Then they gave you the wrong information. The harmonics section in BassLane Pro is extremely suitable for precisely this type of processing.I specifically emailed them when it came out and asked them if it could do this, they told me no.
I am sure i still have the email (or was it a gearspace post?)
rsp
If you look at the graphs in Plugin Doctor and compare to Bass Focus, you'll see they are very similar.. though you get a lot more control over the harmonics generation in BassLane Pro.
The strength of Bass Focus though seems to be that there is a sort of program dependency to the process. It can be completely level independent too it seems, which is not something you have control over in BassLane Pro.
There's no magic to this. It's all based on the exact same principle as it has always been. It's simply adding a bunch of harmonics in a way that try to recreate (reinforce) the psychoacustics of the fundamental frequency. The differences you'll hear in any of these processors is in the relative volume and envelope shapes of these harmonics.
Personally I still think nobody has done this kind of processor "correctly". I think the best way to do this is still to do some kind of hybrid of synthesis and harmonics. The synthesis part should have precise tracking of sustained portions of a sound and a very program dependent way of operation (meaning a complex array of envelope followers, sort of what is done in good brickwall limiters. The psychoacustic principles would be about the same). Then give the user precise control over transient versus sustained portions of the sound and precise control over the harmonic series.
Don't get me wrong though, Bass Focus seems really straight forward to use and does indeed seem to produce quite good results very quickly. This is not as easy to achieve with BassLane Pro, but I was able to get more natural results in about 10 minutes of tweaking.
Statistics: Posted by bmanic — Wed Jun 05, 2024 2:33 am