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Focusrite Fast Compressor Manual

GUI Overview

Learn Button

Start the learning process

Compression

Control the intensity of the
compression

Visualiser

Monitor the Compressor’s
influence

Meter

Monitor your output level

FAST/Detailed

Switch GUI between FAST View
and Detailed View

Flavour Buttons

Profile Dropdown

Select a profile that best
matches your audio material

Input

Set your Input Gain

Output

Manually set your Output Gain

A button

Enable the automatic Output
Gain (Makeup Gain)

Compressor Display

Learn Section

Summary of Contents for Sonible Fast

Page 1: ...1 Focusrite Fast Compressor Manual Manual...

Page 2: ...ast Compressor Manual Contents Introduction 3 Feature Overview 4 User Interface Overview 5 FAST And Detailed View 6 Learning and 7 Automatic Compression Fine Tune your Sound 9 Global Control Section 1...

Page 3: ...hat finds the most appropriate compression param eters for your audio tracks in just a few seconds With the ability to learn from your input signal the plug in assists you in your mixing tasks Like al...

Page 4: ...to keep in the creative flow while Detailed View provides deeper control over parameters Flavour Buttons Three Flavour buttons allow you to quickly select a Soft Neutral or Hard compression style Spec...

Page 5: ...nfluence Meter Monitor your output level FAST Detailed Switch GUI between FAST View and Detailed View Flavour Buttons Profile Dropdown Select a profile that best matches your audio material Input Set...

Page 6: ...ed View by clicking on the two buttons in the upper left corner of the Waveform Display FAST View is designed to give you optimised controls to keep in the creative zone In this mode you only see the...

Page 7: ...al You can now see the input signal grey and the compressed signal red in the interactive Waveform Display If you want FAST Compressor to learn from a different section of your signal you can simply s...

Page 8: ...dle in FAST View or the additional parame ter available in Detailed View Read the section Fine tune your Sound in Detailed View on page 9 for more details Resetting a Flavour If you manually modified...

Page 9: ...nal all signal components above the threshold are compressed the output gain often called make up gain helps bring the average overall level back up FAST Compressor will automatically set the right ma...

Page 10: ...d to any signal that goes over the Threshold Attack The Attack defines the time it takes for the signal to become fully compressed after exceeding the Thresh old level Increasing the attack time leads...

Page 11: ...he dry original signal For example at a setting of 0 100 your will only hear the compressed signal while a setting of 50 50 leads to a mix of 50 compressed signal and 50 dry input signal This makes it...

Page 12: ...set or change its name go to the preset folder in your local file explorer You can also easily share your presets among different workstations All presets are saved with the file extension spr to the...

Page 13: ...iew by default Show Tooltips Global Setting Disable this option if you want to hide tooltips Use OpenGL Global Setting If you are experiencing graphic problems e g rendering problems you can try to di...

Page 14: ...Manual 1 1 2 2 License Information This section shows the license information for your plug in Help Center Visit the Help Center to e g manage your subscriptions or download new plug ins and the lates...