Manual
4 MD3 NATIVE User Manual
1. Introduction
Congratulations on the purchase of your MD3 NATIVE Multiband Dynamics
Processor.
Originally launched in 1999 and available in Music, Mastering, Broadcast and
Film variants, TC Electronic's Flagship System 6000 processor is recognized as
an industry standard for mix, mastering and post-production applications. You
will nd System 6000 in literally thousands of world-leading recording, lm,
post and mastering studios all over the world, and in quite a few OB vans and
broadcast production studios as well. The platform has won no less than three of
the prestigious TEC Awards over the years: in 2000 for the original System 6000,
in 2005 for Mastering 6000 and in 2010 for System 6000 MKII. No longer the
preserve of the recording elite, these native DAW plugins will deliver all of the
performance of the iconic original unit combined with modern day convenience.
TC Electronic set about re-imagining the legendary System 6000 as native DAW
plug-ins without sacricing any performance, character or useability. The Danish
engineers, including many from the original System 6000 team, rened audio
quality whilst staying faithful to the original hardware version. The development
team fastidiously re-engineered these new native plug-ins to oer full support
for standard DAW automation and project recall with new optimized user
interface ergonomics.
MD3 NATIVE Main Features
• Four band Parametric EQ (Dual Mono capability)
• Normalizer with softclipper
• Full featured Three band Exp/Comp
• MS Encode/Decode for operating EQ and Exp/Comp in Mid/Side mode
• Updated True-Peak BrickWall Limiter with legacy sample peak option
The MD3 algorithm is a renement of our legendary MD2 dynamics algorithm
from the award-winning M5000 eects processor. The MD3 NATIVE plug-in
is tailor-made for music production in all forms. It uses a multi-band, high-
resolution oating-point structure, and features high-denition 4-band EQ,
3-band compressor/expander, soft clipping and a newly-designed transparent
peak/true-peak limiter.
The MD3 NATIVE parametric equalizer features a natural and well-dened band-
width behavior at all gain and width settings, making it suitable for surgical
as well as broad spectral adjustments. MD3 features four bands, switchable
between Notch, Parametric, Shelving and Cut Filters.
MD3 NATIVE is known for its musical and dynamic behavior. The multi-band
section features full dynamics control of each of the 3 bands, with or without
automatic makeup gain, and with ability to choose compression of RMS, Peak
or anything in between. Further, it gives you the advantage of adjustable look-
ahead delay for gentle processing of transients, while the limiter lets you use its
own overshoot-proof micro-delay to prevent output samples above the either
peak or True-Peak dened threshold.
MD3 NATIVE operates in stereo and true mid/side processing with rare artifact-
free split and recombination crossover lter banks and includes EQ unlinking.
MD3 NATIVE is the perfect tool for use for a wide variety of content material, ideal
for single sources, buses and master mixes.
TC Electronic wish you all the best, and hope that you will enjoy using the
MD3 NATIVE in your audio projects.
About this manual
Read this manual to learn how to install and use your TC Electronic MD3 NATIVE
plug-in. This manual is only available in PDF format from the TC Electronic
website. To get the most from this manual, please read it from start to nish, or
you may miss important information.
To download the most current version of this manual, visit the web page:
www.tcelectronic.com/Categories/c/Tcelectronic/Downloads
If you still have questions about your TC Electronic product after reading its
manual, please get in touch with TC Support:
www.tcelectronic.com/brand/tcelectronic/support
2. Plug-in Installation
The MD3 NATIVE plug-in installer can be downloaded from the following page:
https://www.tcelectronic.com/p/P0ED5
The MD3 NATIVE plug-in requires an active PACE iLok license to work.
See Chapter 3 for more details.
Save the installer le (.pkg or .msi le) in a convenient location on your hard
drive.
2.1 Installation on a PC
Double click the installer (.msi le). If you get a security warning, click ‘Run’.
Accept the license agreement and click ‘Next’.
Select which VST and/or AAX components you want to install. Pro Tools uses AAX
and most other DAW programs use VST. The installer will oer a default location
to save the le, but you can choose another location by clicking
the ‘Browse’ button.
Click ‘Next’ to begin the installation. When installation is complete, click ‘Finish’.