Old 07-28-2022, 01:16 PM   #1
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"Discuss what technologies you want to use for recording"

I want the smart:comp 2 for Christmas. Wow, what will they think of next?
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Old 07-28-2022, 01:40 PM   #2
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Recording Technologies and Techniques
"Discuss what technologies you want to use for recording"

I want the smart:comp 2 for Christmas. Wow, what will they think of next?
Is there a question here somewhere? I got this, it seems OK. It was a laughable 25 euro upgrade for me, so basically a no-brainer.

I am a little let down by smart:limit because I think, when pushed, it sounds a little brittle compared to Weiss DS and the MD4.

In lieu of a question is there perhaps a statement? Because I have read your post a couple of times and I am having a hard time grasping the... Well, the post.

If the question "What will they think of next" is not purely rhetorical, I think my answer has to be: Something great. Sonible has a good track record of making plugins that sort of make a difference. I am rooting for them.
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Old 07-28-2022, 02:30 PM   #3
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The forum description reads "Discuss what technologies you want to use for recording" so I said what I wanted to use but don't have yet.

As far as what will they think of next, I'm saying this compressor has an interface and adjustable parameters unlike I've ever seen before.

I hope that clarifies things.
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Old 07-28-2022, 03:17 PM   #4
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I'm having an issue with the SComp-2 Bypass button. When I click it, the entire GUI
goes black and no amount of mouse clicks brings it back.

Does this in Studio One-5 also.

I have all the 'Smart' plugs ... no issue with them.

anyone else ?
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Old 07-31-2022, 01:15 PM   #5
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This plug-in does seem to be getting rave reviews.

Funnily enough, the thing people seemed most jazzed about is easily replicable and could/should be available in all serious digital compressors: the visual / draw your own compression curve. Not too different than what we already have in General Dynamics, but Smartcomp seems to have nailed the GUI.
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Old 07-31-2022, 06:05 PM   #6
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SmartComp-2 also worked very well as a de-esser for a Mastering project. [using spectral compression].

Hope they can rectify the Bypass bug.
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This plug-in does seem to be getting rave reviews.

Funnily enough, the thing people seemed most jazzed about is easily replicable and could/should be available in all serious digital compressors: the visual / draw your own compression curve. Not too different than what we already have in General Dynamics, but Smartcomp seems to have nailed the GUI.

The ratio/threshold visualization is just a nifty GUI thing, not at all the thing that's most unique with Smart:Comp (and not what that makes it worth every penny). Even the "AI" part is mostly a gimmick that might be handy for beginners. It's basically nothing more than presets that conforms to your material.

The real heart of the plug-in is the spectral compression! If you don't know what it means, you could of think of it like it's a multi-band comp with 2048 individual bands (FFT-size=2048 bins).

Another similar plug-in is Pro Audio DSP's Dynamic Spectrum Mapper (that is available through Plugin Alliance). It's a great plug-in, but not anywhere close to as feature rich as Smart:Comp 2. Harrison also has a spectral compressor, but it only uses 18 bands and is a very sparse plug-in compared to both DSM and Smart:Comp.

The auto EQ plug-ins that have become popular in recent times (Gullfoss, Soothe, DSEQ 3 etc) are similar in design but have a different goal and different features/controls.

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I'm having an issue with the SComp-2 Bypass button. When I click it, the entire GUI
goes black and no amount of mouse clicks brings it back.

Does this in Studio One-5 also.

I have all the 'Smart' plugs ... no issue with them.

anyone else ?
Yes, I also see that behaviour when clicking the bypass button.

Undo brings the gui back but nothing else I tried, like all the compatibility settings for plugins, helped.
I use Reaper 6.66 on Win 10 with latest updates and all other sonbile plugins work as expected.

I contacted the sonible team about it, but they say they couldnīt reproduce this.
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Yes, I also see that behaviour when clicking the bypass button.

Undo brings the gui back but nothing else I tried, like all the compatibility settings for plugins, helped.
I use Reaper 6.66 on Win 10 with latest updates and all other sonbile plugins work as expected.

I contacted the sonible team about it, but they say they couldnīt reproduce this.
I've been in contact when first released too.

And your right, all their other plugs work as expected.

I think I'll try re-installing again ... what else can we do ?

Thanks for replying.
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Old 09-06-2022, 08:31 AM   #10
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I just read [on GS forum], that the BUG has been FOUND, with a fix on the way.
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I just read [on GS forum], that the BUG has been FOUND, with a fix on the way.
Great.

And the Sonible contact wrote me an hour ago that there will be a fix.

By the way, uninstall and re-install did not work either.


Edit: just found and read the GearS thread, I guess you were referring to.
Good news that they found the bug and hopefully they are able to fix this.
After all, the "Bypass" function is an essential feature.
Using the Reaper Bypass works but one never knows how this effects the plugin....
And, of coures, itīs a paid Programm so it should work as advertised.

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Old 10-19-2022, 10:52 PM   #12
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Just announced an Update for SmartCOMP-2.

They fixed the BYPASS bug ... and a few other things.

I installed on latest Reaper version and confirm the fix !

Finally able to use this
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