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snarf

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VST in Convert Format not working
« on: December 14, 2013, 10:44:29 am »

I am new to J River 19 (tested v14 and stayed at Foobar).

However now I am seriously consider to buy J River because of DSD.

There is however for me a strange behavior that I cannot explain.

I use a free VST called ReLife. www.terrywest.nl/utils.html

It tries to bring back life to a heavy clipped audiofile.

The VST is working great when I play music, so I consider it CAN work.

When I try to convert music however, I can select the VST, but it does nothing.

In Foobar2000 it works when I convert to another format.

Can somebody help me, because I am lost now.

Thank you all in advance for helping me.
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mojave

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Re: VST in Concert Format not working
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2013, 10:51:29 am »

I don't think VST's currently work when trying to use Convert Format.

The Relife VST has been shown to be a simple all pass filter that changes phase. It doesn't do anything to the clipped waveform.
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snarf

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Re: VST in Convert Format not working
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2013, 01:02:23 pm »

Then at least I don't have to search any further.  :)

I have read the forum as you suggested.

I sincerely hope that there will be a solution to somehow restore, at least some, of the original quality of the recording.
At lot of modern music is so destroyed by the mixers, it makes me wanne cry.  :'(
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Re: VST in Convert Format not working
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2013, 04:20:22 pm »

iZotope can work well for clipped tracks (using the offline RX editor, rather than a VST plugin) but I've yet to hear any VSTs I could leave enabled all the time for compressed tracks.
 
The best solution is still to try and find a better source for the recording if at all possible.
Unfortunately, I know that's frequently not possible, and I don't really have a solution for it.
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