"I realize the thread is about mastering but the time is going to come (and soon) whereby a plug-in will read all your raw tracks and using your supplied reference song create a mix that matches the reference by any metric you can imagine...
Oh Bud, lo I bring you glad tidings for the day has come...
I come with IK MultiMedia T Racks Master Match, and verily I will listen to your reference, and lo, I shalt grant thee a master using thine own EQ, and forever more thou must do nothing but drink India Pale Ale and sing in the kitchen as your forefathers have done.
So let it be written and so let it be done.
Prophet David
David Snyder Songwriter/Renaissance Man Studio + Fingers
I’ll drink a good IPA to that. Actually I’ll dedicate the one I’m drinking at the moment to it.
I’ve finally gotten around to exploring the “master assist” in Ozone 8 Advanced. I let it handle everything on our latest project. I saved it and then mastered using one of my fav Ozone presets that I always have to tweak a bit. When I compared them I liked the auto generated one better.
I tried to tweak the auto version just for the heck of it but Hal said, “I’m sorry Bud I can’t let you do that.”
I think the ultimate would be to do it at the mix stage, not the mastering stage, with neutron, not ozone.
Currently if you add neutron to every track in your mix, each copy of neutron already knows what the other copies are doing (which allows for that very cool masking feature).
It seems a logical extension of that would be to feed a master neutron module the reference file, and then neutron would adjust each track, drums, bass, guitars, etc., to give them the proper eq and level to match the reference.
It seems that would work better than to try and fix the eq on a track that has already been mixed.
A few excerpts:
"The Tracks view is possibly the single most powerful addition in 2024 and opens up a new way to edit and generate accompaniments. Combined with the new MultiPicker Library Window, it makes BIAB nearly perfect as an 'intelligent' composer/arranger program."
"MIDI SuperTracks partial generation showing six variations – each time the section is generated it can be instantly auditioned, re-generated or backed out to a previous generation – and you can do this with any track type. This is MAJOR! This takes musical experimentation and honing an arrangement to a new level, and faster than ever."
"Band in a Box continues to be an expansive musical tool-set for both novice and experienced musicians to experiment, compose, arrange and mix songs, as well as an extensive educational resource. It is huge, with hundreds of functions, more than any one person is likely to ever use. Yet, so is any DAW that I have used. BIAB can do some things that no DAW does, and this year BIAB has more DAW-like functions than ever."
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Video: Enhanced Melodists in Band-in-a-Box® 2024 for Windows®!
We've enhanced the Melodists feature included in Band-in-a-Box® 2024 for Windows!
Access the Melodist feature by pressing F7 in the program to open the new MultiPicker Library and locate the [Melodist] tab.
You can now generate a melody on any track in the program - very handy! Plus, you select how much of the melody you want generated - specify a range, or apply it to the whole track.
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