10 ‘intelligent’ mixing plugins, page 1

10 ‘intelligent’ mixing plugins that will make your life easier and save you time

Super-smart processors for your DAW


It’s amazing to think that, not so long ago, the ability to automate fader levels and mutes on a hardware mixer represented state-of-the-art technology. The arrival of the software DAW changed all that, and now we can automate pretty much any parameter we like. That’s good news, of course, but all this flexibility doesn’t necessarily make the production process any quicker.

Thankfully, a number of forward-thinking plugin designers have coupled that conceptual approach with some analysis- based number crunching, and developed smart, ‘intelligent’ tools that go beyond basic tone and dynamics shaping. These processors can’t mix our tracks for us, but they can provide assistance and feedback, and improve efficiency, by helping us get things right. What’s more, by demonstrating what’s possible, they can also help us to expand our knowledge and understanding.

In this round-up of such plugins, we’re going to spread the net pretty wide, but what all of these processors have in common is that they’re smarter than the average plugin.

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