Drive · Ceiling
Loud, honestly
Drive gain into the limiter, set the true-peak ceiling once. PEAK measures the way DACs actually reconstruct, 4× oversampled, so peaks survive your DAW, the codec and the listener's speakers.
Datasheet · True-peak limiterPEAK 3.0 (Beta) · Loudness finisher
Loud where it counts.
Transparent everywhere else.
PEAK finishes your master at the ceiling, keeps the transients breathing, and proves the peaks survive the codec before you ship. A true-peak brickwall for the mix bus and the master.
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Fig. 1 · PEAK 3.0 interface
4× oversampled true-peak detection
AU · VST3 · AAX Mac · VST3 on Windows
CODEC survival proof built in
Δ delta-listen every change
Hear it
Push it, and hear it stay clean.
The idea, live
A ceiling nothing gets past. Not even the codec.
Most limiters guard the sample peak. Your DAC, and every lossy codec, reconstruct a signal that rides higher between the samples, so a bounce that looked safe clips on Spotify. Drag the ceiling. Switch a codec on. Watch the difference.
True-peak limiter · lab
Ceiling-1.0 dBTP
Out true-peak-1.0 dBTP
After codecsafe
-1.0 dBTP
No codec. The gold trace is PEAK holding the output under the ceiling. The dim trace is your raw input.
What's under the hood
One finisher. Every decision it makes, shown to you.
Codec Shield · SURVIVE
Proof it ships clean
Pick a target, Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Tidal, Club, and PEAK encodes ahead of you. SURVIVE hands you a receipt: the exact true-peak your listeners get after AAC, Opus or MP3.
Codec-survival receiptIf You Insist
Loud · Colour · Extra
Need more than clean? A soft/cubic/hard clip stage, an odd-harmonic COLOUR for air, and EXTRA, a single knob that cascades the loudness levers so you push once, not five times.
Match Ref · Drive Cmp
Land on a reference
Drop a reference master and PEAK solves its own knobs on-device so your output measures like it. No reference? DRIVE CMP maps every Drive setting's trade-off in one table.
Transparency
Know what you spent
A live transparency score with the cause named, the band, the moment, the punch you traded for loudness. When you're overcooking it, PEAK says so before the client does.
Delta · Dither
Trust, then verify
Delta-listen every change PEAK makes, silence means perfect transparency. Proper truncation dither for 16 and 24-bit delivery, and A/B/C/D snapshots to compare moves.
Post-limiter forensics
The analysis panel that keeps you honest.
Every limiter claims transparency. PEAK proves it. It scores what the limiter actually did to your master, band by band, then names the exact move that gets the headroom back.
∅Transparency 79% · ΔPSR +0.8 · ISP OK
Fig. 2 · Post-limiter forensics
01
Transparency index
Session-tracked and averaged, with the dominant cause called out by band and frequency.
02
Punch loss per band
See exactly where crest reduction ate the groove: low, mid and high, in dB.
03
ISP & ΔPSR
Codec headroom and punch retained: the two numbers that decide if it survives delivery.
04
Cause callout
The one narrow move that restores headroom, written in plain language, ready to apply.
The details
Specifications
| Type | Transparent true-peak limiter and loudness finisher, with codec-survival proof |
| Detection | 4× oversampled inter-sample true-peak, per-channel, dual-mono topology |
| Loudness | Integrated / short / momentary LUFS, PSR, per-platform delivery targets |
| Colour stage | Soft / cubic / hard clip, odd-harmonic COLOUR, one-knob EXTRA cascade |
| Tools | SURVIVE receipt, MATCH REF solver, DRIVE CMP table, delta-listen, A/B/C/D |
| Delivery | 16 / 24-bit truncation dither, Apple · Spotify · YouTube · Tidal · Amazon · Club presets |
| Formats | macOS AU · VST3 · AAX (universal, Apple Silicon + Intel) · Windows VST3 (x64) |
| Licensing | 14-day free trial, free account. One licence, two activations, deactivate to move machines. Activates online, and needs an internet connection to authorise. |
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