There's no reason I can think of that it couldn't be automated.
Still, listening helps. There are a lot of compressors and limiters to choose from.
Theoretically, you could set Threshold on the compressor and then it would apply ratio that would be sufficient to get limiting down to 1 dB. Or the other way... you set the ratio and then it would automatically set the threshold to achieve a single dB of limiting.
I am not sure I'd use it if they gave it to us. For example, I tend to adjust gain into the master bus when I'm doing this. That enables me to bring up the soft half of the song a db or so which means less limiting and compression on the hotter half of the song.
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Certainly, it's a reasonable ask to be able to calculate the EBU average loudness of a range of audio with a click (like a fast bounce) rather than having to play it through the meter.
Lots of people have asked for the ability to normalize to an average loudness to support the K-System workflow.
I'm guessing we'll see this within the year. It just isn't that hard to do. It's an easy win.
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post edited by gswitz - 2015/11/14 21:17:08