
If your music isn't going to be hitting the airwaves then you might not need to activate the TP button and thus your music will be limited to a lesser degree than if the button is switched on. It sounds confusing but without going into a more detailed tutorial the simple solution is engage the True Peak button if your music is heading for broadcast and Logic will just about do the rest for you! Having said this with true peak engaged it can apply more limiting to ensure no overs occur so only use TP limiting when your music is being prep'd for broadcast. Why is this important? First off clipping isn't good even if you write music that is heavy on the distortion front, but the other reason is that broadcast by law in many countries now dictates that music levels do not exceed a set level and that 'Overs' MUST be kept below the standardised level. This basically means if the True Peak button isn't engaged your mix might still be clipping without you knowing it. The Adaptive Limiter has changed the Inter Sample Peak feature and replaced it with True Peak detection. One thing I have to be careful of in my work is making sure 'true peaks' are not exceeded. This is great and I think has been changed for very important reasons. With an EQ, pre- and post-compression, saturation, and limiter, Ozone packs a huge punch.

Ozone is a mastering suite with everything you need to create a great master. If you’re even a little bit interested in mastering, you’re probably familiar with Ozone. well drop from the plugin and replaced with buttons and dials on the main display area. Ozone 9 Standard (249) bubble-filled-icon. The first thing I noticed was the hidden drop down area had been. Like it's predecessor the plugin has virtually the same features but with a few new additions and tweaks to the functions and interface. The downside is latency occurs and that's one of the reasons why this plugin is generally used when the music and mix is complete. As the Adaptive Limiter 10.2.2 is all about making your mix louder the plugin needs to 'look ahead', this 'lookahead' feature sees coming peaks and the smooths them over. Think of turning up the gain dial on a Marshall amp and that's the general idea of what this limiter does.Ī limiter is typically used to boost the final mix level or the weapon of choice during mastering and is almost always placed at the end of your chain after EQ, compression and anything else you might using.

It's often overlooked in place of more expensive plugins but it's a versatile tool and works by rounding off and smoothing peaks, which is similar to the effect an amplifier has on a signal when driven hard. The Adaptive Limiter is part limiter and part analog model hence the distortion. One thing that's important to understand about the Adaptive Limiter is it's not just a Limiter I've seen many people discuss how the limiter can distort a mix and although I'd never advocate you crank your music beyond the acceptable realms of loudness imparting distortion is part of what this plugin does. With Logic introducing it's newest updates in the last few months I've had a lot of requests to talk about using the Logic Adaptive Limiter 10.2.2 and cover some of the basics of this great plugin.
