How To Use YOULEAN LOUDNESS METER 2

How To Use YOULEAN LOUDNESS METER 2

NOTE: If preset has an * in front of its name, that means that the
preset has been edited.

3. Pause measurements - Pause all measurements.
4. Pause integrated and loudness range measurements - All other
   measurements are not paused. It will be indicated in the histogram
   with a white block over the loudness measurements.
5. Auto reset on host play - All measurements will reset after you
   stop and start playback or if you jump a play position in the playlist.
6. Reset all measurements - All measurements will reset
   instantaneously.
7. Hold Max - Shows a maximum of momentary, short-term and true
   peak measurements. Values will change their color to red if the
   threshold is exceeded. You can set custom thresholds in the
   SETTINGS menu.
   ● Click on the value to reset
8. Readouts - Show numerical values for short-term, integrated,
   loudness range, peak to short-term loudness and peak to integrated
   loudness.
9. Readout focus - It helps you to visually focus on the specific
   readout. It can be changed in the VIEW menu.
10. Main meter - Shows momentary loudness.
11. Loudness range - Shows loudness range.
12. Meter triangle - Shows short-term loudness.

1. Loudness distribution - Shows distribution of all loudness
   measurements.
2. Dynamics distribution - Shows distribution of all dynamic range
   measurements.

1. Window Size - Sets the window size that is used in the histogram
   display.
2. Histogram mode
   ● Continuous - Continuously measuring the loudness regardless
   of the state of host playback.
   ● Elapsed - Pauses the measurements if the host pauses the
   playback.
   ● Time Code - Loudness data is stored against the time code
   position. This mode enables the loudness overdub mode.
   ● System Time - Choose this option to select a system clock
   (HH:MM:SS) reference. System time mode will allow events to
   be correlated with the system clock. This mode will be useful
   to track loudness measurements of live events and other
   scheduled programs.
3. Histogram view - Shows or hides short term, momentary or true
   peak values from the histogram.
4. Window control - Shows a macro overview of the histogram
   history stored within the plug-in. The rectangular window shows the
   data currently represented in the history display and can be dragged
   left/right to locate a specific region in the histogram inspector.
   ● Click outside the rectangular window to quickly jump to a region

5. Tracking - This control determines whether the histogram graph
   automatically scrolls, or shows a static view. Click to toggle the auto
   tracking on/off. Tracking will be automatically turned on if you reset
   the data.
6. Loudness - dynamics switch - Select loudness or dynamics
   graphs.
7. Current position - Shows the position where current
   measurements are drawn. It will change its color to red if a value has
   been drawn from an incomplete buffer. It needs to pass 3 seconds for
   the buffer to become complete and to have true loudness
   representation. If the plugin host supports it, you can set a 3 seconds
   pre-roll window to compensate for that. If the current value is from an
   incomplete buffer, it will be inserted only if there are no previous
   measurements from the complete buffer on that position. Values
   from the complete buffer will overwrite all the previous
   measurements.
8. Loudness target - Shows the loudness target that was set in the
   SETTINGS.
9. Incomplete buffer - Marks where the values from the incomplete
   buffer were inserted.
10. Paused - Marks where the measurements for integrated and
    loudness range were paused.

11. True peak above the threshold - Marks where the true peak was
    going over the threshold. A threshold can be changed in the
    SETTINGS.
12. Mouse over - Shows numerical measurements that are in the
    horizontal position of the mouse.
13. Analyze file - Select audio or video file to quickly analyze it.
14. Invert time - It will change time counting direction for Elapsed
    and Continuous histogram mode.

MOUSE CONTROLS ON THE HISTOGRAM GRAPH
● Double click to resume tracking.
● Click and drag left/right to move through the measurements
history.
● Click and drag up/down to move histogram scale.
● Move the scroll wheel to change window size (you might need to
click on the plug-in interface first to get the mouse wheel to
work). If tracking is disabled, moving a mouse wheel will change
the window size relative to a mouse position.
● Hold CTRL and move scroll wheel to move the graph

Get a quick and complete analysis by dropping an audio file on the
plugin.
Currently supported file formats are WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC, and
all other operating system supported audio or video files.
NOTE: Dropping audio or video on the plugin will discard all previous
measurements.

1. View menu - This menu will control all settings regarding the plugin
   view.
   NOTE: “Readout Focus” will set the gray outline below the specific
   readout in the MINI VIEW. This will help you to visually focus on
   specific measurement.
2. Registration menu - Here you will register the PRO version of the
   plugin. After you buy the PRO version, you will receive an email with
   your license. Then you can copy your registered email and serial
   number and paste it in the correct fields to register the PRO version.
3. Export menu - Here you can export all measurements and graphs
4. as a PDF, PNG, SVG, EXCEL or Graph Memory file. The export look will
5. be influenced by the plugin settings, so if you change the scale for the
6. HISTOGRAM VIEW, for example, the scale will be changed on
7. exported PDF too.
8. You can also import graph memory files to reference previous
9. measurements.
10. If you want to set the custom logo to be the background behind the
11. file name, you will need to have a PNG image with the resolution of
12. 1748px width, and 79px height. You can use images with a higher
13. resolution, but you need to maintain the aspect ratio.
14. If you just want to have your logo embedded in the exported file, you
15. don’t have to worry about image size, it will be scaled and placed
16. automatically.
17. Settings menu - Sets the SETTINGS of the plugin.

MENUS - SETTINGS
LOUDNESS

1. Color thresh up - If measurements are above this threshold, the
   graph will change its color.
2. Color thresh down - If measurements are below this threshold, the
   graph will change its color.
3. Color Transition - Sets the color transition. This is useful for
   visualizing streaming presets since we don’t have a precise threshold
   for it.
4. Scale Offset - Sets the scale offset.
5. Scale Range - Sets the scale range.
6. Loudness target - Sets the visual indication on the scale. Also, it
   controls zero position if the relative scale is engaged.
7. Relative scale - Changes the scale so that value from “Loudness
   target” will become zero on the scale.
8. Integrated gate - Select integrated loudness relative gate
   correction.

9. Integrated Dial Gate - Sets the method for calculation of
   Integrated Dial measurement. Select DIAL-RELATIVE to switch
   automatically between dialog and relative gating based on the
   minimum dialog threshold.
10. Dialog Readouts - Switch between normal and dial readouts.
11. Min Dialog % - If DIAL-RELATIVE gating is selected, INTEGRATED
    DIA loudness will auto switch to relative gating if below the threshold.
    DYNAMICS
12. Range - Sets the scale range.
13. Color thresh - Sets the threshold for different colors. You can also
    disable colors.
14. DR Target - Sets the visual guide for dynamics graph.
15. Auto gradient - If on, changing the DR target will change color
    thresholds. You can leave it off if you want to change colors manually.
    ALERTS
    Here you can set the threshold for the alerts. There are two types of
    alerts: if the measurement goes below the threshold, or above the
    threshold.

ADVANCED

1. Use global settings - If on, the plugin will use global advanced
   settings. Every new instance of the plugin will have the same
   advanced options.
   If off, all options you set will be saved per plugin instance.
2. Eco true peak - If on, switches true peak detection to a lower
   quality one, however true peak detection will still comply with the ITU
   recommendation. CPU usage should be reduced by ~40%.
3. Save graphs - If on, the plugin will save all graphs with the host
   project. If reloading all graphs after host project reloads is not
   important to you, you can disable this option.
   If off, the project file size will be greatly reduced.
4. Graph compression - If on, the plugin will compress all graphs
   before saving the project. This will make the saving process slower,
   but the project file size will be ~60% reduced.
5. Graph truncation - If on, the plugin will lower the quality of the
   graphs before saving the project. This will make the saving process
   slower, but the project file size will be ~75% reduced.
6. Remember APP session - If on, the next time you load the app all
   settings will be retained from the previous session.
7. Input gain - If on, the volume correction will be applied to the
8. audio signal before it gets analyzed. You can use this to offset all
9. measurements.
10. HELP
11. Enable news - If on, the plugin will check for news once a day. If the
12. OS firewall is blocking the internet connection for a host, the plugin
13. won’t be able to check for the news.
14. Enable BETA news - If on, the plugin will check for BETA version
15. updates once a day.
16. Enable tooltips - Get short info when hovering the mouse over the
17. elements.

CREDITS
Special thanks for all BETA testers that have helped over the years!
Also, thanks to everyone who has bought the PRO version or spread the
word about this software over the years!
Code and graphics design was done by Julijan Nikolic - Youlean