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47 F A L L Q 3 I S S U E T E C H still have the original version of it in Pro Tools. Once you see what SoundFlow can do, you start extending that out to other plugins and processes, like AudioSuite processes for iZotope and Sound Radix's Auto-Align Post — the types of process- ing that we do with dialogue all the time," Wales said. Dustin Harris — Directors Guild of Canada award-winning dialogue and music editor at Sound Dogs in Toronto, known for his work on Amazon's "The Expanse" and Netflix's "Locke & Key" — explains that to use Sound Radix Au- to-Align, "you have to open up the plugin, choose an input based on what track you want to be the reference, and then select what tracks you want to process. So I mapped out each step in this process and then made a script that uses my top track always as my reference, and then it processes all of the other tracks to match that. I can make an entire selection of tracks in Pro Tools, hit one quick key, and it aligns all of the tracks to the top track of my selection and then closes the Auto-Align plug-in when it's done." Another go-to dialogue processing plugin for Harris is Todd AO Absentia DX, which he uses for cleaning production dialogue tracks. "If you set up presets in Absentia, like a preset to remove hum, and a preset to remove interference, and so on, then you can use SoundFlow to assign those presets to different buttons on an iPad or Stream Deck, and select them as needed. You don't have to worry about opening the plugin, changing the preset, processing the track, and closing the plugin. One button does all that for you. It's that much faster," said Harris. And SoundFlow isn't just for P ro Tools. Composer/re-recording mixer/ sound designer Michael Keeley, CAS, MPSE, at Sound Striker Post in Los Ange- les — who has composed music for series like "Ancient Aliens," "The Curse of Oak Island," and "Running Wild with Bear Gryllls," and who sound supervised and mixed "NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future" that was recently nominated for outstanding achievement in sound mix- ing by the Cinema Audio Society — uses SoundFlow to trigger actions in other applications. For instance, for DADman (a software application for the DAD AD/ DA converters), he was able to create but- tons to control aspects of that application by plotting the relative position of the XY coordinates for different sections of that app's UI and then using SoundFlow's 'Mouse Click Relative to UI Element' action to create macros. Sound complicated? SoundFlow's Yo u T u b e c h a n n e l h a s a " L e a r n i n g SoundFlow" playlist with 26 short videos SEE PAGE 54 Mike Keeley. Dustin Harris.