HorNET releases Magnus Brickwall Limiter

I don't need another limiter, but I am curious to see how well the Hornet performs. I use and love most all of the Hornet plugins. I'll wait for the 40% off sale...that happens about every other week.

There is a 32bit version, which is nice to add to my new Harrison mix bus.

I tried the demo and I don't like this one much. It sounds very compressed compared to my other limiters. LimiterNo.6 and Pro-L are my favorites. I use the Concrete limiter on tracks pretty often. LimiterNo.6 is free and still king in my book.

I use LimiterNo.6 for the heavy lifting and then Pro-L for it's metering. Works great.

clintmartin
I tried the demo and I don't like this one much. It sounds very compressed compared to my other limiters. LimiterNo.6 and Pro-L are my favorites. I use the Concrete limiter on tracks pretty often. LimiterNo.6 is free and still king in my book.

Clint,
I just downloaded Limiter No.6 and I have to say, it's pretty cool! I hadn't come across this before. Thanks for the heads up!
 
I tried the Magnus. Meh. 

What do you find is missing in my limiter? I'm open to suggestions since i want to improve my plugs as much as possible, every feedback is more than welcome.
 
Saverio
 

HoRNet
What do you find is missing in my limiter? I'm open to suggestions since i want to improve my plugs as much as possible, every feedback is more than welcome.
 
Saverio
 

I'm going to spend more time with Magnus tonight and be sure I'm not overdriving the clipper. I may even open the manual! Great customer interaction with Hornet...Saverio is quick to respond and make fixes when needed. It's appreciated.

Marketing a new limiter has got to be an uphill battle these days, with such a plethora of great products already out there. Saverio can compete on price against the entrenched big boys - Pro-L, Elephant, Ozone, Sonnox and such. But there is some tough competition in his price range too, e.g. Barricade. And of course, there are the top-notch freebies like Limiter No. 6 and LoudMax. The former also has two-stage limiting with a clipper, plus a compressor, and the latter matches Magnus' simplicity of operation.
 
If I was in his shoes, I'd be looking for ways to distinguish Magnus in that crowded arena. One differentiator is the lack of copy-protection. No dongle, no challenge-response, no license files, no hardware-dependent signature that makes the plugin stop working when you upgrade your motherboard. That, IMO, is the headline.

The idea is in fact to build i a complete set of basic mixing tools and I'm already researching on how to build a good reverb, I'm actually more geared towards an algorithmic solution since i don't like convolution very much as it introduces latency and i really want my plugins to work in realtime as viable digital mixing options (that's why i always use oversample avoiding lookahead buffers for example)
 
Regarding Magnus, i think you are hearing it as non transparent because of the auto-release time i've chosen that is quite fast to be able to reach high RMS levels in electronic music, where pumping is something people are accustomed to, try to use the manual setting with a slow release, it should feel more transparent
 
Saverio

When you turn on oversampling, especially 4x, you are operating on intersample peaks so the gain reduction you are seeing is more because of those peaks
 
Saverio