Krossbow

If a Compressor and a Transient Shaper gave birth.

Krossbow looks like a Compressor but it works totally different, it doesn't feature a Threshold or Ratio setting. It dynamically ducks the gain towards the desired 'Maximum Reduction' based on the incoming signal. Once the yellow ‘Reduction’ needle reaches the orange ‘MAX Reduction’ needle, no gain-reduction takes place, leaving the rest of your dynamics untouched.

Sculpt and Enhance the Attack, Punch and Impact of your audio. Or perfectly level out vocals to a desired maximum reduction, without leaving unwanted artifacts, flattened dynamics and distortion behind. Emphasize the Impactful parts of your Audio while leaving the Natural dynamics intact. Or precisely control dynamics without unwanted compression distortion.

But how does it do this?

Usecases

• Enhancing the Dynamical Impact of Kicks, Bass, Synths, Drums and other Instrument
• Breathe life into the Drum bus (Please try this)
• Glue Instruments/Synths and Percussive Elements together
• Recover Dynamic Depth of Heavily Processed/Flattened Elements
• Better Dynamics for cleaner Post Processing like Distortion/Clipping
• Leveling Vocals
• Many more to explore!

Features

• Reduction Amount
• MAX Reduction
• Attack
• Release
• External Sidechain Mode
• 2 Needle Response Modes (Visual)
• 2x to 32x Oversampling
• 8 Oversampling filter types
• Lookahead (0 - 50ms)

Compressors persist in their compression even after the desired impact enhancement has been achieved, which is not desired in many cases. That's why Krossbow was Invented. So you don't mess up unnecessary aspects of your Dynamics, trying to gain some Punch.

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