Harmonic Multiband Compressor

Harmonic Multiband Compressor

A six-band compressor with saturation wired into it. Drive the detectors only and the bands grab like a slower vintage unit while your audio stays clean, saturate the bands audibly and the compressor squeezes the harmonics with the signal, or excite the summed mix on the way out. Six bands that sum flat within half a dB.

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Harmonic Multiband Compressor splits your sound into six frequency bands and compresses each one on its own, with saturation before compression and after the bands recombine. Drag the five crossover points to set where the bands divide, or type exact frequencies. Each band gets its own threshold, ratio, attack, release and range, plus an RMS or Peak detector. Push peaks down or lift quiet detail up, solo a band to hear it alone, then blend the result with the original and trim the output. Saturation is built in at three places. In DET ONLY, IN DRIVE feeds only the detectors, the part that decides how much to compress, so compression gets smoother with nothing added to what you hear. In AUDIBLE, it saturates every band before compression. After the bands recombine, OUT EXCITER blends harmonics into the mix and matches its own level. Leave oversampling and lookahead off for zero added latency, or oversample the audible saturation 2x or 4x and add up to 10 ms of lookahead. With two A/B states, Link All to move every band together, and gain reduction drawn in color on the spectrum, you can fix one part of the sound at a time.

What Harmonic Multiband Compressor offers

The Harmonics Engine: saturation wired into the compressor, in the detectors, bands or sum
DET ONLY drive saturates only the sidechain the detectors hear; the audio stays clean
Six bands on an allpass-compensated Linkwitz-Riley tree that sums flat within ±0.5 dB
Per band: threshold, ratio, knee, attack, release, makeup, range, RMS/Peak detector, det HPF
Draggable crossovers and thresholds on the live spectrum, with per-band gain-reduction curtains
Downward or bounded upward compression per band, 2x/4x oversampled drive, lookahead to 10 ms

What’s new

  • On Windows, dragging a knob no longer hides or jumps the mouse pointer. The pointer stays visible and inside the control while you drag, Shift (Ctrl in Pro Tools) gives 10x finer adjustment, and turning back from either end of the range responds immediately.
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