Manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Operation
- ‘Front Panel’ Controls
- Dynamics Control
- Compressor
- Limiter
- Expander
- Gate
- Sidechain EQ
- Warmth
- Max Trim Control
- Dither Control
- Buss Compressor (Pro Tools TDM only)
- Description of Controls
- Preset Manager Toolbar
- Specifications
- Copyright and Acknowledgements
- Manual Revision History
- Platform Specific Supplement
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1. Introduction
The Oxford Dynamics plug-in is a direct emulation of the extremely flexible and capable unit
used in the OXF-R3 professional mixing console. Resulting from many years research into
professional dynamics applications, it offers separate Compressor, Limiter, Expander, Gate
and sidechain EQ functions, with fully independent control of all parameters. Features such
as selectable time constant curves and variable soft compressor functions allow the user to
confidently tackle all common uses of compression, from subtle unobtrusive level control and
mastering functions to the creation of great artistic effects.
The use of a feed-forward architecture with logarithmic sidechain processing, and the use of
look-ahead techniques, ensures exemplary sonic characteristics and dynamic accuracy, with
an artistic capability simply unavailable from any other single unit, analogue or digital. This
highly sophisticated and professional product has the power and flexibility to obviate the
need for many of the separate applications that most users keep for specific tasks.
The Oxford Dynamics features include:
• Separately controlled sections for Compressor, Limiter, Gate and Expander, providing
an extremely wide range of dynamic control
• Fully featured 2-band sidechain EQ with audition function
• Additional surround format Compressor and Limiter with selectable Sub channel
filtering and sidechain gain contribution control
• Selectable linear and exponential time constant curves
• Highly accurate logarithmic sidechain processing
• Fully variable soft ratio function for extreme programme tolerance and highly musical
compression operation
• Variable harmonic enhancement for extra loudness, presence and ‘punch’
• Selectable re-dithering function for word length reduction in mastering situations
• Extremely low signal path insertion noise and distortion, below -130dBr
• All functions are fully automatable
• Automatic mono-stereo detection and adaptation as appropriate
• Mono-only versions to allow processing of one side of a stereo track