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Starship Krupa · Post by **Starship Krupa** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:51 am

Hello,

I'm posting because I just tried out the MModernCompressor that is on sale for a few more hours.

I love the MeldaProduction freebies; a few of them, such as MCompressor, wind up in every project that I do.

I've been waiting for something of interest to come up in the "madness" sales so that I could contribute some of my meager funds to MeldaProduction and also experience a full-blown paid-for Melda plug-in.

Since MCompressor is my favorite compressor, I had high hopes for MModernCompressor, but I couldn't get it to work any better than MCompressor, and I really miss MCompressor's horizontal meter flailing away in front of my face as I'm dialing it in.

I suspect that there may be, as I have discovered with MeldaProduction products, a whole world of hidden features that I just haven't pushed the right button to discover.

Anyway, I started too late and the sale is running out. I may just buy it anyway.

vectorwarrior · Post by **vectorwarrior** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 2:33 pm

I have the total bundle and never use modern compressor. I'd recommend mdynamicsMB as the ultimate compressor. Or if you want a 'flavor' compressor, Turbo compressor.

jmg8 · Post by **jmg8** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:40 pm

TurboComp is the one. It's will emulate older compressors but also you can make your own style with it too, so it could also be super transparent. It also has dynamic eq built into it too. I would save and get it best value for money and the best comp on the market.

vectorwarrior · Post by **vectorwarrior** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 8:10 pm

Actually, that's true, I was forgetting about the edit button with Turbo Compressor, it's pretty insanely powerful.

Tagirijus · Post by **Tagirijus** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:39 am

I also mainly use MTurboCompressor as my to-go compressor now. Not with any of the active presets though, but with an own active preset. It's a very powerful and very fast to handle tool.

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:35 pm

Ha! You made another preset? Share it! Share it now!

Starship Krupa · Post by **Starship Krupa** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 11:48 pm

Oh dear, it seems the consensus so far is that nobody here actually uses MModernCompressor, and the discussion has even turned to MTurboCompressor. No love for MModernCompressor.

Well, I bought it anyway, the price was right and it seemed like it might be fun to play with. I've never seen a compressor with modulators before. No idea yet what use they might be.

The thing I miss most from MCompressor is the main horizontal meter. That meter is what made MCompressor the most useful compressor for me when I was learning how to use a compressor, because it illustrates what was happening to the signal level, what the knee looked like, where the threshold was, etc. All right there in front of me.

vectorwarrior · Post by **vectorwarrior** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:00 am

Well, dont feel bad, it's still a good compressor. It also has a unique feature that none of the other compressors have; the dynamic range/level distribution section, it's pretty cool.

jmg8 · Post by **jmg8** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:57 am

Yes, it is a good compressor. In fact I really love the "level distribution" graph. If you don't already understand this, you should start by fully learning this. Some plugins like iZotope call it a histogram. In fact I only know of iZotope that have this, it is not very common. Depending on what you are using the compressor for it can be super useful for setting the threshold in the perfect spot. It can show you where the levels are most common, so you can make the compressor work its magic in exactly the right spot. No other compressor in Melda has this.
If you need more help understanding the level distribution graph, just come back here and I will help you.
Have fun!

Thavma · Post by **Thavma** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:09 pm

I use it all the time , also for its sidechain feature! I love it it can smack the transients or anything else! it has lookahead too

Tagirijus · Post by **Tagirijus** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:45 pm

MeldaProduction wrote:Ha! You made another preset? Share it! Share it now!

Hehe, Vojtech. The thing is that I did not follow the typical MTurboCompressor Active Preset layout:

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... that's why I did not send you this preset. But maybe you or someone else still will find this preset useful.

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:29 pm

Cool

. I'd say, submit it to preset exchange

.

Tagirijus · Post by **Tagirijus** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 6:27 pm

MeldaProduction wrote:Cool . I'd say, submit it to preset exchange .

Oh right. I forget this feature all the time. Uploaded!

Starship Krupa · Post by **Starship Krupa** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:11 am

Okay, I have found some more time to mess about with MModernCompressor and my greatest point of confusion at the moment is use and adjustment of the Dynamic Level control. It seems sometimes to affect the results I get when I click Auto Compression, but I don't understand how.

I grasp the idea of Requested Dynamic Range, that's pretty easy to understand. After you let the compressor analyze your program material, you set it for how much dynamic range you want it to have and then hit the Auto Compression button and then it looks like it sets Threshold and Ratio for you.

If I slide the Dynamic Level around, and click Auto Compression, it also changes the Threshold and Ratio, but I don't know based on what. Left seems to be "higher threshold/higher ratio," and right seems to be the opposite on the kick drum channel I'm playing around with, but that's about as far as I've gotten toward figuring it out.

I figured out what he means by "Simply put, when the current level is above this dynamic range, it means the audio is currently louder than it is most of the time. Similarly, when the current level is below this dynamic range, it means the audio is currently quieter than it is most of the time," which took more brain power than figuring out the blue lines in hockey, but what I can't figure out is okay, then, what does moving the red slider make the thing DO, apart from making the black rectangle taller?

And what exactly does the black rectangle signify? I suspect that the red slider and the black rectangle are important keys to understanding what is so cool about this compressor, so help me, please. I think I'm almost there.

jmg8 wrote: If you need more help understanding the level distribution graph, just come back here and I will help you.
Have fun!

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 4:06 pm

You need to set Attak/Release and other detector settings and then perform the analysis and it will show the "level distribution". Then move the read vertical line in the graph it will show what the dynamic range you have at certain percentage. Then set how much you actually want and it will set the threshold and ratio to make that happen.