FabFilter Pro-C 2 Compressor Plug-in

High Quality Compressor plug-in with 8 different, program-dependent compression styles all with beautiful sound and character

FabFilter Pro-C 2 is not just a good sounding compressor, Pro-C 2 is a superb stereo compressor with all the tricks up its sleeve that you will ever need. With its different compression styles and options like mid/side compression and side-chaining with optional EQ filtering, it can work in any desired way. Whether mastering or mixing, Pro-C 2 will do the job with lots of style.

Pro-C 2 offers eight different, program-dependent compression styles with beautiful sound and character. But there's more! Apart from the classic compressor controls, you also get smooth lookahead, up to 4x oversampling, intelligent auto-gain and auto-release, a variable knee, hold, range, external side-chain triggering, variable stereo linking and mid/side processing, all packed in a beautiful Retina user interface.

Pro-C 2 Features

• Eight different compression styles, of which five are new in version 2: Vocal, Mastering, Bus, Punch and Pumping
• Range setting, which limits the maximum applied gain change
• Gorgeous Retina interface, with (optional) animated level knee displays and accurate peak/loudness metering
• Mix setting, which scales the gain change from 0% to 200%
• Side-chain EQ section, with customizable HP and LP filters, plus an additional freely adjustable filter
• Full Screen mode, offering a large level display and side-chain EQ controller
• Program-dependent attack and release curves
• Accurate, large level and gain change meters, with peak and loudness level visualization. The loudness level complies with the Momentary mode of the EBU R128 / ITU-R 1770 standards
• Smooth lookahead (up to 20 ms), which can be enabled/disabled to ensure zero latency processing
• Retina support on OS X and High DPI support on Windows
• Intelligent Auto Gain
• External side chain triggering
• Hold (up to 500 ms)
• GPU-powered graphics acceleration
• Custom knee, variable from hard knee to a 72 dB soft knee (to enable saturation-like effects)
• Stereo and mono plug-ins available
• Auto Release
• Optional MIDI triggering
• Super-fast attack times
• Supports common Pro Tools hardware control surfaces
• Up to 4x oversampling
• MIDI Learn
• Variable stereo linking and mid/side processing, with mid-only, side-only, M > S and S > M processing.
• Undo/redo and A/B comparison
• Audition Triggering option, which enables users to hear on which parts of the audio Pro-C 2 is triggering and how much compression is taking place
• Smart Parameter Interpolation
• Multiple interface sizes: Small, Medium and Large
• Sample-accurate automation of all parameters
• Extensive help file with interactive help hints
• Available in VST, VST3, Audio Units, AAX Native and AudioSuite formats (all both 64-bit and 32-bit)