Year/Date of Issue: 08/05/2022
Version: v1.15.0
Developer: AOM
Developer site: AOM
Format: VST, VST3, AAX
Bit depth: 64bit
Tablet: cured by MOCHA
System requirements: Windows 8.1 / 10 / 11 (64bit only)
Description: A set of effect plugins from the famous Japanese company AOM factory.
Invisible Limiter G3
The Invisible Limiter G3 is the third generation of the Invisible Limiter series and has received significant updates related to the fundamental limiting algorithm and resampling mechanism. Supporting modern mastering technologies, the functions of the Invisible Limiter G3 have been improved and reorganized compared to the previous generation.
Soft limiter section
The purpose of multi-stage peak clipping, often used in today’s mastering process, is to have flexible control over the peak envelope at intermediate clipping stages. The Soft Limiter section is a complex set of tools designed to control the peak envelope. Unlike a conventional compressor and limiter, the Soft Limiter has more power and flexibility in shaping the peak envelope by analyzing the direct waveform instead of the energy of the signal.
Since the Soft Limiter does not apply a brick wall constraint, users can place the Invisible Limiter G3 at an intermediate position in their mastering chain to control the peak envelope.
Brickwall Limiter section
The Brickwall limiting algorithm has been enhanced from the Invisible Limiter G2. This reduces many undesirable side effects such as narrow stereo imaging, signal smearing, reorientation, and groove alternation.
The Invisible Limiter G3 has improved the function of adjusting the shape of the reduction curve compared to the G2. It keeps the curve curved along the time axis.
Peculiarities:
– Conceptual separation of intermediate peak envelope control and brick wall limitation.
– Medium / side processing
– Parallel compression
– Flexible curve shape reduction control
– True peak limit
– Descent, peak and level meters
– Oversampling up to approx. 1.5 MHz
– Single Gain Monitor
Cyclic Panner is a unique pan/width control tool based on axes transformation. Conventional panners use channel gain based panning, but often reduce the stereo width at the left/right ends of the pan.
By using the Cyclic Panner, the sound field of the material is preserved even if it is placed at the left or right edge of the sound field. The panning-related LPF function greatly simplifies the panning technique of “passing low frequencies in the opposite channel”. In addition, the visual display of the sound field helps. the user intuitively understands the current sound field.
Peculiarities:
– Unique pan/width control tool.
– Visual display of the sound field.
– Pan-linked low-pass filter.
– Very low CPU usage.
DeSibilizer is a de-esser plugin that reduces hissing sounds in vocals and speech.
Peculiarities:
– Detects long hissing rather than strong hissing sounds.
– Intuitive frequency band selection.
– Control the behavior of the de-esser by two factors: detection sensitivity and detection threshold.
– Fixed and adaptive sensitivity
– Very low sound coloration
– Keep deepening by keeping the beginning of hissing sounds by default.
– Look-ahead feature to cut whole hissing sounds.
– Boosting Compensation: Boost the band’s overall signal, sync up.
DeSibilizer LL
Invisible Limiter – transparent brick wall limiter with automatic attack
Invisible Limiter G2 – The loudness war is over, volume-only limiting is no longer an issue, however how we should limit signals is still an issue. Limiters continue to play one of the most important roles in the mastering process and are becoming an increasingly aggressive part of the sound setup. The G2’s invisible limiter is focused to give the user precise control. Its basic algorithm is inherited from its predecessor Invisible Limiter, but there are many improvements such as shape reduction controls, soft knee, channel link, manual attack.
Nu Compressor – Nu Compressor is a multi-purpose track compression plug-in with 52 carefully crafted programs. These scores are different for each program.
Peculiarities:
– Decrease curve shape
– Envelope generation algorithm
– Knee shape
– Static/dynamic control of frequency response and saturation
– Preferred range of attack time and release time
– 52 programs with special cut modes and sound characters.
– Common compressor controls such as input gain, threshold, etc.
– Switchable VU/QPPM reduction meter
– Internal and external side chain entry
– Side chain input filtering
– Side chain monitoring
– Input side chain meter
– Compact appearance; the right panel can be collapsed.
Sakura Dither – Nowadays, typical digital audio workstations use floating point internal precision. However, for distribution media such as CD or streaming, we still need to convert convert our masters to 16 or 24 bit integer formats. These transformations easily lead to audio degradation caused by requantization errors. Dithering is a method of suppressing requantization errors while reducing bit depth by adding a cleverly crafted random signal.
Sakura Dither is a dither plugin. It runs on the last slot of the mastering effects chain, converting the floating point input signal to an 8/16/24 bit integer output signal. With well-tuned four types of dither symbols, you can add the finishing touch to your masters.
Peculiarities:
– Output Bit Depth: 8bit / 16bit / 24bit
– Four premium dither types tuned by a master class audio engineer.
Type 1: natural/clear
Type 2: open/wide
Type 3: warm/light deessor feelings
Type 4: Electronic/improved
– The Auto-Black process mutes the signal when the input signal is low enough.
– Input and output bit depth meter.
Stereo Imager D – A.O.M. Stereo Imager D is a correlation-based stereo image processor.
Correlation processing
Regular stereo plugins (usually using M/S decomposition) cannot store the stereo information of the original signal. These plug-ins sometimes emphasize the side effects of the input signals, but such processing easily breaks the tonal balance and stereo image of the input signals.
Unlike others, A.O.M. Stereo Imager D uses correlation based decomposition. This algorithm decomposes the input L/R into L’/C/R’. The correlated component of both channels is displayed in C, the decorrelated components are displayed in L’/R’. The L’ and R’ components have no correlation, which means true stereo.
Tau Compressor Plus is a simple track compression plugin with five thoughtfully designed modes.
Peculiarities:
– Five modes with special cut modes and time settings.
– Threshold, Makeup Gain, Ratio.
– Volume reduction meter.
– Wet Mix controls for parallel compression.
tranQuilizr is an equalizer plugin with transparent sound and intuitive operations. Traditional digital equalizers are tied to the traditional equalizer development method such as bilinear conversion and introduce equalization curve distortion and unwanted coloration in the sound. sound.
Users can adjust the trade-off between quality and CPU usage through the quality setting. tranQuilizr also offers flexible channel management; each strip can be independently inserted into LR/L/R/M/S channels. Automatic Gain Compensation (AGC) allows you to adjust gain based on changes in overall gain caused by EQ bands.
Peculiarities:
– Unique transparent sound.
– Six EQ bands and low/high pass filters.
– All EQ bands and filters can be placed on a channel in Stereo (LR), Left, Right, Mid and Side modes.
– Equalizer supports center frequency from 20 Hz to 30 kHz, gain from -24 to +24 dB and bandwidth from 0.05 to 10 octaves.
– Three types of equalizer of different sound characters.
– Filters support 1Hz-10kHz for low frequencies and 100Hz-30kHz for high frequencies.
– On/off and solo switch for each group.
– Automatic Gain Compensation (AGC).
– Internal sampling rate up to 1536 kHz.
– Phase invert switch.
– M/S balance adjustment.
– Monitoring channels can be selected from stereo (LR), left, right, middle and side.
– Mouse-friendly paragraph operation.
– Small plug-in delay (64 samples).
– Output gain.
tranQuilizr G2 is an equalizer plug-in that uses fully customizable eight bands.
Peculiarities:
– Eight bands configurable as peak, shelf, bucksandall, cut.
– Channel setting for each band: stereo (LR), left, right, middle and side.
– Band parameter covers center frequency from 1 Hz to 50 kHz, gain from -24 to +24 dB and bandwidth from 0.05 to 10 octaves.
– Three types of equalizer of different sound characteristics: minimum-phase, maximum-phase, normal.
– Automatic gain compensation.
– M/S balance adjustment.
– Interaction of Gain and Bandwidth: Standard, Gentle, Focus, Hybrid.
– Completely rewritten oversampler. (our fourth generation engine)
– Selectable monitoring channels: stereo (LR), left, right, middle and side.
– Multichannel support.
– Two spectrum analyzers: graphic and tape.
– Customizable mouse modifier key.
Triple Fader is a simple amplification plugin. It has a triple adjustable fader gain range. This is a free plugin.
Peculiarities:
– Range adjustable and automatic gain faders.
– Switch button for each fader.
– Sample picometer.
– Level meter (RMS 0.3/0.6/1.0/3.0 s, VU, LUFS Short-Term, LUFS Momentary)
– High precision calculation.
Wave Shredder – is a set of destructive processors in: Rate Reducer, Zero-time Gate, Waveform Cut&Fold, Chopper and Bit Crusher.
The Rate Reducer is a zero-order retention rate reducer.
Gate with zero time resets the input signal as soon as the signal level falls below the threshold value.
The Zero Time Breaker plays the other side of Gate.
The Cut&Fold section is truncated at zero signal to zero, and in the multiplicity mode, the section puts the reverse truncated signal instead of truncation.
Bit Crusher reduces signal resolution.
What’s new in versions starting in 1.15.0 :
New plugin:
Invisible Limiter G3
Error correction:
[All plugins] Factory presets are gone. This bug appeared in version 1.14.2. – Corrected.
Improvements:
[All plugins] Support for unlimited dragging handles.
[Invisible Limiter G2] Reduced CPU usage by 37% (nominal) in Modern III, IV, V modes.
[Nu Compressor] Reduced CPU usage by 4% (typical).
[tranQuilizr G2] Reduced CPU usage by 46% (typical).
