USER GUIDE

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BALANCER USER GUIDE
Balancer is an intelligent corrective tool designed to help
you improve your sound. Utilising sonible’s smart:engine,
the plug-in analyses your audio material and computes an
intelligent filter curve to improve the balance of your sound.
When you load the plug-in onto a track, select a profile from
the dropdown menu to tell the plug-in what kind of instrument
or voice it is handling. If you don’t find a profile that matches
your audio material, you can simply use the “Universal” profile.

On first use, you will need to enter a valid activation code Next, press “Learn” and start the audio playback. The
to unlock the plug-in. This can be found in the “My Software” smart:engine will now listen to the audio material and
section of your customer account page. compute a filter curve to optimally balance the sound.

Once this is complete, you can choose between the three different flavours:

WARM NEUTRAL BRIGHT

Aims to create a vintage sound, A default setting based on Creates a bright sound, boosting
where mid-frequencies tend to be the original settings from highs and affecting the mids
favoured over highs and high mids. the smart:engine. to further accentuate the highs.

Moving the “Intensity” slider will increase or decrease the

impact of the computed filter. A small line marks the default
settings suggested by the smart:engine.

Please note that each time a profile is selected, the

smart:engine will re-compute the smart filter curve based
on the new profile.

The spectral analyser indicates the impact of the smart filter

curve: the more intense the colour, the more the frequency
band is affected.

Intensity Slider

Dropdown Menu