Sidechain Compressor Stereo - Sidechain-Kompressor Stereo

Detailed: LSP Sidechain-Kompressor Stereo – Sidechain Compressor Stereo (SCK1S)

Formats: LADSPA, LV2, LinuxVST, JACK

Categories: Dynamics, Compressor

Developer: Vladimir Sadovnikov

Description:

This plugin performs compression of stereo input signal. Flexible sidechain-control configuration and additional sidechain inputs are provided. Different types of compression are possible: downward, upward and parallel. Also compressor may work as limiter in Peak mode with high Ratio and low Attack time.

Controls:

Bypass - bypass switch, when turned on (led indicator is shining), the plugin bypasses signal.
Pause - pauses any updates of the compressor graph.
Clear - clears all graphs.
Gain L, R - enables drawing of gain amplification line and corresponding amplification meter.
SC L, R - enables drawing of sidechain input graph and corresponding level meter.
Env L, R - enables drawing of compressor's envelope graph and corresponding level meter.
In L, R - enables drawing of compressor's input signal graph and corresponding level meter.
Out L, R - enables drawing of compressor's output signal graph and corresponding level meter.

'Sidechain' section:

Position - the position of the sidechain input. Available variants:

Feed-forward - sidechain input is connected to compressor's input. More aggressive compression.
Feed-back - sidechain input is connected to compressor's output. Vintage-style more accurate compression.
External - sidechain signal is taken from additional (external) sidechain inputs of plugin.

Listen - allows to listen the processed sidechain signal.
Preamp - pre-amplification of the sidechain signal.
Reactivity - reactivity of the sidechain signal.
Lookahead - look-ahead time of the sidechain relative to the input signal.
Type - combo box that allows to switch different types for sidechain processing. Available types are:

Peak - peak mode.
RMS - root mean square of the input signal.
Low-pass - input signal processed by low-pass filter.
Uniform - input signal processed by uniform filter.
Middle - middle part of signal is used for sidechain processing.
Side - side part of signal is used for sidechain processing.
Left - only left channel is used for sidechain processing.
Right - only right channel is used for sidechain processing.

'Compressor' section:

Mode - compression mode: Upward (Up) or Downward (Down).
Ratio - compression ratio.
Knee - size of compression knee.
Makeup - additional amplification gain after compression stage.
Attack Level - threshold of the compressor, placed in the middle of the knee.
Attack Time - attack time of the compressor.
Release Level - relative to the Attack Level threshold that sets up the threshold of Release Time.
Release Time - release time of the compressor.
Mix Dry - the amount of dry (unprocessed) signal, useful for parallel compression.
Mix Wet - the amount of wet (processed) signal, useful for parallel compression.

'Signal' section:

Input - overall input gain.
Output - overall output gain.