magic ab plugin is seriously fucking iverpriced

As Mike Senior puts it, 'The ear is very quick to acclimatise to changes in tone between mixes, so the quicker you can switch between your reference tracks and your mix, the more revealing the process is likely to be.” Magic AB converts the sample rate of your reference tracks to that of your project and then loads the audio into the system RAM so that playback and switching are instantaneous. Fast switching is key to the efficacy of any A/Bing method. As Easy As ABĬonceptually, Magic AB is much like having a media player connected to a monitor controller, but with some really useful added features. It's designed to occupy the final audio effect insert slot on your mix bus, so that your reference material does not get fed through any mix bus processing, such as compression or EQ, that is being applied to your mix-in-progress. Magic AB is a specialised media player plug-in that allows you to quickly switch between your own mix and up to nine different reference tracks, each with independent level controls and looping options. Conceived by Marc Adamo, it's the first plug-in from sample library specialists Sample Magic, and is available in 32- and 64-bit VST, Audio Unit, AAX and RTAS formats. Setting up comparable arrangements within a DAW, by contrast, requires forward planning in terms of routing, level matching and muting channels that contain reference material. For the full low-down, check out Mike Senior's September 2008 article on creating a reference CD ( ).Ī/Bing is easier if you're working in a hardware studio, where you can connect a media player to your mixer or monitor controller and switch back and forth between your working mix and the reference audio. The act of referencing, commonly known as A/Bing, refreshes your ears and, if done quickly, can help reveal flaws in your own mix.

We've often extolled the virtues of referencing your mixes against commercial tracks in the pages of SOS.

Sample Magic's ingenious plug-in makes A/Bing fast, fair and simple.

Magic ab plugin is seriously fucking iverpriced