MellowMuse has announced the release of two new additions to its Vintage Series: the CP3V Vintage Compressor and CS1V Channel Saturator plug-ins. They cost $59 (CS1V) / $99 (CP3V) and are available for Windows and Mac OS X in VST, AU and RTAS effect plug-in formats.

The CP3V vintage compressor plug-in builds upon the analogue characteristics of the CP2V compressor, adding further flexibility with variable attack, release and ratio controls, and new compression and envelope detector algorithms.

Input drives the in-coming signal against the compressors fixed threshold. The Output control then brings up the level while progressively adding more saturation to the compressed signal. Fast attack times can be set as low as 0.01ms and release times 10 to 500ms. The four preset ratio settings allow compression to limiting levels of processing.

Features:

• Multi stage analogue modeled compression.
• Output driven saturation.
• VU style compression metering.
• Variable attack: 0.01 - 100 ms.
• Variable release: 10 - 500 ms.
• Ratios: 4:1, 8:1, 12:1 and 20:1.
• 4x Oversampling.
• 64 bit internal processing.

CS1V is saturation plug-in that enables you to add the subtle depth and colouration of an analogue console to your mix.

Drive increases the amount of saturation, Tone adjusts the pre-amp character, darker and heavier in the low range anti-clockwise, and progressively brighter high end harmonics clockwise. The default "Channel" mode is for mono tracks, when inserted on stereo tracks or busses, the "Buss" setting can be used to add a subtle amount of crosstalk. Group mode allows all instances of CS1V in your session to be controlled from any one instance of CS1V. For example, setting Drive on any CS1V will update all other instances making it easy to shape the character of your DAW's mixer.

Features:

• Variable input drive and tone.
• Grouping mode for global control.
• Phase switch and bypass.
• VU metering.
• 4x oversampling for low aliasing.
• 64 bit internal processing.