Voxengo Crunchessor User Guide
Copyright © 2004-2018 Aleksey Vaneev
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Introduction
Crunchessor is a track compressor for professional sound and music production
applications. One of its main advantages is the ease of tuning, which at the same time
instantly delivers an excellent sonic performance. Another remarkable feature of
Crunchessor is its valve-type processing, which is applied in parallel to compression.
This makes Crunchessor an ideal choice for musicians and producers who are fond of
analog compression sound and its warmness.
Beside this, Crunchessor offers you a selection of compression coloration styles--by
itself a pretty unique feature for a compressor. By choosing an appropriate coloration
style, you can add the character most suitable for the sound material you are working
with. As an option, you can disable both coloration and valve warming processing to
get a neutral and clean compression sound.
Being a multi-purpose compressor, Crunchessor can be used for any kind of sound
material: drums, vocals, bass, guitars, synth sounds, etc. Crunchessor can be suitable
both for single track and whole mix processing. Crunchessor also accepts external
side-chain source signals and allows you to filter key signal sources before they are
used for compression.
Features
Easy compression tuning
Valve warmness
Coloration styles
External side-chaining
Key signal filtering
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
Zero processing latency
Compatibility
This audio plug-in can be loaded into any audio host application that conforms to the
AAX, AudioUnit, VST or VST3 plug-in specification.
This plug-in is compatible with Windows (32- and 64-bit Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
and later versions) and macOS (10.7 and later versions, 64-bit Intel processor-based)
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-
