![]() ![]() ![]() The Range values and visual display show the dynamic range, with higher values indicating greater differences between the loudest and quietest sections of your audio. Typical targets for streaming services are ‑1.0dB for True Peak and ‑14 LUFS for Integrated loudness but, whatever loudness targets you’re aiming for, SuperVision lets you see if you are hitting them. As well as a True Peak value, you get the three different standard time‑based averages of loudness: Momentary Max, Short‑Term and Integrated, measured over 100ms, three seconds, and the whole playback period, respectively. The exact display can be customised in the Settings window and in the screenshot I’ve selected LUFS and the EBU +18dB display scale (I’ve left all other settings at their defaults). The Loudness module provides a pretty comprehensive numerical and visual summary of the loudness of an audio signal. A number of SuperVision’s modules can help here, but I’ll focus on a combination of two: Loudness and Wavescope (shown above). Precisely how much of this processing (all, some or none) you actually ‘print’ to your final mix is a broader question, but if you’re going to export your mix with the processing in place, it’s helpful to have as much information as possible about the changes that result from this processing. While not everybody is a fan of mix‑bus processing, it’s common practice either to mix into a processing signal chain on your master bus or to add some master‑bus processing in the final stages of a mix EQ, dynamics processing and saturation are all commonly applied. Usefully, you also have the option of resetting a module’s display each time playback commences. Holding Alt/Option while clicking on the Pause or Reset buttons applies the action to all modules in the plug‑in. The ‘cog’ button opens a further options page for the currently selected module (I’ll discuss some examples below), and other useful buttons in this tool strip allow you to pause, hold and reset the values in the current module. You can resize the overall plug‑in window and customised layouts of modules can be saved as presets for instant recall. The two top‑right buttons allow you to split the display of the selected module vertically or horizontally, to add a further module, and you can repeat this process to display up to nine modules in a single instance. However, the tool‑strip at the top includes a drop‑down menu to select from any of the 18 module types. By default, a new instance opens with a single Level module. ![]() In addition, you can also use multiple instances in a project. SuperVision is an insert plug‑in, so you can use it to visualise your audio at any point in a signal chain. I can’t hope to cover its 18 different analysis modules in detail here, but by way of an introduction, I’ll consider how it might help with two common practical mixing tasks: setting your master bus processing and checking for lead vocal masking.įirst, though, I need to go over some basics. This is why it’s helpful when recording, mixing and mastering audio to have good metering options to support your listening‑based decision making, and the Pro and Artist editions of Cubase 11 added a powerful new audio analysis and metering plug‑in: SuperVision. Gavin Herlihy’s ‘Why Your Ears Are Lying To You’ article in SOS May 2021 ( ) was a sobering reminder that you can’t always trust what your ears are telling you. The visual feedback about the changes in the loudness and waveform can help to inform your processing decisions.Ĭubase 11’s new SuperVision plug‑in makes it easier for Pro and Artist users to trust their ears. SuperVision’s Loudness and Wavescope modules, with instances placed before and after the master bus processing chain (top‑right). ![]()
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