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M-Leveller is an intelligent event-based volume automation plug-in that delivers consistent levels with unmatched transparency and superhuman precision. It adjusts the gain of audio events right before they occur, ensuring precise control without compromising dynamics or tone.
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Smart Volume Automation, Beyond Human Precision
Save Time with Smart Volume Automation
Manually automating volume in a mix can be time-consuming and inconsistent. M-Leveller streamlines this process with intelligent event-based automation, adjusting levels with precision beyond human capability. It identifies individual notes or phrases and applies seamless adjustments, ensuring a naturally balanced mix without the need for extensive manual editing.
By taking care of volume automation, M-Leveller saves you hours of tedious work while delivering a more polished and consistent sound. Whether used as a primary levelling tool or as a preparation step before further processing, it enhances your workflow and ensures effortless mix balance.
Pre-Compression Levelling for Smoother Dynamics
Compression works best when audio levels are already well-balanced, and that’s where M-Leveller makes a big difference. By evening out volume inconsistencies before compression, it ensures a more stable input signal, allowing compressors to focus on shaping dynamics rather than compensating for sudden level changes.
Since M-Leveller adjusts levels without altering the waveform or tonal balance, it helps compressors work more effectively, preserving transients and ensuring smoother, more natural dynamic control. This results in a cleaner, more controlled mix with improved clarity and consistency.
Transparent Levelling That Preserves Musicality
Applying excessive compression risks flattening the dynamics of a performance, making the audio feel robotic or unnatural. M-Leveller avoids this by adjusting volume before each event while keeping the natural movement of your sound intact.
By ensuring level consistency without over-processing, M-Leveller retains the musicality, expression, and detail of each note. Whether used on vocals, instruments, or full mixes, it allows for precise control while keeping the natural energy of your track alive.
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The key advantages
Automate volume levelling effortlessly, eliminating the need for manual adjustments and saving time in your workflow.
Keep vocals and instruments consistently balanced, ensuring they sit naturally in the mix without sudden level changes.
Smooth out drum dynamics, maintaining energy and impact while keeping the groove tight.
Optimize audio levels before compression, allowing compressors to work more transparently and effectively.
Preserve the natural feel of your performance, ensuring volume consistency without affecting transients or tonal balance.
Prevent sudden peaks on the master bus, reducing the risk of unwanted distortion and keeping your mix clean and controlled.
Key Features
Target
“Target” level is the main control of the plug-in. It sets the desired output peak level for the processed audio in dBFS (decibels relative to full scale).
Noise Floor
“Noise Floor” sets the level below which audio events will not be levelled. Use this control to prevent background noise, bleed, breaths, etc. from being level-matched to the rest of the audio.
The input waveform display can be used to visually set the “Noise Floor” level to keep the unwanted audio events below, and the meaningful events above.
Display Range
“Display Range” controls the range of levels shown on the waveform display. The maximum level is fixed to +3 dBFS, while the minimum level can be set to -48, -36, -24, or -16 dBFS.
Waveform/diff Display
“Waveform display” visually presents the history of the input and output levels for the past 2 seconds. The left half of the display shows the input levels in blue, while the right half shows the output in gold.
Speed
“Speed” controls the response speed of the leveller. Internally, it determines how long the events that M-Leveller Mix detects are: at high “Speed” values, the plug-in will level individual notes, percussive hits, etc., while low “Speed” values result in levelling whole musical phrases.
Mix
“Mix” parameter controls how much of the leveller gain is applied to the audio. You can use this control to preserve some of the original level variation of your audio, similarly in principle to parallel compression.
Perceptual Filter Shape
By default, M-Leveller Mix operates based on the peak level of your track. However, peak levels are not always representative of how we perceive the loudness of audio. Human hearing is inherently more sensitive to higher frequencies, and less sensitive to low frequencies. This means that a high frequency noise and a low frequency noise with the same peak level can be perceived as having different loudness by the human ear.
Peak / Filtered
“Peak / Filtered” control of the Perceptual Filter section determines how much of the filter is applied during levelling. At 0%, the plug-in performs levelling purely based on the peak levels. Higher values adjust the M-Leveller Mix sensitivity in accordance with the “Shape” setting to better imitate human perception.
Filter button
“Filter” button allows you to listen to the output of the Perceptual Filter directly. You can use it to help you set the “Shape” frequencies.
Match Sidechain
“Match Sidechain” button enables you to match the level of an external signal, instead of manually setting the “Target” level. To take advantage of this feature, please refer to your DAW manual for information on how to set up the external sidechain input to the plug-in.
Mix Assist
“Mix Assist” button enables the plug-in to capture and analyse the input and intelligently set the processing parameters. M-Leveller Mix will capture 3.5 seconds of audio for the analysis. Make sure to play the busiest part of your track when learning to get the best results.
Output
“Output” parameter controls the amount of clean gain applied to the processed signal.
Gain Adjustment Mode
'Gain Adjustment Mode' option in the main menu of the plug-in allows you to choose whether M-Leveller is allowed to boost (increase level), cut (decrease level), or both to reach the 'Target' level.
A/B Switch
The A/B buttons provide a convenient way to compare different options and find the optimal setting for your audio processing needs. With just a click, you can easily switch between two different versions of the same processing chain and compare the results.
Undo-Redo Options
The M-Leveller plug-in comes equipped with the handy feature of built-in 'Undo' and 'Redo' options, providing added peace of mind while working on your audio processing. With these functions, you can easily revert to previous settings or redo changes that were made in error, saving time and eliminating the stress of potentially losing valuable adjustments.
Scaleable GUI
The interface scaling feature in M-Leveller allows you to customise the size of the GUI to suit your preferences and optimise your workflow. With a range of scaling options available, from 80% to 150%, you can personalise the interface to match your visual and working style.
System
Requirements
Windows
7 and up as 64-bit VST and VST3, and 64-bit AAX (PT11 and up)
Mac OS
10.15 (Catalina) and higher as VST, VST3, AU, and AAX. Intel processors, and Apple Silicon Chips.