New Freeware PC VST Audio Plugin: Ixahe Audio - MyLim

[Ixahe]

I have released a new Freeware PC VST Audio Plugin: Ixahe Audio - MyLim

This is a digital lookahead limiter, using clever DSP, to get virtually optimal brickwall limiting, maximally cpu-optimised.

It is available on Ixahe.com

Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXZdE9B4Vzg

 

[Ixahe]

I also did this video: 5-bus mastering with MyLim - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLV74vrk_qM

 

[Zero D]

Hi, always nice to see free VST plugins However, unless i'm doing something wrong, i found that even with the Threshold set @ -3db i could hear distortion ! Any more than that & it gets really nasty !!

Apart from Thr, what do the other parameters mean & do ?

Is there some way we can demo your paid Plugins ?

 

[Ixahe]

Those are just internal parameters, nobody probably wants to tweak.

You have the standard GUI conrtol Thr, and then LA, which sets the lookahead amount, which is at a very optimal setting. I included the setting if any really wanted lower or higher. Usually they won´t, so I didn´t include it in the GUI. Overfir, sets overfiltering amount, set to 1 which is typically acceptable, since the 1 sample over can typically be clipped for little difference in sound.
Flsob Adj, is a little control I just made for listening tests, for tuning the FIR filter sidelobes a little.
Ignore sets a minimal dB that goes through processing, to avoid denormals and division by zero errors etc.
Splash is the splash screen you get in the gui when clickling the logo

Remember if threshold is at -3dB, output will clip if set to 0dB. Then you need threshold at 0dB.

 

[Zero D]

Thanx for the explanations What about the demo's ?

 

[Ixahe]

I am thinking some youtube videos will probably be good enough. I am just one developer doing this independently and that reduces versions and bother. I hope you will buy them.

Peaceful Greetings.

 

[Ixahe]

Updated this to v1.01 now also. Added a small release, to get a typical sound. You still should use a good compressor before, so that the limiter only processes peaks. (That is how they were designed, before "ultramaximizer" gimmicks )

 

[Ixahe]

Did a very small fix/tuning also. It should be a very nice freeware limiter now.

Download on ixahe.com

Pecaeful Greetings.

 

[Zero D]

Hi, the new version keeps crashing when adjusting some of the other parameters, not Threshold though. ! Also it still sounds awful when limiting more than about -3db. I know you mentioned using with a comp too, but it shouldn't distort that badly at that level.

This doesn't inspire confidence for people to purchase the paid products. And as there are no demo's of them, even less !

Hope you can fix it.

Regards

 

[Ixahe]

This is just a freeware limiter, that doesn´t aim to do any leveling like in other products. So you need to do that yourself.

I am restructuring my website atm, but I can have a look at parameter adjustment bug later. Those parameters were only designed for adjusting things while engineering, so they aren´t really meant to be adjusted. And there are no boundschecks, so it could be only that.

Best Regards.

 

[Ixahe]

Ok, I am in the midst of changing websites, but I got the time to do an update to the limter. It is now called FreeLim, and now does a upper 2dB release, to soften the original hardlimiting of the plugin. It works very nicely here!

http://www.ixahe.com/Downloads/FreeLim.zip

Peaceful Salutations.
Ove Bjørn Karlsen.

 

[Zero D]

Hi, seems a lot better now, & doesn't crash ! Thanx for the update & the Freebie

 

[Ixahe]

I have now changed website, and the limiter is now called Icetea For Buddha Freelim, and available on purebeneficience.net

A fun video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88uvQtTNTsQ

Peaceful Salutations,
Ove Bjørn Karlsen.

 

[Zero D]

Hi, ill check it out. Thanx again