Sound Radix has announced Auto-Align 2, bringing a major update to its automatic microphone alignment and phase correction plug-in.
Since its original release almost 13 years ago, Auto-Align has been taken up by audio engineers and producers around the world. Now, the release of Auto-Align 2 promises to transform users’ workflows.
Auto-Align 2 eliminates comb-filtering, minimises transient smearing, and spectrally optimises the phase of each mic to deliver the full and defined sound captured by the microphones. Auto-Align 2 takes a step further by significantly speeding up the alignment workflow, introducing a new spectral phase correction module, refined algorithm, an intuitive user interface and much more.
New features include one-click workflow for fast and easy track alignment, automatic reference and grouping detection, Spectral Phase Optimization for improved coherence and richer sound quality, Absolute Phase for faithful reproduction of sound directionality, optimised correlation editing for advanced users seeking creative control, surround support for multichannel applications, a unified interconnected multichannel user interface for efficient navigation, ARA2 compatibility for integration with DAW workflow.
Spectral Phase Optimization and Absolute Phase Optimization are designed to improve the clarity, size, and stereo image of audio. Spectral Phase Optimization corrects phase shifts that can occur within specific frequency ranges, resulting in a more coherent and richer-sounding audio signal. When using filters during recording, different frequency bands can experience varying phase shifts, leading to a distorted and unclear sound. Spectral Phase Optimization automatically detects and corrects these phase shifts, ensuring that audio is perfectly aligned.
Absolute Phase Optimization in Auto-Align 2 goes beyond aligning the microphones in phase with each other. It also corrects the overall sound directionality to make sure the reproduced sound matches the original source. This means that sounds that were originally pushed forward will also be reproduced forward in the loudspeakers.
Available plug-in formats include AAX, Audio Unit, VST3 and ARA2.
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