This week’s free plugin is MSED from Voxengo. A utility mid-side plugin which has all the features you need to quickly access mid-side processing, particularly useful when using plugins which don’t already support MS.
What Is Voxengo MSED?
MSED is a professional audio encoder-decoder AAX, AudioUnit, and VST plugin for mid-side processing which is able to encode (split) the incoming stereo signal into two components: mid-side pair, and vice versa: decode mid-side signal pair into stereo signal.
MSED is also able to work in the “inline” mode with the ability to adjust mid and side channels’ gain and panning without the need of using two plugin instances in sequence.
MSED can be used to flip the phase of the mid and side channels by 180 degrees, and swap the stereo channels, and to extract the mid or side channel.
MSED features the “plasma” vector scope, stereo correlation and balance meters which make it easier to monitor the stereo information present in the audio signal.
Voxengo Applications
Mid-side encoder/decoder
Mid-side stereo widener
Stereo imaging
Stereo channels swapper
180-degree channel phase flipper
Stereo correlation and balance meter
Unique “plasma” vector scope
Two Examples Of MSED In Use
How Do I Get Voxengo MSED?
Click the button above to go the the Voxengo website, click download and download the installer.
MSED is available for windows and macOS as a VST, AU and AAX plugin, Apple Silicon compatible.
Julian Rodgers is Editor of Production Expert. He has a background in live sound and has been a Pro Tools user since 2001. He lives by the sea in West Cornwall where he plays piano, bass and guitar equally badly and is an avid collector of microphones and opinions about all things audio.