Being able to define more than one looped section per track would be a welcome feature, freeing up track slots and potentially RAM as well, and this is promised for a future update. One of the few limitations in the current version is that if you want to loop, say, a chorus and a verse from the same track, you would need to open two instances of the same audio file with different loop points. However, this obviously is more work and prevents you from making any changes to the loop within the plug-in. Once a loop is set, DJ software-style quarter, half, 2x and 4x buttons help to make changing the loop length painless. Although muscle memory from my DAW zoom key-commands tripped me up a few times, dragging loop points within the plug-in interface soon became familiar.
The implementation has been well thought out, making the potentially laborious task of level-matching several audio files very quick. If any of your references are unmastered audio files, the extra 12dB boost will be particularly handy. Our ears often tell us that louder is better, so to make a fair comparison, you should match the level of the reference tracks to your mix. With the correct codecs installed on a PC, there are no such issues. However, as most DAWs have already moved to bit architecture, and can therefore address an unlimited amount of RAM, this should become less of a problem over time, especially given that such as compression or EQ, that iRAM upgrades are so affordable these days. The down side is that this can quite quickly use a significant amount of RAM, especially if you record at higher sample rates. Magic AB is a specialised media player plug-in that allows you to quickly switch between your own mix and up to nine different reference tracks, each with independent level controls and looping options.Ĭonceptually, Magic AB is much like having a media player connected to a monitor controller, but with some really useful added features. Setting up comparable arrangements within a DAW, by contrast, requires forward planning in terms of routing, level matching and muting channels that contain reference material.
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