The world's most famous AI-assisted equalizer is better than ever
To create polished mixes in just minutes, Sonible's AI-assisted plug-in offerings have become almost necessary in project and professional studios. Of course, smart:EQ is among the most renowned, with a unique smart:filter that balances tracks by simply grouping them by dragging and dropping, selecting profiles and deciding which tracks have priority in that group's hierarchy.
Sonible has upped the ante on smart:EQ 4, improving the plug-in's versatility and adding new control features for even more utility. Any instance within the same group can be “remote controlled” from any other instance.
The famous AI-powered profiles have also been expanded with new gender-based Mix profiles. You can import your own reference tracks and smart:EQ will use them as the basis for the sound of your own track.
Standard EQ bands can now behave like dynamic EQs with familiar compressor and gate-style controls, and have a new smoothing control for more subtle filtering.
Finally, you'll get comprehensive midrange functions and an Auto Gain function that compensates for level adjustments.
How it works
The AI-powered smart:filter represents the heart and soul of smart:EQ 4. It addresses multi-track balancing and demasking by grouping tracks, selecting profiles, and then building a hierarchy.
For example, you can group lead and background vocal tracks, select a vocal profile, and then assign your lead vocal track as first in the hierarchy, followed by the other vocal tracks in descending order of importance.
The plugin then balances the tracks according to their rating. This saves a lot of time! For smart:EQ 4, Sonible has added new genre-specific Mix profiles, trained on entire mixes.
There's also a new reference profile that lets you load an entire mix or an individual instrument, which smart:EQ 4 will analyze and convey its balance and character to your channel or bus.
You can also mix traditionally
You have the option to use Smart:EQ 4's AI-assisted smart:filter in three modes: Track, Group, or Track and Group.
Track mode balances the channel; Group mode reduces masking between group members (without affecting the individual channel); and Track and Group mode combines the two. You don't have to let the AI have all the fun.
Smart:EQ 4 offers simplified controls for each channel, allowing you to mix using traditional bottom-up or top-down approaches.
Smart:EQ 4's regular EQ bands now feature dynamic EQ behavior, with controls for Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, and Range.
Use these regular EQ bands alongside or instead of the main smart:filter bands for any instance of smart:EQ 4.
Sonible:EQ 4 Smart Plugin Features:
- The flagship of Sonible's powerful suite of AI-assisted plugins
- smart:filter technology with Track, Group, Track and Group modes
- Simple drag-and-drop functionality provides easy, near-instant spectral balancing of single tracks and buses
- Create an unmasking “hierarchy” of up to 10 tracks
- Intelligent cross-channel processing between instances with “remote control” of EQ for multiple tracks on any instance within the same group
- Much wider range of profiles for instruments, speech and even entire mixes according to genre
- Create custom profiles from your own reference ranges
- New dynamic EQ behavior for regular EQ bands with controls for Threshold, Ratio, Attack and Release
- Auto Gain compensates for level adjustments
- Comprehensive MS Processing
- Custom learning time for smart calculation:filter
