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MAAT FiDef JENtwo v1.0.0 Incl Emulator-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 25 Mar 2022 | 30.9MB
Invoke audience ardor.
FiDef® by FideliQuest is a very low amplitude, psychoacoustic stimulus designed specifically for audio engineers. It makes a receptive brain relax and pay closer attention to an incoming audio stimulus. In brain physiology laboratory tests using functional neuroimaging techniques, FiDef has proven to excite brain activity related to perception and attention, and to enhance the subjective processes of listening and engagement.

Available for all major plug-in formats, including VST 2, VST 3 and AAX native for macOS and Windows plus Audio Units for macOS, FiDef is a patented, 64 bit audio processor like no other. Brain science takes the lead in this subconscious signal generator that compels the listening to lean in and…engage!

The Quest
Since Edison’s first wax cylinders, the history of audio capture and playback can be summarized as the increasingly technical pursuit of a seemingly impossible goal: lifelike replication of the actual listening experience…The advent of digital technology, while solving many of the problems inherent in analog recording and playback, brought with it other challenges. At the same time, new enabling formats such as DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition) and MQA (Master Quality Authenticated), along with consumer trends toward uncompressed HRA or High Resolution Audio releases of music catalogs have brought new levels of fidelity to the home. Yet, even the highest fidelity digital playback still exhibits a level of reserve that keeps the music at arm’s length, not always allowing it to embrace and move us. Low fidelity or hi–fi, analog or digital, FiDef makes for a deeper, more satisfying connection.


The Solution
While listening to a vaiety of recordings, an audio professional thought to himself, “Why do some recordings sound better than others?” He recruited an audio physicist and a musical neuroscientist while analyzing arrays of audio recordings to identify elements of sound that psychoacoustically engage the listener. Isolating the mechanism allowed them to develop a unique solution that synthesizes essential content from the material itself, inserting that dynamic information at low amplitude into the content. After years of development by a team of engineers with decades of industry experience, early in 2016 FideliQuest introduced FiDef™ audio processing, the first and only technology that restores what all recording and playback systems take away, whether analog or digital.

Think of a common, non–harmonic, sub–audible signal all good engineers use to linearize digital audio; dither. The FiDef system also generates an anharmonic, sub–audible broadband signal. The difference is that FiDef does not modify the music itself in any way but instead is added to the music. Also unlike dither, it is correlated to the source audio. This is not noise for noise’s sake. This is a dynamic, correlated and spectrally shaped signal. The signal, based on FideliQuest research into the human auditory system, is customized to directly stimulate the brain, bypassing cognitive processing. The manifold results include less brain activity required to process incoming stimuli, with a resulting increase in perceived nuance and tactility from music, speech and effects. FiDef informs your brain of the subtle potentials within a recording. Hear more of how the song was played, not recorded.



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  Resident 4.05.2011 1071
+476
I am a genius and now thanks to MATT my listening experience is too.
Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa
  Banned 21.12.2018 518
+387
It does show an effect, very similar to classical dithering.
It changes the sound in a way that it softens and stifles the high end a bit, but accenuates the transients (at least partly by shortening the tails), with overall slight loss of detail.
So its main effect is slightly added punch at the cost of some blur.
All in all, I would prefer a transient shaper, which I can control and understand how it works.
  Member 9.11.2016 67 443
+3056
my pc windows 10 with runtime 2022 studio one 5

when i load 2 plugin fided
my daw cpu very high to 100% and crash daw
  Member 31.12.2017 148
+21
Awesome, thank you R2R!
  Resident 1.04.2015 202
+119
When the first version was posted here, the little text selling it was very joke-like. It caught my attention because of the so-called "separation and better soundstage" effect it would produce, "no need for summing mixers or tape recorders anymore ect."

It's on their MAAT site now, so I guess they changed the style to pretend something more serious because of the neighboring products but the content is the same, "hypnotic sub-conscious brain dither". Hard to take seriously but I like risky takes.

What it does in crude words is a generated noise profile (you choose it), reacting dynamically and - to my personal guess here - by frequency bands.
With Live just make a parallel chain on your track and and invert the phase, so you can end up with only the effect, and moreover even have a volume control on it.

Isolated and boosted it really sounds like a vocoder fed with noise as a carrier signal.

In my experience sometimes it did something interesting, some kind of sweeting in the high end remembering that sweet and generous analog API highs, and some other times sounded completely like shit because the effect did cause too much audible distortion, killing the purpose of the musical programme. The distortion did that deforming effect on audio which relates more with a defective cheap audio device.

I just regret the lack of control on this little thingy. And the instructions are as unclear as its working principle. You can set it on one track, multiple tracks, on busses, master... but you'll get where is my point : the effect piles and it's not that good.

The other gray point on this : the lack of dynamic control. On crucial transient content, if an highly dynamic moment on your audio happens and is a key moment, on a song for example, forget it. Its envelope slopes with a sort of delay, so it soften transients. It's a kind of cliché, grotesque way to "soften" transients. It would be cool to have a setting to tighten the envelope of the noise though.

And a networking way to detect the other instances so it could balance the volume of its effect from one instance to another.

ps : I did not test the "JENtwo" version...
  Member 12.11.2013 23
+3
well, I have tested it vs EQ curve, spectrum analyzer, phase shifter and there is no difference in the signal. But yes, indeed I can hear a small but audible improvement in the sound. Strange!
  Resident 27.07.2017 355
+94
it is a quantum complement. It works and it doesn't work at the same time, that is, it is on two sides at the same time
If you only look at one side of the coin, you'll never truly know if it's a coin.
  Member 1.01.2021 36
+5
Supported Hosts
Ableton Live, Cubase, Logic, Nuendo, Pro Tools, Pyramix, SADiE, Sequoia,
Studio One & Wavelab
So, no FL Studio....Has anyone installed this and tested it on FL Studio? How do you know if it is working on your DAW if you can't hear it! Perhaps I should ask the dog, he might have a better chance of "Feeling" it.
  Resident 5.08.2014 450
+241
Working in FL Studio
  Resident 5.08.2014 450
+241
It crashes a lot with many instances, sounds great for what it is though.
Looking forward for the updates.
  Resident 7.04.2013 181
+77
Extensive NULL testing indicates to me the effect exists at around -80dBFS to -90dBFS, which is around the level a typical Waves 'Analogue' plug injects white noise into a CD Audio signal to make you think a there's a noise floor present.

What makes me wonder at the magic of marketing is the way around half the people on Mixing with Mike adamantly insist they can clearly hear this effect through a Youtube Codec.

It's the depth, apparently. I must have hidden shallows.

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