Nota Ceiling
Nota Ceiling makes a track or a master loud without ever going over: nothing passes the Ceiling. It also measures loudness the way streaming services do, so you can tell whether a master is ready to deliver without another plug-in.
Signal flow: Gain drives the signal into the ceiling; a look-ahead lets the gain duck before each peak arrives; release recovers; a final safety clip guarantees no sample passes.
Limiting
Section titled “Limiting”| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Gain | Drives into the limiter — louder means more limiting |
| Ceiling | The maximum output level — drag it on the Level graph |
| Release · auto release | How fast it recovers; auto slows as the reduction deepens |
| Character | Clean, Punch or Glue (with a soft clip) |
| Look | Look-ahead time |
| Link | From a glued centre to independent channels |
| True Peak | Measures inter-sample peaks too, so a DAC or a codec never clips |
| SC HP | Keeps the lows out of the detector, so the bass stops pumping the mix |
| Delta | Hear what the limiter takes away |
The detector can also listen to another track (Internal or the device’s sidechain source).
The graphs
Section titled “The graphs”| Tab | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Level | Input, the part over the ceiling and the output over 4 seconds, with the reduction under it |
| Reduction | The reduction and the transients that reached the clip |
| Loudness | Momentary, short-term and integrated loudness over 60 seconds around the Target — drag it |
Meters
Section titled “Meters”LUFS-M, LUFS-S, LUFS-I (integrated), loudness range (LRA), true peak and PLR, against the Target you set.
Presets
Section titled “Presets”32 factory presets: mastering targets (Master Safe, Transparent Safety, Loud Master, Streaming −1, Streaming −14, Apple Music −16, Podcast −16, Broadcast R128 −23, Club Master −8, CD Brickwall, Gentle Master, Vinyl Pre-Master, Bass-Heavy Master, Headroom −6), bus and drums (Drum Punch, Drum Bus, Glue Bus, Mix Bus Glue, Kick Clipper, Snare Crack, 808 Safety), instruments (Vocal Peak Catcher, Guitar Wall, Synth Lead Tamer) and colour (Soft Clip Warmth, Pumping Smash, Brickwall Crush, Lo-Fi Squash, Hear the Squash, Live Zero Latency, Wide Mix Unlinked).