Christian Budde releases Fast Compressor

Christian Budde has released Fast Compressor, a freeware 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 treshold precisely while maintaining a consistent curve. The compressor also features a simple limit circuit to avoid clipping.
On a 2 GHz core2 duo I was able to run > 60 instances without a problem.

Fast Compressor features

• Lightweight soft knee compressor.
• Continous 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).

Fast Compressor is available as a VST plug-in for Windows PC.

Visit Christian Budde for more information.