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Finish Him on the Test Bench

Measurements of individual released plug-ins, with the settings and hashes needed to check what ran. A measurement describes this build and this method; it is not a listening judgement.

What ran

Shipping version
0.1.0
Measured
2026-11-01T02:26:11Z UTC
Host and sample rate
REAPER, native Windows VST3; isolated offline render · 48,000 Hz
PC processor
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz

Results

Reported plug-in latency

344 samples / 7.167 ms

REAPER TrackFX_GetNamedConfigParm pdc readback, before playback. Host-reported compensation, not an independently timed impulse.

Programs exposed to the host

109

REAPER TrackFX_GetPresetIndex program count. This does not count a separate in-plug-in preset browser.

Host-bypassed null residual

Digital zero

RMS of the entire host-bypassed REAPER render minus the exact decoded calibration input; same 48 kHz samples, no gain fitting. This measures host bypass, not an internal bypass control.

1 kHz output THD, including stimulus

0.010627%

Harmonics 2–20 of a -18 dBFS 1 kHz input. The measured 16-bit stimulus itself has 0.010627% THD; this result includes that floor and must not be read as distortion added by the plug-in. One settled second, Hann window, harmonic-band energy; excludes noise.

Rendered sample peak

-18.001 dBFS

Maximum absolute sample over the complete stereo calibration recording. Sample peak is not true peak or a limiter ceiling-overshoot measurement.

Sweep transfer at the stated settings

Output/input magnitude from the documented logarithmic sweep. Dynamic and nonlinear processors depend on signal level and history; this is not a universal response or a hardware comparison.

FrequencyMagnitude
31.5 Hz0.00 dB
63 Hz0.00 dB
125 Hz0.00 dB
250 Hz0.00 dB
500 Hz0.00 dB
1,000 Hz0.00 dB
2,000 Hz0.00 dB
4,000 Hz0.00 dB
8,000 Hz0.00 dB
16,000 Hz0.00 dB

Method

  • The installed native Windows VST3 binary is pinned by SHA-256 and matched to its installation receipt. Actual loaded processor name and module path are checked in a separate REAPER process.
  • REAPER runs on an isolated non-input Windows desktop, using its own resource folder. No FX editor, audio-device playback or existing REAPER process is used.
  • Parameters below are the actual defaults read back after loading. Reported latency and host-program count are read directly through the REAPER API.
  • Original calibration: one second silence, four-second logarithmic sine sweep from 20 Hz to 20 kHz at -24 dBFS with 10 ms edge fades, one second silence, two seconds 1 kHz sine at -18 dBFS, then one second silence. Input is stereo 16-bit PCM at 48 kHz.
  • Processed and host-bypassed projects are saved separately and rendered offline to stereo WAV at 48 kHz. The whole recordings are decoded and checked for length, finite samples and non-silence.
  • Sweep magnitude: FFT output/input ratio, using the four-second sweep section, 262,144-point FFT and median magnitude in a 1/24-octave band around each reported frequency. No response smoothing outside those bands.

Limits of this report

  • Sweep transfer includes the behaviour of dynamic and nonlinear processing at this signal level. It is not a universal linear frequency-response specification.
  • The 16-bit calibration input has 0.010627% measured THD. Output THD includes stimulus distortion; no claim is made about plug-in-added distortion below this floor, audibility, other levels or other products.
  • No true-peak ceiling-overshoot result has been measured. The calibration does not stress a limiter ceiling.
  • Real-time CPU at a 128-sample buffer has not been measured. The isolated offline route uses a 512-sample device configuration and does not start playback; render speed is not reported as CPU usage.
  • Windows VST3 only. This report does not measure the macOS build or imply analogue-hardware equivalence or an endorsement.
  • Signal measurements are not subjective listening. The remaining measurements are listed here rather than represented as completed.
Exact host parameter readback
  • Drive | 0.500000000 | 0.00 dB
  • Ceiling | 0.916666687 | -1.00 dBTP
  • Style | 0.000000000 | Transparent
  • Character | 0.500000000 | 50.0 %
  • Spectral Balance | 0.000000000 | 0.0 %
  • Stereo Link | 1.000000000 | Linked
  • Output Match | 0.000000000 | Off
  • Delta Listen | 0.000000000 | Off
  • Lookahead | 0.490414441 | 5.00 ms
  • Release Bias | 0.500000000 | 50.0 %
  • Bass Recovery | 0.000000000 | 0.0 %
  • Detector Quality | 0.333333343 | Normal
  • Stereo Mode | 0.000000000 | Linked
  • Dither | 0.000000000 | Off
  • Noise Shaping | 0.000000000 | None
  • Meter Target | 0.555555582 | -14.0 LUFS
  • Render Ultra | 0.000000000 | Off
  • Bypass | 0.000000000 | Off
  • Program | 0.009259259 | Clean Start
  • Bypass | 0.000000000 | normal
  • Wet | 1.000000000 | 100
  • Delta | 0.000000000 | normal
SHA-256 provenance
native module
924e4e7e685bf0bfe2aa43ad91f1300d1d7479238d704a94138ac8ed1417ff54
calibration input
15acf8fae939d5e2a58fbb873b211282f31056e5891eadee8a0270127f1b4313
capture manifest
38a571155596015af015bf9e317e8fd7b243e263ea18711d49057137837cb968
native readback log
b8bff8408fdbd56639f5cc6011913236968b58d4b3803aa5ab1ef3ffd2c5bc02
analysis source
2df5074c8de23094e177c8e3f3577d1756817eda2f48489fcd7b5b6ca274c195
isolated preparation receipt
2d5722214ac8111e0471f6de8813824f4203998dc63fd51da549ba9d5f760300
processed recording
fed60362c84e5ee1247bb638f53e7c183c79c6558cbe36d3aeb5a98523e06a41
host-bypassed recording
a48fb0ce045c5d713bebad52fb02fba6bdeeb8b3f3fecc50746870e6996cc6b5
isolated render receipt
7ae196794f6a4dd5185d9673965d9d69504639350dcebdd87054ece434b43988

Public release history

  • Windows: version 0.1.0 · VST3 · x64
  • macOS: version 0.1.0 · VST3, AU · universal

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