Vexon Audio has released a modern optical compressor effect designed to shape dynamics with a smooth, musical response, analog-style tone, and a fast mixing workflow.
Lumina is designed to respond musically to your signal, adapting to transients, sustain, and density with a smooth, program-dependent behavior.
Instead of forcing the sound into compression, it moves with it, making control feel natural and intuitive. The Character system lets you shift the compressor’s personality in seconds. From balanced and transparent to forward, tight, or more controlled, each mode changes how Lumina listens and reacts not just how it sounds. With the Calibrate system, you can stay focused on tone rather than loudness. Input and output are balanced intelligently, so you hear what’s really happening to the dynamics, saturation, and frequency response without being misled by volume differences.
Lumina features
- Program-dependent optical compression response.
- Transformer-style tone shaping designed to add density, glue and subtle harmonic weight.
- Dynamic Warmth and Emphasis controls.
- Stereo Linked, Dual Mono and M/S detection modes.
- Dry/Wet parallel compression control.
- Compress and Limit operation modes.
- Animated VU metering with hardware-inspired ballistic behaviour.
- Factory presets for vocals, bass, guitars, drums, synths, mix bus and mastering.
Available for macOS and Windows (VST3 & AU), Lumina is on sale for the intro price of £29.99 GBP for a limited time (regular £39.99 GBP).
More information: Vexon Audio
