COMPADRE is a compressor with an attitude. It has its own unique sound with a quality response optimized for a dedicated purpose - drums. This makes it easy to achieve great results with a minimum of tweaking. While the main purpose is on drum tracks, COMPADRE is flexible and controllable enough to be usable on many other types of tracks and mixes.

Compadre Beatpuncher plugin was designed specifically for use on beats, drum loops, and other percussive material, and it does this with attitude and flexibility. Use it for subtle enhancements or heavy duty compression. While COMPADRE has been designed with drums in mind, it's range of flexibility allows it to deliver good performances on most types of tracks and mixes as well.

Here are some key features of "COMPADRE":

· Feed forward RMS compressor with high quality characteristics.
· Multiple compression modes for expanded flexibility.
· True stereo sidechain. (4 channel input; 1+2=audio, 3+4=Sidechain)
· High & low pass filters on the sidechain.
· Further 9 filter models featuring presets with key frequencies in drum mixing.
· Adjustable low-level controls to fine tune the compression characteristics. ("Snap", "Linearity" & "Envelope").
· Dry/wet control allowing easy "parallel compression".
· Optional extra "Crunch" by enabling a built-in second compressor on the output stage.
· Optional limiter on output.
· Zero latency.
· 80 categorized presets included.


Requirements:

· VST compatible host


Limitations:

· Functional for 14 days.
· A short beep will sound every 30 seconds.
· Slightly higher CPU usage.
· Mono version.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Lower CPU usage.
· Faster attack time (now goes down to 0.1 ms)
· Changed response for gain reduction meter & clip indicator.
· Fix: registration glitch causing the plug-in to sometimes appear unregistered.
· Fix: Weird panning behaviour in some hosts with certain material.