I’m getting 8 6CH instances per chip which covers my buss compression and limiting for my stems without a sweat. Another great feature is the Bass filter when in 6CH configuration, as that effectively rolls off everything about 150 in your LFE – useful as it replaces the old waves 360 LFE plug which wont make the cut to AAX DSP.

Lastly, the Warmth that it can add is actually really lovely, don’t ignore it. I find it useful for extra low mid in FX for punchiness and also for brittle dialogue.

Apart from sexy compression, a clean as limiter and LFE filter and being AAX DSP it’s on spesh at the moment too, 40% off making the DSP version only a little over USD$300! This month only! Get em while they’re hot!

LINK to Sonnox page with special details

Ediload Picture cut and Scene change track generation from Brent Heber on Vimeo.

Work faster with the new channel strip from Tamas Dragon on Vimeo.

ProTools for Radio from Brent Heber on Vimeo.

If you’re interested in this sort of tutorial I’d also recommend my more recent Editing Bootcamp Series for further refinement of keyboard and mouse driven ProTools operation.

Ediload is a brilliant app from Sounds in Sync that does all sorts of things for folks in post production. This video shows how it can generate “dummy” audio files with metadata from an EDL to allow PT10 expand tracks functionality to sync your location sound files.

Why would you need to use this workflow? Embedded OMFs/AAFs. If you get an embedded OMF or AAF from FCP or Adobe Premiere chances are the new audio media that has been created inside the container will not have the iXML metadata retained from location, so you wont be able to match the location sound files to the cut you’ve been given. Coming from Media composer you should be alright post v5.5, when from memory Avid implemented “metadata persists” (double check that if you’re specc’ing a workflow).

EdiloadConform from Brent Heber on Vimeo.

Air display for extending the desktop – love this for loudness meters and video universe and memory locates

Actions – create macros much like quick keys and customise them on the tablet to send controls to your main pt rig, nice if you don’t have an artist control or are used to one

Vcontrol pro – awesome for non icon users or folks who want a cool surround panner or many other things, great app worth every cent

Lemur and touchOSC for the MIDI brothers out there. My axiom pro has enough hands on to get me into trouble without adding these to my life as yet

There are a multitude of rta’s and dB meters out there, I find it useful to have one for a just in case scenario to check room calibration

I’m enjoying using Siri to enter reminders and appointments and things like this. Much easier than all the pull down date crap in the typical apple UI

Skype of course is tops and podcasts have been a staple of mine for some time – shout out to tone benders!

The WordPress app on the ipad is quite useful for blogging as well – using it right now

Teamviewer allows me to control my pt rig from afar. Useful for when processing stuff, so you can check on progress afk.

Flipboard is scarily amazing. It definitely knows too much about me but makes for great reading

Shame that Gobbler only have an iPhone app. Looking forward to them making the most of the iPads screen real estate.

Dropbox on the other hands is great both for cloud access and as a reader of documents

Liking Remote as well for control of iTunes on my laptop if we’re having a BBQ outside. A handy app.

So what else have you discovered/are using?

So he has since left Lexicon and is now making his own verbs and selling direct and his first outings are already up for grabs.

Be sure to demo Phoenix and R2 from Exponential Audio – so far the Phoenix is getting rave reviews as the most transparent AAX native verb out there and its under $200 !

Little wonder the price dropped out of the Lexicon plugin catalogue – the last blog post follow up: apparently there’s no new products or even any official announcements from Lexicon on supporting AAX, they’re just dropping their prices, that was the big announcement which we already knew about.

Currently all their plugins are ridiculously cheap, up to 75% off, making both a very attractive offer…but should I?

The main developer for Lexicon’s plugin arsenal just left a little while ago – Michael Carnes. He’s set up his own shop and now developing and selling directly against his old employers with one of his new reverbs called “Phoenix” – rising from the ashes…what do we read into that?

Lastly, Lexicon have made no official announcement on AAX support and are not listed on the Avid website as an AAX developer. So…does this massive price drop stink of an “End of Life” firesale?

On the Lexiconpro twitter account there has been ambiguous statements like “Something big is rustling in the air…hmmm Just in time for Christmas too!” – could this indicate EOL and a replcement product on the way?

On the other hand, when I asked their facebook page “Any plans for AAX support now that Michael Carnes has left?” I was told “yep, and I miss Michael too. It is an active project now, but no firm date yet”

If I could get something official from Lexicon Pro I’d happily snaffle up the LXP bundle from audiodeluxe or plugindiscounts but unless I know its not going to go the way of the Nuverb, Opus or Studio which were all pricey products that were EOL’ed rather quickly, then there’s no way I’m buying something now that won’t work with the next major version of PT (which will drop RTAS support).

So what are the alternatives? I can’t help but love the little Relab LX480Lite verb (which has a big brother on the way) for its absolute uncoloured space. There’s also Softube’s TSAR reverb which gets good reviews and is already AAX. Then there’s the more rich and robust Valhalla options not counting the new Michael Carnes options from Exponential Audio previously mentioned. There’s also the 2c audio Breeze and Aether options and if you want to take a chance on them, there’s the IRCAM Verb session (but myself and many others have had a terrible time getting support from them, so I’d stay clear if I were you).

Times are good if you’re looking for a cheap reverb – it’s just a question of who you take your chances with (and what your collaborators will also buy, so you can share automation!)…

Note the ICON – ie ProTools system they are mixing inside. Post main 5.1 mix, true, but how quickly are Neve and Harrison going to have a plugin that can mix for atmos on their desks? Mixing ITB is here to stay folks…

Mixing Taken 2 with Dolby Atmos inside ProTools

Go to your Clip bin drop down menu and change your “Timeline Drop order” from the default (top to bottom) to “Left to Right”.

Now you can drag files from your clip bin and they will be sequentially left to right on your timeline! If you need to order them in a specific way change your “sort order” options in the clip bin drop down menu.

(Before you ask – Unfortunately this doesn’t effect the behaviour when dragging multiple files from the workspace browser, they will still be top to bottom)

This can make for a tidy workflow to make room tone: with strip silence Extract (leaves everything below a given threshold) and then dragging the resultant files back in from the clip bin left to right. Make a clip group and then loop the the resultant clip group to have instant room tone as needed (that you can untrim to any length).