#Rainbow music equalizer for macbook pro 320kbps#
#Rainbow music equalizer for macbook pro software#

#Rainbow music equalizer for macbook pro software#

I think I've determined that releveling tracks breaks the 'baseline level' for an entire album (in the software I'm using). (sigh) I shouldn't have to do this for 5000+ tracks just to accommodate the iPoop. re-ripping a CD or two with lowered leveling data.

I tested re-analyzing a few tracks to -85db, with no effect. you shouldn't have to tell a player to diminish the audio prior to shaping the freqs. I'll try re-analyzing the tracks with -85db as the reference (Media Monkey defaults to -89db), but I would guess this won't matter.

#Rainbow music equalizer for macbook pro 320kbps#

Some of the test tracks I've used are ripped at 256kbps VBR, some even at 320kbps CBR. It's attenuated with Sound Check on (dunno why).ДЄll the MP3s have had track leveling data appended by Media Monkey. Thought it was my older, higher-compression MP3s (no), or new in-ear headphones (no), or faulty source material (no). I've been hearing distortion in some of my iPods on tracks that have a lot of sustained music. In conjunction with the Tracking control, the Magic creates wild pitch take offs and descends, chaos chorusing, shrieks, groans, gurgles, briggles, bruggles, bridals, wizard-blessed wizardry, signal transformation, imminent destruction, and other general mayhem.Originally Posted by ChromeJob /img/forum/go_quote.gif ItвЂ™ll take you way beyond and open up your third eye, trust us. As you increase the Magic control, youвЂ™ll start noticing increased ambiance, resonant, edge-of-oscillation pitch-shifting delays, chorus, metallic digi-flanging, ascending (or descending) pixie trails, controllable self-oscillation, squalls of synthetic noise, whale song, and finally, distortion. With the Magic engaged and the control set low, you can squeeze a few extra repeats out of whatever setting you happen to be using. This is a regeneration control that creates aliasing (among other things) by feeding the Primary and Secondary signals back on themselves and each other, and a bunch of other stuff no one understands. From there, itвЂ™s only a matter of how weird you wanna get.ДЄnd you can choose how weird you wanna get with the Magic control. Use this control to blend in faux-shimmer sounds or a low-frequency rumble. With the Pitch set to noon, the Secondary control adds an additional chorus voice for modulated, triple-tracked tones. When the Pitch control is below noon, the Secondary control will add one octave below the harmony. When the Pitch control is above noon, Secondary adds an octave above the harmony. The Secondary control adds an octave of the Primary harmony. Clockwise is bright, counterclockwise is dark. The Tracking control adjusts the lag time between the wet and dry signals, and the Tone control rolls off some treble for a darker, вЂњvintageвЂќ sound. You may add in an accompanying octave or thicken the modulation by bringing up the Secondary function control. Use the Primary function control to adjust the volume of the polyphonic harmony. The Pitch control adjusts the frequency of the polyphonic pitch-warped harmony from a fourth below your input, to a third above, and every atonal pitch in-between. That is to say itвЂ™s a cold digital beast made to pretend it has feelings. The Rainbow Machine is built around a DSP pitch warping engine thatвЂ™s designed to be slightly imperfect colored with digital remnants of the cosmic dust weвЂ™ve picked up across the multiverse.

Stop? Okay, fine, but what if I told you the Rainbow Machine has been completely re-imagineered from the pixie dust-covered ground up to be more versatile, twice as loud as the original, with an extended delay time, deeper chorus tones, silent Flexi-Switchв„ў foot switches on both the Activate and Magic functions, and most of all, has more Magic? It takes modern DSP and uses it as a tool of future past to create real-time pitch shifting using digital oscillators. There are no вЂњnatural soundsвЂќ that come from this box. Totally not for purists and/or tone hounds.

Stop me if youвЂ™ve heard this before: Welcome to the Rainbow Machineв„ў, in all its synthetic glory! This one is for experimenters, adventurists, and noisemakers. (Original box has some damage, otherwise the unit is mint.)