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Crunchessor is a general-purpose track compressor for professional audio production applications.  One of its main advantages is the ease of tuning, which at the same time instantly delivers an excellent sonic performance.  Another remarkable feature of Crunchessor is its valve-type processing, which is applied in parallel to compression.  This makes Crunchessor an ideal choice for musicians and producers who are fond of analog compression sound and its warmness.

Beside this, Crunchessor offers you a selection of compression coloration styles--by itself a pretty unique feature for a compressor.  By choosing an appropriate coloration style, you can add the character most suitable for the sound material you are working with.  As an option, you can disable both coloration and valve warming processing to get a neutral and clean compression sound.

Crunchessor also accepts external side-chain source signals and allows you to filter key signal sources before they are used for compression.

Being a general-purpose compressor, Crunchessor can be used for any kind of sound material: drums, vocals, bass, guitars, synth sounds, etc.  Crunchessor can be suitable both for single track and whole mix processing.  Full multi-channel operation is supported.

• Easy compression tuning
• Valve warmness
• Coloration styles
• External side-chaining
• Key signal filtering
• Multi-channel processing
• Internal channel routing
• Channel grouping
• Mid/side processing
• Up to 8x oversampling
• 64-bit floating point processing
• Preset manager
• Undo/redo history
• A/B comparisons
• Contextual hint messages

This plug-in can be loaded into any audio host application that conforms to the VST or AudioUnit plug-in specification.

This plug-in is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit) and Mac OS X 10.4.11 and above (Intel and PowerPC) computers (2 GHz dual-core or faster processor with at least 1 GB of system RAM recommended).  A separate binary distribution file is available for each target computer platform for each plug-in format.

Version 2.4, 11-dec-2008:

• Additional graphics optimizations implemented.
• "VST built-in refresh" global option added.
• User filter presets can be stored now.
• Quick main and routing preset selectors added.
• The "Auto" oversampling mode was fixed for most hosts.

Version 2.3, 30-sep-2008:

• Various graphics optimizations implemented.
• Additional filter band to key filter was added.
• Side-chain operation issue in Logic Pro 7 fixed.
• Channel groups can be named now.

Version 2.2, 11-jun-2008:

• Minor internal fixes.
• "Copy to" list is now displayed correctly.
• Virtual keyboard implemented.
• Output/input signal level difference readout added.
• A hang up related to knob operation in Orion Platinum fixed.
• Channel group output soloing implemented.

Version 2.1, 20-may-2008:

• External side-chain now works correctly in Sonar.
• A crash in Logic/Mac OS X when plug-in is used in Mono mode was fixed.
• Glitching sounds appearing in Logic/Mac OS X fixed.

Version 2.0, 15-may-2008:
Initial public release.

Changes in version 2 over version 1:

• Multi-channel support
• Multi-platform support
• Wet/dry mix
• Custom key filter adjustments
• Undo/redo
• Routing matrix
• Mid/side processing
• Preset manager
• User interface coloration
• User interface re-scaling
• Channel grouping
• Plug-in instance naming
• Selectable oversampling level
• Bypass switch
• In Gain control removed (it is superfluous)
• Better metering