SOUND RADIX POWAIR Loudness Leveler and Compressor Plug-In

The SOUND RADIX POWAIR Loudness Leveler and Compressor Plug-in was designed to be a smarter, more natural sounding compressor. It’s a dual-stage loudness leveler / compressor / limiter powered by a novel, proprietary compression engine which provides greater transparency and control than ever before.

The first stage is a K-weighted loudness leveler, perfect for leveling a voice-over or auto-adjusting the level of different pieces of music. In its second compression stage, POWAIR uses an innovative gain detection and reduction engine, capable of fast gain changes with minimal distortion and adaptive response to the source.

The unique Punch feature enables full control over the transients’ levels during the attack stage, making it possible to shape the transients’ lengths while keeping peak levels under control.

And in an industry first, POWAIR features Adaptive Compression to maintain an average compression action, adding intensity and glue while keeping the natural dynamics of the recording.

YOU’VE GOT THE POWAIR

Properly aligning microphones makes for an amazing difference in low-end definition and punch. With AUTO-ALIGN alignment takes only a few seconds, where previously it required spending considerable time trying to time-align and figure out phase issues.

TOTAL CREATIVE CONTROL

With innovative features such as Punch and Adaptive Compression, POWAIR offers an extra level of control over transients, enabling you to uniquely shape your sound while fully retaining the dynamics of the original performance.

PERCEIVED LOUDNESS

AUTO-ALIGN detects and compensates for the delay between the microphones or DI box sample-accurately, significantly reducing the comb-filter effect and dramatically improving the resulting sound.

SWEET TOPPINGS

Additional features such as L/R and M/S processing with variable stereo-link, bandpass and bandstop side-chain filter, tempo-synced recovery time, side-chain input and analytic auto-makeup gain complete POWAIR’s comprehensive feature set.

FEATURES:

• Novel, ultra-fast gain detection and reduction compression design
• K-weighted loudness auto-leveler
• Punch enables precise level control of transients during the attack period independent of attack time
• Adaptive Compression enables maintaining average compression for natural performance dynamics
• Machine learning-based perceived loudness auto makeup gain compensation
• Band-pass and band-reject side-chain filter
• External side-chain key input
• Mono, stereo and mid/side operation modes with continuously-variable compression link control
• ITU-R BS.1770.4-compliant LKFS and true-peak output level meters

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Plug-in formats: AAX, Audio Unit, VST, VST3
• Free iLok account and iLok License Manager (iLok USB key is not required)

MAC

• Intel Core 2 CPU
• 4 GB RAM
• macOS 10.7 or higher

WINDOWS

• Intel Core 2 CPU
• 4 GB RAM
• Graphics card supporting OpenGL 2.1
• Windows 7 or higher