Limiter

Peak limiter that catches signals above the ceiling to prevent overshoot and clipping on the output. Configurable attack and smoothed release govern how tightly it clamps and recovers, inter-sample (true-peak) detection guards against reconstruction overshoots between samples, and an input makeup drive pushes level into the limiter for loudness. It runs without look-ahead delay, so it stays low-latency at the cost of the fastest transient catches.

Inputs

Audio In

• ID: audio
• Kind: audio
• Rate: audio
• Audio Channel Layout: stereo
• Unit: normalized
• Range: -1 to 1 normalized
• Coercion: Implicit
• Description: Audio signal input
• Default: 0

Outputs

Audio Out

• ID: audio
• Kind: audio
• Rate: audio
• Audio Channel Layout: stereo
• Unit: normalized
• Range: -1 to 1 normalized
• Coercion: Implicit
• Description: Audio signal output

Parameters

Ceiling

• ID: ceilingDb
• Type: float
• Control: slider
• Range or Options: -12 to 0 dB, step 0.1
• Default: -0.3
• Group: Limiter

Attack

• ID: attackMs
• Type: float
• Control: slider
• Range or Options: 0 to 50 ms, step 0.1
• Default: 0
• Group: Limiter
• Description: Gain-reduction onset time. 0 = instant attack.

Release

• ID: releaseMs
• Type: float
• Control: slider
• Range or Options: 1 to 500 ms, step 1, log
• Default: 50
• Group: Limiter

Makeup

• ID: makeupDb
• Type: float
• Control: slider
• Range or Options: -12 to 24 dB, step 0.1
• Default: 0
• Group: Limiter
• Description: Input drive applied before limiting, so the ceiling still holds.

True Peak

• ID: truePeak
• Type: float
• Control: slider
• Range or Options: 0 to 1, step 1
• Default: 1
• Group: Limiter
• Description: Inter-sample peak detection (1 = on, 0 = sample peak).

Notes

• Canonical ID: dyn.limiter
• Category: effects
• Runtime Surface: control
• Runtime Targets: control-main-thread
• JUCE Early Access: Supported
• Early Access Note: Native-supported in the plugin for the current catalog/runtime support contract.