Sonnox Oxford Limiter

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Craft stunning masters that deliver maximum loudness, density and presence.

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Description

The Oxford Limiter from Sonnox is a premium audio plugin designed for mastering engineers and producers seeking unmatched control over loudness, transparency, and sonic integrity. This advanced limiter brings out the full impact of your music by ensuring peak levels without distortion or undesirable artifacts, perfect for delivering professional-grade clarity across a wide range of audio formats. With the Oxford Limiter, you can achieve pristine loudness and punch without compromising the dynamics that define your unique sound.

Key features include the acclaimed Enhance function, which subtly boosts the perceived loudness and detail in your mix, preserving clarity while maintaining loudness consistency. It integrates seamlessly with most DAWs, supporting a wide range of plugin formats, making it a versatile choice for any studio setup. Built with Sonnox’s proprietary DSP technology, the Oxford Limiter minimizes CPU usage, allowing you to focus on creating immersive, distortion-free mixes without technical constraints. Ideal for mastering engineers, producers, and audio enthusiasts aiming to elevate their projects, the Oxford Limiter enhances every aspect of your final output, ensuring every note and nuance shines through.

The Limiter That Lets You Go Further

The Limiter That Lets You Go Further
Pushing your mix to the limit can feel risky. You want more loudness, but you don’t want to crush the life out of it. That’s where the Oxford Limiter steps in.

Designed to deliver maximum loudness while preserving your mix’s detail and energy, it lets you go further than you ever thought possible.

Where other limiters crumble under pressure, the Oxford Limiter stands strong. It gives you the confidence to push harder, keeping every hit, kick, and snare punchy and defined.

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What The Pros Think Of Limiter

  • Sound On Sound

    "...a must-have for mastering studios."

  • 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!"

Key Features

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Loudness Without Compromise

You’ve worked hard to perfect the dynamics of your track; the thump of the kick, the snap of the snare, the space and depth in the mix.

The last thing you want is to crush the life out of it at the final stage. With the Oxford Limiter, you don’t have to choose between loudness and life.
Computer screen in music studio

Make Your Music Stand Out with the Enhance Section

The loudness wars may be over, but everyone’s still fighting for that perfect -4 LUFS. In a world where loudness matters, the Enhance section is your secret weapon.

It elevates the perceived loudness of your track, giving your music the punch it needs to stand out, whether it’s streaming, radio, or the club.

The Enhance section pushes your mix beyond conventional limits, adding a final polish without dulling your sound. Your track stays crisp, full of life, and ready to take on any platform.
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Precise Peak Control with Inter-Sample Clipping Protection

The built-in True Peak limiting ensures your masters remain safe from inter-sample overs, a must for streaming platforms and broadcast compliance.

The Enhanced Transient Control keeps fast attacks tight and impactful, maintaining punch and clarity even at aggressive levels.

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FAQs

Oxford Limiter is designed to deliver maximum loudness, density, and presence while keeping your mixes transparent. It lets you achieve competitive levels without compromising clarity or introducing distortion.

Unlike standard limiters, Oxford Limiter uses advanced processing to preserve transients and maintain punch. Its Enhance control increases perceived loudness naturally, ensuring your mixes stay powerful and musical.

Oxford Limiter is ideal for mastering but also works on individual tracks or buses. Use it to add punch to drums, bring vocals forward, or give your entire mix the polished finish it needs to stand out.

Compatibility

  • macOS compatibility
  • Windows compatibility
  • AAX compatibility
  • AAX-DSP compatibility
  • AU compatibility
  • VST3 compatibility
  • iLok Cloud compatibility
  • iLok Machine compatibility
  • iLok Device compatibility

Licencing

    Each Oxford plugin license includes two simultaneous activations.

    With an iLok account, you can authorise each activation on one of the following devices:

  • Local MachineInstall directly on your computer.
  • iLok DeviceRequires an iLok2 or iLok3 USB dongle (latest drivers required).
  • iLok CloudActivation via iLok Cloud requires an active internet connection (only one activation can be assigned to iLok Cloud; the other must be on a Local Machine or iLok Device).

Supported Formats

    Compatible plugin formats for various digital audio workstations (DAWs):

  • Audio Unit (AU)
  • VST3
  • AAX-NativePro Tools 11 or later.
  • AAX-DSPPro Tools Ultimate, Pro Tools HD, or Avid VENUE systems.

Supported Operating Systems

    Our plugins are compatible with the following operating systems:

  • macOSmacOS 10.13 High Sierra or later.
  • WindowsWindows 10 (64-bit) or later.

    • For compatibility with older systems, please contact our support team.

AAX-DSP Instances per chip

    Number of AAX-DSP instances per chip (varies by sample rate):

    Variant
    44.1/48 kHz
    88.2/96 kHz
    176.4/192 kHz
    Mono (full)
    6
    4
    1
    Mono (no recon)
    15
    7
    3
    Stereo (full)
    5
    2
    1
    Stereo (no recon)
    11
    5
    2

Documentation

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