Inflator Sonnox

[Idara Viengxay]

Addspower, presence, and tube-like warmth to program material

Increases perceived loudness of any source, without audibly affecting sonic quality

Provides virtual headroom above digital maximum, allowing percussive peaks to pass without overload

Direct and band-split modes for maximum flexibility and optimal DSP usage

Developed for the UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform by Sonnox

The famous Sonnox Oxford Inflator I am using in every production on nearly every Channel! It is my secret weapon since 2002! I own it for the Powercore, Native and now for the UAD2. Why? Because I can! :-) No... Seriously: On Garage-Band it works only with the UAD2 Version. That's why!

When I tried to install the Oxford inflator into Pro Tools, it wouldn't accept it because it was 32 bit instead of the current minimum 64 bit. I give it two stars instead of one because if it was able to be installed, it might have been a helpful plugin.

They both have the ability to add harmonics to the signal coming into them, so I started there. Odd harmonics are usually associated with transformers and even harmonics with tubes. I wanted to see what each of these Sonnox products produced. The input signal was at -6dB and is the first order or fundamental, represented by the pink horizontal line in the graphs below.

2. With the effect in and at 100% and the curve at 17.0, you can see the odd harmonics in the -15dB to -20dB range (yellow and green lines), while the even harmonics have a different signature showing some peaks in the midrange and tapering upward at either end (green, orange, and brown lines).

Since the inflator is giving a lot of harmonics and doing the best at sweetening the sound for me, I try to never use the enhance feature of the limiter as it only adds, what I feel, are conflicting harmonics, making my sound a bit muddier.

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The Inflator is a unique process that can provide an increase in the apparent loudness of almost any program without obvious loss of quality audible reduction of dynamic range yet avoiding damaging increases in the peak level of the signal. The inflator process can also bring power presence warmth to program material even provide headroom overload margin above digital maximum with a subtlety musical character reminiscent of tube systems. Use the Inflator to produce louder mixes than you thought possible without overloads compression pumping use it to add natural warmth character to acoustic jazz mixes.

The HDX format provides installers for users running hardware accelerated Pro Tools systems which require AAX DSP. This is also the format needed for legacy TDM compatibility for Pro Tools 10 HD and earlier. All Sonnox HDX Plugins also include a Native licence.

You can either "soft" activate on your computer without addditional hardware or transfer the license to an iLok USB dongle which has to be purchased separately. The iLok dongle can be used to run the protected software on different computers. Your licenses can be easily manged using the iLok Licence Manager. To protect your investment against theft or loss we recommend the iLok Zero Downtime protection with TLC.

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 damaging increases in the peak level of the signal. 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.

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.

Sonnox PowerCore Inflator Features

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