hi Aleksey, I have noticed something with the Marquis compressor which prevents me from using the Dry Knob.  When I am using very hard compression settings, as soon as I bring up the Dry knob, the output gets EXTREMELY loud.  When sitting at around 50% it is the loudest and at 0% and 100% the output is EXTREMELY soft.

Try some seriously hard compression, threshold -40 db, ratio 50:1 and you'll see it immediately.

WARNING: Put a limiter after it or you'll blow your speakers ! :D

Any idea why this happens ?  I find the behaviour very confusing.  OH and by the way, this is the finest compresssor I have heard in native VST land, and I have heard ALL of them ! :D

Cheers
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This behavior is to be expected.  If you do not want it you can disable the 'Makeup' (make-up gain) function.

On the other hand, I may add some fixes to this make-up gain calculation in the future.

Sounds good Aleksey, I guess the biggest difficulty would be maintaining compatibility with previous versions when adding a new make-up gain mode but I agree that it could be improved to make the use of the Dry knob a lot more predictable.

Just an idea...
- Do make-up gain the same way as most other compressors (i.e.  currently it's based on an average ?  instead of peak level)
- Then the Dry portion of the sound does not go through makeup gain at all and you have a very simple wet / dry control between this compressed output and the original sound.

Just a few thoughts, keep up the awesome work !
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Speaking of other compressors, they use exactly the peak level.  I was trying to use average level.  However, I also add Dry gain into equation - this is probably adding its complexities, because equation is non-linear.

In the worst case, it may be a problem within the equation itself (maybe I've simply overlooked something).  But I won't be able to fix anything in this version due to backwards compatibility requirement.  However, this can be done in the next version branch.

Cool, sounds good :D Thanks for your time and help

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