Re: quest for (XP) VST to bring RMS to a target level

["Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

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From: "Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>
> I'm looking for a (Windows) VST (DirectX would also be cool) to bring the
> audio to a predefined RMS or other "loudness" value by either reducing 
> level
> or applying compression.
>
> Application: when random playing through loads of audio sources, the 
>level
> changes between them are sometimes startling. Winamp (and thus QCD) has a
> plugin which allows you to run a VST in it. So my idea is to run the VST
> described above and then have everything have the same loudness - 
>similar 
> to
> a cheapo Orban Optimod or TC P2.

Wouldn't this have the same general effect as Normalizing?