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Pulsar VM-COMP Compressor Plug-In

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Pulsar VM-COMP Compressor Plug-In
Key Features
  • True Emulaion of Hardware Compressor
  • 100+ Presets and Modern Analyzers
  • Complete Side-Chain EQ
  • AU, VST2, VST3, AAX (Native)
The Pulsar VM-COMP Plug-In is an emulation of a variable-bias tube compressor that delivers smooth, transparent gain control, and it naturally glues buses, mixes, and masters together. An updated to Pulsar Mu, this plug-in features 100+ presets to get you close quickly, with zero-latency for tracking and oversampling for accuracy. Included tools included complete side-chain EQ, with lookahead and lookbehind features for smooth effects. The plug-in supports AU, VST2, VST3, and AAX protocols, allowing you to use it with most major DAWs running on Windows and Mac systems.
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Pulsar VM-COMP Overview

The Pulsar VM-COMP Plug-In is an emulation of a variable-bias tube compressor that delivers smooth, transparent gain control, and it naturally glues buses, mixes, and masters together. An updated to Pulsar Mu, this plug-in features 100+ presets to get you close quickly, with zero-latency for tracking and oversampling for accuracy. Included tools included complete side-chain EQ, with lookahead and lookbehind features for smooth effects. The plug-in supports AU, VST2, VST3, and AAX protocols, allowing you to use it with most major DAWs running on Windows and Mac systems.

Topology Preservation Technology
A perfect emulation of the original device's behavior. From the saturation of the magnetic flux in the transformers, to the precise response of the tubes, to the effects of tiny calibration defects, everything is perfectly reproduced.
Powerful Side-Chain EQ
High-passing the side-chain is possible with Pulsar VM-Comp, but so is a lot more, thanks to an entire side-chain EQ section. Five filter types are available here, along with band solo and side-chain audition to help perfectly tailor your signal and arrive at the ideal detection response.
Lookahead, Lookbehind
These innovative feature let you shift the timing of Pulsar VM-Comp's gain reduction compared to the input. Lookahead enables the VM-Comp to start reacting to transients even before they happen, ensuring perfect limiting. Conversely, lookbehind delays the gain reduction so that fast transients can be left unprocessed while the gain reduction kicks in after them. This opens up various possibilities like clipping transients separately after VM-Comp has done its work.
Mid-Side Processing
Pulsar VM-Comp comes with built-in optional M/S encoding and decoding, enabling a signal’s mono and stereo information to be processed separately with different settings.

The Listen buttons simplify the setting by allowing you to listen to the mid or side signals in isolation. The modern visualization can be set to monitor just the channel you’re working on, so you can focus on only the information you need to perform the task at hand.

External Side-Chain
Pulsar VM-Comp allows to define an external side-chain input. This opens a very wide range of applications—ducking, de-essing, filtering the side-chain signal with your favorite EQ, or even applying dynamic processing.
Advanced Metering Section
Gain reduction, input level, and output level are all visible in different ways. The scrolling gain reduction meter offers a view of gain reduction for the audio signal. VU-style metering shows instantaneous gain reduction for both stereo channels. LED-style input, output, and gain reduction meters are available to calibrate peak and RMS loudness.
Extended Attacks and Releases
Faster attacks and releases let you dial in a more aggressive, mid-forward timbres, which are impossible to achieve with the original unit. Discover more creative uses of this powerful color box—VM-Comp.
Low CPU Consumption
We spent a ridiculous amount of time optimizing VM-Comp to consume as few system resources as possibl despite the complex algorithms at work. Pulsar VM-Comp takes full advantage of modern CPUs to do more with less. But if your computer can stand it and you enjoy making it suffer, you can always turn oversampling on, processing at rates up to 384 kHz.

Pulsar VM-COMP Specs

Delivery Format
Download
License Type
Standard: Perpetual License
User Support
1 User
Standalone Operation
No
System Compatibility/Requirements
Operating System: Windows/macOS
Plug In Formats: AAX (Native) / AU / VST2 / VST3 
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