A rather good sounding compressor, but there are a few issues.
1. No make-up or output gain. I don't think I have to elaborate on why this is a problem for a comrpressor.
2. Oversampling is a CPU hog. And I think I know why.
2a. x8 is an overkill for a compressor.
2b. Judging by what is written in the description, it needlessly upsamples Mid and Side signal, which turns x8 oversampling into x16 CPU usage for no reason, as Mid-Side can be converted from Left-Right and back with no data loss at any point. After upsampling, for example.
So yeah, would like to use it, but can't use oversampling as it eats 50% of my CPU power and have to use a separate gain plugin after (and before too actually) this one to properly gain-stage.
THIS POST HAS BEEN REMOVED
THIS POST HAS BEEN REMOVED
Just wanted to ask something about Olitanh.
It seems like the compressor only works on the distorted signal. Is this how it is supposed to be?
I just think that the plug-in would be way more versatile if you could compress the signal without engaging any drive. The amount of driven signal you need to mix in for the compression to actually be audible is too much to be very useful. Otherwise, this seems like a very nice plug-in! If you could add the option to switch between only compressing the distorted signal and compressing the whole signal, this could probably be one of my favorites of the KVR Developer Challenge -21.
/Jon.
Thanks for asking. Yes, Olitanh is foremost distortion effect, with added benefit of compressor. But there is very little waveshaping if you set Drive to 0db (unless input signal is very hot, above 0dbFS) and with Threshold at -18db the compressor should kick in before any distortion happens.
One more question: do the attack and release values correspond to ms or something else? It would be good to know for fast workflow.
/Jon.
Attack and Release curves are also program dependent, therefore values do not represent absolute time.
Please log in to join the discussion
Submit: News, Plugins, Hosts & Apps | Advertise @ KVR | Developer Account | About KVR / Contact Us | Privacy Statement | Sell @ KVR | KVR Marketplace Terms & Conditions
© KVR Audio, Inc. 2000-2026
