Sonnox Oxford Limiter Bedienungsanleitung

5.1 UsingPre-ProcesswithouttheEnhanceSection 5 ATTACK TIMINGIn general, very fast attack times will more readily remove extremely fine detail and

6 RELEASE TIMING6 ReleaseTimingThe RELEASEcontrol has a very wide range to accommodatethe maximum possible extent of programmeand production style. T

7 PROGRAMME LIMITING PROCEDURESbecome gentler and less obvious.7 ProgrammeLimitingProceduresThere are many approaches to limiting within current pro

7.2 GeneralGainManagement 7 PROGRAMME LIMITING PROCEDURESSignal after limitingTo achieve this, it is customary to select relatively fast attack and

8 RECONSTRUCTION METERING SECTION8 ReconstructionMeteringSectionAn important fact, which is often overlooked, is that in any discrete time sampling

8.1 ProTools|HDX (AAX DSP) versiononly 8 RECONSTRUCTION METERING SECTIONSince the vast majority of metering within workstation environments respon

8.1 ProTools|HDX (AAX DSP) versiononly 8 RECONSTRUCTION METERING SECTIONwant to, by showing how much over unity your inter-sample peaks are. Reduc

8.2 MeterOperation 8 RECONSTRUCTION METERING SECTION8.2 MeterOperationWhen the RECON METER function is selected, the meter is switchedfrom conventio

8.4 AUTO COMP 9 DITHER AND NOISE SHAPING8.4 AUTO COMPUnder normal circumstances, errors that are often restricted to certain specific events areintersp

9.1 ConventionalDither 9 DITHER AND NOISE SHAPING9.1 ConventionalDitherIn both 24-bit and 16-bit output word length selections, high pass TPDF (Tria

Contents1 Introduction 42 Overview 53 Pre-ProcessSection 64 EnhancementSection 75 AttackTiming 95.1 Using Pre-Process without the Enhance Section .

9.1 ConventionalDither 9 DITHER AND NOISE SHAPINGAs it can be seen, all the harmonic errors have been removed. Also, since the FFT analysismethod pro

9.2 NoiseShapingDither 9 DITHER AND NOISE SHAPING9.2 NoiseShapingDitherIf for some reason SNR figures of 93dB at 16bits (or 143dB at 24bits) prove

9.2 NoiseShapingDither 9 DITHER AND NOISE SHAPINGrequirement.This means the noise level necessarily increases in some ranges of the spectrum. A leve

9.3 NoiseShapingDepthControl 9 DITHER AND NOISE SHAPINGThe Oxford Limiter includes four noise-shaping curves: Types 1 and 3 are fifth order andTypes

9.3 NoiseShapingDepthControl 9 DITHER AND NOISE SHAPING• Increased audibility (unmasking) of various errors that may occur in play-out systemsGener

9.4 AdditionalInformation 9 DITHER AND NOISE SHAPINGshaped dither actually gets to be heard directly, it will often sound quite strange andintrusive

10 DESCRIPTION OF CONTROLS10 DescriptionofControlsThe plug-in’s user interface is divided into three main areas: an Input section, thePre-Process se

10 DESCRIPTION OF CONTROLSoverload indication operatesoninputsignallevelspriortotheLimiterprocessing,regardless of the gain setting, in order

10 DESCRIPTION OF CONTROLSOutputSectionENHANCE faderControls the level of dynamic enhancement from 0 to 125%. In Normal Mode, fullsample value limiti

10 DESCRIPTION OF CONTROLSit changes colour to indicate that these signals are no longer present at the output,and therefore do not represent an actua

12 SuggestedWorkflows 3412.1 Native, Pro Tools LE/TDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3412.2 Workflow with the AAX version .

11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PRO TOOLS AAX NATIVE/DSPProToolsAAX versiononlyReconMeterisTruePeakIndicatorSee Section 8.1.1 for details.Recon

11.1 Dithering 11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PRO TOOLS AAX NATIVE/DSP11.1 DitheringUnlike previous TDM and RTAS versions, the AAX version has the new

11.2 SAFE MODE inCombinationwithDithering11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PRO TOOLS AAX NATIVE/DSP11.2 SAFE MODE inCombinationwithDitheringSAFE MOD

11.4 OutputMeterClipLEDs11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PRO TOOLS AAX NATIVE/DSPWhen AUTO COMP is on in True Peak mode, the clip LEDs will not light.

12 SUGGESTED WORKFLOWShave a particular meaning.12 SuggestedWorkflows12.1 Native, ProToolsLE/TDMA step-by-step guide for three different sounds:Recip

12.1 Native, ProToolsLE/TDM 12 SUGGESTED WORKFLOWSRecipe2–SettinguptheOxfordLimiterfortheLoudestPossibleImpact1. Set Attack and Release

12.2 WorkflowwiththeAAX version 12 SUGGESTED WORKFLOWS12.2 WorkflowwiththeAAX versionPointstoremember• If you enable SAFE MODE, you will never s

13 SPECIFICATIONSits dynamic characteristics remain untouched.) This favours a more dynamicsounding mix at the expense of sounding less loud.Choice3

14 PRESET MANAGER TOOLBAR14 PresetManagerToolbarThe Oxford Limiter plug-in comes equipped with its own onboard Preset Manager, whichis displayed as

16 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS15 SupportedPlatforms• Avid Pro Tools (AAX Native and DSP 32/64-bit)• VST hosts (32/64-bit)• AU hosts (32/64-bit)• Mac Intel OS

1 INTRODUCTION1 IntroductionThe Oxford Limiter plug-in has been developed from decades of professional audioexperience to provide a very high degree o

17 COPYRIGHT AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS17 CopyrightandAcknowledgementsTrademarks and content copyright©2007-present Sonnox®Ltd. All rights reserved.Sonnox

2 OVERVIEWA further function allows the user to dynamically correct for reconstruction overloads inreal time, thereby achieving maximum possible modul

3 PRE-PROCESS SECTION3 Pre-ProcessSectionThe Pre-Process sectionprovides a musical programme levelling function.Its primary purpose is to control pro

4 ENHANCEMENT SECTION4 EnhancementSectionThe purpose of the enhancement processis to provide sample value limiting and overallprogramme loudness impr

4 ENHANCEMENT SECTIONNote:This property enables slower attack times to be used in the Pre-Process section,without creating output overloads, which wou

5 ATTACK TIMING5 AttackTimingThe addition ofan ATTACK timing control is a significant departurefrom conventional limiter applications, andrequires som