I would like an effect that normalizes audio which has two modes: limiter and relative. Limiter will force the louder audio into a maximum volume. Relative will turn up or turn down audio relative to it's amplitude. A parameter will be it's Max, or it's normalized volume.
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It is planned : At will eventually export through Probe, which has a normalise function.
what about my synthesizers? Or other people's samples? there's no limiter normalizer in probe
"Relative will turn up or turn down audio relative to it's amplitude." That sounds like a compressor.
As jorgi Said, thats compression
well, the compressor is like relative. BUT the relative will start at the loudest part of the sound aand then it will bring it down to the desired limit
no relative is compressor he said
Then I don't understand what you mean. A normaliser only maxes the level of a track based on it's peak point, meaning that if the peak is -2dB it will give it a +1.99dB (depends on settings). Compression is boosting or diminishing signal based on currently playing sound level, a treshold and a ratio of amplification, amplifying or cutting the signal based on what is currently going through it and not analysing the entire audio track. A limiter is an overpowered compressor: it take every sample going above 0dB and takes it back to 0dB without affecting the rest of the mix, it can avoid some clipping at low level, but will mostly result in bad mixing and overcompression at high level, thats the StereoOutput in AT.
So what you might be asking for is a hard compressor (very short attack and release, aka limiter) with a lookahead feature.