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DynAssist – A short overview
- IlanAdar
The new Industry standard plugin to edit dialogue and vocals.
Save hours on editing and focus on the important things.
No pressure of tight deadlines and more time being creative.
1. Core Features
- Levels the gain over your entire vocals
- Detects breaths and sibilances and shows them at a glance
- Removes unwanted pauses with the content-aware Vox Gate
- Seamless integration with ARA and no latency
Requirements
Mac
intel & M1/M2/M3 native support
(min OS 12.0)
Windows
64 bit
Windows 10 (min v 1909)
minimum Intel Core i5/i7 4th Gen “Haswell” from June 2013 or higher.
General
Formats: VST3, AU, AAX
Supporting all major DAWs : Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase, FL – Studio, Reaper, Studio One, LUNA
2. Integration - A solution for each DAW
Depending on your DAW, integrating DynAssist may vary slightly. We’ve developed a solution for each DAW, ensuring you can always benefit from DynAssist.
To summarize, there are two main ways to use DynAssist:
ARA (Audio Random Access)
ARA allows DynAssist to access the entire audio clip at once — offline, without needing to start playback in your DAW. ARA is supported in Pro Tools, Studio One, LUNA, Reaper, Cubase, Nuendo, and Logic (Rosetta Mode on Apple Silicon).
Click here to learn how to use ARA with DynAssist in your DAW.
Transfer Mode
The other option is DynAssist’s Transfer Mode. It lets you record the section you want to edit directly into the plugin. Once recorded, you can adjust the parameters as usual.
Transfer Mode is available in Logic, Ableton, and FL Studio.
Click here to learn how to use DynAssist without ARA.
3. Work with DynAssist for the first time
Once you’ve loaded DynAssist onto your track or clip, you’re ready to start.
1. Analyze
First, DynAssist automatically analyzes your audio file — detecting loudness, voice, breaths, and sibilance. Based on your settings, it then generates an automation curve as a starting point. You can refine this automation using the parameters within each section.
2. Change Basic Settings
Use the different parameters to adjust the automation to your needs, or browse through the available presets. You can also create your own, or set a custom default preset by saving it as default.
3. Commit your changes or leave DynAssist as it is.
If you want to use another ARA plugin, feel free to commit your changes to the file — or simply leave DynAssist as it is and return later to fine-tune your settings if needed.
4. Basic paramter
Target Loudness
Set up your target loudness, which is displayed in LUFS-I. LUFS-I (Integrated Loudness Units Full Scale) is a standard measurement that represents the average perceived loudness of an entire audio file or mix. Unlike peak level, LUFS-I reflects how loud the audio actually sounds to the human ear over time, making it ideal for consistent volume levels across tracks, podcasts, and broadcasts.
Now choose the desired value based on your project’s requirements.
Speed Slider
The Speed slider controls the intensity of gain adjustments. For example, setting it to 500 ms means DynAssist divides your audio file into 500 ms segments to measure loudness. Based on these measurements, DynAssist determines where to place automation points for consistent volume. Higher values, such as 2 seconds, result in smoother, less aggressive gain riding.
Smooth determines how strongly the written automation is applied to your signal (similar to a dry/wet knob). This allows you to use very fast speed values without affecting your signal too much when Smooth is set to a higher value, such as 100%.
Edit automation curve in 'Edit Mode'
You always have the option to modify the automation yourself. Just click on the pen icon. Now you can modify the automation of your clip. Drag and drop to move points, double-click to create new ones, and by holding the left mouse button and hovering over multiple points, you can edit a group of automation dots.
5. Features in detail
Now, let’s explore the powerful features of DynAssist. We’ve promised that you’ll always stay in control of how your signal is processed — and here’s how we’ve made that possible.
Riding with Infinite Lookahead
A key advantage of DynAssist is its infinite lookahead. Whether you’re using ARA or Transfer Mode, DynAssist always knows when your signal is about to get louder. It can start reducing the level before a peak occurs, preventing the unwanted pumping artifacts you might experience with other vocal riders or compressors.
Smooth
Smooth the gain leveling for a more natural sound. Smooth reduces sudden gain changes by taking the average loudness of your signal into account. This is especially useful when using very fast speed settings. To avoid extreme gain boosts, increase the Smooth value.
🚨 Example:
Set the Speed slider to 100 ms and Smooth to 0%. Hit Analyze and observe how the automation reacts while listening to your signal.
Now, keep the Speed at 100 ms and increase Smooth to 100%. You’ll immediately notice how Smooth affects the automation, resulting in a more natural response.
Avoid Clipping (TP)
Prevents clipping caused by overly high target loudness by detecting and reducing true peak overs.
Gain Range
Defines the limits for the leveling automation curve when increasing or decreasing gain. It does not override the settings of the Vox Gate, Breath, or Sibilance sections — it only constrains the overall voice leveling.
Voice Gate and instrument Gate
Vocal Mode
In Vocal Mode, the Vox-Gate processes the signal different from a traditional gate. It ignores the signals gain, and uses AI detection to split the audio clip into voice activity and other signals. This ensures that the gate only closes or opens after or before the vocal part, without cutting the first or last syllable. This allows longer fade in/out- and longer transition times.
Use the left and right lines to control the fade-in and fade-out durations. The line at the bottom controls the floor level and reduces gated parts by a fixed value in dB. The ‘Min Noise Length’ setting determines how long ‘silence must last to be recognized as such’.
Instrument Mode
In Instrument Mode, the Gate uses a gain-based approach. You can set a relative threshold to control how sensitively the gate responds to the instrument’s signal. The settings in the Ride section remain the same.
Breath and sibilance detection
When analyzing, DynAssist detects both breaths and sibilance. In the Breath & Sibilance section, you can choose how DynAssist processes these elements. For this explanation, we’ll focus on breaths — but the same settings apply to sibilance as well.
Relative Threshold
The relative threshold is based on the integrated loudness of your signal. It simply adds the integrated loudness of the signal to the threshold value. If the integrated loudness is -16dB and you set the relative threshold to -4.0dB, the threshold will be -20dB. This is allows the same settings on very different clips to behave very similar.
Range
Range limits the amount of reduction that can be applied to a breath/sibilance region in dB.
Let say you want to edit all breaths by pulling the threshold down, but you don’t want them reduced by more than 10dB.
With a threshold setting of -infinite and no range, all detected breaths would be fully removed.
Transition Speed
This setting controls the fade-in and fade-out duration for breaths and sibilance.
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