In my Pro Tools sessions compared to the original Physion, I found many more mixing and creative applications and smoother operation plus the included collection of over 500 well-organized presets are extremely useful starting points for this deep plugin. Go there first to get something happening now!

The resizable GUI zooms in to dial in effects easily and without Structural Split switched on; you have the basic ability to crossfade between two, multi-parameter stereo effect chains using the Focus fader. In fact, this is a good way to get to learn both the transient and the tonal sections.

But with the Structural Split enabled, the real power of Physion Mk II starts by choosing the closest named splitting algorithm for your source audio from a list of 14. Algorithms for Full mixes, Vocals, various Drum kits, Piano/Synths and others prepared Structural Split for the incoming source audio. Once you've decided, and you can change later to experiment, there are three controls to further customize the exact way Structural Split works.

The Focus fader now splits the sound source's energy to drive more or less energy into either the Transient FX and Tonal FX processors --the optimum position is somewhere in the middle of its range. You can further edit by using the Smoothing control to adjust the how fast the split audio is divided between Transient and Tonal. The Trans Decay delays the moment when transients are routed to the tonal side. If I crank up Trans Decay, it can have the affect of choking off attacks very noticeable on drum tracks.

Especially designed effects for the Transient FX include: Delay--tempo locked or not, Tap Delay, Dynamics, a Phaser, Reverb, a Gate + EQ, and the coolest Reverse Delay with gating, Ping-Pong, and crystals modes.

Tonal effects include Delay, Dynamics, Eventide's new polyphonic pitch algorithm, a beautiful Tremolo and a luscious Chorus, Reverb, EQ, and Reverse Delay. The EQ/Filters are taken from SplitEQ and there is a new side-chain input feature for dynamic processing. An external side-chain can be used as a retrigger source instead of the incoming audio. Wow!

Way too much to fit in here and I'm busy exploring it all. So go download a trial and put it on guitars, vocals...pretty much anything! Easily control both the transient and tonal output levels of any sound source in your mix using Eventide's new Physion Mk II. It sells for $179 MSRP and cross-grades are available from the original Physion and SplitEQ.

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