

Just as importantly, I could perceive no audible nasties in the results.

I tested the ARA2 version with a number of recordings in my Cubase Pro DAW software and in all cases it got on and did the job with the bare minimum of user input.

This plug‑in should be music to the ears of anyone working on big film projects. Despite a professional price tag, Auto‑Align Post 2’s target audience should find that it covers its costs in no time. This plug‑in should be music to the ears of anyone working on big film projects, where delays can cost a lot of money. It does deliver on that promise, and can do so pretty darned quickly too. While the original Auto‑Align Post addressed this fairly well, Sound Radix claim that Auto‑Align Post 2 will do a better job and requires “just a few clicks”. Scale that up to a bigger shoot with many mics and you can imagine how many hours once had to be burned in post‑production correcting this all manually. A simple example is when both a lavalier and a boom mic are used to capture an actor or presenter’s voice: inevitably, the distance from the boom mic to both the source and the lav mic will vary over time, the more so if the boom operator has to follow the speaker around. As you ride the faders up and down in such situations, your ears can be greeted with undesirable changes in tonality, with the phase relationship between mics changing over time. It runs in Mac OS and Windows‑based hosts and, authorised using the iLok system, it can be licensed to your machine, the cloud or an iLok dongle.Īimed primarily at the post‑production market, Auto‑Align Post was designed to automatically address the audible nasties that are often heard when one or more mics move in relation to the source and other microphones. Instead, it uses the ARA2 and AudioSuite formats, the former for most DAWs and the latter specifically for Pro Tools, to process your DAW tracks’ audio offline. Like its predecessor (but unlike most other plug‑ins) this one doesn’t operate in real time. They offer a wide range of useful processing and utility plug‑ins, and their products demonstrate an ingenious knack for solving annoying technical problems - in my experience, they usually save time, improve the end result, or both. I’m always interested in trying out new software by Sound Radix.
