Dynamic Compressor

Dynamic Compressor is a plugin developed for Audacity users that enables them to enjoy classical music or other audio files that have a wide range of volumes, at low volumes or in high noise conditions, so that the soft parts are still highly audible.

In order to deploy this plugin on the target computer, users must have the latest version of Audacity installed beforehand. The next step is unpacking the plugin's archive and copying the "Compress.ny" file within it into Audacity's "Plugins" folder.

Activating Dynamic Compressor can be accomplished by accessing the "Effect" menu, opening the "Add / Remove Plug-ins..." window, selecting the "Compressor &dynamics" option and clicking the "Enable" button.

After performing the steps above, users can enhance their music files by loading the "Compress dynamics" effect after importing the desired audio document. Among the parameters that can be adjusted via this plugin, users can find "Compress ratio," "Compression hardness," "Floor," "Noise gate falloff" and "Maximum amplitude."

Although the levels can be adjusted by using their corresponding slider bars, users can also type the values in the designated fields. Listening to a preview of the processed audio file or fragment can also be done by pressing the "Preview" button in the plugin's dedicated window.

Dynamic Compressor also lets users save the current settings scheme as user presets so that they can be accessed later. Saving a new preset can be simply done from the "Save Preset" menu, by typing a name in the text box. Presets can be loaded from the "Users Presets" menu or removed from the "Delete Preset" one.