Fircomp

Ultra clean peak compressor/limiter with punchy attack, musical release, and optional lookahead smoothing, for tracks or busses. Zero/low latency and low CPU. Warm distortion at extreme settings.

Features

• Fast or same-sample attack times that never sound “clicky”, even in zero latency mode
• Innovative digital envelope detection algorithm allows for much lower distortion than typical peak compressors
• Optional lookahead FIR gain smoothing for an even cleaner sound
• True zero attack (same-sample) when “0.0 ms” is selected
• Dual parallel release stage with musical, highly history-dependent behaviour. Avoids use of multiple compressors in series!
• Easy sidechain filtering options for common mixing situations
• Low CPU, fully 64-bit DSP code, making full use of SSE instructions. Insert on every track without a second thought!
• Zero latency with lookahead off. With lookahead on, compensated latency of 1.5ms
• No phase shift: can be used in parallel

Fircomp is available as:

• 64-bit VST3 for Windows
• Intel 64-bit AU2 and VST3 for Mac OSX 10.11+

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FirComp Low Ratio “quick addition” version

This is a “quick addition” version of FirComp while v2.0 is under development. This version breaks compatibility with current projects and needs to be rescanned to work correctly. It adds additional compression ratios of 1.2 and 1.5, and an additional 100Hz sidechain hipass filter option.

• 64-bit VST3 for Windows
• Intel 64-bit AU2 and VST3 for Mac OSX 10.11+
• Intel 64-bit VST3 for Linux (built on Ubuntu 18.04)