Magic Flow is here!
From Magic Maker and industry icon, Josh Gudwin teamed up with Studio DMI and Acustica Audio to release one of the best plugins we've ever developed, Magic Flow. A powerful mixing tool carefully designed for fast audio workflow by and for Josh developed by Studio DMI.
Magic Flow is a collection of Josh Gudwin’s signature tools designed to enhance and improve your music production, mixing, and mastering.
Thanks to its special features, it aims to soon become a standard and a state-of-the-art tool for the pro-audio industry providing the most accurate digital representation of Josh Gudwin’s signature sound, combining specific features of several hardware and digital devices into a single, awesome product, capable of excellent performance and sound quality.
In Josh’s words
“Magic Flow is a multi-purpose audio tool designed to dial in and craft any source material with superior sonics and flexibility in mind. I wanted to create this plugin with my unique workflow while also streamlining the mixing/recording process to minimize overuse of extra software or hardware. Enjoy!”
Key features
Initially, the concept of Magic Flow was as a vocal plugin but expanded to a hybrid channel strip built around Josh’s analog and digital workflow.
• A center display for easy and proper comprehension.
• Master insertion of Josh’s hardware chain before the digital processing.
• 2 Preamps: one for input and one for the output stage.
• High-quality filters.
• A Peak Levelling Unit and a Dynamic EQ with pre-established parameters.
• A dynamic resonance compressor with a sibilants detector.
• High-quality post-compression EQ with four different recalls
• Global Dry/Wet control.
• A final limiter never exceeding 0.
A glimpse of the controls
Filters
⦿ Low Cut: A low-cut filter with a 6dB/Oct slope, with a frequency range: of 20 to 300 Hz.
⦿ High Cut: A high-cut filter with a 12dB/Oct slope, with a frequency range: of 7500 to 20000 Hz.
Peak Leveling
⦿ A continuous knob, range: 0% to 100%. This controls the threshold and gain of the unit, with visual feedback by both the ring meter and display.
Dynamic EQ
A continuous knob, range: 0% to 100%. This controls the threshold and gain of the unit, with visual feedback by both the ring meter and display. Four buttons for preset recall (A, B, C, D).
Dynamic Resonance Controller
⦿ Four Buttons for units on/off (A, B, C, D).
⦿ Auto Solo ON/OFF for detectors in the center display.
For each unit:
⁌ Frequency range Start.
⁍ Frequency range End.
⦾ Threshold.
Dynamic Balance
⦿ Two buttons for preset recall (A, B).
⦿ A continuous knob, range: 0% to 100%. This knob controls the threshold and gain of the unit, with visual feedback by both the ring meter and display.
EQ
⦿ Vertical slider, range: 0 to 5.0. This controls the gain scale of the current EQ recall.
⦿ Four buttons for EQ recall (A, B, C, D).
Peamp
⦿ Bypasses (Lamp OFF) the Input Preamp.
Mid Bump
⦿ Enables a saturation stage for the mid-range content placed at the end of the signal chain, between the EQ and the output gain.
Insert menu
⦿ ON/OFF selection for activating Josh’s hardware recall.
Quality menu
This menu allows you to change the oversampling rate to improve the audio quality by increasing the sampling frequency of the plugin and minimizing aliasing artifacts:
▸ The Standard mode bypasses the oversampling functionality.
▸ The Good mode increases the sampling frequency of the compressor being processed by a fixed multiple of 2x.
▸ The Superb mode increases the sampling frequency of the compressor being processed by a fixed multiple of 4x.
NOTE: Because the Oversampling affects the whole plugin, some EQ cramping could be introduced with the quality in ‘STANDARD’ mode due to the digital nature of some filters in the plugin; in a simplistic way, the high-frequency content is less affected by filters and lows could lose precision.
Dry/Wet
A text-draggable slider for specifying the current amount of wet signal with a range of 0 – 100%; once you put the mouse on the percentage number, the drag can start on both horizontal and vertical.
Presets
⦿ Use the preset button at the top of the plug-in GUI and select from different factory presets.
Have fun making Magic!
About Josh Gudwin
Josh Gudwin is a 5x US and 7x Latin Grammy Award-winning Mix Engineer, Record Producer, Vocal Producer and Musician. He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Hall Of Fame inductee & alumni of Full Sail University, and currently serves as co-chair of The Recording Academy’s P&E Wing.
Josh started his career at Record Plant Studios in Hollywood, CA, where he met Grammy-winning vocal producer & songwriter Kuk Harrell and became his full-time engineer in 2008. Within a few years, Josh became Justin Bieber’s exclusive vocal producer and has since worked on 9 Justin Bieber projects, including the acclaimed album Purpose, Changes and Justice, credited on all three as Album Producer, Producer, Mixer, A&R, Composer, and Vocal Producer.
Magic Flow | Josh Gudwin's walkthrough
Technical information:
• Supported formats: VST3, AAX, and AU.
• Windows 10 and 11 compatible.
• macOS 10.15, 11, and 12 compatible.
• Intel, AMD, and Silicon M computer compatible.
• AAX Silicon Native.
Price and availability
Introductory price: €84 | 48% OFF until March 15, 2023 (reg. price €163)* Buy Now
*According to Studio DMI's corporate policy, applying loyalty/educational discounts for this product is currently not possible. Taking this decision into account, Acustica and Studio DMI have defined an especially favorable introductory price for those who purchase the product within the first four weeks of release since the launch of the plugin.
The product does not follow the conventional logic of Acustica products, so it will not undergo any possible changes during the 'Introductory Price' period as it has successfully passed all (Alpha and beta) testing phases.
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Please remember that trials expire 30 days after authorization, and we strongly recommend not using trial products in commercial sessions or any important project.
Magic Flow webpage: https://www.acustica-audio.com/store/products/magicflow