Aaron Robinson

These are all great ideas, they just aren’t implemented yet. I’ll put them toward the top of the list of things to do. Thanks for bringing them to my attention.

True, although you can also set the loudness type to RMS or Peak (or True Peak) instead of LUFS. I’ve been thinking about adding some kind of hybrid mode to use both simultaneously. But that’s just an idea so far, haven’t started digging into it. The meter and compressor have different demo songs used. Both are licensed through Audiio. compressor: Philip Dansor - Bloom (Instrumental) meter: Annasara - A Lifetime Rolls By

? LUFS is an industry standard, and fortunately there is an open source and commercially friendly implementation (libebur128). The main motivation behind the compressor was to make use of this in a compressor/expander since RMS and Peak are completely ubiquitous in the industry for those tools yet they don’t take human loudness perception into account. I’ve thought that was a glaring blind spot for the past few years and that ended up being enough motivation to start doing plug-in dev after getting laid off about a year ago at the same time as having some health issues. To be honest, I’m pretty new to audio engineering in general. But I worked on video codecs for a decade and this path felt right. Hoping to improve over time. It’s super exciting to see people start to use the tool and give feedback. Love the criticism as much as the compliments. - Aaron (apu software solo founder)