Voxengo is happy to release version 2.1 of its Marquis Compressor plugin.  Marquis Compressor is a “universal” compressor AAX, AU, VST3 and VST plugin for professional music production applications.

Voxengo Marquis Compressor 400pxYou’ll find a very smooth compression performance in this compressor, coupled with a harmonically-rich sound, both suitable for mixing and mastering. Being “universal” this compressor can be used on a wide range of sound material: individual tracks, stems and mixes, producing “clean” or “colored” sound.

Changes in version 2.1:

  • Added "V.Soft" drive mode for minimal coloration.
  • Added Retina support on macOS, and automatic high-resolution UI size adjustment on Windows.
  • 25% lower CPU usage on AVX2-capable processors (in 64-bit mode).

Marquis Compressor plugin was built around a tube triode-modeled amplifier cascade.  At low Drive settings this cascade produces a mild harmonic coloration while at higher Drive settings you can get a brutal tube saturation which works great for drums, bass and vocals.  At moderate Drive settings this cascade can add a pleasant grit to the mix.

Marquis Compressor features a unique “round” signal level detection algorithm, which creates a very open, punchy, compressed sound with an impressive transient response.  Beside this, Marquis Compressor offers a classic feedback (opto) compression mode switchable to a more common feed-forward compression.

Marquis Compressor carries 3 distinctive compression algorithms, one of them (T3) being modeled after a classic analog compressor.  The Gate algorithm is also available which is handy at reducing drum bleed in drum tracks.

Marquis Compressor features:

  • 3 compressor modes
  • 4 amplifier modes
  • Feedback compression mode
  • Auto make-up gain
  • Gate/downward expander mode
  • External side-chaining
  • Key signal filtering
  • Stereo and multi-channel processing
  • Internal channel routing
  • Channel grouping
  • Up to 8x oversampling
  • 64-bit floating point processing
  • Preset manager
  • Undo/redo history
  • A/B comparisons
  • Contextual hint messages
  • All sample rates support
  • Zero processing latency
  • Retina and HighDPI support

Demo version of Voxengo Marquis Compressor and other pro audio plug-ins can be downloaded at the Voxengo web site at www.voxengo.com

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