Lightweight Soft Knee Compressor.pdf

Christian Budde

Lightweight Soft Knee Compressor

Lightweight Soft Knee Compressor is a soft knee compressor optimized for low CPU usage.

While it is not that difficult to build a hard knee compressor with a low CPU usage, it is quite

difficult to do so for a soft knee, especially if you want to control the margin around the threshold

precisely while maintaining a consistent curve. The compressor also features a simple limit circuit

to avoid clipping.

Features:

• Lightweight soft knee compressor.

• Continuous and consistent characteristic.

• Fully adjustable soft knee in dB (as margin below the threshold).

• Stereo/dual mono processing.

• Extra limit circuit to avoid clips.

• Simple auto make-up gain adjustment.

• 10 presets.

• Mathematically optimised (using three psychoacoustical evaluated approximation

functions).

• Open source (as part of Christian's Delphi ASIO & VST Project ) .