Put a million-dollar console into your Pro Tools mixer!
Metric Halo.s ChannelStrip has been an integral part of the sound of myriad Grammy-award
winning, Gold and Platinum records, hit TV shows and blockbuster movies. The first plug-in
to bring classic large format console-style ChannelStrip processing to Pro Tools TDM,
ChannelStrip has been the critical tool for getting .the sound. for thousands of
professional recording engineers, composers and musicans world-wide.
ChannelStrip includes over 100 professionally constructed presets that are automatically
installed with the plug-in that provide a wide variety of fix-its and starting points for
optimizing the sound of your individual channels and mixes.
Ok. So now you know that ChannelStrip is the key to the .sound. of thousands of professional
productions. You can check out the quotes and user stories on this page to see just some of
the folks who won't work without it. But what is it? What will it really do for you?
Built for Pro Tools
ChannelStrip 2.2 is a complete overhaul of our 56k DSP code and Pro Tools plugin
implementation. Redesigned from the ground up to take advantage of all the modern features
and technologies of Pro Tools 7.3 while still providing support for earlier versions of Pro
Tools, ChannelStrip for Pro Tools is now Universal Binary and supports all Pro Tools hardware
including:
* Mix
* HD
* Accel PCI . All DSP types
* Accel PCIe . All DSP types
* ChannelStrip also includes RTAS support, which means that you can seamlessly move your
processing between the TDM DSPs and the native processor on your workstation. .More details
about Pro Tools support
* It.s all about the sound!
* The consistent feedback we get from ChannelStrip users is that it just makes everything
that they run through it sound better. Equally at home on individual instruments and on the
master bus, ChannelStrip will warm up your sound, clarify the details and make your production
sound pro.
How does ChannelStrip do this?
It.s all about attention to detail. High-precision algorithms, careful attention to rounding
and dither, and deep integration between all the critical processes. On the one hand, its all
a bunch of technical mumbo-jumbo, but on the other hand, it has the effect of breathing life
into your audio... from virtual instruments to real ones, processing vocals and complete tracks.
ChannelStrip provides all the critical components of the channel strip of a large-format mixing
console. The reason that large-format consoles (the classical .big iron. . SSL/Neve/Euphonix)
include this kind of processing on each channel strip is that most signals benefit from the
kind of interactive processing that all the elements of ChannelStrip provide together.
The Basics
* ChannelStrip includes the following critical signal processors integrated together in one
easy-to-use interface:
* Delay
* Expander/Gate
* Compressor
* EQ (48-bit . the first on the platform!)
* The integrated delay is useful for adjusting the relative timing of tracks; this is great
if you are recording sources (like a guitar amp) with multiple microphones. While this feature
can be critical in a professional environment, it is a bit on the technical side, and you may
find that you never need to utilize it. But it is there if you need it! .Learn more about time
alignment.
The Expander/Gate is a form of dynamics processing that is most useful for channels with real
instruments or vocals; it provides an automatic gain-riding feature that effectively mutes the
input or track when the audio level is too low. This is great when you have a noisy guitar amp
or are recording a pod-cast and want to automatically mute out the rustling of papers and
background noises. The Expander/Gate in ChannelStrip has a bunch of nice properties that make
it really useful for maximizing the good part of a perfomance while cleaning up the unwanted
noises. Another cool application for the Expander/Gate is its ability to change the rhythmic
feel of a performance. .Learn more about expansion and gating.
The Compressor is the primary dynamics processing element in ChannelStrip. Similar to the
Expander/Gate, it provides an automatic gain-riding feature, but instead of the gain changing
when the signal is low, the compressor changes the gain when the signal level is high.
By lowering the gain when the signal level is high, the compressor can even out the dynamics
of a performace, pull low-level detail out of the sound, and even radically change the nature
of the sound passing through it. The compressor has been compared (favorably!) with the bus
compressor in the SSL mega-bucks mixing console . a processor that is much coveted for its
ability to .fatten up. everything that passes through it. .Learn more about compression.
The EQ is, of course, the multiband equalizer. The EQ allows you to adjust the tonal balance
and timbre of the signal passing through it. It is like a tone control on mega-steroids.
The EQ in ChannelStrip is a 6-band fully parameteric, extended range, double-precision
processor. Again with the mumbo-jumbo. In the end, it means that whatever sound shaping you
require is possible with the ChannelStrip EQ. The parametric bands of the EQ are capable of
deep notches and steep resonant peaks. This allows you to do unique things with the EQ . like
re-tuning drums after they have been recorded. Whether you use this on real instruments or
virtual instruments, the EQ allows you to maximize your sound. .Learn more about EQ.
The Not-So-Basics
ChannelStrip provides all the basic sound-shaping tools you need. But it doesn.t stop there;
ChannelStrip adds some critical advanced features that you may not find elsewhere.
The most important advanced feature is the integration of equalized sidechains in both dynamics
processors (the Expander/Gate and the Compressor). The equalized side-chain provides a fully-
parametric equalizer in the side-chain of the dynamics processors, which allows you to tailor
the response in a frequency sensitive way. This makes it possible, for example to make the
compressor react more to the kick drum of a mix, or make the Expander/Gate that you put on
a snare drum ignore the bleed from a hi-hat. This advanced feature makes the impossible possible
and the difficult easy. .Learn more about sidechains.
Another advanced feature of ChannelStrip is the integration and routability of the processes.
One thing that you quickly learn when shaping sounds for a mix, is that all the signal processing
stages interact. When you change the EQ, you also need to change the Compressor. When you adjust
the Gate it effects the proper settings for the Compressor too. Sometimes the sound you are
looking for requires the Compressor to come before the EQ, and sometimes the sound is best served
by EQ and then compression. The User Interface of ChannelStrip supports this interactive process
by integrating all the controls for all the signal processors into one control surface.
The routing control for the order of the signal flow through the Compressor and EQ is integrated
directly into the UI, allowing you to compare the effect of switching the routing with a single
smouse click.
Metric Halo Channel Strip 2.0 RTAS/TDM Pro Tools 6
This is the full installer of Metric Halo Channel Strip 2.0 RTAS / TDM
It will run on OSX 10.3.9 and above on PRO TOOLS 6.X
Download File Size:17.91 MB
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