The 元’s Separation control adjusts the relative independence of each band to change tone, while the Master Release alters the 元’s ARC (Adaptive Release Control), offering the tonal options of Warm, Scaled, Aggressive and Manual. Each band can also be boosted or attenuated by up to 12 dB in addition to limiting, functioning effectively as a linear phase equalizer placed in front of the limiter.
A unique Priority Control allows control of the relative amount of limiting in each band, providing extensive adjustment of the tonal character of the 元, while also producing classic brick-wall limiting. The PLMixer automatically controls the gain relationship between the bands, eliminating the need for an overall wideband limiter to catch overshoots. The signal then enters the patent-pending Peak Limiter Mixer, which employs psychoacoustics to maximize headroom use.
The 元 Peak Limiter uses a linear-phase crossover with user-definable frequencies to divide the audio into five bands without phase distortion between bands. has introduced the 元 Peak Limiter plug-in, a multiband auto-summing limiter to follow the company’s L1 and L2 limiters.
