Pro Series Compressor

The World’s First Matching and Component Based Studio Plug-Ins

Over the past decade, professional effects plug-ins have been about authentic analog emulation of original hardware, with either a black-box approach or circuit analysis and emulation. This gives musicians an easy-to-use user interface and faithful reproduction of analog tone in the digital domain.

Looking forward, the question is how we can create new tools to maximize the sound quality and usability with today’s new technology, with faster processors and memory, matching analysis, advanced nonlinear processing, and a cloud-based worldwide community. What can we do better, smarter, and more efficient?

Positive Grid teamed up the world’s brightest DSP engineers and component level modeling and matching authorities, working with the world’s leading producers, world-class engineers, and mixing & mastering gurus to develop some breakthrough technologies to bring software plug-ins to the next level.

Matching Compressor

The world’s first and unique compression matching works by measuring the dynamic response, pre and post filters, nonlinear transformer characteristics, and attack, release, and ratio curves to capture the nuanced sound of any compressor.

It accurately recreates the underlying architecture of the best compressors in the world, with the most intuitive user interface ever in a desktop plug-in. Audio engineers and musicians will now have virtual access to a wide assortment of the best compressors in the world, no longer limited by the traditional plugin architecture.

Tube Compressor

Models classic analog tube compressor at component level to add richness and fullness to the overall sound. You can instantly feel the difference by changing the input and output tubes, capacitors and transformers. Change the tubes and you can add a different harmonic characteristic and warmth to the sound, while changing capacitors and transformers colors the sound and brings up the high and low end.

Optical Compressor

It provides a careful emulation of the original optical compressor now at component level: you can even change capacitors to enrich the overall sound. We even modeled the light source and detector behavior, so you can fine tune and get the perfect attack and release characteristics by changing the light source, light source age, light source sensitivity, attack, and release knob.

FET Compressor

It captures the authentic sound and feel of the classic FET studio compressor thanks to its extremely accurate matching technology. At component level, it catches the peak very and applies compression with a very fast attack time, release time and look ahead function. It also filters out the low-end and high-end in its detector, so you can control the frequency range you want to trigger in the compression.

More Models…

Positive Grid is currently working with mixing and mastering gurus and engineers to create professional compressor match models made from recordings in leading studios. Stay tuned, as more is coming.

Features:

• 3 individual compressors: FET, Tube and Optical
• Profiling Technology captures any real world analog compressor nuance
• Component level modeling, virtually swap out components
• Extremely high quality audio processing architecture
• Download compressor profiles (coming soon)

System Requirements

Mac OS X:

• OS X 10.9 or later
• Audio Units, VST, RTAS, AAX Native
• 4GB of RAM minimal, 8GB or more recommended
• 400MB free disk space
• Pro Series plug-in requires A DAW software (Digital Audio Workstation) to host, it doesn’t have a Standalone version at this moment

Windows:

• Windows 7 (SP1) or Windows 8, Windows 10
• VST, RTAS, AAX Native
• 4GB of RAM minimal, 8GB or more recommended
• 1.5GHz Dual core processor minimal, 2.0GHz Dual core or more recommended
• 250MB free disk space for per version (32 or 64 bits)
• Pro Series plug-in requires A DAW software (Digital Audio Workstation) to host, it doesn’t have a Standalone version at this moment

Supported Hosts

• Ableton Live 8.0 or above
• Avid Pro Tools 10 or above
• Ardour 3.0 or above
• Apple Logic Pro 9.0 or above
• Apple GarageBand 6.0.5, 10.0 or above
• Bitwig Studio 1.0 and above
• Cakewalk Sonar X2 or above
• Cockos Reaper 3.4 or above
• Harrison Mixbus 2.0 or above
• Steinberg Cubase 5.0 or above
• Steinberg Nuendo 4.3 or above
• MuTools MuLab 6.0 or above
• PreSonus Studio One Producer/Professional 2 or above

Note: Pro Series plug-in requires A DAW software (Digital Audio Workstation) to host, it doesn’t have a Standalone version at this moment