TL;DW: Recurve is a special buss compressor with no threshold point. Recurve.zip(342k) Sometimes the most amazing things are the simplest. Recurve is ONE line of code (per channel) plus a bit of implementation. It’s a compressor, and this ‘preview’ look at it is a lot like when Spiral came out: this is Recurve as a […]
TL;DW: Compresaturator fades between compressing and soft clipping. Compresaturator.zip(357k) This is eagerly anticipated. For some, it needs no introduction. For everyone else: one of the final plugins from the Kagi era, this stopped being available for a while when Kagi went out of business. It’s like a soft-saturator in which you can dial in even […]
TL;DW: BlockParty is like a moderately saturated analog limiter. BlockParty.zip(359k) What do you get when you cross an Airwindows compressor, with OneCornerClip? Pretty much this. Okay, so it wasn’t a very difficult riddle, was it? BlockParty acts like a somewhat distorty limiter. It’s not at all about lookahead (in fact it doesn’t have any) or […]
TL;DW: PurestSquish is an open-sounding compressor with bass bloom. PurestSquish.zip(355K) This time, the video’s enormously long so I’ll be brief: PurestSquish is a compressor, with its own sound. In the video I compare it to Pressure4, Logical4, and SurgeTide, and also show how it can be used in conjunction with SurgeTide (a real ‘sleeper’ plugin […]
