TABAN

A limiter sets a ceiling. TABAN sets a floor. Free, forever · VST3 and AU on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) · VST3 on Windows.

“Taban” is Turkish for floor. A limiter keeps audio from rising above a ceiling; TABAN keeps it from falling below a floor. Raise one fader and the quiet syllables, soft notes and fading tails of a track come up to the level you set, while everything louder passes through untouched.

Never over the floor

The lift is worked out from the level of the very sample it is applied to, so a loud sound arriving after a quiet one is never boosted on its way in: no output sample is louder than the input or the floor, whichever is higher. No lookahead, so no latency.

Silence stays silence

TABAN lifts by at most 24 dB and lets go near silence: the lift fades out between −80 and −96 dBFS, so room tone, dither and the end of a reverb tail are not dragged up. A steady note gets a steady gain, so TABAN adds no distortion to it.

The controls

• FLOOR — OFF (−60) to 0 dBFS. Audio under it is lifted to it; audio above it is left alone. Linear in dB.
• OUTPUT — −12 to +12 dB after the floor.
• IN — Off = bypassed, bit for bit, with a 10 ms crossfade.
• LIFT — Read-out of the lift right now, in dB, with a HOLDING THE FLOOR lamp.
• IN · OUT bars — Levels on the fader’s own scale: the OUT bar stops at the cap.

Get it free

The checkout asks for an e-mail address, no card. The download then appears on your account page.

TABAN manual (PDF)

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