Tokyo Dawn Labs releases Kotelnikov Standard and Kotelnikov Gentleman's Edition

2nd December 2014 - KVR Audio News

Tokyo Dawn Labs have released Kotelnikov, a high fidelity dynamics compressor.

As a descendant of the TDR Feedback Compressor product family, Kotelnikov has directly inherited several unique features such as a proven control scheme, individual release control for peak and RMS content, a user interface designed to be intuitive, and powerful, state of the art, high-precision algorithms.

With a sonic signature best described as "stealthy", Kotelnikov has the ability to manipulate the dynamic range by dramatic amounts, while carefully preserving the original tone, timbre and punch of a musical signal.

The Gentleman's Edition (Kotelnikov GE) adds several improvements to the standard edition's feature set, including access to various equal loudness workflows, the ability to specify ratio in a frequency dependent manner, as well as a sidechain high-pass filter that allows continuously variable access over slope and frequency. The Yin/Yang functions allow manipulating the harmonic pattern produced during compression, and a new "insane" quality mode increases processing fidelity even further.

Notable features:

64-bit floating point precision for all relevant calculations.
Multi-rate processing structure for highest accuracy.
"Delta" oversampled signal path (bit transparent at 0dB gain reduction).
Super fast, yet natural sounding compression.
Control scheme based on "Crest factor", offering independent release controls for peak and RMS events.
Frequency dependent ratio.
Flexible sidechain highpass filter offering continuously variable control over slope and frequency.
Support for equal loudness workflows.
Advanced stereo linking options optimized for the stereo bus.
Delta preview mode to preview the difference between compressed and original signal.
Equal loudness latency compensated bypass (processing doesn't interrupt).
Extensive documentation.