Monthly Archive for September, 2009

This plug-in has been along time coming, there have been rumur and leaks about it but finally it is out. This is what Flux say about it….

Syrah – The Creative Adaptive-Dynamics Processor
When we started sketching our new plug-in project, our aim was to create a versatile and truly musical dynamics processor, which handles the dynamics in a way that allows you to be creative, without a complicated user interface.

The result is Syrah, a new generation dynamics processor utilizing real time dynamic detection and level dependent processing, providing adaptive dynamic capabilities, which mean that Syrah is always trying to adapt to the music and to the beat of the material.

Using parts of our exquisite ‘BitterSweet’ technology, our new adaptive-dynamics technology, and our well-recognized level independent dynamics processing, Syrah will be well suited as a creative versatile processor for recording and mixing, as well as for delicate and demanding mastering tasks.

User Interface and Workflow
As you may notice, the controls are not the usual suspects found on a dynamics processor, instead, the controls provided typically affect more than one parameter in the underlying algorithms, with everything carefully tweaked allowing for creative processing still ensuring the finest sound achievable.

The built in preset manager and the preset morphing slider, provides instant and intuitive control of all parameters and controls. In a second, with a simple one-click operation, everything is copied from one of the two preset slots to the other. even during playback. Except for only A/B comparing two set of parameters, the morphing slider will allow for mixing them, and if desired, record the morph with the host automation.

With the built in preset manager, you can save a complete snapshot (called a Global Preset) with all the settings from both of the preset slots, as well as the position of the preset morphing slider, allowing for instant recall of your morphing set.

I haven’t had my hands on it yet but from what I have read the interesting thing about Syrah is that it adapts to the audio going through it. There are three modes dynamic soft, dynamic deep and static. Static makes Syrah function like a normal compressor but the other modes look interesting. Also as you will see from the screenshot there are some ‘different’ controls on Syrah that you won’t find on a normal compressor like Thickness and Relax. Thrre is also a dry/wet mix control which should enable Syrah to be used in a parallel compression mode for very gentle compression.

For more info on Sryah go to the Flux web site.