (by about 10X) when it’s used, but can be very useful on a few instances of SEQ3. The new Dynamic Adaption goes further, enabling you to continuously adjust the amount of dynamic adaption from none to “100”, which creates a significant, and very fast response to the incoming signal. This is something I have “faked” with smart:EQ 2 using automation to recalculate the smart:filter on the fly, re-triggering it every 10 seconds or so. The “Live” feature is called Dynamic Adaption which enables SEQ3 to automatically adapt its computed smart:filter to the incoming audio over the entire length of a track. This may seem unnecessary, but can be useful to strongly separate two tracks by using the same profile in both tracks, and flipping the strength polarity of one.īut there are a couple big additions that include something previously available only in their smart:EQ Live product and something not available elsewhere in quite the same way. After “learning” a sound, the strength of the correction can be varied using a weighting curve from none (not too useful!) to “100” (full strength), and in the opposite direction to “-100” which inverts the correction curve.
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There are profiles for a number of sound types like kick drum, bass, keys, high vocals, and so forth, as well as a “Universal” profile for full mixes or other groups of instruments. And as before there is also a spectrum plot available, of either input or output, or both. As before the correction of these “standard” EQ bands is “added” to the smart:filter curve to adjust the overall EQ to taste. The newly designed smart:filter generates high resolution curves and the standard EQ section now has up to 24 bands (SEQ2 had seven). It has both an “intelligent” self-learning EQ balancing system using its smart:filter mode to “create a natural sounding tonal balance” and a set of very flexible parametric filters that include bell shaped (with Q from 0.0 to 20), high and low shelf, low and high pass, and a “tilt” filter. Smart:EQ 3 (SEQ3) is a “smart EQ”! But smart in many ways. And now they have upped the ante on EQs with smart:EQ 3.
I found it a significantly different and very effective approach compared to other such EQs. When I first tried out their smart:EQ 2 two years ago I expected another spectral matching plug-in similar to several I already had. The option to switch the smart:filter to a dynamic analysis mode for ongoing adaptation to the input signal, or the possibility to choose between linear-phase and latency-free filters, extend the range of functions of the popular smart:EQ.Austrian company sonible have created some excellent audio plug-ins that are “different” from most. Smart:EQ3 offers additional features, such as the group function with intelligent cross-channel processing to reduce spectral masking effects in competing frequency ranges.
Smart:EQ3 analyzes the input signal, correcting problems such as spurious resonances, difficult frequency ranges, and global spectral imbalances. Sonible presents the world's first multitrack EQ.
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