Yet you fail to measure your plugin as it quite _literally_ changes the original incoming audio while doing absolutely nothing. Simply inserting it on a track changes the delta when no limiting takes place.Xilentch wrote: Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:01 am These things can be measured using the appropriate analysis software.
They can be observed—and heard—through A/B comparisons, as well as null tests and the resulting THD measurements.
.. and no, you can not measure "transparency" objectively when limiting is happening. That's utter bullshit. You can however do it subjectively and it should be quite clear right away when comparing to the original incoming audio that your limiter is not always doing a good job of that. As you yourself say, with A/B comparisons to the original signal source you should hear virtually no difference at low or moderate limiting when subjectively matching the apparent levels. I highly suggest properly setup double blind tests by a 3rd party, or at the very least proper ABX tests (meaning a minimum of 100 or more takes, over a couple of days, then collect the data.. change tiny things and do it all over again. Rinse and repeat).
If you want to go at it proper hardcore style, you setup an actual oscilloscope post DA converter (even more hardcore, try a few different DA converters) and look at what actually happens to the audio and then try to extrapolate from there and use various psychoacoustic tricks to make things as "subjectively transparent" as possible for as many different types of audio sources/genres you can and make a compromise.
Overall I find your marketing jargon complete bollocks. Sentences like this:
.. make absolutely no sense. A simple envelope follower already does that (unless you specifically decide to "read" things in blocks or overly smoothed or something like that)."Instead, XMLimiter 2 watches and reads your entire signal like a detective — at every single moment.
This atomic-level tracking allowed us to achieve one thing above all else: no sense of dynamic suppression, no stereo narrowing, no transient smearing, no pumping... Just transparent limiting."
This absolutely reeks of intentionally confusing marketing bullshittery and when the actual results aren't superior in performance (in my subjective opinion) to some of the competition, it really doesn't help your case at all. So yeah, don't be surprised when you get called out on this kind of stuff.
.. you can literally NOT null the signal to infinity. It _is_ changing things and you CAN hear that change. If you can not figure this out then how on earth are you expecting people to have any kind of trust in your claims. I'd show you exactly what is wrong and what happens where but I already deleted the plugin and ain't planning on revisiting it. I didn't even bother taking a look at what it does in Plugin Doctor but I did try a very simple polarity flip against the original source without any limiting happening at all.. it didn't null.Xilentch wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2026 9:44 pm That said, there are a few things we'd like to clarify, as they're based on measurable behavior. When XMLimiter 2 is inserted but not actively limiting, it does not alter the signal. It simply can't, because it wasn't designed to do so. We also understand that perception and expectation can sometimes lead to placebo effects.
Are you perhaps using some crappy minimum phase oversampling filters or something? Whatever the case is, something is not working correctly if you yourself believe there's no change in the signal.
.. also there's the noise burst issue. Buggy plugin eh?
