AL (Auto Loudness)

JELSTUDIO's "AL" (Auto Loudness)

A family of automatic loudness controllers for Live and OFFLINE use.

(If you buy/own OTTO you get AL for free)

Description:

The AL plugins will automatically and continuously adjust volume-gain to maintain a similar overall perceived-loudness of the audio going through it.

Technically it is a 32/64-bit VST2 audio-effect plugin. It can be used in a Live VST-host (for example with Live stage-performance audio, or with music/TV home-stereo audio), but it can also be used in DAWs and sound/video-editors on Windows to render/export soundtracks (Podcasts, DJ-mixes, TV-show soundtracks, etc) with an even loudness across the entire program.

A few ideas of what AL can be used for: to balance dialog and sound-effects when watching movies, to avoid loud commercials when watching TV-shows, to balance loudness between songs when listening to music, to set loudness on individual tracks in a mixing-session. It can be used on Live broadcasts, or for post-processing.

Some of AL's key-points:

• Zero latency (for Live use or for tracking).
• Inspired by "Recommendation ITU-R BS.1864-0" (See manual for more info).
• Inspired by "Recommendation ITU-R BS.1770-4" (See manual for more info).
• Works on mono and stereo signals.
• GUI layout is optimized for 'peripheral vision overview' (when looking at the center of the GUI; all important displays can be read at a glance with peripheral vision).
• User can choose between several dynamic-range settings (How wide or narrow it should be).