fircomp
Free compressor with perfect curves


Clean compressor with punchy attack, musical release, and optional lookahead smoothing, for tracks or busses. Zero/low latency and low CPU. Warm distortion at extreme settings.
Features

• Simple UI and fast workflow
• Attack stage tuned for punch. True zero attack (same-sample) when "0.0 ms" is selected
• Dual parallel release stage with musical, highly program-dependent behaviour. Avoids needing to use multiple compressors in series!
• Easy sidechain filtering options for common mixing situations
• Optional smooth digital FIR lookahead gain smoothing with perfect timing and no artefacts, resulting in the minimum possible distortion
• Low CPU DSP code written in a mix of C++ and SSE intrinsics. Insert on every track without a second thought!
• Fully 64-bit audio path used for all DSP calculations
• Zero latency with lookahead off. With lookahead on, compensated latency of 64, 128, or 256 samples depending on sample rate (approximately 1.3 to 1.5 ms)

Downloads, manual and other info:
https://jonvaudio.com/fircomp/

 

Sadly, VST3 only.

 

One of the best compressor plugin, and it's free.

 

What's wrong with VST3 in 2021? Even the lazy devs at Ableton Live implemented vst3.

Newer devs are not releasing vst2 version. Maybe it's a licensing decision by steinberg.

 

The same as in 2011 (and since 2008), I like to install the plugins in the folder of my choice and this is (often) not possible with VST3.

Yep, it's Steinberg's fault.

 

You can easily sort plugin.vst3 file after installation at CommonFIles/VST3 . I sort them by dev

 

As a Reaper user, no problem for me) it sounds fucking cool. I always install vst2 and vst3 if there are 2 versions to install, but use always vst2, as it is a very stable standard. Vst3 is only as extra addition installed, or use it if it is only existing/exclusive version.

Btw, fircomp version 2 coming soon. Will be paid, but not so much. Ver1 will be for free.

 

Gui is too abletoni but is free then is all good