Polarity MD - Multiband Dynamics Plugin Update

[00:00:00] It's time to give you an update on my latest plugin called Polarity MD and I showed you
[00:00:05] this already in the last video.
[00:00:08] It's a free-to-use multi-band dynamics tool having multiple bands here, four bands, each
[00:00:13] of them uses an downwards and upwards compressor and also a clipper and some global controls
[00:00:19] here so it's more like an OTT if you want to call it this way but it's actually a multi-band
[00:00:26] compressor and clipper and this one is completely free-to-use you can download this without using
[00:00:32] a login you don't need to use an email or you don't need to give me an email there's
[00:00:37] no subscription or anything like this and I also wanted to have this working natively
[00:00:43] under Linux because I want to switch from Windows to Linux and I need some tools and
[00:00:48] most of these plug-ins use iLog or they don't have a native version for Linux.
[00:00:55] So I thought maybe I give this a try and you know code my own plug-in so I have my own
[00:01:01] tools ready under Linux so this was the main goal.
[00:01:05] So let me know if this works fine within your Linux distribution I tested this with all
[00:01:10] kinds of distributions already so Arc Linux and or is it Arch?
[00:01:15] Is it Arch or Arc?
[00:01:16] It's probably Arch.
[00:01:17] Linux, Ubuntu 24/22 probably 22 is not working anymore at the moment but 24, Kubebundo with
[00:01:28] KDE and also Debian I tested this Debian 13 there was a ZEC foldback last time it should
[00:01:37] be fixed now.
[00:01:38] I also implemented a lot of different features here you can already see it looks a bit different
[00:01:42] from the last time I showed you this and it's still free so it's not like you need to pay
[00:01:48] anything or like that it's still free it's the same plug-in.
[00:01:51] Okay so I want to give you an update here so you can see at the top here we have some
[00:01:56] new buttons there so reset is the same thing as before you can reset all the settings to
[00:02:03] default and then there's here the sample rate that is the internal sample rate at which
[00:02:07] this plug-in is working and we have here an oversampling button now so you can press this
[00:02:13] and you can see now it works here at 4x oversampling 192 kHz and yeah it's a bit smoother then
[00:02:21] and what I also changed is the clipper at the output here the post clipper is not oversampled
[00:02:28] so this one really clips at 0dB there's no samples going over 0dB okay this was really
[00:02:37] really important to me to have this so everything is oversampled except the output clipper here
[00:02:44] so yeah this oversampling and it also gives you a bit more CPU of course you can see this
[00:02:49] here so yeah it's your own decision at default settings this is off by default then we have
[00:02:57] your L phase which makes all these crossover filters here to linear phase crossovers so
[00:03:05] you can press this it also takes a bit of CPU time there but now it's yeah without having
[00:03:13] your phase distortion for some reason a lot of people are really into these kind of linear
[00:03:19] phase crossovers for some reason probably they want to use this in parallel I never used
[00:03:24] actually a multi-band dynamics tool in parallel I don't know if this is a thing but usually
[00:03:30] you can stick here with the normal liquids Riley filters for crossover and drugs just
[00:03:37] fine and yeah you have no latency and it's good but some people want to use your linear
[00:03:43] phase so you can do this you can just switch this on and then use linear I can show you
[00:03:49] this here this is on the master can give you an EQ curve analyzer here put this there
[00:03:58] set as input and show you the phase just you can see there's no phase distortion can switch
[00:04:05] this off and it looks like this when it's on it's like this okay so yeah that's that
[00:04:15] linear phase implemented done then I also implemented you're something like normalized
[00:04:21] I'm not sure if this is if this makes sense in the current phase or how it is so what
[00:04:28] I did is it normalizes all these bands here it starts with the input and it tries to put
[00:04:34] this up to 0 dB so it increases the input gain here it also changes then the knob and
[00:04:40] then when this is finished it normalizes all these bands and then it normalizes the output
[00:04:45] clip so it brings everything up to 0 dB more or less and I can show you this how it sounds
[00:04:53] like here so you can see this is a bit too much it's a bit too bright it gives you more
[00:05:10] or less like a pink noise curve here it's it's like a queuing the audio material in
[00:05:16] a way because you change the input gain here but that's what I do sometimes with my crossover
[00:05:22] trick I showed you in some of my videos but here you can influence it's yeah it's it's
[00:05:29] kind of a queuing and limiting and clipping at the same time
[00:05:47] yeah that's normalized then there's a bypass now so we can bypass the processing and the
[00:05:57] problem of course now is that the output gain is much higher than the input gain so we can't
[00:06:03] really compare these two right the dry signals way too quiet so then I have here on the output
[00:06:10] gain which is also new so we can change the output loudness after the clipper double kick
[00:06:16] brings it back to 0 dB so with this you can now use the match button here so it normalizes
[00:06:22] or trial tries to level out the input to the output signal so it brings down the output
[00:06:27] so it's the same loudness as the input level so press this it's matching then nothing happens
[00:06:34] cool so you press this and then it brings it down to minus 3 dB then you can compare it
[00:06:47] it's more or less the same loudness now and yeah it's much easier to compare what's actually
[00:06:51] changed you can see we boost a lot of top end oh it looks like it doesn't go down yeah
[00:07:04] this is a bug okay this is something I need to fix or yeah I implemented this year this
[00:07:13] was the last thing I implemented but anyway so this is new the output is new then we have
[00:07:21] here also some global things I added the global gain you can scale basically the input gain
[00:07:28] here on each band or also on the pre FX and post FX right so we can go down and you can
[00:07:34] see it takes all these different offsets here and just scales them down when you bring this
[00:07:40] back to 0 dB it's back to the thing what you dialed in we changed here some input gains
[00:07:45] so it's basically adding dBs to each of these knobs at yeah at the same amount so you can
[00:07:53] scale the input gain can push everything into the clipper if you want to so yeah that's
[00:08:01] that global down is now renamed global up is renamed I think it was called global up
[00:08:09] before that so it's the threshold here of the upwards compressor also changed so it
[00:08:16] changes the upwards compression threshold here for the pre and post also down it's the
[00:08:21] same thing right down threshold goes down in each of these different bands then we have
[00:08:28] a global clip that you can bring down so you can yeah use all these clipper thresholds
[00:08:34] and bring them down if you want to timescale is the same as before nothing changed on top
[00:08:41] of that we have now a pro view here this button this brings up the attack and release timings
[00:08:48] here so instead of having just this timing scalar here or scale this pro button here gives
[00:08:56] you attack release on each of these bands and you can see it just scales also the timings
[00:09:04] and if you want to make some changes here if you want to make short attack short release
[00:09:08] here it's fine then you can use global scale to scale it up or down and it keeps all the
[00:09:15] relations or the relative timings here intact and you can double click this bring it to
[00:09:21] one or times one and then you can double click this here to bring it back to the default
[00:09:26] values so yeah this is the pro view more or less maybe I hide some other controls behind
[00:09:34] the pro view I'm not sure maybe I don't want to make it too convoluted too complex I want
[00:09:41] to keep it more like a plug-in that you can put on a master and call it the day right
[00:09:47] it's already having a lot of features I need to fix here the match feature but it kind
[00:09:52] of rocks if you have this on 0DB and use matching then it kind of rocks but yeah these are the
[00:10:00] new features oh yeah on top of that I almost forgot this here we have this clipping here
[00:10:06] before right you can hear the delta basically where it clips but also on top now we have
[00:10:20] here soloing so you can solo band 1, band 2, band 3, band 4 and if you click all of these
[00:10:28] bands into solo mode it disables all of them because it's the same thing so this is also
[00:10:38] now implemented also on top of that I had some requests from someone who is blind and
[00:10:46] uses this or want to use this plug-in so I added all these names here global gain as
[00:10:51] labels inside of this website more or less you can also go over each of these buttons
[00:10:57] here and you can see there's a small little tool tip because it's just a website more
[00:11:01] or less and what you also can do is you can resize the window now here and then you go
[00:11:08] into that and can use some shortcuts from your browser so you can use control and plus
[00:11:14] and minus and you can scale it up or down or you can go into here with the mouse and
[00:11:18] hold down control and the scroll wheel you can almost completely yeah freely increase
[00:11:28] the size of everything you can also use control and zero and bring it back to the default
[00:11:34] scaling also here the size of the window is remembered I stored this in the state of the
[00:11:40] plug-in so you when you close this down or when you reload your project it's exactly
[00:11:45] the same position with the same size so this was also a complain in the in the last version
[00:11:53] yeah I think that's it maybe I forgot something but I added so many different small little
[00:11:59] things here and there also smashed some bugs on different systems memory leaks and loading
[00:12:06] problems of the web kids of the web web view that's how it's called on different systems
[00:12:14] also in rebar so let me know if it works if you have problems I try to make it as pleasant
[00:12:22] and as bug free as possible of course and yeah that's more or less it for for now I think
[00:12:30] let me know what you think download this new version here it's beta 9 now and give me bugs
[00:12:36] give me feature requests let me know what you think and yes these buttons or knobs will
[00:12:42] be reworked at some point for now they kind of work but I know you know again see here
[00:12:48] the stepping and the quantizing here it's not it's not the best but it works and it
[00:12:53] looks okay okay that's it thanks for watching see you next time let me know what you think
[00:13:00] leave a thumbs up of course and bye
[00:13:02] bye!