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46 C I N E M O N T A G E T E C H plugin, hitting "Reverse" to apply the processing, and then closing the plugin window. There's a SoundFlow macro that does all of that with one keyboard shortcut or press of a Stream Deck or iPad button, if you prefer. SoundFlow scripts can be as simple or as complicated as users want to make t h e m . Fo r ex a m p l e, A n d rew S c h e p s created a downloadable package for Mel- odyne users. Simply select the track(s) you want to work with, and press the pre-made Melodyne Prep button (either on a Stream Deck or iPad). According to Scheps' "Melodyne Helper Movie" on YouTube, this activates a script that will free up the first insert slot on the track(s), insert Melodyne into the first slot(s), activate the transfer function for each track, commit those tracks, get rid of the unnecessary audio/tracks that were gen- erated, and open up the Melodyne plugin window. So you're left with Melodyne on every selected track with all of the audio loaded in, the session cleaned up, and the Melodyne plugin window open and ready to go. All of that happens with one button press. T h e re a re t o n s o f d o w n l o a d a b l e packages, but creating your own mac- ros, scripts, and shortcuts is the most rewarding aspect of SoundFlow. "Every- body does things slightly differently. In Pro Tools, there are sometimes 10 dif- ferent ways to achieve the same thing, and SoundFlow gives you a lot of ways to customize how you want to work. It's not trying to force you into how it wants you to work," said Jonathan Wales, Emmy Award-winning re-recording mixer at WB Sound, known for his mixes on Net- flix's "13 Reasons Why," "The Haunting of Hill House," and director Jordan Peele's film "Get Out." Wales often uses SoundFlow in his dialogue workf low. For instance, he assigned a button on his Stream Deck to send a selected clip to iZotope, apply a specified preset, and then re-import the processed clip back into the Pro Tools track. "I even set up that script to first copy the clip to a safety track so that I Part of the SoundFlow interface. P H O T O : S O U N D F L O W Andrew Scheps created a Melodyne tutorial for YouTube.