A simple compressor VST using overdrivenpotato's vst2 library
This compressor has a fixed gain reduction (the Range parameter) instead of a traditional ratio control. When the sidechain signal is over the threshold, the signal is reduced by the given value, and the Ratio knob controls the sharpness of the sigmoid used to determine this.
Sort of like an inverse gate.
It gives an aggressive but consistent sound for ducking signals, sidechain pumping etc.
The topology is feed-forward, and the detector is RMS.
To build
cargo build --release
To build and bundle into a VST (OS X)
./cargo-bundle