Terry West has released version 0.5 of CompEq, a freeware smooth compressor and equalizer VST effect plugin.
Features
- Compressor
- InputGain, Attack, Release, Ratio, Threshold and OutputGain controls
- Input/output/reduction meters
- Bypass, Meters on/off, Auto Makeup
- Equalizer
- Low, LowMid, HiMid, High and Air controls with reset buttons
- Eq on/off, Preboost full/low, Finetune controls
- Many presets included
You can download CompEq from rekkerd.org below (the archive includes a mono and a stereo version)
Update 12-07-2007: version 0.6 available
Updated in v0.6
- Compressor bypass works now without disabling the Eq-section
- Output gain fixed
- Added readout-meters respond and update rate controls
CompEQ v0.6 Download size: 2.24 MB
CompEq v0.5 can still be downloaded as well
CompEQ v0.5 Download size: 2.23 MB
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SynthMaker?
I’m pretty sure Terry uses SynthEdit, and I believe he writes most of the DSP code for it as well.
Just for the record, I ask not out of any prejudice – you know, I just find development interesting. I personally wish I knew more how some plugins were coded. The few times I’ve tried to use SynthEdit… baffled.
Yeah, many SynthEdit and SynthMaker plug-ins are top notch quality. Some developers code all DSP code and just use SE/SM for the GUI (i.e. I believe Sylenth1 was done in SynthEdit).
Unfortunately there’s also a lot of (sub)standard SE/SM garbage out there, making it harder for proper developers to be taken seriously when using these programs.
I tried doing some simple synths in SE myself but found it much harder than I expected. In the end I only released one little plug-in: http://rekkerd.org/little-critters-vsti/
Basically a simple rompler with some stock effects.