MAAT has announced the release of LINearise, a highly adjustable, versatile, and easy to use redithering tool.
LINearise is our rethinking of redithering; the final link between production and delivery. Offering optional word length reduction and three dither spectra tailored to both analog and digital delivery of assets, LINearise is highly adjustable to help create your own signature “sound.” In addition to TPD and weighted TPD, LINearise features VPD, Variable Probability Density, an exclusive feature that allows you to dial in the dither spectrum anywhere between rectangular and Gaussian distribution.
LINearise is the only redithering product that offers a choice between rounding and truncation even when dither noise isn’t added. As you’d expect, LIN also offers automatic muting and variable bit depth as well as a choice of rounding, truncation or no change to those least significant bits. Noise shaping and dither gain are adjustable so, between all the choices, you can define the perfect low amplitude character for your client’s work.
Dither is a fundamental aspect of today’s DAWs. Although not usually thought of as such, re-dithering is essential DSP (Digital Signal Processing). In the distant past, much of the pioneering research on dither was performed at Bell Labs. According to information theory, you should add a pinch of noise to your digital audio every time you change it to keep it distortion–free and to embed program content in the noise floor. That’s dither. Use it to make your digital audio less…”digital!”
LINearise for Windows and macOS is available for $19 USD at MAAT. It supports VST/VST3, AU and AAX plugin formats.