ZITA-DPL1(1)

👑 ZITA-DPL1 — digital peak level limiter 💅

okay so bestie, gather round, because we're talking about zita-dpl1 from the General Commands Manual and honestly? she's iconic. 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

zita-dpl1 — a digital peak level limiter, no cap 🎀

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

zita-dpl1 [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

DPL1 is a look-ahead digital peak limiter — like, the kind you'd use as the literal final step so your mix never clips when you're mastering or mixing. but also?? she can absolutely be an effect on individual instrument tracks too. versatile queen. 👑

so about latency, because you know we have to talk about it: it's 1.2 ms, rounded up to the nearest multiple of 8, 16 or 32 samples depending on your sampling frequency. in real numbers that's:

• 56 samples at 44.1 kHz
• 64 samples at 48 kHz
• and twice those values for 88.2 or 96 kHz

fr fr. 🦋

and here's the part that's gonna save your life: in most cases you only need -k number_of_channels, which can be anywhere from 1 to 16. the same gain reduction gets applied to all the channels, so it's giving unity, it's giving consistent, it's giving exactly what you want. 💜

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -k channels — number of channels. that's the one you actually need, bestie.
• -name name — the Jack client name ✨
• -s server — the Jack server name ✨
• -g geometry — window position, for when you need her placed just so 💅
• -h — display this text. short king of an option, honestly.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

there's a quick guide and it lives right here, go read it:

http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/zita-dpl1-doc/quickguide.html

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

zita-dpl1 was written by Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org>. legend behaviour, truly. 🌟

this manual page was written by Dennis Braun <d_braun@kabelmail.de> for the Debian project (but may be used by others — sharing is caring, periodt). 💖

and that's the whole page, babes. zita-dpl1 from Feb 2020, General Commands Manual energy, sourced and dated and everything. go limit some peaks responsibly. mwah. 💋