PurestGain
PurestGain is by request of some friends who really liked PurestDrive! It’s a free universal binary Audio Unit and it’s a gain trim plugin. That’s all.
…well, unless you count that it’s running the same 80 bit internal processing buss that PurestDrive has, the same noise shaping to the CoreAudio 32 bit internal buss, the same total refusal to produce any quantization distortion ever, and on top of that since it’s a gain plugin it also is running a smoothing algorithm to completely eliminate zipper noise from adjusting the control, even.
So basically, this freebie is the most ultimate ‘analog’ gain knob anybody could ever want, because some people loved the sound of PurestDrive so much they wanted a simple gain control just as uncompromising, and I made it a freebie. If this proves useful or just makes you happy to know your gain trim is beyond reproach, try PurestDrive. And be sure to get either Ditherbox, or the freebie DitherTo, so you can audition this stuff while dithering to 24 bit for your monitoring and high resolution file making needs! Just because stuff can happen around the 32 bit float quantizing (which is a 24 bit word and a mantissa, remember) that shows up over 24 bit audio, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be dithering every time you go to fixed point :)
My favourite gain plug in! Great sounding even on hi settings like +-12dB. Essential for mixing in the box. Thanks for your excellent work!
I don’t get what the difference is to a stock gain?
Can someone please explain?
So i downloaded both the AU and the VST signed M1/Intel DMG and dragged the AU-file to te correct plugin folder (/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components) as well as the VST-file to the correct folder (/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST) and this happens:
In Logic Pro (AU) it shows up! Great!
But in Cubase 12 (running native on M1/M2) nothing to see :-(
I’d guess it needs a vst3-file isn’t it? How to install?
Really great al the work you put in (watched the whole YT-explenation, 30 minutes about a volume knob, love it!), but h ow to properly install the VST-version for Cubase 12 on a Mac (M1/M2).