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42 CINEMONTAGE / MAY-JUN 14 Sound Design Suite and SoundToys Native FX," he continues. "On occasion, I'll use PurePitch and PitchDoctor, mainly to alter vocal effects. I also like to use Avid TL Space as a design tool with some of the presets Avid provides. To clean up dialogue or sound effects, I use iZotope RX3 Advanced and, for reverb, I like Altiverb, which has a number of presets that also work as sound-design tools." Sound designer/supervising sound editor Richard King (Mr. Peabody & Sherman, The Dark Knight Rises, Thor), with Warner Bros. Post Facilities, lists Serato Pitch 'n Time Pro, Audio Ease Altiverb 7, Native Instruments Kontakt and Absynth, Elastique Pitch "for its ability to automate pitch and formant changes," a number of GRM Tools plug-ins from Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Waves Doppler and LoAir, plus Avid's "excellent utilitarian tools, like the EQ. Each plug-in solves one little piece of the puzzle, which is how you synthesize sound from raw material, whether the source is recorded sounds or oscillators," he adds. Sound designer/supervising sound editor Todd Toon, MPSE (Planes, Scre4m, Planes: Fire and Rescue), with Formosa Group lists Audio Ease Altiverb 7, Serato Pitch 'n Time, iZotope RX3 Advanced, GRM Pitch Accumulation and GRM Pitch Doppler plug-ins in Pro Tools with an Artist Mix control surface. "Of late, my projects have required more natural and/or organic sound design, so I've returned to the basics: custom recording, layering, pitch shifting and EQ," he states. "In fact, I've been making an effort not to use plug-ins or, at least, to not overuse them. "I prefer to render processing on all of these in editorial, aside from Altiverb, which I will carry to the mix," Toon continues. "Altiverb has amazing presets and is also great for custom impulse responses to enhance any space. Pitch 'n Time is extremely high quality and flexible; I'm constantly impressed by the lack of digital artifacts or audio degradation. RX3 Advanced in stand- alone mode is a valuable tool. When I need heavy-duty processing, Pitch Accumulation has a wide range of parameters. I find myself using Doppler for pretty much anything that moves; the audio quality is fantastic." Sound designer/effects editor Marc Glassman (Blended, Horrible Bosses, Person of Interest) lists SoundToys Native Effects, Serato Pitch 'n Time, LiquidSonics' Reverberate convolution reverb, and Avid AIR plug-ins for Pro Tools with an Avid MC Mix console. "SoundToys has a lot of great parameters already built in, and I like to try unusual settings to get some unusual results. I also use SoundToys Filter Freak and Crystallizer a lot. Pitch 'n Time is terrific; I couldn't work without it. I can draw the pitch or speed of a clip with the mouse while looking at the waveform, and render it very fast; it's a great tool. I like a lot of the AIR plug-ins that come with Pro Tools 11." Sound designer/re-recording mixer Paul Ottosson, MPSE (The Hurt Refuse Lowender. Waves Mondomod. CONTINUED ON PAGE 44 CineMontage_May-Jun_14-3.indd 42 4/15/14 2:56 PM