Oxford Limiter

A One-Of-A-Kind Limiter Plugin

Having crafted and refined your mix, join the growing number of professionals who’ve chosen the Oxford Limiter to deliver maximum loudness, density and presence - whilst retaining the kind of clarity and transient detail that conventional brick-wall limiting can’t.

The Oxford Limiter is a true peak limiter that offers recently enhanced levels of processing and metering accuracy. The result is that you get to see and automatically correct otherwise invisible reconstruction overloads - and conform to the accepted industry ITU-R BS.1770-4 standard.

Whether you’re after the Oxford Limiter's hallmark transparency or heavier creative effects, its advanced look-ahead processing and unique Enhance function provide the sample-value limiting and musical boost needed to reliably avoid clipping and confidently increase apparent loudness.

The price of the v3 Limiter hasn’t changed from that of the original plugin and the upgrade is free to registered users of the Native/HDX Generation 5 (G5) products. If that’s you, then download the new installer here.

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  • Peak limiting with attack, release & variable soft-knee
  • Enhance section to increase perceived loudness 
  • Recon meter shows actual rather than sampled signal 
  • Auto Comp fixes recon errors without losing overall loudness: conforming to the industry's true peak measurement standard (ITU-R BS.1770-4)
  • Audition and apply TPDF dither for 24-bit and 16-bit output word lengths with four types of variable noise shaping
  • Four variable-strength noise shaping modes for use with highly dynamic program material
  • Full backwards compatibility with previous plugin versions
  • Great library of factory presets to get you started
COMPATIBILITY
SPECIFICATIONS
 
  This plug-in offers 2 activations for each product licence you own.
  All licences must be kept on the same iLok account, and each activation will allow you to authorise your Plug-In using either of the following methods:
   
  • iLok USB device. iLok2 / iLok3 required with latest drivers

  • iLok Cloud. Active internet connection required
 

For more information about these choices please click here.
   

 

 

AAX and AAX-DSP
  • Pro Tools 11 and above – AAX DSP/ AAX Native 
  • Approved Pro Tools CPU, OS and hardware configuration: www.avid.com
  • For legacy versions, including 32bit and RTAS support, please contact support
  • iLok2, iLok3 or an iLok account with an active internet connection is required.
 
Audio Units
  • Mac OS X 10.12 or later (Intel or Apple Silicon)
  • iLok2, iLok3 or an iLok account with an active internet connection is required.
 
VST3
  • Mac OS X 10.12 or later (Intel or Apple Silicon)
  • Windows 7 or later
  • iLok2, iLok3 or an iLok account with an active internet connection is required.

 

 

Please see the following support article on general DAW compatibility - General DAW Compatibility

The Sonnox Oxford Limiter is compatible with the following hardware DSP accelerator or consoles:

Pro Tools AAX DSP ✔
Pro Tools TDM -
Avid Venue ✔
Avid S3L ✔
Avid S6L ✔
Universal Audio UAD *
Sold and supported by Universal Audio Inc. (www.uaudio.com)		 ✔
NATIVE
44.1 – 48 kHz:141
88.2 – 96 kHz:227
176.4 – 192 kHz:415
HDX
44.1 – 48 kHz:150
88.2 – 96 kHz:237
176.4 – 192 kHz:425
NATIVE
44.1 – 48 kHz:✔
88.2 – 96 kHz:✔
176.4 – 192 kHz:✔
HDX
44.1 – 48 kHz:✔
88.2 – 96 kHz:✔
176.4 – 192 kHz:✔
 48kHz96kHz192kHz
 DSP TYPEMonoStereoMonoStereoMonoStereo
Limiter FullHDX65421*1*
Limiter NoReconHDX15117532
* Due to processing load restrictions, the Reconstruction meter and Auto compensation options are not available
USER COMMENTS

 

Morgan Page 

"There’s something about the plugin's low end that’s indescribable – it’s totally unique"

 

Stonebridge 

"The Sonnox Oxford Limiter plugin is on everything I do – I can’t live without it!"

REVIEWS
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"...a must-have for mastering studios."
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"...allows high degrees of limiting, while preserving detail."
BUNDLES

The Oxford Limiter is also available in the following money-saving bundles.