#LO FI PLUGIN PRO TOOLS SERIES#

It's not necessarily a bad thing but, particularly if it is being used in a parallel application, it will colour the sound just by being there, even before any processing has taken place. For most purposes this doesn't matter, but for processing entire mixes it is something to be aware of. The significance of the phase response of the filters is that the crossover in Pro Multiband Splitter isn't completely transparent, as can be demonstrated if you try to null it against a polarity-inverted parallel path. The FabFilter Pro MB is one of several plugвЂ‘ins that come to mind that offer such a choice, but unfortunately it doesn't offer the option to split each band out separately in Pro Tools. That being said, the provision of a choice between minimum phase and linear phase filters would be a nice option to have. For the majority of applications the sonic differences between a minimum-phase and a linear-phase filter is subtle, but the latency of a linear-phase filter is large, so in most cases, minimum-phase filters are a perfectly acceptable compromise.

Linear-phase filters have been available for a long time - the first example of a phase-linear multiband compressor I ever used was the Waves Linear Phase Multiband Compressor back in the early 2000s - but the issue with linear-phase filters has always been that to exhibit the phase response that they do, they necessarily incur significant latency. The Small PhasesДЄn important point to make about both the Pro Multiband Dynamics and the Pro Multiband Splitter is that the filters used in their crossovers are of the minimum-phase variety. The Multiband Splitter gives access to these splits and nothing else. These buses are automatically created and are accessed via the input selector in the plugвЂ‘in menu. One thing that many people don't realise about the Pro Multiband Splitter is that you can output each band to a bus and, via that bus, to anywhere else in the mixer. It's a simple plugвЂ‘in - basically the same as the Pro Multiband Dynamics processor, but without the dynamic processing.

I've spoken about some of these plugвЂ‘ins in the past in this column, but one of the most useful is the Pro Multiband Splitter. They're provided to subscribers as part of the Pro Tools bundle, so they are almost ubiquitous, and they provide a definite step up in terms of features and quality compared to the stock plugвЂ‘ins.

#LO FI PLUGIN PRO TOOLS SERIES#

I've always felt the Pro Series plugвЂ‘ins from Avid are unsung heroes of the plugвЂ‘in world. We explore Avid's Pro Multiband Splitter plugвЂ‘in. Avid's Pro Multiband Splitter plugвЂ‘in lets you separate audio into different frequency bands and send those bands separately to the mixer.

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