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In order for the Breath Control plug-in to have time to perform its analysis, it must incur a good deal of latency. The Gain Reduction Trace is a scrolling meter that displays the incoming signal’s waveform with a superimposed tracing that illustrates the amount of gain reduction taking place in real-time.
This can help when setting the Sensitivity control in order to make sure that only the breathing in your audio is being processed. When enabled, only the audio of the detected breaths will be passed to the output of the module. Sets the resulting desired level of all detected breaths above the set target. Sets the desired amount of gain reduction applied to all detected breaths, regardless of level. This controls how sensitive the breath control plug-in is when detecting the harmonic structure of breaths in your incoming audio. Note: By default, the Breath Control plug-in will be in Target mode. Loud and abrasive breaths will be reduced heavily while quiet, natural sounding breaths will be left at the same volume. This can result in much more natural sounding breath reduction as the detected breaths in your audio are only reduced when necessary. When in Target mode, the reduction amount of the 'Target' slider represents the desired level that you wish all detected breaths to be reduced to. Depending on your settings however, this can result in unnatural sounding results as the very quiet breaths may be inaudible, while the loud breaths will be reduced to a normal level. In some cases, this is desirable when trying to handle egregious breathing or as a way of removing all breaths from a particular spoken or sung vocal take. In Gain mode, the Breath Control plug-in will reduce the gain of breaths by an absolute amount, regardless of the level of the breath. This allows for accurate breath recognition with a multitude of quiet or loud vocal styles with minimal adjustment of the module's controls. Different from a 'Threshold' based process in which the module is only engaged once the audio has risen to a certain volume, Breath Control will perform its analysis regardless of level. If any piece of the incoming audio matches a harmonic profile similar to a breath, the module will suppress that portion of the audio until sung vocals are detected. The Breath Control plug-in automatically analyzes the incoming vocal take and distinguishes breaths from sung vocals based on their harmonic structure. Note: The component Breath Control plug-in is only available in Nectar 2: Vocal Production Suite.
This can be an essential tool when editing a vocal track by streamlining a task that can be time-consuming when performed manually. The Breath Control plug-in will automatically detect breaths in your vocal takes and suppress them.