Description
Overview
MakeBelieve CGII is a professional mastering and loudness processor designed to help engineers achieve competitive levels in the modern music environment without sacrificing sonic integrity. Engineered to provide a transparent increase in volume, CGII allows you to gain level on already loud tracks while simultaneously adding character, ensuring your masters maintain their clarity, density, and low-end heft.
Beyond simple limiting, CGII functions as a comprehensive final-stage processing tool. By integrating advanced density and loudness controls with a high-precision true-peak limiter, it prevents unpleasant distortion and inter-sample overs, making it an essential utility for achieving a polished, commercial sound.
Key Details
- Density Processing: Effectively increases perceived program level by bringing up previously masked details and “bloom” without affecting higher-level peak dynamics or transients.
- Loudness Processing: Provides a transparent increase in RMS level while maintaining peak levels below full-scale, allowing for harmonic excitation and increased presence.
- True-Peak Lookahead Limiter: A transparent limiter that ensures the true-peak level never exceeds the specified ceiling, eliminating inter-sample peaks.
- High-Resolution Oversampling: User-selectable oversampling up to 16x to ensure maximum signal quality and minimize aliasing.
- Integrated Mastering Suite: Includes a built-in DC-block filter to remove residual DC offset and a professional dither section for outputting to 16 through 24-bit resolutions.
- Advanced Metering: Features Nixie Tube readouts for critical values, including LUFS Integrated, LUFS Short Term (or Hold), LUFS Momentary (or Hold), and True Peak (or TP Hold).
- Flexible Interface: Includes an adjustable UI size and the MH Preset Manager for seamless cross-platform preset handling.
Use Cases
- Final Master Chain: Place CGII at the very end of your signal path as a one-stop shop for final loudness, true-peak limiting, dither, and LUFS metering.
- Low-Level Detail Enhancement: Use the Density processor during the mixing stage to raise the clarity of subtle elements without triggering compressors or limiting transients.
- Harmonic Excitation: Utilize the Loudness processor on individual busses or tracks to add harmonic richness and RMS weight.
- Transparent Peak Control: Deploy the lookahead limiter anywhere in your processing chain where transparent peak management is required.
Installation
CGII is delivered as a software download. Installation requires a 64-bit compatible operating system and a valid iLok.com account for authorization. The license includes two activations per account; while an iLok USB dongle is supported, it is optional as the software can be activated via the iLok cloud/machine.
Compatibility
- Supported Operating Systems: Mac OS X 10.10 or newer (Intel or Apple Silicon); Windows 7 or newer (64-bit).
- Plugin Formats: AU, VST2, VST3, AAX.
- DAW/Host Support: Pro Tools 11 and newer (Native) for Mac; Pro Tools 10, 11, 12, and Native for Windows.
- Authorization: iLok.com account required.
Additional Details
- Manufacturer: MakeBelieve
- Platform: macOS, Windows
- Plug-in Formats: AU, VST2, VST3, AAX
- Plug-in Formats: AU, VST3, AAX
- Requirements: 64-bit OS, iLok account
- SKU: 1041-57
- Delivery Format: Download / Digital License
- Supported Operating Systems: macOS 10.10+, Windows 7+
- Supported Operating Systems: macOS 10.10+ (Intel or Apple Silicon), Windows 7+ (64-bit)
- RAM Requirements: 64-bit
- Requirements Source: manufacturer or supplier product documentation (https://www.makebelievestudio.com/plugins/cgii).
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