Reflex Acoustics releases PlugMaster – eight-band automatic compressor/gate/saturator plugin

Reflex Acoustics has released PlugMaster, a multiband master bus processor that combines eight frequency bands of independent mid & side compression, gating and saturation.

From the company:

Many of us love the sound of multiband compression, but it can be challenging from a workflow perspective calibrating the required controls for threshold, drive and make-up gain on each band. Especially as such calibration rarely works across an entire project with its rising and falling loudness levels. PlugMaster rides these parameters automatically, with the goal of providing a consistent amount of gain reduction through quiet and loud sections, all while staying gain-matched and largely EQ-neutral.

Features:

• Eight frequency bands, separated by perfect-reconstruction crossover filters.
• Per-band Compression and Saturation amount controls (double-click the gain reduction display to activate).
• Automatic threshold—use the "Compression" knobs to control how far the threshold rides below the peaks in the signal.
• Frequency-dependent attack timing designed to preserve transients.
• Variable global release time.
• Simple multiband gate with adjustable range up to 6dB.
• Subtle multiband saturation with automatic gain-staging on each band (oversampled if project sample rate is below 80kHz).
• Parallel processing via dual gain-matched dry/wet mix controls for dynamics and saturation.
• Automatic make-up gain to match perceived loudness.
• Mid-side processing (100% unlinked).

The device has ~14ms latency, and is available now in VST3 format for PC, and VST3 & AU formats for Mac, with AAX support coming soon.

Pricing is $85 from reflex-acoustics.com, where you can also download a free demo version with no time limits or silence/noise insertion.