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Transform Your Tracks With The Dynamic Duo!
The Ultimate Full Spectrum Audio Sweetener
Designed by a team of award-winning engineers to offer their most useful and most essential harmonic enhancement techniques in one centralized plug-in.
The resulting colour palette is a fast lane to pro-sounding records.
This full-spectrum enhancer will add punch, thickness, depth, warmth, edge and grit to all your tracks.
A Complete Color Palette
Sugar is an audio colour palette based on classic tricks used by top engineers to achieve great tones. Professional mixing engineers spend years refining techniques and processes to create the magical sounds the public hears on finished records. Beyond straight EQ and compression, these top engineers use processes that can be complicated to set up and tweak and often require expensive gear to achieve.
Sugar is a shortcut to those punchy kick drums, thick basses, sharp snares, edgy guitars, airy and creamy vocals, warm mixes and wide masters, and much more.
Sugar saves time by centralizing these processes in one analogue-inspired plug-in without sacrificing the ability to fine-tune for a professional experience. Sugar's four effects are routed in parallel processing and work in mono, stereo and M/S (Mid-Side) mode.
Sugar's signal flow is straightforward: the chosen effects are blended with the dry signal and routed through a High-Pass/Low-Pass linear phase filter combination to reign in the extreme amount of energy Sugar can add to the raw signal (There can be such thing as too much Sugar). This blended signal is then run through the Saturation section of the plug-in, where three carefully chosen saturation algorithms can tame unruly transients, add more grit to your sound, or simply destroy it in devastatingly creative ways.
Sugar's interface is designed to streamline necessary but otherwise repetitive tasks and to allow engineers to dial in the perfect setting very fast and intuitively so they can focus on the music, not the tools.
4 Faders, 8 Colors
Professionals always add more punch, thickness, warmth, width, edge or air to their tracks. Sugar helps you achieve what you are looking for faster than ever. Select a colour. Push a fader.
3 Types of Saturation
Give your sound that polished analogue feel, add more grit or simply tame unruly transients with one of the three carefully selected saturation algorithms.
A Unique Jog Wheel Control
The 4 Sugar bands are processing your sound in parallel and work in mono, stereo or M/S mode. Once you have found the proper balance that suits your sound, use the jog wheel in order to intuitively add more or less Sugar.
Linear Phase Filters
High-pass and low-pass filters are used in order to reign-in bursts of energy. Sugar's filters and the 4 band crossovers are all linear phase in order to allow for mastering-grade processing and avoid phase issues.
A Linear Phase Delight
Sugar's four crossover bands and LP & HP filters are built on high-grade linear-phase technology to avoid any of the common phase issues associated with parallel processing. This makes Sugar safe for 2-mix or mastering duties by guaranteeing the integrity of the source signal.
Sugar Learning Center
To cut the user's learning curve of this new tool, PROCESS.AUDIO created an expansive Learning Center featuring many video tutorials on how to best use Sugar on distinct audio sources, as well as a thorough run-through of all the features.
Sugar owners can also enjoy a full 20-minute mixing video tutorial by prominent engineer Fab Dupont, demonstrating how he exclusively used Sugar to mix the soundtrack of the plug-in's release video. Users can freely download the source session of the mix and look at the settings in their own DAW. The session is available in Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Studio One, and Ableton formats.
Features
- 4 bands of processing (Low, Mid, High, Air), with 2 different colours per band
- 8 Colors: Thick, Punch, Warm, Broad, Shine, Excite, Yin, Yang
- Jog wheel blending knob
- High-pass and Low-pass filters for fine-tuning
- 3 Saturation circuits: Drive, Distort and Destroy
- Linear Phase Mode for the 4 band crossovers and the 2 filters
- Level Management to prevent bursts of energy
- FX-only switch in order to hear what Sugar adds to your sound
- Input/Output gain
- Works in mono, stereo and M/S mode
Learn more about Sugar.
Modern Tube Compressor
Vari-MU = Vari-Glue
The COMP.TWO plugin is a faithful emulation of the German-built hardware compressor by Rockruepel (Rock-bully in English). It is an all-tube vari-mu design, meaning there are no transistor stages in the circuit. Ideal for adding glue to your mix.
The Rockruepel History
Oliver Gregor, soldering iron in hand, has been building all sorts of machines since kindergarten. It is during his tenure as a tech at Skyline Studios in Düsseldorf that his love for music and electrical engineering merged into a relentless quest for creating the best audio equipment.
Oliver's focus on tube circuitry led him to explore how to elevate vari-mu compressor designs to meet the needs of the modern workflow and 21st-century sonics. He quickly realized that to be the most useful, a modern tube compressor had to be faster, have higher headroom, and have a more extensive feature set than what was available. The COMP.TWO is the logical evolution of COMP ONE and the culmination of 20 years of research, development, testing, and incorporation of user feedback.
Amp Only & Transformers
The appeal of a compressor is as much the inherent sound of the unit as its ability to compress material. Using the same type of output tubes as the old Altec and RS124 compressors and with beautifully sounding Sowter transformers in the output stage, the COMP.TWO is also a great vibe box, with or without compression.
When PROCESS AUDIO's owner, Fab Dupont, first tried the original COMP ONE hardware years ago, he immediately requested to be able to use the compressor just as a tone box. Rockruepel added the AMP ONLY feature, and it's there on the COMP.TWO.
One+Time=Two
A compressor is only as useful as its side chain is smart and flexible. Through years of refinement Oliver made sure that COMP.TWO has none of the limitations of traditional monolithic vari-mu circuits and can be as clean or as dirty as you need, as fast as an 1176 or as slow as a Fairchild, all with the texture and tone of a classic tube compressor.
Modern Controls
The team at PROCESS.AUDIO captured and recreated every nuance of the hardware and added its signature set of controls, like the Console Remote which lets you control all instances of the COMP.TWO plugin from a central interface, MS capabilities, high-pass filter on a sidechain, DRY/WET control, and of course, lots of presets designed by world-class producers and mixers.
Visualisation
Compression can be tricky to perceive, so PROCESS.AUDIO created a visually pleasing and easily readable gain reduction visualizer to aid in precise gain matching and provide a true understanding of the impact of the settings on the program material. That's in addition to faithfully recreating the two gorgeous VU meters of the hardware units.
100+ Professional Presets
Presets made for drums, guitar, synth, bass, and even full mixes. Get that perfect sound instantly.
Features
- Hardware emulation: Vari-mu compression emulated from the original unit
- Amp only mode: Bypass the compression circuit and only hear the tubes and transformers vides
- Clean Amp: Bypass the hardware transformers and have a more clean signal
- Single or dual mono detection signal depending on the chosen mode
- Mid/Side processing
- Separated Dry/Wet knobs for both channels
- In/Out link to keep the feeling of a constant volume
- Remotre control: Remote console to see and control all your COMP.TWO instances
- Visualizer: Visualizer section to monitor levels and compression amount
- Presets: 80+ factory presets
- Oversampling: Oversampling option from None to x16
Learn more about COMP.TWO.
System Requirements
Mac
- macOS 10.13 - macOS 12 Monterey (Apple Silicon Compatible)
- Apple Silicon or Intel Core i5 @ 1.7 – 2.2 GHz or better CPU speed
- AU, AAX, VST and Standalone formats
- Decibel uses OpenGL GPU acceleration and requires a modern Nvidia or ATI Radeon graphics card - Older cards not optimized for OpenGL will overload your CPU
- iLok account for authorisation - iLok Cloud or Physical (iLok 2+)
Windows
- Windows 8.1 - Windows 10 (64-bit only)
- Intel Core i5 @ 1.7 – 2.2 GHz or better CPU speed
- AAX, VST, and Standalone formats
- Decibel uses OpenGL GPU acceleration and requires a modern Nvidia or ATI Radeon graphics card - Older cards not optimized for OpenGL will overload your CPU
- iLok account for authorisation - iLok Cloud or Physical (iLok 2+)
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