Guys recommend me a good ADSR plugin that can be used after strong compression?

 

New Fangled Articulate

Description from sister site on 1/16:
"Take control of your mix with Articulate, the next generation envelope shaper that makes fixing dynamics as simple as using an EQ. More than a transient shaper, Articulate separates your audio into four bands: Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release. By dialing in the desired level on the corresponding fader, you can instantly add Smack, Punch, Body, and Air to any source."

 

So you're squashing down all the transients with heavy compression and then want to put them back? Why not use the right tool to start with like @clone said?

 

I want to control the crest factor in multiband processing for few tracks. Build a chain comp + adsr + limit ,and I'm trying to find a good Adsr plugin

 

Last edited: Jan 21, 2026 at 7:33 PM

Never heard of an 'ADSR' plugin?
Maybe you're referring to a transient designer?

 

Yes, transient shaper
I haven't seen any other plugins like Articulate. With parameters like attack, decay, sustain, and release. Is that something unique?

 

Maybe also take a look at Kilohearts Snap Heap (w all snap-ins) - it's included in the last Kilohearts bundle from V.R.. It provides ADSR type control over envelope as well.

 

This is why I suggested it. I use transient shapers all the time, and it’s not the same thing. Articulate is especially interesting post-compression, like you were asking about. I remembered reading the description of this plugin on Audioz only a few days ago and use in this scenario becomes pretty obvious.

This use case, not the plugin itself, because it wasn't out yet, is quickly mentioned in one of the Jaycen Joshua MWTM videos (maybe Critical Listening, but I don’t remember which one at this point). People have been using multiple compressors in series forever, so adding a transient shaper, or Articulate now that it exists isn’t really a new idea. Since the guy is most known maybe, for the transients in his mixes it's kind of obvious to look at what he is doing, or not doing; to them. In his newest video, he's talking about almost this same subject but about how you can work around the adaptive limiter in The God Particle by simply lowering the input side and raising the limiter parameter by the exact same inverse parameter value. Every dB down on input is a dB up on the limiter control, kind of like Kclip3 settings to do CTZ.

Sometimes a waveform needs heavy compression across the whole signal, but the compressor you’ve selected won’t let you dial the attack just enough to preserve the initial transient without clamping down harder than you want. Think UA plugins, great before shaping because you crush dynamics "musically" but the emulated compressor model doesn’t let you dial in exact attack/release behavior the way a modern compressor does. Maybe there is a way to do all of this in only Fabfilter Pro-C3 now

If it is unique to this plugin, it probably won't be for very long. Everything gets copied.