Comprehensive Multiband Compressor Plug-in
Who doesn’t love a professional plug-in that’s also easy to use? That’s precisely what Minimal Audio’s Fuse Compressor is. Over 40 presets, tooltips, and auto-attack/release times will get beginners great results quickly, and professionals will relish all the additional firepower. Fuse Compressor lets you apply upward and downward compression styles simultaneously across six bands with per-band settings and macro controls that can adjust them all together. Mid-side and Stereo modes and channel linking help you shape your stereo image, and the Tilt control skews your compression toward higher/lower frequencies. Finally, the Soft-knee setting and a softclip limiter help glue everything together.
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Lots to love
It didn’t take our Sweetwater studio engineers long to discover that there’s a lot underneath the hood of the Fuse Compressor. It uses up to six individual bands of compression simultaneously, with per-band settings for thresholds, ratios, bypass, and more. This might seem par for the course at first, but Fuse Compressor’s ability to apply both upward and downward styles of compression at the same time is special. Macro controls also let you adjust controls for the bands simultaneously for uniformity across your compression settings. The Soft-knee setting controls how smoothly compression gets applied as input crosses the threshold.
Tools for fusing the mix together
The Fuse Compressor has several tools typically found in multiband compressors meant for mastering applications. First, its softclip limiter adds some glue to your mix, ranging from subtle and transparent to punchy and saturated. Next, Mid-side and Stereo modes and channel linking give you ultra-precise control over your stereo image. Then, the Tilt control affects how your compression applies across low-to-high frequencies. Finally, the Fuse Compressor’s dynamic spectrum display gives you excellent visual feedback to see exactly how your compression settings are behaving.
Professional features yet beginner friendly
Although the Fuse Compressor is a robust plug-in laden with professional features, it’s easy for beginners to learn how to use it quickly and effectively. Adaptive Time control provides program-dependent auto-attack and auto-release times that intelligently adjust to your tracks and mixes. You’ll also get over 40 presets that have been expertly designed to tackle a wide variety of use cases so that you can get excellent dynamics control in just a few clicks. Additionally, the Fuse Compressor features detailed in-app tooltips that guide you as you explore every nook and cranny.
Minimal Audio Fuse Compressor Features:
- Use up to 6 bands of compression simultaneously with per-band settings, like thresholds, ratios, makeup gain, bypass, and solo
- Apply upward and downward compression styles
- Tilt control increases/decreases compression across low-to-high frequencies
- Adaptive Time control gives you auto-attack and auto-release times that create more transparent or more dynamic compression sounds
- Macro controls let you adjust every band’s thresholds or ratios simultaneously
- Mid-side and Stereo modes and channel linking
- Soft-knee setting controls how smoothly compression gets applied as input crosses the threshold
- Softclip limiter glues your mix together with either gentle limiting or more punchy saturation
- Dynamic spectrum display provides excellent visual feedback to see exactly how your compression settings are behaving
- Over 40 professionally crafted presets instantly give you excellent results for a wide variety of situations
- In-app tooltips greatly facilitate learning how the compressor works
