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karumba · Post by **karumba** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 11:25 am

OD Limen is a high-frequency acceleration limiter designed for mixing and mastering. Rather than limiting the full signal, Limen isolates and processes only the high-frequency content above a user-defined crossover point:

Depth controls the intensity of the limiting process, from subtle taming to aggressive control.
Crossover sets the split point using a linear-phase filter with adaptive slope for perfect signal reconstruction.
Tilt shapes the spectral balance of what the limiter sees, controlling the focus between low and high frequencies.
Recover preserves your tonal balance – ensuring Limen only affects the dynamics, not the character of your sound. Values above 100% add a silky high-frequency quality that conventional EQ cannot achieve.

Traditional high-frequency limiters rely on a fixed threshold and require careful calibration to match the input level. Limen instead responds to high-frequency acceleration directly, adapting automatically to any input level. The processor features Focus Listen for soloing individual frequency bands, an external sidechain input, configurable keyboard shortcuts, and flexible L/R or M/S channel processing.

Limen is €169. Use discount code LIMEN-RELEASE-PARTY for 25% off all products - valid until April 30, 2026. Existing OD product owners also receive a personal discount based on the number of products owned - check your TDR user account for details.

Limen is available at the Tokyo Dawn Labs store:
https://www.tokyodawn.net/od-limen/

The Demo version includes all features, but parameter settings are not saved within the project.

Big thanks to Fabien & Vlad at Tokyo Dawn Labs and to our beta testers for their support!
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Download SOphist · Post by **Download SOphist** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:00 pm

oh, so this could be the one mentioned by Nil and bManic on the bets limiter thread. interested.

bnz · Post by **bnz** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:09 pm

Thats quite an impressive amount of output of new products lately. Congrats.

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:51 pm

Am I imagining things, or did I see somewhere that Linux was supported?

karumba · Post by **karumba** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 5:15 pm

audiojunkie wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:51 pm Am I imagining things, or did I see somewhere that Linux was supported?

My OD plugins work on Linux, but before a release we need to adapt the surrounding infrastructure - shop, installer, manual, checking which packaging system to use (any recommendations on that?), TDR collector, etc. But it's in the making!

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 5:55 pm

Download SOphist wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:00 pm oh, so this could be the one mentioned by Nil and bManic on the bets limiter thread. interested.

Nope. This is not a brickwall limiter. This is a high frequency limiter, a crazy good one at that!!

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 6:14 pm

karumba wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 5:15 pm
audiojunkie wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:51 pm Am I imagining things, or did I see somewhere that Linux was supported?
My OD plugins work on Linux, but before a release we need to adapt the surrounding infrastructure - shop, installer, manual, checking which packaging system to use (any recommendations on that?), TDR collector, etc. But it's in the making!

As for packaging system, I'd suggest maximizing how many users can use it, while also minimizing your work, by releasing just two formats: a .DEB, compiled on an old LTS version of Debian/Ubuntu, such as Debian 11 (Bullseye), and then take the binaries from that compile, and have a generic release of a simple .ZIP file, along with a .README of manual instructions on where to place the files. This should cover almost all possibilities, because linux libraries are generally backwards compatible. The majority of Linux users are using a Debian or Ubuntu derivative, and most everything else will be using equivalent or newer libraries, and will still be able to make use of the very same binaries. This would mean that you would only have to compile once.

Here's a couple of examples of other developers that do exactly this:

https://thewavewarden.com/pages/odin-2

https://tal-software.com/products/tal-j-8

billinder33 · Post by **billinder33** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 6:29 pm

Is this similar to Schwabe Digital HiFAL?

bnz · Post by **bnz** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 7:40 pm

Looks simpler to use and slap on than HiFAL. Would be interesting to hear some experiences and impressions from someone who has worked with HiFAL more in depth.

pekbro · Post by **pekbro** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 8:32 pm

Nice, if I didn't already have HiFAL...

No_Use · Post by **No_Use** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 8:55 pm

karumba wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 11:25 am high-frequency acceleration limiter

Iow a slew rate limiter?

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 10:22 pm

billinder33 wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 6:29 pm Is this similar to Schwabe Digital HiFAL?

To my ears Limen is far superior.. but do demo them both and see which one you end up preferring.

GNXT · Post by **GNXT** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 11:14 pm

Was struggling with a project and some very annoying details, and this one came for the rescue.
Chef's kiss, problem fixed in a few minutes.
Another great tool from the usual suspects. Sound and the usual GUI nailed again.

Download SOphist · Post by **Download SOphist** » Tue Mar 31, 2026 12:10 am

bmanic wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 5:55 pm
Download SOphist wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:00 pm oh, so this could be the one mentioned by Nil and bManic on the bets limiter thread. interested.
Nope. This is not a brickwall limiter. This is a high frequency limiter, a crazy good one at that!!

seems obvious now that you've pointed out...

Nantho · Post by **Nantho** » Tue Mar 31, 2026 3:21 am

bmanic wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 5:55 pm
Download SOphist wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:00 pm oh, so this could be the one mentioned by Nil and bManic on the bets limiter thread. interested.
Nope. This is not a brickwall limiter. This is a high frequency limiter, a crazy good one at that!!

Man, I don't want to derail this thread and be sure I'll give this plugin a test drive as soon as possible because it looks very interesting, but what is the brickwall limiter you were talking about then ? I've been waiting for it since a million years

Ohlhorst Digital releases Limen