Freeware SidechainCompressor MacOSX UB

ZAQ · Post by **ZAQ** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:29 pm

Hi everyone!
I just recently finished building a freeware SidechainCompressor plugin for MacOSX Universal Binary. It has an additional sidechain input and can act as a "ducker".
Since there was no real freeware SC compressor available for OSX UB, I decided to make one myself.

Get it from here: *link down*
To use it, you need the Open Source Framework SonicBirth to be found here: http://sonicbirth.sourceforge.net/.

Let me know what you think!

Cheers
ZAQ

SPAWNmaster · Post by **SPAWNmaster** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:06 pm

very nice! I appreciate your efforts! i will go ahead and try it out when i get some time and hope to use it as a replacement for the autopan trick I use for sidechain-ducking.

SPAWNmaster · Post by **SPAWNmaster** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:14 pm

Hey well I would just like to say that you have made a fine little plugin for use...thanks for the cpu-lite sidechain. It would help if you offered a version with a non-fixed knee. I need to do some intensive testing this weekend but i did a quick overview last night and seems to work well. Also the 1/0 is less than intuitive...the plugin could do for a better design off this (simple on/off labels would suffice!).

i will post my results after doing some testing this weekend. thanks and cheers

Daim · Post by **Daim** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:06 pm

nice thanks

does it allow very long release times like the compadre beat puncher?

ZAQ · Post by **ZAQ** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:29 pm

@Daim:
you´re welcome!
unfortunately I don´t know the compadre beat puncher.
the release time so far goes up to 100ms.

cheers!
ZAQ

ZAQ · Post by **ZAQ** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:38 pm

@SPAWNmaster:
thanks for your comments! glad you like it so far!
you were totally right about the 0-1 labels. something I totally did not pay attention to. It has been fixed in the recent version: *link down*
so far I don´t plan on re-implementing the knee, though... mostly, because I personally don´t believe in knees on compressors, and it would mean a lot of work to fit it in the GUI. If you really want to have it for yourself though, I could send you an "ugly" version with an additional knee knob.

Cheers!
ZAQ