Mastering Assistant

[Remote Vision]

Greetings all. I am wondering if there is any way to turn off the mastering assistant from showing up (greyed out) on the Output 1+2 channel strip? Whenever I am working on the output, I find myself accidentally clicking that and then having it turn itself on and start to do its analysis. 

It's not the end of the world, but it is annoying. Any way to make it disappear?

[GuyBorlander]

I agree would also like to know a solution 

[Remote Vision]

I can't find a pref or anything to remove it from the output fader. I guess we're forced to have it in the GUI no matter what. 

[David Nahmani]

On 12/2/2023 at 6:56 PM, Remote Vision said:

any way to turn off the mastering assistant from showing up (greyed out) on the Output 1+2 channel strip?

No. That gray "Mastering" slot is just another empty slot, like the Audio FX or MIDI FX slots, and you cannot remove empty slots from channel strips. 

[user01]

Will we see new emulations of mastering assistant presets in the future?

[Remote Vision]

8 hours ago, David Nahmani said:

No. That gray "Mastering" slot is just another empty slot, like the Audio FX or MIDI FX slots, and you cannot remove empty slots from channel strips. 

Hi David. Understood, but when I click on an empty AU or MFX slot, it doesn't launch into a process or open a plugin. It looks like they did alter some behavior in that it doesn't seem to go straight into analysis mode. 

[David Nahmani]

1 minute ago, Remote Vision said:

when I click on an empty AU or MFX slot, it doesn't launch into a process or open a plugin.

Correct. This launches the plug-in like clicking the EQ thumbnail opens a Channel EQ or the Gain reduction meter opens a Compressor. 

2 minutes ago, Remote Vision said:

It looks like they did alter some behavior in that it doesn't seem to go straight into analysis mode.

It goes straight into analysis mode here for me. 

[Remote Vision]

23 hours ago, David Nahmani said:

It goes straight into analysis mode here for me. 

It used to do that here, but now a little dialogue box pops up explaining what mastering is, and once you click through that nonsense, you get to the blank Assistant plugin with the option to hit analyze. You may need to update if you're not seeing that. 

I see here and elsewhere I'm not the only one accidentally clicking in that field. Perhaps Apple will see reason and make some UI adjustments or allow us to use Mastering Asst. like a regular, loadable plugin and get it off the UI. 

Thank you, David, for taking a look into this, I'm going mark this as solved as it seems we're stuck with it for now. Happy holidays!

Edited December 7, 2023 by Remote Vision

[David Nahmani]

6 minutes ago, Remote Vision said:

now a little dialogue box pops up explaining what mastering is, and once you click through that nonsense, you get to the blank Assistant plugin with the option to hit analyze.

That's because your project is empty. 

[Remote Vision]

28 minutes ago, David Nahmani said:

That's because your project is empty. 

Ah. Thanks, David!

[David Nahmani]

15 minutes ago, Remote Vision said:

Ah. Thanks, David!

You're welcome! 🙂