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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
Side comment: do you de-essing manually by making some little volume reduction areas around the ssss sounds, rather than using a de-esser plug-in to cut the frequencies?
(2) Why did the ACID FX effects plug-ins, which came with the program, suddenly go bad after around 6 months of giving me no problems and having no impact on the speed with which tracks play? Could it have been that when I downloaded the newer, spiffier Acid Pro 7 program, the older Music Studio 7.0 program's effects plug-ins somehow got corrupted?
(3) Why does my Acid Pro 7 audio recording program crash so easily, even with the newest updates? Perhaps this is related to the effects that are being used in songs I made with Music Studio 7 but opened with Acid Pro 7? I didn't read many reports online about Acid Pro 7 freezing up, so I don't think the program is the problem (although its plug-ins may be). I'll work with Sony Tech support (hopefully) to try to figure this out, and do some more experimenting on my own.
Thanks again for your help and for answering my desperate pleas, FD! My ripped-out hair is starting to grow back.
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Ah, congrats on that. I wouldn't have thought Acid FX plugs were the problem being that they're native... but certainly if you have too many plugins going, there could be issues.
Anyway, go here:
KVR: Audio Plug-in Database (Search Page) - VST, Audio Units, RTAS, DirectX, LADSPA, DSSI
Down in the Advanced Search, there's a ton of stuff you can check off to narrow your results, like type of plugin/effect/whatever. Make sure to check the box that will show only free plugins.
1) You can tame plosives by reducing the volume with a volume curve where the plosives are, but de-essing techniques by cutting frequencies is more transparent for de-essing because there aren't volume dips, which can be noticeable if the clip is already at a normal volume where the s's are. There are de-esser plugs out there that can do it for you.
2) I'm not sure about the Sony plugs. I don't use any of them, but yea I guess it's possible they were corrupted. Seems like the new program should have had its own anyway though. There may have been a problem if you're using the same VST folder for both program's plugins. I'm not sure how you have your stuff set up though.
3) Do you have crashing issues with a new project in the new program?