TheExpressor

“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.

 *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."