A variable-knee compressor, able to mimic the behavior of both hard- and soft-knee compressor units. Featuring both normal and vintage-style compression types, it offers both transparent and warm analog-sounding compression. An intuitive animated compression curve graph allows you to see the signal level, compression ratio and knee settings visually and you can tweak the curve directly using your mouse.

Manual attack and release settings are included, as well as TCR (Transient Controlled Release), a special algorithm that adjusts the release time on-the-fly, avoiding fast compression changes and thus reducing "pumping and breathing" effects.

fx:compressor also sports a built-in peak limiter, meaning there's no need to worry about distortion caused by clipped waveform peaks even if you boost the output gain heavily. Finally, input, output and gain reduction meters let you easily monitor the compression process from start to finish.