Level Navigator · Leveling
Your level, locked. Hands off the fader.
Its interface is a helm: your audio is the sea, the boat rocks while the signal is unstable and settles when the level locks on target. A golden buoy marks the recommended spot — and reaching it is rewarded. Everything on screen is fed by the real engine, not decoration.
Measures loudness the broadcast way: momentary, short-term and integrated LUFS (ITU-R BS.1770-4 K-weighting) plus true peak with 4× oversampling.
Moves ONE full-band gain — never an EQ — to converge on your target LUFS, with asymmetric speed and a silence gate so it never chases noise.
Predictive clip-guard: gain never rises past the point that would eat your headroom — it backs off before the peak happens, not after.
Collision Guard with lookahead guarantees a real dBTP ceiling (4× oversampled detection), with soft-knee so sustained tones stay clean.
"Leveling" strength rides harder only on sources that jump around (vocals, live instruments) and stays transparent on stable material.
12 real streaming/broadcast presets, each with its own LUFS target, true-peak ceiling and boost policy.
Ride Fader ±18 dB: your hand on top of the autopilot — it adds to the riding and can be automated from the DAW.
Gain Match: A/B against bypass at equal loudness, so louder never tricks you into 'better'.
Honest ceiling advisor: it tells you when the true-peak ceiling makes your target unreachable — telemetry only, it never touches the audio.
Every claim above is backed by the shipping code — how we measure is documented in the methodology. Methodology →
| Controls | Target (-36…-6 LUFS) · Autopilot · Guard · Headroom (0.5–6 dB) · Destination presets · Leveling · A/B |
|---|---|
| Metering | LUFS M/S/I (BS.1770-4) + true peak 4× oversampled |
| What it never does | No EQ, no compression coloring — one clean gain move |
| Format | VST3 · Windows x64 (validated) · runs local or on the Se7en Audio Server |
| Included | Se7en Audio Server — the engine that runs the DSP outside your DAW when it's on; zero setup, automatic fallback to local. |
| Measured transparency | THD -153 dB @ 48 kHz / -142 dB @ 96 kHz (FFT harness in the test suite) |
| Remote control | From your phone via QR (SE7EN Remote) — nothing to install on the phone |
Part of the line
Every Se7en plugin can hand its heavy DSP to the Se7en Audio Server — a separate process, outside your DAW's audio thread — and the plugins can feed each other through internal sidechain groups, no DAW buses. No server? It always sounds: local processing is instant fallback.
Private beta
Sailor LUFS is in private beta. The list hears about the release — and the launch price — before anyone else. No spam.
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Who builds this
These tools come out of a working studio — built by a producer with 25 years at the craft, for his own sessions first. If you make music and already have an audience, the studio also takes collaborations.