Techivation M-Leveller [WiN]

• Publisher: Techivation
• Product: M-Leveller
• Release: BUBBiX
• Version: 1.0.0
• Format: VST, VST3, AAX
• Requirements: Windows 7 or higher

Stop spending hours meticulously drawing volume automation curves. Eliminate the frustration of inconsistent levels that make your mixes sound uneven. Introducing Techivation M-Leveller, an intelligent event-based volume automation plug-in designed to deliver superhuman precision and unmatched transparency, freeing you to focus on the creative aspects of your production.

M-Leveller isn’t just another leveller; it’s a smart solution built for modern creators. By analysing audio events before they occur, it applies precise gain adjustments seamlessly, ensuring every note, hit, or phrase sits perfectly in your mix without compromising the original dynamics or tonal character of your sound.

Unlock Effortless Consistency: The Power of Smart Automation

Manual volume automation is often a tedious, time-consuming chore. Achieving perfect consistency across a track, especially on dynamic sources like vocals or bass, can feel like an endless battle. M-Leveller revolutionises this process.

Its intelligent engine identifies individual audio events – from sharp percussive hits to sustained vocal notes – and applies the necessary gain adjustments proactively. This preemptive approach results in a level of accuracy and smoothness that’s difficult, if not impossible, to achieve manually.

• Save Precious Time: Drastically reduce the hours spent on manual volume adjustments. Let M-Leveller handle the intricate levelling, freeing you up for mixing, sound design, or songwriting.
• Achieve Unmatched Precision: Go beyond human limitations. M-Leveller’s event-based processing ensures every element is balanced with surgical accuracy.
• Natural, Seamless Results: The adjustments are applied intelligently, avoiding abrupt changes and ensuring the final output sounds balanced and organic, not processed or robotic.

Whether you use it as your primary levelling tool or as a crucial preparation step before compression or other processing, M-Leveller streamlines your workflow and provides a solid foundation for a professional-sounding mix.

The Secret Weapon for Smoother Dynamics: Pre-Compression Levelling

Compressors perform optimally when fed a signal with consistent input levels. Wild fluctuations force the compressor to work overtime, often leading to unwanted artefacts, pumping, or a loss of transient detail.

M-Leveller shines as a pre-compression tool. By expertly evening out volume inconsistencies before the signal hits your compressor, it creates a more stable, predictable input. This allows your compressor to focus purely on shaping the dynamics and character of the sound, rather than just wrestling with erratic levels.

• Enhanced Compressor Performance: Allow your favourite compressors to work more musically and transparently.
• Preserved Transients: By controlling levels without squashing peaks prematurely, M-Leveller helps maintain the punch and impact of drums, vocals, and other dynamic sources.
• Improved Clarity and Control: A more consistent signal path leads to a cleaner, more controlled mix where every element has its place.

Because M-Leveller achieves its levelling purely through gain adjustments without altering the waveform’s core characteristics or tonal balance, the integrity of your audio remains intact, ready for transparent and effective dynamic processing.

Maintain Musicality: Transparency is Key

Over-compression or heavy-handed limiting can easily suck the life out of a performance, flattening dynamics and creating a sound that lacks energy and emotion. M-Leveller is engineered for transparency.

It intelligently adjusts volume around the natural dynamics of your audio. Louder sections are gently tamed, and quieter sections are carefully brought up, all while preserving the essential dynamic range and musical feel of the original performance.

• Retain Natural Energy: Keep the expressive details, subtle nuances, and dynamic movement that make a performance compelling.
• Avoid Over-Processing: Achieve consistent levels without the artefacts associated with excessive compression.
• Versatile Application: Ideal for vocals, bass, guitars, drums, dialogue, or even full mixes – anywhere transparent level control is needed.

M-Leveller lets you achieve polished, professional-level consistency while ensuring the heart and soul of your audio remain untouched.

Key Advantages at a Glance:

• Effortless Automation: Automate volume levelling without tedious manual adjustments.
• Consistent Mix Placement: Ensure vocals and instruments sit perfectly balanced throughout the track.
• Smooth Drum Dynamics: Control drum levels while preserving punch and groove.
• Optimised Compression: Prepare audio for more effective and transparent compression.
• Preserve Natural Feel: Maintain performance dynamics, transients, and tonal balance.
• Master Bus Control: Prevent unexpected peaks and potential distortion on your master output.

Inside M-Leveller: Precision Controls for Perfect Levelling

M-Leveller offers a suite of intuitive controls designed for both speed and flexibility:

• Target: The core control. Set the desired output peak level (in dBFS) that M-Leveller will aim for.
• Noise Floor: Define the threshold below which audio events are ignored. This is crucial for preventing background noise, breaths, or mic bleed from being unintentionally boosted. Use the waveform display to visually set this just above unwanted noise.
• Display Range: Adjust the vertical range of the waveform display (-48, -36, -24, or -16 dBFS minimum) for optimal visual feedback on different types of material.
• Waveform/Diff Display: A clear visual representation of the input (blue, left) and output (gold, right) levels over the last 2 seconds, giving you instant feedback on the processing.
• Speed: Control the detection algorithm’s response time. Higher values target shorter events like individual notes or drum hits, while lower values work on broader musical phrases, allowing you to tailor the levelling character.
• Mix: Dial in the perfect amount of processing. At 100%, the full leveller gain adjustment is applied. Lower values blend the processed signal with the original, preserving more of the initial level variations – similar to parallel processing.

Advanced Features for Sonic Refinement:

• Perceptual Filter: Go beyond simple peak levelling. Human hearing is more sensitive to certain frequencies. This section allows M-Leveller to adjust its sensitivity based on perceptual loudness rather than just peak values.
  • Peak / Filtered: Blend between pure peak detection (0%) and perceptually weighted detection (up to 100%).
  • Shape: Fine-tune the frequency response of the perceptual filter.
  • Filter Button: Audition the filtered signal directly to help accurately set the Shape control.
• Match Sidechain: Automatically set the Target level based on an external sidechain signal. Perfect for matching dialogue levels to a reference track or balancing layered instruments (requires DAW sidechain routing).
• Mix Assist: Let M-Leveller intelligently set key parameters for you. Activate Mix Assist, play the busiest section of your track for about 3.5 seconds, and the plug-in will analyse the audio and suggest optimal settings as a starting point.
• Output: Apply clean make-up gain (+/- 24dB) after the levelling process.
• Gain Adjustment Mode: Choose whether M-Leveller can only boost, only cut, or both boost and cut levels to reach the Target, offering further control over the levelling behaviour.

Workflow Enhancements:

• A/B Switch: Instantly compare two different settings configurations to find the perfect balance.
• Undo/Redo: Easily step back or forward through your adjustments, providing peace of mind during experimentation.
• Scaleable GUI: Adjust the interface size (80% to 150%) to perfectly fit your screen resolution and workflow preferences.

Take Control of Your Levels

M-Leveller isn’t just a tool; it’s a smarter way to work. It delivers the precision, transparency, and efficiency needed to achieve consistently balanced and professional-sounding mixes faster than ever before. Stop wrestling with volume lanes and start shaping your sound.

Experience the effortless power of intelligent levelling. Download and add Techivation M-Leveller to your toolkit today.

System Requirements

• Windows:
  • Windows 7 and later (64-bit only)
  • Formats: VST, VST3 (64-bit), AAX (64-bit, Pro Tools 11 and later)
• Mac OS:
  • macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and later
  • Formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX
  • Processors: Intel and Apple Silicon compatible