I have been using various DSP and DRC solutions (VST plugins mostly) in the last 10+ years
I have tried literally hundreds of those for various purposes like EQ-ing (both surgical for room correction and broad for room curves), crossover, plugin-chaining, tube distortion, dynamics processing, signal analysis, etc. etc.
While there are many excellent plugins already on the market I thought that it was high time for me to fill the void (at least from my perspective) for some specific, targeted use-cases that hopefully many others here and out there might benefit from
I have so far developed two VST3 plugins that I would like to share here
The first is called Metahost - it is a multichannel plugin chainer specifically developed to be used in Jriver where this is not possible out of the box for multichannel audio
There are plugins that can already do that (like Metaplugin) but I have been struggling with it massively since it is highly unstable in my environment
Metahost is lean and rock-solid, it can handle 16 channels (8 pairs) in two rows - so basically you can load 8 stereo plugins to manipulate 8 channel pairs (e.g. for a crossover setup) and you can add a second plugin for example to fine-tune each channel individually with an EQ (third row might be added in the future, if requested)
Just make sure to load the same plugin in a row since there is no latency compensation between the channel pairs
The other plugin is called Janus. It is a FIR linear phase crossover plugin. It has an LPF and a HPF component with a variable slope setting (from 1 to 48dB / octave in decimal steps)
It has three latency modes and each mode has a limit in terms of frequency and slope combination in order to keep the filters precise. If you increase the latency you can increase the slope and decrease the frequency accordingly. The main design goal here was to minimize the audible pre-ringing. With Janus in my setup I cannot hear pre-ringing at 80Hz using 48dB / octave slope when crossing between my woofers and subs - I invite you all to give it a try
Both of these plugins are available to download from my website:
There are other plugins in the pipeline, I will keep on posting them here as they get created
These plugins are free of charge but donations are highly appreciated; if they help you (like they help me tremendously), please throw something in the tip jar.
Thank you and enjoy!
I have tried literally hundreds of those for various purposes like EQ-ing (both surgical for room correction and broad for room curves), crossover, plugin-chaining, tube distortion, dynamics processing, signal analysis, etc. etc.
While there are many excellent plugins already on the market I thought that it was high time for me to fill the void (at least from my perspective) for some specific, targeted use-cases that hopefully many others here and out there might benefit from
I have so far developed two VST3 plugins that I would like to share here
The first is called Metahost - it is a multichannel plugin chainer specifically developed to be used in Jriver where this is not possible out of the box for multichannel audio
There are plugins that can already do that (like Metaplugin) but I have been struggling with it massively since it is highly unstable in my environment
Metahost is lean and rock-solid, it can handle 16 channels (8 pairs) in two rows - so basically you can load 8 stereo plugins to manipulate 8 channel pairs (e.g. for a crossover setup) and you can add a second plugin for example to fine-tune each channel individually with an EQ (third row might be added in the future, if requested)
Just make sure to load the same plugin in a row since there is no latency compensation between the channel pairs
The other plugin is called Janus. It is a FIR linear phase crossover plugin. It has an LPF and a HPF component with a variable slope setting (from 1 to 48dB / octave in decimal steps)
It has three latency modes and each mode has a limit in terms of frequency and slope combination in order to keep the filters precise. If you increase the latency you can increase the slope and decrease the frequency accordingly. The main design goal here was to minimize the audible pre-ringing. With Janus in my setup I cannot hear pre-ringing at 80Hz using 48dB / octave slope when crossing between my woofers and subs - I invite you all to give it a try
Both of these plugins are available to download from my website:
Pataki Audio — Donationware Plugins for People Who Measure
Pataki Audio. Two hand-built audio plugins: Janus (linear-phase crossover) and MetaHost (VST3 plugin host). Donationware. No ads, no telemetry.
patakiaudio.com
These plugins are free of charge but donations are highly appreciated; if they help you (like they help me tremendously), please throw something in the tip jar.
Thank you and enjoy!
