Fast but musical compressor?

[Funky40]

you made there some interesting points @bmanic. Thanks !

[MogwaiBoy]

I would say vari-mu compressors are the most 'musical' of all, since their ratio gets higher the more you push the input. That means they bloom into heaver compression very 'musically'.

[simon.a.billington]

Waves Renaissance Compressor
Two Compressor types, incredibly good,
simple, effective, musical on music tracks

Yes their Ren Vox is also extremely popular, still.

Another one they do I feel I should point out is H-Comp. It's several analogue models in one. That's what the Analog function does, it selects the model, not noise, not in this case. Same with H-Delay. The Punch control is their approach at doing something similar to an API sidechain filter.