36 lines
1.5 KiB
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36 lines
1.5 KiB
Markdown
# Safety Limiter
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This plugin is a simple tool to prevent ear damage. As soon as there is a peak
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above 0 dBFS or the specified threshold, the plugin will cut over to playing SOS
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in Morse code, gradually fading out again when the input returns back to safe
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levels. Made for personal use during plugin development and intense sound design
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sessions, but maybe you'll find it useful too!
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**Why not use a regular brickwall peak limiter?**
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The downside of doing that is that you may end up mixing or doing sound design
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into that limiter without realizing it. And at that point, you'll probably need
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to either redo part of the process. So this plugin simply gives you a very
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non-subtle heads up instead of altering the sound.
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## Download
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You can download the development binaries for Linux, Windows and macOS from the
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[automated
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builds](https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug/actions/workflows/test.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)
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page. Or if you're not signed in on GitHub, then you can also find the latest nightly
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build [here](https://nightly.link/robbert-vdh/nih-plug/workflows/build/master).
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The macOS version has not been tested and may not work correctly. You may also
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have to [disable Gatekeeper](https://disable-gatekeeper.github.io/) to use the
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VST3 version as Apple has recently made it more difficult to run unsigned code
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on macOS.
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### Building
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After installing [Rust](https://rustup.rs/), you can compile Safety Limiter as
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follows:
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```shell
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cargo xtask bundle safety_limiter --release
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```
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