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Guardian

danja

Output-safety processor with input gain, look-ahead limiting (attack + release), variable-curve clipping (soft to hard), DC removal, true-peak protection, bypass, and latched diagnostics.

Homepagehttps://danja.github.io/downspout/plugins/guardian/
Vendordanja
FormatsVST3
RolesAudio Effect, Utility
AcceptsAudio
ProducesAudio
Categorieseffect, utility
Pricefree
Sourceopen source
LicenceMIT
Also known ashttp://purl.org/stuff/transmissions/plugins/downspout/guardian
CautionGuardian is intended for the end of autonomous audio chains and reports processing latency to the host.
IRIhttp://purl.org/stuff/plugin-universe/plugin/guardian-ed362b61

About this plugin

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Measured passed

Latency0 frame
Scan time976 ms
Failed tests0 — 0 failure(s) across 17 test(s) at strictness 5.
Open time (cold)157 ms — pluginval reported "157 ms".
Open time (warm)5 ms — pluginval reported "5 ms".

By pluginval - 1.0.4 on Linux 6.8.0-137-generic x64, 2026-09-11. One run on one machine — a reading here describes that binary on that host, not the plugin in the abstract. What this means.

Provenance

Harvested from downspout, whose metadata is CC0-1.0 . https://github.com/danja/downspout

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