Adaptive Limiting.
Unlike conventional single or multi-band limiters, our adaptive limiters use our unique, Emmy® winning algorithm called CEDAR Spectral Limiting.
Instead of being limited to processing in one or more discrete frequency bands, CEDAR Spectral Limiting calculates continuously varying EQ profiles across the three dimensions of frequency, level and time.
This enables it to approach the signal as a whole without crossover filter issues that can result in phase errors and distortion, yielding unprecedented transparency and musicality...
..and this means that our limiters provide beautifully transparent, precise and highly musical limiting that retains the integrity and depth of your audio soundstage.
Adaptive Limiter 2 or APEX?
Here we will highlight the similarities and differences between our two Adaptive Limiters, helping you to decide which one best suits your needs.
What do they have in common?
Spectral and Temporal controls lie at the heart of both limiters and can be dialled in to taste. These very much decide the ‘flavour’ of the sound.
Prior to this, simply pushing signal into either limiter will give you beautiful, musical results.
SPECTRAL CONTROL
Both Adaptive Limiter 2 and APEX have a Spectral control at their core. This lets you choose the degree of targeted attenuation that the algorithm is applying to your input signal.
Low
If we turn it all the way to the left, adjacent frequencies are attenuated together more often, enabling the limiter to behave almost like a single-band limiter, applying a more uniform gain-reduction which sounds great for ‘gluing’ a mix together.
High
If we turn it all the way to the right, the limiter can apply different, frequency-specific attenuation with absolute precision across the frequency spectrum, sculpting the perfect spectral response for your audio.
The limiter is free to attenuate where it best sees fit, preserving a clean sound, targeting peaks with precision and preserving the integrity of your audio with no unwanted artefacts or audible pumping.
TEMPORAL CONTROLS
The temporal controls change how the algorithm adapts in the temporal domain.
Experiment with both and dial in to taste!
Key differences between APEX and Adaptive Limiter 2
Apex also features a Link control that lets you choose the degree to which the left and right channels influence each other's limiting, anywhere from completely independent to fully linked.
So which one is right for you?
- Mixing & Mastering
- Superb transient clarity
- Superb precision and transparency
- In track limiting
- The ultimate mastering tool
- Control the soundstage
- Ultimate precision, ultimate transparency
- Enhanced transient clarity
- Finalising
