[Case Closed] Is there a way to change default master output plugins?

[ShikiSuen]

@MarcLarcher

Shiki is right about the usefulness of a good compressor in the master fader insert, with a “transparent” setting (as transparent as can be, for classical music). That’s something sound engineers do master, but not every musician. I understand why the team decided to put it there, especially when you consider the sonic quality of HALion, when dynamic balance is carefully expected… It avoids a lot of clipping and helps build a kind of coherence between HALion sounds.
As NotePerformer does perform way better than HALion in that domain, it can be a good idea to bypass or turn the compressor off. Nevertheless, if you hear some clipping, put it back on, with a 1.5 ratio starting at -10dB (that’s the threshold, the fader on the right of the compressor editor window.
And folks, remember that Shiki is Japanese, he might sound a little bit more aggressive that he would
Hope it helps !

Thank you for backing up my point. Also, my nationality (though I am not a Japanese) is not related to this case. I do admit that I wasn’t trained to discuss things nicely in English, and I do apologize for that.

[ShikiSuen]

@Rob Tuley

The “default” parameters I have for the compressor in 2.2.20 are completely different from David Tee’s parameters.

So given a sample of two completely different data points, I wouldn’t like to guess what parameters sound “horrible” to Shiki.

David Tee’s score has the compressor set up to be pretty aggressive, and I agree that doesn’t suit a big romantic orchestra very well. But disabling it completely lets the audio clip on some peaks, so that’s not really a fair comparison either.

My “default” parameters of compressor are also tampered by me following Paul’s suggestions, hence my lack of knowledge.
I will find a time taking a screenshot of what its official default settings are, and give it to you so you can continue testing the project provided above.
(I personally don’t trust you, hence my hesitation of compromising my project to you. Or maybe someone else is a better choice in providing the screenshot, since I don’t see your trust to me. You didn’t read the twitter link I posted above, right?)

Lu Xun / Rojin’s point (through one of his article almost a 80% decade ago is right:

When you feel hot in a room and asking for opening the window, no one gives you a fk; when you suffered enough with this and break the window, everyone stands up and they curse you for your overreaction.