File size: 8.1 MB

Voxengo Polysquasher is a mastering compressor AAX, AudioUnit and VST plugin for professional sound and music production applications. Polysquasher was designed with a main goal: to be transparent. Transparent compression action is a cornerstone for any mastering compressor. Transparency of audio signal processing is necessary to preserve all existing elements in the mix, while compression itself is necessary to make the mix sound uniform to other mixes (tracks) and to make it sound more solid and “glued”.

Polysquasher achieves its goal by using a unique compression algorithm which requires a small number of parameters – basically threshold and ratio only – making this compressor a joy to use. More advanced settings are hidden in the “compressor mode editor” panel where you can create your own compressor modes that can be easily recalled later.

Polysquasher is best used as a finishing compressor inserted in the chain before the final mastering limiter.

Polysquasher also features real-time gain reduction and waveform graphs. Full multi-channel operation is supported.

Features:

Transparent compression sound

Real-time gain reduction graph

6 built-in compressor modes

Compressor mode editor

Stereo and multi-channel processing

Internal channel routing

Channel grouping

Mid/side processing

Up to 8x oversampling

64-bit floating point processing

Preset manager

Undo/redo history

A/B comparisons

Contextual hint messages

All sample rates support

22 ms compensated processing latency

User interface color schemes

Resizable user interface

Retina and HighDPI support

Demo limitations

Processing output is muted for a moment every 45 seconds.

Compatibility

This audio plugin can be loaded into any audio host application that conforms to the AudioUnit or VST plugin specification. Plugins with AAX version available can be loaded in ProTools 12+.

This plugin is compatible with Windows (32- and 64-bit Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and later versions) computers (2.5 GHz dual-core or faster processor with at least 4 GB of system RAM, SSE4.2 instructions support required, e.g. any Intel Core i-, AMD Bulldozer- or Zen-based processor). A separate binary distribution file is available for each target computer platform and audio plugin specification.

Compatible Windows plugin software: Cubase, Logic Pro, ProTools, Ableton Live, Reaper, Presonus Studio One, FL Studio, Cakewalk, Nuendo, WaveLab, GarageBand, Vegas, SoundForge, Audition, Samplitude, Digital Performer, Mixcraft, Bitwig Studio, Edius, others.

Whats New:

Added Retina support on macOS, and automatic high-resolution UI size adjustment on Windows.

30% lower CPU usage on AVX2-capable processors (in 64-bit mode).