PurestSquish is a compressor Audio Unit plugin for maximum transparency and organic squishiness!
I've designed it for the 2-buss, but it'll work for many things. It's got two basic modes: you can
use it very gently to 'float' the mix elements in a barely perceptible way, or you can lean into it
harder for more textural effects.

PurestSquish is one of the Purest line of plugins, which means certain things. It doesn't emulate any
known hardware device, it just brings the squishiness and fluidity to the sound while trying very hard
not to touch the tone color in ANY other way. These are transparent plugins, be careful about over-applying
it just to hear an effect. It also means PurestSquish is implemented using 80-bit math internally, with
carefully designed algorithms to apply the effect with as few math operations as possible. This is somewhat
controversial as the noise floor of these 'superfluous math operations' I'm avoiding is very low, but
typical plugins waste a lot of CPU overprocessing. The Purest line is about going the opposite direction,
as hard as possible.

Finally, one of the things PurestSquish has is a highpass on the sense circuit for bass. Using this, you
can bring hugeness to the lows of the mix. Since it's just on the sense it's not in the audio path, but
because the compressor 'turns down' what's a gain boost going in, the Bass Bloom control can be used like
it was a boost: apply the compressor, and then work in enough Bass Bloom to have a giant low end. This, plus
the way PurestSquish preserves textures going through it, makes it a fantastic compressor for cranking up the
size and scale of electronic music—or any sort of music, really! But the highpass Bass Bloom stuff comes
from EDM.

Shoot this out against any compressor, from Airwindows or otherwise. It really has its own sound, it really
is exaggerated as far as squishiness and transparency are concerned, and there is a real usefulness to applying
just only the compressedness to a mix. You can get your color or 'classic tone qualities' in lots of other ways.
PurestSquish is distilled squishiness, concentrated to keep the flavors of your mix pure while it changes the
texture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Wq9WU_3JE



PurestSquish is available for $50

More INFO: Airwindows | PurestSquish

 

This may be worth a tryout. I'll let you know when I do.