Flux Alchemist

Aiming at professional mastering and re-mastering applications, the intricate design, the superior workflow and sound perfection, makes Alchemist tailored for the high demands of today's music and pro-audio industry. Alchemist presents the option to operate as a single broadband processor, or a full-scale multiband processor offering up to five individual bands. For surround/multichannel operation Alchemist provides up to eight channels of simultaneous processing. Be it a difficult dynamics processing job, or a severe problem in the mix, Alchemist provides you with everything you need to achieve finding the solution.

Up to five bands are available, each of them providing:

• Flux:: core dynamics processors all operating in parallel:
     Compressor
     De-Compressor
     Expander
     De-Expander
• The BitterSweet Transient Designer
• MS (mid/side) Control
• Auto Delay (Introduces a delay line in the processed signal allowing zero attack time)
• Selectable level detection mode and dynamics detection profile
• Dynamics processing envelope control (Attack, Hold, Release with optional Auto mode)
• Input/Output gain control

Multiband Crossovers:

Alchemist's five bands are divided using carefully fine tuned IIR (Infinite Impulse Response) crossovers with selectable slopes (from 18 dB per octave to 54 dB per octave), and variable corner frequencies.

Signal Processing Features:

• Input/Output gain controls for adjusting the levels before and after processing.
• Phase invert of the processed signal.
• Dry Mix control (Dry/Wet with gain compensation) allowing for parallel processing or for blending some of the original "peak" into the processed signal.
• Clipper, a discrete peak limiter at the very last stage of the processing chain rounding off the peaks smooth and musically.
• Bypass routes the incoming signal direct to the output for a true smooth transition between processed and clean signal.

Processing Specifications

Alchemist, as all Flux:: plug-ins, provides

• Up to 8 channels Input/Output
• 64-bits internal floating point processing
• Sampling rate up to 384 kHz DXD (Pyramix DSP based)
• Sampling rate up to 384 kHz for native (AU/RTAS/VST)

Compatibility:

All major native formats are supported

• VST (2.4)
• RTAS

• VST (2.4)
• AU
• RTAS

*The RTAS version requires ProTools 8 or later.