Voxengo Deft Compressor (Win & Mac)

Publisher: Voxengo
Product: Deft Compressor
Version: 1.10
Format: VST, VST3, AAX, AU
Bit Depth: 32-bit and 64-bit
System Requirements: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and later and macOS 10.11 and later version
  • Publisher: Voxengo
  • Product: Deft Compressor
  • Version: 1.10
  • Format: VST, VST3, AAX, AU
  • Bit Depth: 32-bit and 64-bit
  • System Requirements: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and later and macOS 10.11 and later version

Deft Compressor is an audio signal compressor AAX, AudioUnit and VST plugin for professional sound and music production applications. The characteristic feature of this compressor is its ability to produce “slim” and “slick” sounding compression, with intelligibility enhancement effect. Such result is achieved by compressor’s timing function that closely resembles the S-curve (sigmoid curve) on both attack and release stages. S-curve timing function also helps compressor to sound “warm” and “clean” at most settings.

While at high attack settings Deft Compressor can be used to emphasize audio transients, it can also be used to “smash” audio signal if you use attack settings as low as 0.01 millisecond. Even though the S-curve is the marked feature of Deft Compressor, you can smoothly change it to a steeper L-shape by adjusting the “Punch” parameter.

Deft Compressor also features a so called “vintage” compression mode which produces compression sound reminiscent of analog tube compressors: it produces a warm, gently saturated sound with the ability to overdrive the output signal. Beside that, you may switch between the “feed-forward” and “feedback” compression modes.

Deft Compressor is perfectly usable for compressing vocals, drums, guitars and other instruments, both technically and creatively. Beside that, it can be used to compress mix groups and full mixes.

Deft Compressor features:

  • Adjustable S-curve timing function
  • “Vintage” compression mode
  • Feedback compression mode
  • Auto make-up gain
  • External side-chaining
  • Key signal filtering
  • Stereo and multi-channel processing
  • Internal channel routing
  • Channel grouping
  • Up to 8x oversampling
  • 64-bit floating point processing
  • Preset manager
  • Undo/redo history
  • A/B comparisons
  • Contextual hint messages
  • All sample rates support
  • Zero processing latency
  • User interface color schemes
  • Resizable user interface
  • Retina and HighDPI support
  • Demo limitations
  • Processing output is muted for a moment every 45 seconds.

Compatibility

This audio plugin can be loaded in any audio host application that conforms to the AudioUnit, AAX, or VST plugin specification.

This plugin is compatible with Windows (32- and 64-bit Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and later version, if not announced as unsupported) and macOS (10.11 and later version, if not announced as unsupported) computers (2.5 GHz dual-core or faster processor with at least 4 GB of system RAM required). A separate binary distribution file is available for each target computer platform and audio plugin specification. If supported on a specific processor, the plugin may internally utilize AVX2-optimized code.

Compatible Windows and macOS plugin software: Cubase, Logic Pro, ProTools, Ableton Live, Reaper, OBS, Presonus Studio One, FL Studio, Cakewalk, Nuendo, WaveLab, GarageBand, Vegas, SoundForge, Audition, Samplitude, Digital Performer, Mixcraft, Bitwig Studio, Edius, others. Note that for Logic Pro you should download the AU,AAX package, not VST.

If you cannot get plugin component to work on macOS, you have to logout from the system and login again, it’s a known issue not caused by plugin’s own bug.

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