TheExpressor is a colored upwards/downwards (Ex)pander/Com(pressor).
KEY FEATURES:
1. Color – change slightly to soften the knee or boost/cut up to 24 dB for extreme emphasis.
2. Extremely Low Aliasing – better quality than 6x oversampled plugins without the oversampling overhead or any delay. *
3. Bounded – output is at most 6 dB louder than the input when Makeup is 0 dB.
CURRENT VERSION:
v1.2.1
REQUIREMENTS:
– 64-bit Windows/Mac (M1 Apple Silicon supported)
– VST3/AU compatible host
PRICE:
This plugin is 100% FREE, but donations make consistent releases and updates possible. Enjoy!
*Backed by open-source research (github.com/thezhe/SOUL-VA).
BUSES:
Inputs:
1. Main – input.
2. Aux – sidechain input.
Outputs:
1. Output – output.
PARAMETERS:
Attack (Main):
– Description: Attack time.
– Range 0.1 ms to 50 ms.
– Default: 0.1 ms.
Release (Main):
– Description: Release time.
– Range 30 ms to 3.00 s.
– Default: 30 ms.
Threshold (Main):
– Description: Vertical location of the transfer function’s knee.
– Range -50 dB to 0 dB.
– Default: -50 dB.
Post-Threshold (Ratios):
– Description: Post-threshold ratio.
– Range: 0.5 to 20.0.
– Default: 20.
Pre-Threshold (Ratios):
– Description: Pre-threshold ratio.
– Range: 0.5 to 1.5.
– Default: 1.
Makeup (Utility):
– Description: Apply a volume to the wet signal.
– Range: -6.0 dB to 50 dB.
– Default: 0 dB.
Mix (Utility):
– Description: Mix the dry and wet signals.
– Range: 0 % dB to 100 %.
– Default: Wet (100 %).
Sidechain (Detector)*:
– Description: If set to On, the internal detector uses the sidechain signal.
– Options: Off, On.
– Default: Off.
High Pass (Detector):
– Description: High-pass the detector’s signal before calculating gain reduction.
– Range: 1 Hz to 500 Hz.
– Default: 1 Hz.
Stereo Link (Detector):
– Description: Stereo-link the detector’s signal directly after the high-pass.
– Range: 0 % to 100 %.
– Default: 0 %.
Softness (Knee):
– Description: Set the width of the knee smoothing.
– Range: 0 dB to 24 dB.
– Default: 0 %.
Color (Knee):
– Description: Add or subtract a bell-shaped curve to the knee.
– Range: -24 dB to 24 dB.
– Default: 0 dB.
*Not suitable for modulation.
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