I prefer to use [compressor~] by Yves Degoyon:

http://ydegoyon.free.fr/software.html

sb



Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:41:55 +0900
From: hard off <hard.off@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PD] balancing loudness
To: day 5 <day5ive@gmail.com>
Cc: pd-list@iem.at
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ok, i'll try [limiter~]  ...that might work.

at the moment i am using [*~] ...but that requires manual adjustments.
 i'm looking for a more 'automatic' way so that i can get things
balanced on the fly, in a live setting.

is there anything that will detect the 'loudness' or 'density' of the
sound?  i have everything normalised already, but some things just
sound a lot louder than others.

it'll cost me dearly in cpu power, but what about using an ftt process ???