Sonible Smart:Limit serves up AI-powered mastering

PRESS RELEASE — Graz, Austria — Sonible’s latest addition to its AI-powered range of plugins is an intelligent true peak limiter. Smart:Limit offers automatic parametrization, extensive loudness monitoring and a unique set of sound-shaping tools. Additionally, the plugin interactively guides users in finding the right loudness and dynamics for publishing. Smart:Limit is an AI-powered tool that actually makes “set – check – publish” as straightforward as it sounds.
Combining features that belong together
Smart:Limit is all about worry-free limiting: By analyzing the signal’s characteristics and the various influences limiting can have on the sound, the plugin gives users real-time access to all the relevant information about the loudness and dynamics of a track. Newly designed processing and genre-based profiles suggest limiter settings that preserve detail and ensure a mix that can breathe.
Smart:Limit offers effortless control: Its comprehensive loudness monitoring section visually guides users in finding the Sonic Sweet spot for loudness and dynamics while meeting the safe zone requirements for a vast variety of streaming services and loudness standards. The quality check option flags problematic parameters and provides interactive hints for how to tweak them before publishing.
Smart:Limit’s revolutionary Instant Impact Prediction takes reliable loudness monitoring to the next level: every change is reflected in all loudness and dynamics values in real-time without having to repeatedly play back the input signal.

Vibe is in the detail
For fine-tuning tracks, Smart:Limit offers a sound-shaping panel with four unique tools: The style dial lets users determine how aggressively the limiter hits the audio material. The saturation control boosts perceived loudness without increasing the peak level. The balance control – based on Sonible’s AI powered equalizer Smart:EQ 3 – makes it easy to subtly tweak the spectral balance prior to publishing and the frequency-selective bass control lets users effortlessly enhance the low end of a signal.
Alexander Wankhammer, Head of product management and CMO, Sonible:
We started out with Smart:Limit by first breaking down the limiting process, the requirements of norms, the normalization practices of streaming services as well as all the info you need to publish a creation with an intended sound. From that we then developed a tool that is a unique one-stop-shop in the realm of limiters and loudness monitoring.
Smart:Limit – key features

Automatic limiter parametrization in seconds
Extensive loudness monitoring with all relevant information for publishing
Visually guided loudness and dynamics targeting for streaming services, loudness standards, genres
and reference tracks
4 sound-shaping tools for fine-tuning and styling
Instant Impact Prediction for a smooth workflow
Quality check for confident settings adjustment
Distortion display and intelligent auto release

Sonible Smart:Limit is available now for €129 with an intro price of €89 until 10 January 2022. Check your email for a possible additional discount. Smart:Limit requires macOS 10.9 or later and an AU, VST, or AAX plugin host. An iLok account is required, but a USB iLok dongle is optional.
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