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Master Me is a Automatic mastering plugin for live streaming, podcasts and internet radio stations.
master_me is a multi platform, free and open source audio plug-in which optimizes sound in live streaming situations. Introducing no latency, it takes care of master levels and ‘polishes’ the sound with a chain of effects, closely modeled after the audio chain of Klaus Scheuermann’s mastering studio in Berlin, Germany.

Introduction
With the first Covid-19 related lock-downs in 2020, many real-life concerts, conferences and festivals were forced into the digital domain – and sounded pretty crappy.

Having worked for almost 20 years in audio mastering, Berlin based engineer Klaus Scheuermann started to develop master_me – a word fusion of automatic mastering and mini-me – in order to make open source streaming sound better. After a few weeks of learning and development, master_me was first used at the ‘Quarantine Sessions’ – a weekly distributed electro-acoustic improvised concert, hosted at Stanford’s CCRMA Institute.

master_me was developed further to be an easy-to-use tool for all live streaming applications. In 2022 it was funded by the Prototype Fund, an open source software funding initiative by the german ministry of education and research. A stable release is available since September 2022.

Who is master_me for?
master_me is for all live streamers and internet radio stations.

What is mastering:

The term ‘mastering’ usually refers to the last step of sound manipulation in the audio production process. Historically the vinyl master was used to duplicate records. Nowadays a digital master is the file which is being duplicated and distributed to streaming or download platforms.

What is master_me:

master_me is a multi platform, free and open source audio plug-in which optimizes sound in live streaming situations. Introducing no latency, it takes care of master levels and ‘polishes’ the sound with a chain of effects, closely modeled after the audio chain of Klaus Scheuermann’s mastering studio in Berlin, Germany.

Although tempting, it is NOT intended to automatically master your recorded music. Your art deserves closer, offline attention.

Nevertheless, certain modules of master_me can be a valuable tool as part of your music master

System requirements and compatibility:

master_me is available in LV2, VST2, VST3 and CLAP formats for Linux, macOS and Windows, plus JACK Standalone for some systems.

Due to faust and its open architecture, it can possibly be compiled to a vast variety of target platforms not mentioned above.

Quickstart:

After Installation Master Me, load the plugin on the master channel of your streaming software or DAW.

Choose a preset.

Adjust a target-loudness (optional).

Interface:

Handling
Click and drag any parameter vertically or horizontally (except the target slider which only has vertical movement)
Shift + click to reset to default
Ctrl + drag to go slower
Double-click a slider for manual text input

Easy Mode:

The ‘Easy’ mode in Master Me is a very reduced GUI to make master_me an easy-to-use tool for all content creators.

Only two choices can be made: choose a preset and set the desired target loudness

Expert Mode:

Concept:

The main concept of master_me is the combination of a leveler and a chain of dynamics processors.

The leveler can be seen as a big volume knob which you would grab, when the sound is too low or too high for your taste.

The following chain is designed to result in a natural, balanced and consistent sound if it is hit at the right level (->leveler). It will take care of peaks in the audio, like short loud noises and balance the frequency spectrum.

There are some additional modules before the leveler for your convenience.

Signal Flow Master Me:

Pre-processing
Gate
EQ
Leveler
Knee Compressor
Multiband Mid-Side Compressor
Limiter
Brickwall

https://github.com/trummerschlunk/master_me

Master_Me_1.2.0  ( 34 MB )