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Feature update e for the our popular plugin designed for achieving the perfect balance of loudness and clarity in your mix and mastering
HoRNet Plugins is thrilled to announce the latest update to Magnus MK3, version 1.0.2. Magnus MK3 is a powerful and intuitive audio plugin designed to give you the perfect balance of loudness and clarity in your mix and mastering process. Whether you’re working on a professional production or simply aiming to achieve that polished, radio-ready sound, Magnus MK3 offers the tools you need to control your audio dynamics with precision.
One of the standout features of Magnus MK3 is its versatile clipper section. This section allows you to apply different levels of clipping to your audio, a crucial step in achieving a loud and impactful sound while maintaining clarity. Magnus MK3 offers five unique clipping algorithms, each tailored to provide a different color and character to your sound.
One of the most exciting algorithms in the clipper section is tape saturation, which emulates the warmth and harmonic distortion found in analog tape machines. This can help you add warmth to otherwise sterile digital tracks, imparting a rich, musical tone to your mix. Whether you’re working with drums, vocals, or any other instrument, the tape saturation algorithm can give your sound the depth and warmth that is often lost in the digital domain.
Along with the clipper section, the limiter section of Magnus MK3 is essential for controlling the dynamics of your mix. It allows you to finely tune the level of loudness in your tracks, ensuring that your audio stays within an optimal range. The limiter section offers five carefully crafted algorithms, each designed to provide smooth, transparent limiting or more aggressive compression, depending on your needs.
Among the available algorithms is a genuine analog emulation. This emulation replicates the sound and behavior of classic analog limiters, which are often preferred for their smooth, natural compression. The analog emulation in Magnus MK3 gives your mix a more organic feel, with a subtle yet effective compression that enhances the punch and power of your tracks without sounding harsh or artificial.
Despite its advanced capabilities, Magnus MK3 is designed with a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to control and adjust all settings. Whether you are an experienced audio engineer or a beginner, the plugin’s interface provides intuitive controls that give you access to all the essential parameters without being overwhelming.
The gain controls for both the clipper and limiter sections allow you to easily adjust the input levels, helping you achieve the desired effect on your sound. You can push the levels higher for a more aggressive clipping effect or back off for a subtler impact. The adjustable ceiling limit in the limiter section helps you manage the peaks in your audio, ensuring they don’t exceed your desired threshold, thus preventing unwanted clipping or distortion.
For more precise control, you can sync the limiter’s release time to your DAW’s tempo. This ensures that the limiting process is in perfect time with your track. Alternatively, you can let the auto-release algorithm find the optimal release time automatically, making it easier to set up without having to fiddle with detailed parameters.
Oversampling is a critical feature when it comes to achieving high-quality audio processing, especially when dealing with clipping and limiting. In Magnus MK3, both the clipper and limiter sections offer up to 16X oversampling. This feature drastically reduces the possibility of unwanted artifacts and aliasing, ensuring that your audio maintains pristine quality throughout the entire process.
With the higher oversampling rates, the plugin can process audio at a much higher internal sample rate, which helps in minimizing distortions that could otherwise creep into your sound. This ensures that your audio remains clean and accurate, even when pushing the clipper or limiter to its limits. The result is an audio signal that retains its integrity, with clear highs, tight mids, and punchy lows, even when using extreme processing.
One of the key challenges in modern mixing and mastering is maintaining consistent loudness throughout the track. Magnus MK3 addresses this challenge with its output gain compensation feature. This feature automatically adjusts the output level to compensate for any gain changes made during the clipping or limiting process. This ensures that your audio stays at a consistent loudness level, making it easier to compare different versions of your mix or master without worrying about volume discrepancies.
For example, if you’re applying a lot of clipping to achieve a louder sound, the output gain compensation will automatically adjust the output so that your final track is still at the desired loudness level. This eliminates the need for constant manual volume adjustments and helps ensure that your audio doesn’t lose its balance in the process.
Delta mode is a unique feature in Magnus MK3 that allows you to listen only to the differences between the processed and unprocessed audio. This mode is incredibly useful for making critical decisions during the brick wall limiting process. By listening to just the changes being made to your audio, you can focus on the specific impact of the clipping and limiting without distractions from the original signal.
Delta mode is a great tool for fine-tuning the subtle adjustments needed to achieve the perfect balance of loudness and clarity in your mix or master. It allows you to hear how the plugin is shaping the dynamics of your audio and ensure that no unwanted distortion or artifacts are being introduced into your sound.
To ensure that your audio is both loud and dynamic, Magnus MK3 includes integrated LUFS metering and a True Peak meter. LUFS metering provides a measurement of loudness over time, allowing you to track the overall loudness level of your track, ensuring that it meets the required standards for modern music production.
The LU range meter gives you the ability to monitor the dynamic range of your audio, making sure that you are preserving the depth and punch of your tracks while achieving the necessary loudness. The True Peak meter helps you detect inter-sample peaks, which are important for ensuring that your audio complies with broadcasting and streaming standards. These meters give you the tools you need to make sure your audio is not only loud but also clear and distortion-free.
The new version 1.0.2 includes several key updates to enhance performance and usability:
Oversampling fixed: Now works for buffer sizes greater than 512 samples, ensuring better performance in larger projects.
Improved user interface CPU usage: Optimized to reduce strain on your system, even during intensive processing tasks.
Fixed crashes when changing the oversample amount in some DAWs, improving overall stability.
This update is available for free to all current owners of HoRNet Magnus MK3. You can download it directly from the user area on our website or via the HoRNet DoIn downloader/installer.
