Hi Everybody, I have just received an Email about Platinum Notes 3 being released. It got me somehow curious about the program. I checked out the webpage and only found claims like 'It will make your songs acoustically perfect'. Of course I want the best sounding files but I am not sure if it is worth the money.

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I am kind of scared it will all sound like funkymixes with enhanced basslines and obnoxious snares/hi hats. Will it furthermore corrupt Whitelabel files? What are your experiences? Thanks for the input!

I just grabbed a copy to run as a trial version, still testing. I tried a couple of tracks though. Ida Corr vs Fedde Le Grande (Flamemakers Remix) It applied a gain reduction, fixed 650 clipped peaks and adjusted the pitch at 13cents With the waveforms above eachother in ableton the clipped peaks definitely standout as being reduced perfectly. Pitbull- Hotel Room Service (Remix) According to PN it lowered the gain, fixed 12305 clipped peaks, adjusted dynamics and didn't touch the pitch. I'm uploading some cutouts of the test tracks onto soundcloud, in both ones the first part is the original (Record Pool downloads) and then will go to the PN edited version.

Originals are available for download. Quote: So Plat. Notes is meant to be used with already mastered mp3s and not so much to master your own productions, right? It can be used for both.

The ability to easily master my own productions was one of the initial reasons that led me to work for Mixed In Key. However, this is not what the default template is designed for. It is a little counter intuitive, but if I were to use PN to master a track for release I would raise the output volume to give it a better chance of competing against other tracks out there. The version of the track that I would keep in my collection for mixing would be mastered at the level of the default template. Im not really impressed with it, i did a demo with a few files i kept the original files and it created PN files as well. I compared them in quality & previewed them, no fucking difference at all.

It does write keys for all tracks u analyze. Then in serato make sure the key column is checked. From my experience if you set your bpm's in serato it's really no different.

Cool thing is whatever genre you're playing you can search that certain key and all your song files will come up with matching keys. There's a torrent for platinum notes on the net a friend told me. Mixed in Key is awesome and takes mixing to the next level. I used it a few years ago and just downloaded the latest version (it's really fast with multi-core processor support) I'm considering Platinum Notes to normalise my tracks, it looks like a decent, worthwhile DJ tool. Most of my tracks are too loud, so I usually just tweak the quieter ones in the mix, but this would make them all uniform.

But am I missing something with this One Idea thing? Doesn't it look shit?

Maybe it's a case of personal taste but to me it looks like a bad version of ArKaos. 'Oh it looks really cool' What?? The emperors new clothes?? Guys, stick with what you do well and leave the stuff you don't to others. The worst thing that I read here was that: if you produce a home-track, PN can master it for you. Please use google and find out a bit more about mastering, PN has nothing to do with this.

The purpose of the software is to IMPROVE your bad mp3 sounds, adjusting dynamics,volume, pitch and repairing clipping, if PN understands that it's needed to. I've tested with different sort of files and qualities and for old tunnes, degraded mp3s it works fine, many times it really improve your files. But this price is far more expensive than what it really does, that's calculating these parameters and resetting them to a standard level. That's an interesting use of Platinum Notes that ProMusician mentioned, I hadn't thought of using it for that before but it's a great idea. DJMark is right that time stretching and pitch adjustments that preserve the original tempo can leave audio artifacts, but they it's pretty rare to hear any audible artifacts from PN because the adjustments are so small, plus we use the highest quality pitch adjustment that is out there.

If you're still concerned about it though you can turn the pitch correction of or switch it to vinyl style so that the pitch is adjusted by changing the tempo. It's a DJ tool. Not a producers tool. This is a DJ forum built on the premise of a pretty popular piece of DJ gear. Who gives a $h!t if it's a useful tool for producing or not. I paid the $100.