MCompressor

MCompressor is a VST plug-in that allows creating dynamic sound effects through an adjustable compression shape. The purpose is to tweak the sound in order to obtain increased quality in the output result.

To access its options the plug-in requires a VST host to integrate in, which can be most audio producing software on the market. However, the developer provides a list with the major ones that can be used.

For those familiar with music production applications MCompressor’s interface should not give any trouble. It is clean, with options and functions within easy reach and clear view of the values.

It provides a hefty set of presets that include fast compression, smooth noise gate, overdrive, drums, acoustic guitar, bass guitar or upward compression. Immediately after enabling a preset the compression shape modifies to reflect the new parameters.

You can further adjust it to fit your needs and for more precision there is the possibility to zoom in for a closer look. Moreover, diving into the properties screen of all the points you can enable tweaks regarding curvature, point locking or set the point distribution.

The main application window features a mode button that displays the channel mode being processed; only one channel can be targeted at a time, which permits repairing spectral inconsistencies, or both left and right ones.

Power modification knobs that affect the input and output signal, attack and release controls, threshold and ratio options as well as RMS setting are all present in the main screen.

MCompressor plug-in is a classic compressor but it includes advanced features like the graph that allows editing of the sound by hand or the side-chain panel for tweaking signal frequencies. There is proper documentation available that explains the functionality of the plug-in.