Lively Audio Maxwell is a transparent look-ahead limiter for professional audio production and broadcasting, as well as home audio production. It's the advanced version of our free Maxwell Smart. Maxwell is created with FlowStone, so it's a 32-bit VST 2.4 plugin for Windows only at the moment (although 64-bit support for OS X and Windows are on our roadmap).
Right now Maxwell is in the beta version 0.9, and we're looking for new testers. A free NFR (not for resale) licence is given to all beta testers who give us decent feedback. If you're interested and think you have the time for testing and commenting, please send an email to livelyaudio (dot) mail (at) gmail (dot) com. First of all we want to know details about your computer's CPU, RAM, audio interface / sound card, graphics card, operating system (32 or 64-bit) and VST host program(s) (32 or 64-bit).
We don't want to give a specific price estimation at this point, sorry, but the cost will be fair for a home user as well!
Features:
- Clean look-ahead limiting without audible distortion
- Simple but effective controls for almost any kind of sound adjustment possible with a modern limiter
- ISP detection equivalent to 2x, 4x or 8x oversampling (4x and 8x are compliant with the latest ITU, EBU and ATSC recommendations for true peak detection)
- Smooth, natural and completely transparent phase shift adjustment for obtaining extra headroom by centering peaks
- Level meter bars for input, output and gain reduction (stereo)
- Numeric values for RMS and maximum peak levels of input and output (stereo)
- High quality quantizer and dither (with optional high pass filtering) for 12, 16, 20 or 24 bits
- 10 ms compensated latency
- Support for all sample rates above 22.05kHz
We have our web page under development at the moment. If you have any questions or comments related to Maxwell or Lively Audio, please send them to the email address above or post them here on this topic.
Best regards,
Lively Audio
