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Waves Audio is now shipping IDX Intelligent Dynamics, a smart energy enhancer plugin

 


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Waves now shipping IDX Intelligent Dynamics: a smart energy enhancer plugin

Knoxville, TN, November 29, 2024 — Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, is now shipping IDX Intelligent Dynamics, a smart energy enhancer plugin.

Waves IDX Intelligent Dynamics is a smart, frequency-dependent compressor designed to optimize your tracks’ energy, delivering greater punch and focus. With just one main knob, you can instantly vitalize your mix, making it easier than ever to achieve a polished sound.

For optimal results, insert IDX at the beginning of a plugin chain and/or across multiple tracks. This will set a solid foundation on which to build the rest of the mix as IDX can be effectively utilized on a master bus. Whether your sounds feel flat or lack that extra punch, IDX intelligently optimizes energy levels, applying precise processing where needed. Experience the impact you’ve been missing and elevate your mix to its peak performance.

Applying IDX across multiple tracks unlocks your entire mix’s full potential. While individual sounds may be good on their own, they can feel washed out within a mix. With Waves’ IDX Intelligent Dynamics plugin, vocals come forward without compromising the crispness of drum transients, while basses become punchy and well-defined.

By using multiple detectors across the frequency range, IDX shapes the envelope of your tracks, providing an “in your face” sound without sacrificing depth. IDX employs a smart algorithm that automatically identifies the busiest areas of the frequency range – those that consume energy without enhancing the tone of instruments or vocals. It then compresses them by using “progressive attenuation” (unlike a traditional compressor, which uniformly reduces the signal RMS above a threshold). As a result, frequency ranges that define the track’s key characteristics gain a distinct advantage and become more prominent.

Positioning IDX at the start of your plugin chain effectively compresses frequencies that contribute to harshness and boominess, reducing the need for EQ adjustments. Its smart compression algorithm also enhances the important “good” frequencies, bringing them forward in the mix.

Users can control IDX’s response speed with two modes: “Hard” delivers a fast response, ideal for transient sounds like drums and percussive elements, or when extra punch is desired. “Soft” provides a smoother, slower response, perfect for non-percussive sounds that need a more natural feel. “Tilt” control adjusts the degree of high and low frequency compression. Turning it one way compresses the highs more, resulting in a darker tone. Turning it the other way compresses the lows more, resulting in a brighter sound.

Additionally, Waves’ IDX Intelligent Dynamics includes a zero-latency version as well, making it an excellent tool for live applications. With just a few simple moves, IDX provides super-quick dynamic control over any input channel or group in your live mix.

Waves IDX Intelligent Dynamics features:

  • Instantly optimizes track energy for more punch and focus
  • Gives you a solid foundation to build your mix upon
  • Uses frequency-dependent progressive attenuation
  • Instantly balance input and output levels with Quick Match control
  • Adjust bright vs. dark tone with Tilt control
  • Brings elements forward in the mix and adds definition
  • Instantly revitalizes dull tracks
  • Automatically compresses the busiest areas of the frequency range
  • Control response speed with Hard and Soft mode
  • Zero-latency version for live sound

Waves IDX Intelligent Dynamics is available as a single plugin, and in the Waves Mercury, SD7 and Pro Show bundles.

It has also been added to Waves’ monthly and annual plugin subscriptions: Waves Essential (over 110 plugins) and Waves Ultimate (over 230 industry-leading Waves plugins).

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About Waves Audio Ltd.:
Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio DSP solutions for music production, recording, mixing, mastering, sound design, post-production, live sound, broadcast, commercial and consumer electronics audio markets. Since its start in the early ‘90s, Waves has developed a comprehensive line of over 250 audio plugins and numerous hardware devices. For its accomplishments, Waves received a Technical GRAMMY® Award in 2011; an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Award for its Waves Clarity Vx Pro plugin in 2023; and a 2024 NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Award for its Clarity Vx DeReverb Pro plugin. Additionally, its early flagship plugin, the Q10 equalizer, was selected as an inductee into the TECnology Hall of Fame.

Increasingly leveraging pioneering techniques in artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning, as well as the company’s three decades of accumulated expertise in psychoacoustics, Waves technologies are being used to improve sound quality in a growing number of market sectors. Around the world, Waves’ award-winning plugins are utilized in the creation of hit records, major motion pictures, and top-selling video games. Additionally, Waves now offers hardware-plus-software solutions (including the revolutionary eMotion LV1 mixer) for professional audio markets. The company’s WavesLive division is a leader in the live sound sector, spearheading the development of solutions for all live platforms. Products from Waves Commercial Audio enable A/V system integrators and installers to deliver superior sound quality for corporate, commercial, government, educational, entertainment, sports and house-of-worship applications. Under its Maxx brand, Waves offers semiconductor and licensable algorithms for consumer electronics applications, used in laptops, smartphones, smart speakers, gaming headsets, TVs and more from industry leaders such as Dell, Google, Fitbit, Acer, Asus, Hisense and others.

North America Offices:
Waves, Inc., 2800 Merchants Drive, Knoxville, TN 37912;
Tel: 865-909-9200, Fax: 865-909-9245, Email: info@waves.com, 
Web: http://www.waves.com 

Corporate Headquarters Israel:
Waves Ltd., Azrieli Center, The Triangle Tower, 32nd Floor, Tel Aviv 67023, Israel;
Tel: 972-3-608-4000, Fax: 972-3-608-4056, Email: info@waves.com,
Web: http://www.waves.com 

Waves Public Relations:
Clyne Media, Inc., 169-B Belle Forest Circle, Nashville, TN 37221;
Tel: 615-662-1616, Email: robert@clynemedia.com,
Web: http://www.clynemedia.com 

 









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