DC1A Compressor Plugin Download For Free
DC1A is the little brother of the compression monster DC8C. I've taken a few of my favorite settings from DC8C and tried to make it work in a two control context. Sound wise it's comparable to the PUNCH mode in DC8C but offers a few additional features, such as negative ratio and stereo unlink. I've always wanted to do a compressor with just an input and output knob, a compressor that just works: gentle, faithful, from almost invisible, smooth leveling to heavy pumping with a nice crunchy saturation and punchy enough to treat drums with.
DC1A looks like a one trick pony. But don't get fooled by the lack of additional controls. You may be surprised on how many different material this little thing works. DC1A has a few tricks up its sleeve: negative (over) compression, parallel (New York style) compression, option to compress left and right channel independently (via the DUAL MONO switch), peak and RMS compression (RELAXED switch on) and DEEP activates a high pass filter to reduce pumping on bass heavy material
DC1A is free! So try it out for yourself.
Changelog
DC1A3
11/11/21 version 3.4.1
FIX: GR meter
11/05/21 version 3.4.0
native Apple M1 support
06/10/20 version 3.3.0
GUI performance improvements
more robust Mac-installer
updated manual
12/16/19 version 3.2.0
Automation fixes and improvements to ensure coherent behavior across all plugin formats and hosts
11/27/19 version 3.1.1
FIX: VST3 on Windows: when using a Windows scaling factor other than 100% the GUI had been cropped in some hosts
11/14/19 version 3.1.0
minor internal improvements
new Mac installer
compatibility with macOS Catalina (macOS 10.15)
dropped 32-bit support in order to follow current fulfill security and technical requirements by the OS vendors
06/18/18 version 3.0.0
new Framework (JUCE)
new GUI
revised compression models
revised gain structure: less compression with in- and output-controls at 0
added mix control to enable parallel compression
meter can now display gain reduction or output level
removed RTAS-version
due to the many changes and the use of a new framework, the new version has a new filename and plugin-ID, so both DC1A3 and the old DC1A2 can be used side-by-side in your projects
system requirements: Windows 7 SP1 or higher / MacOSX 10.9 or higher
Credits
Code and GUI: Tony Frenzel
Manual: Tony Frenzel
Special thanks to the beta testers.
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