[withinboredom]

I have it master my music. I drop all the stems in a folder, tell it what I want, and off it goes to write a python script specifically for the album. It’s way better than doing it in the DAW, which usually takes me hours (or days in some cases). It can get it to 90% in minutes, only requiring some fine-tuning at the end.

[spamboy]

Wow, could you expand on this? What kind of effects can you get out of it? I’m somewhat skeptical that this could even come close to a proper mastering chain, so I’d be extremely interested to learn more :)

[withinboredom]

Any effect you can imagine. It could probably write a DAW if you wanted it to, but a “one-off” script? Easy. I think the best thing is when I tell it something like “it sounds like there is clipping around the 1:03 mark” it will analyze it, find the sign flip in the processor chain, and apply the fix. It’s much faster at this than me.

Note that there needs to be open source libraries and toolings. It can’t do a Dolby Atmos master, for example. So you still need a DAW.

[spamboy]

That's fascinating. I generally mix in-the-box, so my mixes are close to commercially-ready before mastering, but I've experimented with a few of the "one-click" mastering solutions and they just haven't been it for me (Ozone's presets, Landr, Distrokid.) I've currently been using Logic's transparent mode as a one-click master which has been slightly better, but this sounds really compelling. I generally just want 16-bit 48 KHz masters anyway, so no need for Atmos. I'll have to try this out. Thanks for sharing!