[LAU] The future of audio plugins ?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:15:15 -0400, jonetsu wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:40:43 +0000 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>
>> Inspired by this thread, I dared to coin the question 'how would
>> you feel about an EQ plugin that analyses the track it's in, gets
>> information from its peers in other tracks, and then adjusts
>> itself ?'
>> 
>> Result: general hilarity. Consensus was that this the most stupid
>> thing ever suggested. Had to take some action to avoid damage to
>> my own reputation.  
>
>I would laugh too.
>
>EQ, in the general sense, is not used for such purposes as sketched
>here. Subtractive, yes, perhaps.  Since it might be fairly reasonable
>to identify what to ditch out at the beginning of any mix job.  But
>then that's a perhaps.

Faders and EQs are the most important tools during the complete mixing
procedure. You can do a mix without any additional tool, but you can't
without faders and EQs.

Regards,
Ralf