I am super happy to announce a partnership between Mistika Workflows and Youlean Loudness Meter.
As you might know, I have released a command-line tool recently that can help you automate the loudness measurements and normalization, however, this requires you to understand a scripting language.
While this can be learned (and ChatGPT can help too), many of you want a user friendly solution.
Currently, I am focusing on the core technology, i.e. making the loudness meter as best as possible, so I have partnered with SGO, makers of Mistika Workflows, to integrate my command line tool into their application.
Do I need this integration?
If you are a solo producer working as a hobby on a lower budget, you most likely don’t need it. I mean, I won’t discourage anyone from trying, but this integration is aligned more towards professionals.
If you are a professional who is processing tons of files, you might see great value in automating your workflow.
This is where Mistika Workflows comes in handy.
What can we do with this integration?
There are many things that you can do, but I would say the most likely use case would be to measure loudness, save the report, categorize files, and send the report via email, for example.
How to do this?
Since this is a most likely scenario, we have created the template that you can load and test the integration.
Here is how this looks:
As you can see, the template is pretty self explanatory. You will need to set up the nodes so that they all have green bubbles before you can run this. In this example, you will need to configure the email node so that it can send you the actual emails, but if you don’t need this, you can just delete these nodes.
This template currently doesn’t have a file copy node added, but it is not hard to add it yourself if you need file categorization. Let us know if you need this added to the template.
Here is a quick video tutorial:
How to prepare Youlean Loudness Meter?
The first thing you need to do to use the command line tool is to have the PRO version. Once you register it, open the standalone app and create specific presets for your workflow.
You can always inspect what are the targets for this preset here:
Once this is set, you can use these presets in the command line tool or Mistika Workflows. This is important because targets from presets will be used for the normalization process. Also, your exported reports will contain different measurements depending on the selected preset.
Here is where you can select a preset in Mistika Workflows:
For analysis, you don’t need to set up the presets as you can set the targets directly in the QC section:
We need your feedback…
This integration is live and is used in production already, however, to improve it, we need your feedback.
Mistika Workflows has a lot of use cases, and we can’t know all of them, so let us know how you would use it and what needs to be improved with this integration.
Thank you in advance, and enjoy metering! 🙂