Anyone using Platinum Notes V3.0?
I won a copy in a competition. A friend uses it so I have given it a try but can’t really see what difference it has made to my tunes, all of which are purchased legally.
It hasn’t compressed the wave form greatly, so the files seem to be pretty similar. I have used the plug in caled ‘festival’ which is supposed to make tunes sound better on a larger system.
I am skeptical.
LOL. I have v2.0. Basically its just supposed to make the MP3 sound the best it possibly could in all evironments??!?!
When I use it…some tracks that i cut to MP3 from Wav’s off a CD or direct from the producer will have almost nothing done to it. Then others it will.
Some Mp3’s i have downloaded off the blogs also need none…some do!!
So I guess if you have gotten decent MP3’s…then thats why its not doing much.
Try testing it with a known crappy mp3…see what the outcome is.
I also use RE2…RapidEvolution and also Mixed in key. They both give me different key readings. So I just tag the mp3 with both fucking keys…and when i play and use key…i just check em out quick to see which key works on the playing track.
Fuckit…
Works…
I’ve never used, but for the price I’m very much on the fence.
My mixer’s gain knobs would be so lonely if I used this software.
LOL. Sounds like a lot of arse ache! he he
Tried it and don’t really see a big deal. Most my music sounds fine before notes 3.0. Some lower quality mp3’s have a slight improvement. Some of that might be related to the increase in volume. Also, to get the most benefit you want to save in wav format, that just gobbles up storage space. The only thing I really like is the volume leveling. I just use it now for only low quality mp3’s I might get (legal sites offer high quality mp3’s). For the price my recommendation is to pass, just my opinion.
I just recently got this. A friend recommended it ---- I haven’t used it yet on a big system, but I can tell the difference right away. However, it doesn’t do much for crappy songs. If you have a crappy song, well know you have a high quality crappy sounding sound. One thing it fixed tons was clipping on tracks. I now here warm lows and much clearer vocals. The way he explained it and why he liked it was the volume on all your tracks is the same now and they have all been processed thru the same PN system so the response you get from a gain knob or EQ is the same on each song.
I have yet to hear it on a REALLY BIG system though.
as I said to you yesterday Pony via email, I think most things music wise are best left judged by ear. ALthough I dont doubt PN can do a decent job I still think its about training your ears to pick up on the things and often if you’re experienced enough then your ear will make a better judgement. Hence the reason I knocked off the autogain on traktor last night and already feel its making a difference.
Indeed, but it helps!
Well my ear is pretty good tbh, coming from vinyl/cdjs it has to be, as you know matey.
Saying that, I’m a bit deaf, but level wise and EQing I am pretty good, most of the time.
I’m still unsure. I also don’t like the way it adds _PN to all my tracks that have been proicessed with it although I am unsure as to whehtehr I can change that in the prefs.
Nice one gramps!
It is not just about gain. It also makes the songs sound less harsh and it gives back a little more headroom an dynamics (IF a track needs that).
And YES, you will percieve the difference of the dynamic range on a large system.
Giving it a little more dynamic range will make it more appealing sonicly and you will ‘feel’ the track better.
I have done serveral tracks and compared the PN processed to the original, running in Ableton with http://www.pleasurizemusic.com/ the dynamic range meter on the master channel. auditioning first the original and then the PN processed one.
Not only could I hear a significant decrease in harshness and 1 or 2 db of volume decrease in each track. The dynamic range meter also indicated a bigger dynamic range by an average of 1.5 points in the PN processed tracks. These were 320kbps tracks downloaded from Beatport.
Dont use it on new/legit tunes mate. Use it on 192-256 to “brighten” them up.
I would never use any lower than 320kbps tunes…
This is true for 90% of what i’ve put through, but i have quite a few dubstep/dnb tracks that it absolutely ruined - seems to have squashed the dynamic range if anything and taken away all punch from the track. (I realise this is because the track was obviously above PN’s threshold at it’s loudest point, but a so-called intelligent program should be able to recognise a highly compressed track and deal with it accordingly)
I’m not overly impressed by it.
I wonder what the findings will be if you run before and after through a dynamic range meter..
PN often turns down the gain a little and our ears often get tricked by loudness as sounding more apealing.
But it’s like those tracks from the eighties (need I say the Thriller Album?) they sound much much softer than tracks nowadays but have a much bigger dynamic range wich is way they sound sooo good when you turn the volume up
Dont ever use it for trance since there’s already ALOT of compression done
Hahaha this is so good.
Does anyone know: if you run your ‘old’ music through PN, which you have already analysed & tagged in Traktor, and maybe run through Mixed in Key as well, will you then have to re-do all of that to the new file?
As I understand it, PN is a destructive process, which changes the waveform of the track, so is it even possible for PN to just stick all the old Traktor & M.I.K. info on the new audio file?
I like the idea of boosting up a load of the music in my system, particularly a lot of the oldskool mp3s, but I do not like the idea of having to re-do close to 1000 tracks in Traktor - that’s a week’s work right there. 
^ it creates a new track. You have to start from scratch.