DDMF have released version 2 of their Plugindoctor.
This shiny brand new version includes a plugin version, which is something that has been requested by many of you. The plugin version loads one or two plugins through which the audio signal of your DAW is streamed. At the same time, the usual Plugindoctor analysis is being carried out, using the settings of the plugin(s) you apply to your audio material. This way you can immediately correlate the analysis results with how the plugin is working with your specific material.
If you have two plugins loaded, you can select which of the two is being used for the audio treatment. The analysis results of both plugins are being shown in parallel, just like in the standalone version. It’s basically an A/B tool where you can, e.g., directly see and hear which curve sounds better. Of course you can also load two instances of the same plugin, but with different settings.
Even better news: the new v2 including the plugin version is a FREE update for v1 users! Simply proceed to the DDMF login section, get the new installer and start playing. Plugindoctor comes in VST/VST3 and AU format, in 64 and 32 bit and in Apple Intel and native Apple Silicon format.
What is Plugindoctor?
Plugindoctor fills a longstanding gap in the market: a cross-platform and cross-bitformat plugin analyzer for VST and AU plugins. Whether you are a plugin developer yourself who wants to thoroughly test the audio quality of your latest and greatest product, or a power user who wants to understand in more detail what exactly a specific plugin is doing to your precious audio material, Plugindoctor will help you find out!
Features include:
- Highest quality, double precision FFT engine, independent stereo channel analysis
- Linear analysis: magnitude and phase response using delta or random input signal
- Harmonic analysis: highly accurate frequency response analysis to a sinusoidal input signal. Input strength and frequency can be varied for THD/THD+N calculation. Switchable intermodular distortion modus. Sweep function for fundamental and THD response.
- Oscilloscope: watch what happens to a sinusoidal input signal in real time.
- Dynamics: use a ramping signal to test compression or expansion, or an attack-release signal to check your compressor’s attack and decay curves.
- Performance: how many milliseconds are really spent in your plugin’s audio processing callback (as a function of buffer size)
- Ability to load two plugins in parallel for simultaneous analysis
- Freely resizable user interface
- Three quality settings, corresponding to three different FFT buffer sizes
- Storage option of curves in Linear and Harmonic analysis mode for easy comparison of settings or of different plugins
- Built-in screenshot function
- Standalone version: comes as a 32 and a 64 bit executable
- Plugin version: available in VST/VST3/AU/AAX format for parallel analyzing and listening in your DAW
- Can load VST, VST3 and (on Mac) AU effect plugins
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