The Sonnox Oxford Limiter has been developed from decades of professional audio experience to provide a very high degree of quality and facility in programme loudness control and limiting functions. The Sonnox Oxford Reverb allows the po! werful facility to create virtual spaces freely, depending on ! artistic need, ranging from dry reflection ambiences, room and hall simulations, sound effects, all the way to wide open reverberant spaces with a very large range of possible texture and spatial character.
As well as providing stunning presets, the user has full control over all of its many parameters, including a very comprehensive early reflections section, and integrated 5-band EQ. The Sonnox Oxford Reverb plug-in is a highly flexible stereo reverberation generator, designed to complement existing Sonnox Oxford applications in providing the user with the highest technical and sonic performance coupled with artistic and creative facility. Use the Inflator to produce louder mixes than you thought possible without overloads or compression pumping, or use it to add natural warmth and character to acoustic or jazz mixes. The inflator process can also bring power, presence and warmth to programme material and even provide headroom overload margin above digital maximum with a subtlety and musical character reminiscent of tube systems. The Inflator is a unique process that can provide an increase in the apparent loudness of almost any programme, without obvious loss of quality or audible reduction of dynamic range, yet avoiding damagin! g increases in the peak level of the signal. This highly sophisticated and professional product has the power and flexibility to obviate the need for many of the separate applications most users keep for specific uses. The use of a feed-forward architecture with logarithmic side chain processing, making use of look-ahead techniques, ensures exemplary sonic characteristics and dynamic accuracy, with an artistic capability simply unavailable from other single units, analogue or digital. Features such as selectable time constant curves and variable soft compress functions allow the user to confidently tackle all common uses of compression, from subtle unobtrusive level control and mastering functions to the production of great artistic effects. Resulting from many years research into professional dynamics applications, it offers separate Compress, Lim! it, Expand, Gate and side chain EQ functions, with full indepe! ndent control of all parameters. The Oxford Dynamics plug-in is modeled on the extremely flexible and capable unit used in the OXF-R3 professional mixing console. This plug-in may well provide all the EQ you ever needed. The use of novel coefficient generation and intelligent processing design provides unparalleled performance that surpasses analogue EQ in both sound quality and artistic freedom. The EQ also features 4 different selectable EQ types that cover most of the EQ styles currently popular amongst professional users, including some legacy styles which are renowned for their artistic capability. Additionally, separate variable slope low pass and high pass filters are provided. It is a fully functional 5-band application with selectable shelf settings on LF and HF sections.
The EQ plug-in is based on the OXF-R3 EQ section. The Inflator can add power, warmth, and presence to your mix, providing. A longtime secret weapon for audio professionals, the Sonnox Oxford Inflator does what so many dynamics processors only pretend to do - increase the apparent loudness of your mix or individual tracks, without audibly affecting sonic quality or reducing dynamic range. Oxford Inflator is one of the best-loved, most used, and least talked about plugins in my arsenal.
The best uses for the Inflator are fairly subtle enhancement of audio sources-when 'pushed' like a limiter it can sound harsh and 'fake' in some applications. The Inflator is more about 'density' rather than loudness.