Clean by default
A VCA-style detector with a smooth, decoupled release.
Soft knee
From a hard corner to a wide, gradual transition.
External sidechain
Duck against anything your DAW can route.
Mix
Parallel compression without an extra bus, time-aligned.
| Formats | AU, VST3 |
| Latency | 0 samples, 240 at 5 ms lookahead |
| Sidechain | internal or external bus |
| Factory presets | 8 |
Measured behaviour
Below the threshold the signal passes unchanged, and slopes land where the ratio says: 4:1 compresses to a tested 1/4 slope above the knee.