New RE in the shop: Makeshift Design - Loudness Normalizer

[marcuswitt]

https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/rack ... ormalizer/

• Full-featured loudness meter
• Assisting in audio normalization
• Live signal meter, which supports the scales required by EBU R 128 standard.
• Automatic gain control based on the target limits set by user.
• Start/stop of statistics collection synchronized with the DAW sequencer transport, both in Reason and in the Reason Rack Plugin.
• Histogram plots for Momentary and Short-term Loudness, with color indication of relative gate, meter zero offset and target threshold.
• Measuring of plain VU(RMS) and Sample Peak in addition to Loudness and True Peak.
• True Peak measured with 0.01 dB accuracy.

[PhillipOrdonez]

Nice looking device!

[ohmygoff]

Is there a manual? I'm a bit confused where it meters and where it levels... what do the AGC assign buttons do, for example?

[orthodox]

Is there a manual? I'm a bit confused where it meters and where it levels... what do the AGC assign buttons do, for example?

No manual, sorry.
The AGC buttons enable control of the Auto Gain arrow pointer by the corresponding Target parameter, i.e. when the statistic for that parameter exceeds the target value, the Auto Gain will react by trying to reduce the (recommended) gain so that the limit is not exceeded.
You can later set the Gain fader to that recommended value by clicking the ALIGN button.

[Zac]

Quick question: if I set the true peak loudness to - 1.2db and the integrated LUFS to - 13db will this device automatically adjust the gain after the whole song has played so that the audio adheres to these limits? And if I were to check it with another meter would it be accurate?

If so this would be useful to me

[orthodox]

Quick question: if I set the true peak loudness to - 1.2db and the integrated LUFS to - 13db will this device automatically adjust the gain after the whole song has played so that the audio adheres to these limits?

You will need to press the ALIGN button afterwards to set the gain, and disable statistics collection so it doesn't bother collecting it the second time when you export.
EDIT: There's a video describing this task.

And if I were to check it with another meter would it be accurate?

This of course needs to be checked in each case, but I believe I measure it accurately as the standard requires. I've run all the tests and the results matched.

[Zac]

Quick question: if I set the true peak loudness to - 1.2db and the integrated LUFS to - 13db will this device automatically adjust the gain after the whole song has played so that the audio adheres to these limits?

You will need to press the ALIGN button afterwards to set the gain, and disable statistics collection so it doesn't bother collecting it the second time when you export.
EDIT: There's a video describing this task.

And if I were to check it with another meter would it be accurate?

This of course needs to be checked in each case, but I believe I measure it accurately as the standard requires. I've run all the tests and the results matched.

Thanks, I'll give this a Try on my next song.

[DJMaytag]

Very cool. Insta-buy.

I have some GUI suggestions for future updates though... there's enough room to put a larger meter on this thing, by shifting some of the text to the left of the meter over some more.

[littlejam]

hello,

i grabbed this up, too
such a wonderful RE to see what's going on
and the standards levels is nice, too

it is interesting that the video of a loudness meter is silent
isn't it ironic, don't you think

cheers and eat well,

j

[orthodox]

I have some GUI suggestions for future updates though... there's enough room to put a larger meter on this thing, by shifting some of the text to the left of the meter over some more.

I thought about that, but I can't shift it to the left when the text is replaced by the histogram view.

it is interesting that the video of a loudness meter is silent

That prevents copyright strikes, and the audio doesn't matter here anyway

isn't it ironic, don't you think

...it's a free ride when you've already paid
it's the good advice that you just didn't take...

[motuscott]

Looks great. This beast needs a manual though.

[orthodox]

Looks great. This beast needs a manual though.

Thanks. I'll try to write it.

[DJMaytag]

I thought about that, but I can't shift it to the left when the text is replaced by the histogram view.

Ah, yeah… I see that now. I had that idea just from watching the video, but missed the histogram part. Something to consider for a future update, maybe making it 1 space taller to display more critical information like that?

[ideaB2]

Thanks! A really useful utility. It is now always on the master.
I used to normalize files by volume/LUFS/TruePeak in SoundForge after export. Now immediately in Reason.
I think it would be convenient to add a true peal limiter to cut the peaks and normalize right away.

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