Loudness VST Plugins

Nitro power for your mixes

Truly universal: Disregard the music style. Thanks to the selection of unique algorithms, FireMaximizer can be anything from transparent to brutal. Clippers & saturators will make your modern metal and EDM tracks punchy and aggressive. Limiters will produce nicely transparent sound for any genre, from ambient and classic music to pop. And, well, anything in between.

Pump up your instruments: Although FireMaximizer is primarily intended to be used on the master track, you can use it to power up almost any instrument track too. It’s fantastic on drums, amazing on acoustic or electric guitars, but also outstanding on vocals.

16x oversampling: For maximum precision and smoothness, FireMaximizer offers up to 16x oversampling, alowing its algorithms to operate in way better resolution than an ear can possibly hear (but with a significant impact on the final sound).

Hassle-free software protection: No iLok, no dongle nor internet access is required for activation. Our software uses licence files to activate your software. You can freely use the purchased software on all your computers as long as you are the user.

Realistic 3D yet flexible GUI: The photorealistic graphic user interface of the plugin gives you the feeling you are touching the real hardware. But it easily adapts to your needs. You can always drag the arrow in the bottom right corner to change its size – make it smaller to save valuable screen space, or enlarge it to make it easier to use.

64-bit audio quality at ANY sampling rate: The plugin provides the maximum audio quality you can get. It uses internal 64-bit audio processing and can handle any sampling rate. 192 kHz or even higher.

Smart bypass: The intelligent way our plugins manage bypassing ensures that you don’t get any clicks or harmful noises when automating the parameter. It also compensates for latency ensuring that the bypass states are perfectly in sync with each other.

Intelligent sleep on silence: This plugin intelligently detects whether it makes sense to perform processing at all. And if not, it temporarily turns on sleep mode. In such a state, it requires virtually no CPU at all to save the computing sources for other processes.

IGNITE

Ignite mode allows you to dial in rich harmonic distortion in a dynamic way based on the input signal. Ignite can increase the perceived loudness, power and presence of a channel without the pumping effects of a compressor.

More Features:

• Mid/Side, Left & Right Functionality
• Sharp retina display
• Easy to set up. Gives you total control with a user friendly interface. Interactive tool tips can also be activated for even more information.

This product is an individual plugin related to the Parent Plugin: Animate 

Note: This product is the Surround Sound version. The Stereo version of Bute Loudness Normaliser is also available at ADSR!

Automated loudness normalisation for making those final checks and giving you absolute peace of mind.

The BUTE Normaliser is a high-end standalone application for Windows and Mac, assisting post-production engineers with the final checks of the mastering journey. With our automated solution, you can rest assured your audio is on point before submission in just a few clicks.

Simply Effective

It’s incredibly easy to normaliser your files using our interface:

• 1) Drag in your WAV file.
• 2) Select one of the many presets, or set your custom parameters using our unique system.
• 3) Hit “Analyse” and get an in-depth analysis with alerts to areas that require Bute’s attention.
• 4) Click “Comply” to normalise your audio – the metering graph clearly shows the extent of true peak limiting.

Audiophile Quality

Our advanced metering algorithm has been optimised to deliver superior sound quality and accurate results. The integrated true peak limiter provides absolute transparency and peace of mind that there are no overshoots getting through, whilst still normalising to target. Due to our approach, the relative dynamics of your audio will be affected as little as possible and you’ll be left with consistent, compliant masters of your audio files every single time. This makes it great as a final check for your mastering journey.

Applications

Mixing & Mastering:

• Produce consistent masters
• Avoid ‘level shifting’ and clipping downstream
• Ensure accurate representation of your audio/music

Post-Production & Broadcasting:

• Hit target levels for multiple platforms easily
• Useful when you are facing tight deadlines
• Deliver loudness compliant audio to streaming platforms, where standards are a recommendation rather than a regulation
• Optimise dynamics for streaming content

DJs & Music Producers:

• Hear how your audio will sound on all streaming platforms
• Ensure the levels of all the tracks in your set list are consistent

MAIN FEATURES

Built-In Presets

By boasting a comprehensive range of industry standards and recommendations, the Bute Normaliser ensures that you can tune your productions to the needs of your clients with minimal effort. We will keep these up-to-date and you can create and save your own presets as well.

Bute is fully compliant with all revisions of ITU-R BS. 1770, EBU R128, ATSC A/85, OP-59, ARIB TR-B32, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Check, Hulu, Netflix (including the latest revision), TIDAL, Sony Gaming (ASWG), AES Streaming Recommendation, US Public Radio (PRSS), TIDAL and Pandora.

Alert System

The colour-coded alert system notifies you if there are areas of your audio file that go out-with your desired target. You can see these areas in red on the history timeline. In addition, our custom alert system also allows you to finetune the alerts for all the readouts to your specific needs. These will appear in yellow.

Drag & Drop

Import and export your files with a simple drag & drop. Please note that the BUTE Normaliser only processes one file at a time. If you are looking for Batch Processing, then our server-based enterprise solution is what you are looking for.

High-Speed Processing

We understand that loudness compliance can be a time critical task at the end of a project. Our high speed processing will meter, limit and normalise your audio in record time.

Built-In True Peak Limiter for Peace of Mind

Our novel design approach to the true peak limiter is an industry first, and it provides absolute transparency whilst ensuring no peak will ever go over the threshold. A gain reduction display shows you where and how much the limiter reduced your mix.

Import & Export in Multiple Formats

We support the standard .WAV 42bit 48KHz for broadcasting with all its pull up and pull down variants. In addition, we also support .flac, .mp3, .aiff, and more.

Measurable Parameters

See clearly laid out readings for overall integrated loudness, loudness range, short-term and momentary loudness, RMS and true-peak. These can be toggled on and off, so you only see the information you require.

Flexible and Scalable

We give you the flexibility to adjust and integrate the Normaliser into your current work space. You can minimise it at the click of a button to divert your attention to other things.

Smart loudness metering plugin

Loudness standards are usually part of a delivery specification and since this is the last step in post-production it’s a time-critical issue for most projects. Signum Audio tools help to meet specifications with ease. Even if you don’t need to hit specific specifications you might still want to loudness master for your target platform (e.g. Spotify, or youtube), Signum Audio’s tools help with that as well. The BUTE Loudness Analyser 2 is the backbone of Signum Audio’s range of loudness solutions, and an essential tool for those working in post-production for broadcast, music, gaming, podcasts, film, sound design and radio imaging. It offers high-end quality at great value.

Check out the Surround Version Here!

Bute-ifully crafted for an improved workflow

The BUTE Loudness Analyser 2 has been beautifully designed to deliver unparalleled levels of insight into your audio files with accurate and customisable readings. Advanced features like automatic re-metering, customisable warnings, an interactive navigation overview and window, and reloadable session data. These workflow-driven features make it particularly useful for long-form content.

Master Smarter

With the high precision metering algorithms, you can rest assured that your audio will meet your clients delivery specifications and sound as it should. With its range of useful workflow features, configurable meter readings for short-term and momentary loudness, true peak and traditional RMS, and the latest broadcasting and streaming standards included as presets, Signum Audio’s loudness meter makes your mixing and mastering journey much simpler.

Applications

Mixing & Mastering

• Produce consistent masters
• Avoid ‘level shifting’ and clipping downstream
• Ensure accurate representation of your audio/music
• Measure and refine dynamic content

Post-Production & Broadcasting

• Hit target levels easily with a wide range of implemented presets
• Ensure and prove compliance with regulation
• Balance dialogue, music and effects
• Manage live broadcasting & streaming levels accurately and efficiently
• Optimise dynamics for streaming content

Gaming Audio

• Balance sound effects and dialogue
• ASWG 5.1 and 7.1 Surround Sound support (Surround version)

MAIN FEATURES

• A smart loudness metering tool focused on pro-audio workflows
• Smart history overview for completely interactive browsing of up to 10-hours of loudness data at a glance
• Custom alert system flags up areas that need attention with severe (red) or warning (yellow) pointer on the history overview. User settings can be defined in the settings panel.
• Smart auto re-metering feature which syncs on load-up, and auto-detects and reflects any adjustments you make in the DAW on the graphical display
• Powerful compact read-out view which is completely resizable vertically and horizontally to optimise screen space while keeping readings visible
• Display settings to switch between True Peak/Metering, Relative/Absolute scale, or Max/Live modes
• Highly responsive and informative graphical interface 
• Industry-standard (IEC 60268-18) meter bar fallback for natural, analogue feel
• Auto-detects DAW channel configuration with dropdown menu to select mono, stereo or surround configurations (Surround version)
• Wide array of built-in presets for the very latest loudness standards and recommendations
• Highest quality linear phase upsampling
• Clean and comprehensive read-outs for short-term & momentary loudness, True Peak, and traditional RMS
• Reloadable session data
• Save, Load and Export metering data
• Available in Stereo or Surround version. The Surround version expands support for multi-channel configurations up to Atmos 7.1.2
• Free future updates 

BUTE is fully compliant with up-to-date presets for the following loudness specifications:

• ITU-R BS. 1770, EBU R128, ATSC A/85OP-59, ARIB TR-B32, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Check, Hulu, Netflix, TIDAL, Sony Gaming (ASWG), AES Streaming Recommendation, US Public Radio (PRSS), TIDAL and Pandora. You also have the ability to save multiple user-defined presets.

A unique and powerful Plug-In to increase loudness, without sacrificing sonic quality or dynamic range.

Add power and presence to your mix without the pumping of compression, or use on individual channels to bring them forward and add weight. Perfect to help vocals cut through the mix.

When driven harder, Inflator delivers tube-like musical warmth and provides the ‘sonic glue’ you need to gel your mix together!

The Inflator is a unique process that can provide an increase in the apparent loudness of almost any programme, without obvious loss of quality or audible reduction of dynamic range, yet avoiding damaging increases in the peak level of the signal.

The inflator process can also bring power, presence and warmth to programme material and even provide headroom overload margin above digital maximum with a subtlety and musical character reminiscent of tube systems.

Use the Inflator to produce louder mixes than you thought possible without overloads or compression pumping, or use it to add natural warmth and character to acoustic or jazz mixes.

MAIN FEATURES

• Fully 64-bit compliant
• Adds presence and tube-like warmth
• Increases perceived loudness of any material
• Provides virtual headroom above digital maximum
• Direct and band-split modes

Introducing Insight 2: Intelligent Metering for Music & Post

Insight 2 is a comprehensive metering and audio analysis plug-in that is a core component of award-winning post production studios, music studios, and broadcast facilities. It is perfect for visualizing changes made during mixing and mastering, troubleshooting problematic mixes, monitoring the intelligibility of your dialogue, and ensuring compliance with broadcast loudness standards.

With Insight 2, you can immediately detect potential mix problems through real-time visual monitoring and colour-coded alerts. Customize your view by choosing the meters you want to see, set your preferred targets, and resize the window to fit your current workflow.

You can also route any audio track in your DAW to Insight 2 to quickly check loudness, levels, intelligibility, phase, frequency content, and more.

With layouts and targets for every stage of post and music production, you can deliver the optimum mix the first time around. Save time and money when mixing and mastering audio by monitoring your audio with the highest accuracy. Keep an eye as well as an ear on your mix at all times with Insight 2!

Insight 2 now supports the Netflix loudness spec!

Get Insight Into Any Mix

Get a complete set of meters that can be customized and form fit to any session. Gain valuable perspective on any aspect of your mix, from loudness, intelligibility, spectral balance, and more.

Whether you’re measuring loudness for broadcast compliance, ensuring clear dialogue for film, or managing a complex 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos session, Insight 2 is the metering tool for the job.

Let Your Dialogue Be Heard

Don’t let your dialogue get lost in the mix! Insight 2’s new Intelligibility Meter takes the guesswork out of setting dialogue levels and provides you with a clearer picture of how an audience will experience the dialogue, no matter their listening environment. Mix with confidence using visual benchmarks that confirm your dialogue is sufficiently clear.

Perfect for music and post-production

• Updated look and feel
• Re-designed to be easier to use
• Current loudness standards
• Multichannel support up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2
• Ensure that dialogue is clear in the mix with the Intelligibility Meter
• Resize the meters and window as small or large as wanted
• Colored warnings available for Level meters
• Expanded inter-plugin communication with iZotope Relay

Introducing the Intelligibility Meter

Setting the dialogue level can be subjective and situational. Insight 2’s Intelligibility Meter takes the guesswork out of setting dialogue levels and provides you with a clearer picture of how an audience will experience the dialogue.

You can now measure the intelligibility of your dialogue compared to the rest of the mix to ensure that your dialogue level can be clearly heard in different listening environments. iZotope’s own powerful DSP is used to determine when levels in your mix are preventing the dialogue from being clearly heard.dialogue

NEW STYLE

Updated Look & Feel

Insight 2 has an updated design that matches the rest of the iZotope family. The most important targets have been emphasized to make Insight 2 easier to read at a glance.

Resizing

Now you can easily resize individual meters in the main window by clicking and dragging between two-meter frames. Additionally, the main window can now be resized to be as small as the smallest meter—perfect for throwing your loudness meters up in the corner of your third monitor!

Customize Your Layout

Insight 2 is customizable and flexible for your perfect setup. You can display and resize any meter you want or select one of the many Layouts designed for specific post and music production settings.

NEW FEATURES

Intelligibility Meter

A brand new addition to Insight 2, The Intelligibility Meter provides guidance on whether dialogue is likely to be overshadowed by the loudness of the rest of your mix.

Using iZotope Relay or other compatible plug-ins, Insight 2 takes information from your dialogue track and gives you the best recommendation on where your dialogue should be when compared to the rest of your mix. Select from different target Listening Environments, ranging from low to high noise, to check how the intelligibility of your dialogue holds up for listeners in those spaces. Now it’s even easier to ensure your dialogue tracks are loud and clear on any sound source!

MultiChannel Support
Analyze your audio in surround sound up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2.

Deliver for Today’s Standards
Set your loudness targets for EBU R128, BS.1770-1, BS.1770-2/3/4, ATSC A/85, OP-59, and more.

Sound Field
Analyze the channel spread of your audio in stereo or surround.

Spectogram
The Spectrogram lets you view your audio on a 3d topographical plane.

Custom UI
Display and resize any meter you want and create your own unique workspace.

iZotope Relay: Communicate Across Your Session

Perform detailed analysis by routing audio from any tracks or buses to Insight 2 with Relay. Enjoy the flexibility of using any plug-in while still getting all the benefits of our innovative new tools across your entire mix.

Get a clear picture of how your tracks stack up against your entire mix using the included iZotope Relay plug-in. Any channel with the Relay plug-in on it can be viewed in Intelligibility Meter and on the Spectrogram inside Insight 2, letting you visually compare your track to the rest of the mix.

Relay is also compatible with iZotope’s Visual Mixer plug-in, letting you adjust the levels, pan, and width of your tracks in a visual space.

Important note: Visual Mixer is available seperately in Neutron 2 Advanced and is not included with Insight.

Relay features:

• Inter-plugin communication with compatible iZotope products (Intelligibility Meter, Tonal Balance Control, Masking Meter, Visual Mixer, and more)
• Delay Offset: align multi-mic’d sources and correcting phase issues in your tracks
• Phase Invert: quickly compare and contrast the phase of tracks in your mix
• Sum to Mono: audition your stereo audio data to see how it translates to mono listening formats
• Swap Channels: Switch left and right channels of any stereo track to audition the stereo image and check for balance issues
• High Pass Filter: Clean up and control the sub frequency content in your tracks with a simple High Pass Filter in Relay

Meters in Insight 2
Easily show or hide meters with the meter selection buttons at the top of the screen.

Insight 2 includes meters for:

• Loudness
• Levels
• Sound Field
• History
• Intelligibility
• Spectrum
• Spectrogram

Big Clipper combines a variable clipping algorithm and limiter that gives you the ability to control peaks and increase loudness transparently.

Enabling you to make tracks louder, compression and reverb sound more natural, and overall mixes more cohesive.

Big Clipper is what you get when you take a clipper and inject it with growth hormones, and then add a little extra MSG on top. Clipping is a great way to transparently control the peaks of your tracks. When done subtly, clipping will make compressors and reverb sound more natural down the line, and give your mix an overall cohesive feel.

But clippers have one glaring issue: They really fall apart when you push them too hard. There seems to be a very thin line between adding cohesion and breaking apart into a distorted mess.

That’s where Big Clipper comes in.

Big Clipper gives you the controls to be able to push it hard without breaking apart. Whether you need subtle clipping or heavy overdrive, Big Clipper handles it with ease.

Big Clipper—Just the Facts:

• Combines variable clipping and limiting
• Shape lets you adjust between hard and soft clipping
• Four blend modes control how the limiter and clipper are blended together
• Three-band frequency sensitivity controls how the clipper/limiter responds to different parts of the frequency spectrum
• Toolbar with presets and save, A/B comparison, selectable stereo, and mid-side operation, wet/dry mix, and bypass

Smart loudness metering plugin

Loudness standards are usually part of a delivery specification and since this is the last step in post-production it’s a time-critical issue for most projects. Signum Audio tools help to meet specifications with ease. Even if you don’t need to hit specific specifications you might still want to loudness master for your target platform (e.g. Spotify, or youtube), Signum Audio’s tools help with that as well. The BUTE Loudness Analyser 2 is the backbone of Signum Audio’s range of loudness solutions, and an essential tool for those working in post-production for broadcast, music, gaming, podcasts, film, sound design and radio imaging. It offers high-end quality at great value.

Interested in a leaner, stereo version? Check it out here

Bute-ifully crafted for an improved workflow

The BUTE Loudness Analyser 2 has been beautifully designed to deliver unparalleled levels of insight into your audio files with accurate and customisable readings. Advanced features like automatic re-metering, customisable warnings, an interactive navigation overview and window, and reloadable session data. These workflow-driven features make it particularly useful for long-form content.

Master Smarter

With the high precision metering algorithms, you can rest assured that your audio will meet your clients delivery specifications and sound as it should. With its range of useful workflow features, configurable meter readings for short-term and momentary loudness, true peak and traditional RMS, and the latest broadcasting and streaming standards included as presets, Signum Audio’s loudness meter makes your mixing and mastering journey much simpler.

Applications

Mixing & Mastering

• Produce consistent masters
• Avoid ‘level shifting’ and clipping downstream
• Ensure accurate representation of your audio/music
• Measure and refine dynamic content

Post-Production & Broadcasting

• Hit target levels easily with a wide range of implemented presets
• Ensure and prove compliance with regulation
• Balance dialogue, music and effects
• Manage live broadcasting & streaming levels accurately and efficiently
• Optimise dynamics for streaming content

Gaming Audio

• Balance sound effects and dialogue
• ASWG 5.1 and 7.1 Surround Sound support (Surround version)

MAIN FEATURES

• A smart loudness metering tool focused on pro-audio workflows
• Smart history overview for completely interactive browsing of up to 10-hours of loudness data at a glance
• Custom alert system flags up areas that need attention with severe (red) or warning (yellow) pointer on the history overview. User settings can be defined in the settings panel.
• Smart auto re-metering feature which syncs on load-up, and auto-detects and reflects any adjustments you make in the DAW on the graphical display
• Powerful compact read-out view which is completely resizable vertically and horizontally to optimise screen space while keeping readings visible
• Display settings to switch between True Peak/Metering, Relative/Absolute scale, or Max/Live modes
• Highly responsive and informative graphical interface 
• Industry-standard (IEC 60268-18) meter bar fallback for natural, analogue feel
• Auto-detects DAW channel configuration with dropdown menu to select mono, stereo or surround configurations (Surround version)
• Wide array of built-in presets for the very latest loudness standards and recommendations
• Highest quality linear phase upsampling
• Clean and comprehensive read-outs for short-term & momentary loudness, True Peak, and traditional RMS
• Reloadable session data
• Save, Load and Export metering data
• Available in Stereo or Surround version. The Surround version expands support for multi-channel configurations up to Atmos 7.1.2
• Free future updates 

BUTE is fully compliant with up-to-date presets for the following loudness specifications:

• ITU-R BS. 1770, EBU R128, ATSC A/85OP-59, ARIB TR-B32, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Check, Hulu, Netflix, TIDAL, Sony Gaming (ASWG), AES Streaming Recommendation, US Public Radio (PRSS), TIDAL and Pandora. You also have the ability to save multiple user-defined presets.

BUTE Loudness Suite 2 is a smart, integrated and responsive loudness metering and audio limiting plugin that delivers the tools studios, media and broadcasting producers need to mix and master professional audio within loudness specifications.

What Does BUTE Do?

Many producers are moving towards mixing and mastering within loudness specs set internally or by major streaming and broadcasting platforms for quality assurance. By providing metering and limiting functions in the same plugin with smart workflow features to maintain creative flow, BUTE helps optimise the quality of mixes and masters, while avoiding potential distortions downstream.

Smart, Synchronised Workflow For Broadcasting, Post and Games

Loudness metering tools are ideal for balancing music, dialogue and sound effects whether in stereo or up to Atmos 7.1.2 surround sound. Long-form content is made much easier to deal with using our smart history overview. Get an overview of up to 10-hours of content and navigate to any section of a track with ease using the interactive display. BUTE’s custom alert system will clearly point out areas where there are errors with True Peak overshoots. A wide array of industry-standard presets are included.

Mixing And Mastering With BUTE

BUTE plugins are compatible with VST, AU and AAX (including Audio Suite), so will synchronise harmoniously with almost any DAW. Signum Audio’s smart auto re-metering feature gives instantaneous feedback on how loudness will be affected by changes to the mix so there is no need to re-meter the whole mix. Readings for Absolute/Relative Scale, True Peak/LUFS and Max/Live modes are easy to toggle between from the main display.

Powerful Compact Read-Out View

When screen estate and CPU are at a premium, a compact read-out helps keep things optimised. BUTE is completely resizable. Even while in compact view, easily switch between display settings and tweak limiting configurations, while saving screen estate for other programs.

Stay Faithful To Your Mix

Smooth out peaks by adjusting pre-gain and selecting a preset release curve – Transparent, Natural or Smooth – which have been designed to make gain reduction as un-noticeable as possible. The release time configures automatically based on multiple properties of the input signal, and the dial is used to set the multiplication factor of the calculated release time, enabling fine-tuning. BUTE can also be utilised as a maximiser to push quieter mixes louder whilst taking care of True Peak overshoots. The result? The audio stays faithful to the original sound, whilst fitting the loudness spec of any platform.

Bring Your Music To All Streaming Platform

All the tools in your hand to make your music sound optimal on Spotify, YouTube, TIDAL, Apple Check and more. We regularly update presets and include most platforms. User-defined presets for internal standards can also be created and saved. 

BUTE Loudness Normaliser & BUTE Limiter 2

Audio normalisation becomes a breeze with Signum Audio’s automated solution, BUTE Loudness Normaliser, which comes in addition to the Suite as a standalone application. Perfect for a final check for True Peak overshoots. Simply drag and drop audio files into the standalone application, hit render and then export. Also included is Signum Audio’s well-received BUTE Limiter 2 is a dedicated limiting plugin offering additional “Pumping” and “Linear” curves for creative music production.

MAIN APPLICATIONS

Mixing & Mastering

• Produce consistent masters
• Avoid ‘level shifting’ and clipping downstream
• Ensure accurate representation of your audio/music
• Measure and refine dynamic content

Post-production & Broadcasting

• Hit target levels easily with a wide range of implemented presets
• Ensure and prove compliance with regulation
• Balance dialogue, music and effects
• Manage live broadcasting & streaming levels accurately and efficiently
• Optimise dynamics for streaming content

Game Design

• Balance sound effects and dialogue
• ASWG 5.1 and 7.1 Surround Sound support (Surround Version)

MAIN FEATURES

• Integrated True Peak limiter and loudness metering in one plugin
• Smart history overview for completely interactive browsing of up to 10-hours of loudness data at a glance
• Custom alert system flags up areas that need attention with severe (red) or warning (yellow) pointer on the history overview. User settings can be defined in the settings panel.
• Smart auto re-metering feature which syncs to DAW on load-up, and auto-detects and reflects any adjustments you make in the DAW on the graphical display
• Powerful compact read-out view which is completely resizable vertically and horizontally to optimise screen space while keeping readings visible and limiting settings accessible
• An adaptive auto-release function which can be tweaked by a scale factor using the release knob, enabling fine-tuning
• Ultra-transparent True Peak limiting algorithm means mastered audio stays faithful to the original mix
• 3 different release curves for Transparent, Natural and Smooth limiting (BL2 includes an additional “Pumping” and “Linear” release curves for creative music production)
• Display Settings on the main user interface to switch between True Peak/Metering, Relative/Absolute Scale, or Max/Live modes
• A highly responsive and informative graphical interface
• Auto-detects DAW channel configuration with a dropdown menu to select mono, stereo or surround configurations (Surround version)
• A wide array of built-in presets for the very latest loudness standards and recommendations
• Industry-standard (IEC 60268-18) meter bar fallback for natural, analogue feel
• Clean and comprehensive read-outs for short-term & momentary loudness, True Peak, and traditional RMS
• Reloadable session data
• Save, Load and Export metering data
• Includes additional copies of BUTE Loudness Normaliser standalone application and BUTE Limiter 2 plugin
• Free future updates

BUTE is fully compliant with up-to-date presets for the following loudness specifications:

• ITU-R BS. 1770, EBU R128, ATSC A/85OP-59, ARIB TR-B32, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Check, Hulu, Netflix, TIDAL, Sony Gaming (ASWG), AES Streaming Recommendation, US Public Radio (PRSS), TIDAL and Pandora. You also have the ability to save multiple user-defined presets

MasterCheck immediately reveals how the consumer will hear your productions on todays music platforms. Mix and master to target and the quality of your audio will be assured all the way to the consumer with no nasty surprises after release. Compare and contrast your productions with reference works and learn from the best. MasterCheck gives you the tools to evaluate your work and seize the competitive advantage by producing directly for the playout environment, allowing you to effectively utilise maximum dynamic range without compromising on loudness or risking distortion introduced by mp3 or AAC compression. MasterCheck instantly de-mystifies loudness normalised playout systems, showing you the effect of compression on your audio so you can immediately determine how much is enough and by using loudness matching, exactly what is happening to the transients etc. as the compression increases. Now you can quickly find the point beyond which playout systems kick into effect, putting you back in control of how your productions will sound. Applications

• Audio production to loudness target
• Measuring dynamic content
• Avoiding downstream clipping introduced by compression codecs
• Compare your loudness and dynamics with reference material
• Audition Loudness matched FX chains
• Objectively evaluate compression settings with PLR & loudness matching

Automated loudness normalisation for making those final checks and giving you absolute peace of mind.

The BUTE Normaliser is a high-end standalone application for Windows and Mac, assisting post-production engineers with the final checks of the mastering journey. With our automated solution, you can rest assured your audio is on point before submission in just a few clicks.

Simply Effective

It’s incredibly easy to normaliser your files using our interface:

• 1) Drag in your WAV file.
• 2) Select one of the many presets, or set your custom parameters using our unique system.
• 3) Hit “Analyse” and get an in-depth analysis with alerts to areas that require Bute’s attention.
• 4) Click “Comply” to normalise your audio – the metering graph clearly shows the extent of true peak limiting.

Audiophile Quality

Our advanced metering algorithm has been optimised to deliver superior sound quality and accurate results. The integrated true peak limiter provides absolute transparency and peace of mind that there are no overshoots getting through, whilst still normalising to target. Due to our approach, the relative dynamics of your audio will be affected as little as possible and you’ll be left with consistent, compliant masters of your audio files every single time. This makes it great as a final check for your mastering journey.

Applications

Mixing & Mastering:

• Produce consistent masters
• Avoid ‘level shifting’ and clipping downstream
• Ensure accurate representation of your audio/music

Post-Production & Broadcasting:

• Hit target levels for multiple platforms easily
• Useful when you are facing tight deadlines
• Deliver loudness compliant audio to streaming platforms, where standards are a recommendation rather than a regulation
• Optimise dynamics for streaming content

DJs & Music Producers:

• Hear how your audio will sound on all streaming platforms
• Ensure the levels of all the tracks in your set list are consistent

MAIN FEATURES

Built-In Presets

By boasting a comprehensive range of industry standards and recommendations, the Bute Normaliser ensures that you can tune your productions to the needs of your clients with minimal effort. We will keep these up-to-date and you can create and save your own presets as well.

Bute is fully compliant with all revisions of ITU-R BS. 1770, EBU R128, ATSC A/85, OP-59, ARIB TR-B32, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Check, Hulu, Netflix (including the latest revision), TIDAL, Sony Gaming (ASWG), AES Streaming Recommendation, US Public Radio (PRSS), TIDAL and Pandora.

Alert System

The colour-coded alert system notifies you if there are areas of your audio file that go out-with your desired target. You can see these areas in red on the history timeline. In addition, our custom alert system also allows you to finetune the alerts for all the readouts to your specific needs. These will appear in yellow.

Drag & Drop

Import and export your files with a simple drag & drop. Please note that the BUTE Normaliser only processes one file at a time. If you are looking for Batch Processing, then our server-based enterprise solution is what you are looking for.

High-Speed Processing

We understand that loudness compliance can be a time critical task at the end of a project. Our high speed processing will meter, limit and normalise your audio in record time.

Built-In True Peak Limiter for Peace of Mind

Our novel design approach to the true peak limiter is an industry first, and it provides absolute transparency whilst ensuring no peak will ever go over the threshold. A gain reduction display shows you where and how much the limiter reduced your mix.

Import & Export in Multiple Formats

We support the standard .WAV 42bit 48KHz for broadcasting with all its pull up and pull down variants. In addition, we also support .flac, .mp3, .aiff, and more.

Measurable Parameters

See clearly laid out readings for overall integrated loudness, loudness range, short-term and momentary loudness, RMS and true-peak. These can be toggled on and off, so you only see the information you require.

Flexible and Scalable

We give you the flexibility to adjust and integrate the Normaliser into your current work space. You can minimise it at the click of a button to divert your attention to other things.

Loudness Maximiser

Maximal 3 is a true-peak brickwall limiter, soft clipper, and broadcast standard loudness meter.

Maximal 3 is a loudness maximiser, designed to limit and maximise your track. Featuring both a true-peak brickwall limiter and a variable shape soft clipper, Maximal 3 can increase the overall loudness of your track, without destroying the sonic quality.

The limiter features true-peak lookahead detection, meaning inter-sample peaks will never overshoot and clip. With four different modes, and controls for attack and release, the shape of the limiter can achieve anything from transparent limiting with transient preservation, to warm bus gluing or pumping.

True-Peak Limiting

Maximal 3 features true-peak, lookahead, brickwall limiting. This means that no matter how hard you push it, there will never be any overshoots from intersample peaks.

With four different limiter modes, and attack and release controls, Maximal 3 can be used for anything from clean and transparent loudness maximising, to gluing a bus together.

Variable Soft Clipping

Clipping can be used to shave off rampant peaks before limiting, or used as a creative tool to add a bit of warmth to tracks.

An adjustable curve from hard to soft allows chopping transients or adding saturation to both individual tracks and whole mixes.

Loudness Metering

Maximal 3 features a dedicated loudness metering section, displaying the LUFS and true-peak value of the signal, based on the ITU-R BS.1770-4 specification.

Additionally, you can set the target loudness of the meters to any level, such as for mastering specifically the EBU R128 standard.

Oversampling

To help limit aliasing and catch inter-sample peaks, Maximal 3 offers up to 16x oversampling.

Using linear-phase resampling filters, our high-quality oversampling algorithm cleanly upsamples the signal before applying the limiting, before cleanly bringing the sample rate back to the original.

Speakers is a plugin effect designed to emulate a wide range of loudspeakers and microphones using our state-of-the-art convolution engine.

Shape any sound like it’s being played by an old telephone, radio, or classic cabinet; or shape it like it’s being recorded by a vintage ribbon microphone or even a toy recorder.

Speakers features a freely configurable effects chain, comprising compression, distortion, and filtering, as well as an array of looping background noises for setting the sound in a variety of environments.

Speakers is a zero-latency* post-production dream plugin. No iLok or any other dongle required!

Speakers features:

• 47 speakers: cabinets, devices, phones, radios, speakers, toys
• 30 microphones: condensers, dynamics, phones, ribbons, and more
• 15 distortion/degradation algorithms: from carbon mic overdrive to GSM interference
• 35 background noises: devices, places, organic, and more

EQUALIZERS

Clicking the spanner button at the top left of either panel reveals a five-band EQ – low and high shelves and three parametric bands – for shaping the frequency response of the Microphone and Speaker emulations.

Drag the nodes around to set band frequencies and gains, scroll the mousewheel over a node to tweak the Q, double click to reset the band.

DISTORTION / DEGRADATION

Speakers features 15 distortion and degradation algorithms for post-production and sound design.

Distortion: Carbon Mic, Classic Drive, Diode Clipper, Foldover, Soft Drive, Tape, Valve.

Degradation: Bit Crusher, Clicks, Drops, GSM, Interference, Quantization, Robotization, Telecom.

ROUTING

The Routing panel enables limitless reordering of Speakers’ signal flow. To move a module, simply drag it left or right. The Input module marks the point at which the source signal enters the signal path, disregarding everything to the left. This can be useful for, for example, having the Noise pass through certain modules prior to being joined by the input signal further down the path.

• Rearrange the modules with a simple drag and drop
• Disable a module with CMD or CTRL + Click.
• Change the Input position, make sure the lock is open by clicking on it.

BUTE Loudness Suite 2 is a smart, integrated and responsive loudness metering and audio limiting plugin that delivers the tools studios, media and broadcasting producers need to mix and master professional audio within loudness specifications.

What Does BUTE Do?

Many producers are moving towards mixing and mastering within loudness specs set internally or by major streaming and broadcasting platforms for quality assurance. By providing metering and limiting functions in the same plugin with smart workflow features to maintain creative flow, BUTE helps optimise the quality of mixes and masters, while avoiding potential distortions downstream.

Smart, Synchronised Workflow For Broadcasting, Post and Games

Loudness metering tools are ideal for balancing music, dialogue and sound effects whether in stereo or up to Atmos 7.1.2 surround sound. Long-form content is made much easier to deal with using our smart history overview. Get an overview of up to 10-hours of content and navigate to any section of a track with ease using the interactive display. BUTE’s custom alert system will clearly point out areas where there are errors with True Peak overshoots. A wide array of industry-standard presets are included.

Mixing And Mastering With BUTE

BUTE plugins are compatible with VST, AU and AAX (including Audio Suite), so will synchronise harmoniously with almost any DAW. Signum Audio’s smart auto re-metering feature gives instantaneous feedback on how loudness will be affected by changes to the mix so there is no need to re-meter the whole mix. Readings for Absolute/Relative Scale, True Peak/LUFS and Max/Live modes are easy to toggle between from the main display.

Powerful Compact Read-Out View

When screen estate and CPU are at a premium, a compact read-out helps keep things optimised. BUTE is completely resizable. Even while in compact view, easily switch between display settings and tweak limiting configurations, while saving screen estate for other programs.

Stay Faithful To Your Mix

Smooth out peaks by adjusting pre-gain and selecting a preset release curve – Transparent, Natural or Smooth – which have been designed to make gain reduction as un-noticeable as possible. The release time configures automatically based on multiple properties of the input signal, and the dial is used to set the multiplication factor of the calculated release time, enabling fine-tuning. BUTE can also be utilised as a maximiser to push quieter mixes louder whilst taking care of True Peak overshoots. The result? The audio stays faithful to the original sound, whilst fitting the loudness spec of any platform.

Bring Your Music To All Streaming Platform

All the tools in your hand to make your music sound optimal on Spotify, YouTube, TIDAL, Apple Check and more. We regularly update presets and include most platforms. User-defined presets for internal standards can also be created and saved. 

BUTE Loudness Normaliser & BUTE Limiter 2

Audio normalisation becomes a breeze with Signum Audio’s automated solution, BUTE Loudness Normaliser, which comes in addition to the Suite as a standalone application. Perfect for a final check for True Peak overshoots. Simply drag and drop audio files into the standalone application, hit render and then export. Also included is Signum Audio’s well-received BUTE Limiter 2 is a dedicated limiting plugin offering additional “Pumping” and “Linear” curves for creative music production.

MAIN APPLICATIONS

Mixing & Mastering

• Produce consistent masters
• Avoid ‘level shifting’ and clipping downstream
• Ensure accurate representation of your audio/music
• Measure and refine dynamic content

Post-production & Broadcasting

• Hit target levels easily with a wide range of implemented presets
• Ensure and prove compliance with regulation
• Balance dialogue, music and effects
• Manage live broadcasting & streaming levels accurately and efficiently
• Optimise dynamics for streaming content

Game Design

• Balance sound effects and dialogue
• ASWG 5.1 and 7.1 Surround Sound support (Surround Version)

MAIN FEATURES

• Integrated True Peak limiter and loudness metering in one plugin
• Smart history overview for completely interactive browsing of up to 10-hours of loudness data at a glance
• Custom alert system flags up areas that need attention with severe (red) or warning (yellow) pointer on the history overview. User settings can be defined in the settings panel.
• Smart auto re-metering feature which syncs to DAW on load-up, and auto-detects and reflects any adjustments you make in the DAW on the graphical display
• Powerful compact read-out view which is completely resizable vertically and horizontally to optimise screen space while keeping readings visible and limiting settings accessible
• An adaptive auto-release function which can be tweaked by a scale factor using the release knob, enabling fine-tuning
• Ultra-transparent True Peak limiting algorithm means mastered audio stays faithful to the original mix
• 3 different release curves for Transparent, Natural and Smooth limiting (BL2 includes an additional “Pumping” and “Linear” release curves for creative music production)
• Display Settings on the main user interface to switch between True Peak/Metering, Relative/Absolute Scale, or Max/Live modes
• A highly responsive and informative graphical interface
• Auto-detects DAW channel configuration with a dropdown menu to select mono, stereo or surround configurations (Surround version)
• A wide array of built-in presets for the very latest loudness standards and recommendations
• Industry-standard (IEC 60268-18) meter bar fallback for natural, analogue feel
• Clean and comprehensive read-outs for short-term & momentary loudness, True Peak, and traditional RMS
• Reloadable session data
• Save, Load and Export metering data
• Includes additional copies of BUTE Loudness Normaliser standalone application and BUTE Limiter 2 plugin
• Free future updates

BUTE is fully compliant with up-to-date presets for the following loudness specifications:

• ITU-R BS. 1770, EBU R128, ATSC A/85OP-59, ARIB TR-B32, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Check, Hulu, Netflix, TIDAL, Sony Gaming (ASWG), AES Streaming Recommendation, US Public Radio (PRSS), TIDAL and Pandora. You also have the ability to save multiple user-defined presets

ANIMATE helps you inject life into your mixes in a precise, versatile and colourful way.

With four different movement modes, each with individual frequency assignments and mid/side functionality you’ll get your music jumping out of the speakers precisely how you want.

EXPAND

Expand mode allows you to dial in a pristinely clean sounding upward expansion. This increases the volume of signals over the threshold, giving your audio more dynamic range in a transparent way.

PUNCH

Punch mode enhances the transients of your audio to help them bite through the mix. Whether you want to subtly accentuate the high-frequency transients in the mid-channel of your master or bring out serious smack on an individual channel, Punch can handle the task.

IGNITE

Ignite mode allows you to dial in rich harmonic distortion in a dynamic way based on the input signal. Ignite can increase the perceived loudness, power and presence of a channel without the pumping effects of a compressor.

GROW

Grow mode lets you increase the width of the selected frequencies using a psychoacoustic precedence effect. Grow can be applied in a dynamic way meaning only the signal surpassing the threshold is widened. This along with the frequency selection gives you a new realm of movement to inject into your music.

More Features:

• Filter to isolate processed frequencies
• Mid/Side, Left & Right Functionality
• Sharp retina display
• Easy to set up. Gives you total control with a user friendly interface. Interactive tool tips can also be activated for even more information.

Changes in 1.1

• Offline Activation.
• Separate mode activation (you can buy Expand, Punch, Ignite & Grow individually).
• Loads of new presets.
• Clearer error diagnosis for the user.
• Level-match slider a neutral colour to show that it applies to all modes.
• Bug Fixes.

The filter allows you to isolate which frequencies are processed. The frequencies of the signal will glow giving you a better idea of where to set the bands. The filters have a 24dB/octave slope and are combined with an innovative solution to dramatically minimise phase distortion.

The effects in ANIMATE will most likely increase the volume of your audio. The output slider has a level matching pointer to help you adjust the output gain to match the original perceived loudness of your audio before it passed through ANIMATE’s effects. So, when you bypass ANIMATE you can confidently determine whether your settings have a positive or negative impact on your sound.

Dead. Simple. Clipping

The only way to achieve modern loudness without destroying the punch and impact is with smart, purposeful clipping in the mix. Other clippers on the market are overcomplicated, overpriced, ugly, or all of the above… so we decided to make the clipper every real mixer wants: a dead-simple tool that gets the job done in seconds.

The Most Intuitive Clipper

With simplicity at the core of every plugin we develop, BSAClipper is no exception. This precision mix tool has only two controls, so dialing in an aggressively bold sound has never been easier.

Key Features

• Control the transients and dynamics of your signal via a digital hard clipping algorithm
• The signal from the input gain then feeds into our custom clipping circuit, which removes any transients and signal movements over its set Threshold.
• The Clipping Threshold slider is designed to give you direct visual feedback on the amount of clipping that is happening to your signal.

DSP Manager 2 is a 64-bit standalone software developed to manage loudspeaker systems for studios, concerts, venues, conferences or any other kind of event that requires loudspeaker management or routing audio sources to different listening spaces.

It allows managing complex loudspeakers systems (2-way & 3-way) using a computer, soundcard, MIDI controller and VST/AU plugins instead of a crossover hardware unit.

Main features:

• 4 Stereo Inputs / 4 Stereo Outputs.
• Built-In Brickwall Limiter.
• 4th Order Linkwitz-Riley & 3rd Order Butterworth Crossovers.
• 2-Way & 3-Way Crossover Modes.
• Matrix Mode. Route audio sources to different loudspeaker systems.
• 5-Band Parametric EQ.
• Output Delay Compensation.
• Up to 4 plugins on each output.
• Recording.
• Midi.
• Preset Manager.

What’s new in DSP Manager 2:

• Improved Audio Engine.
• New 4th Order Linkwitz-Riley Crossover Filter.
• New Delay Compensation System.
• New Built-In Recording System.
• New MIDI Assign System.
• Compatibility with the latest Mac & Windows OS, including Apple Silicon ARM.