REQ: HoRNet Plugins SyncPressor

SyncPressor is a dynamics processor designed for the master bus, it’s a collaboration between HoRNet Plugins and Antonio Porcelli, a top Italian mixing engineer and it’s a plugin that aim to provide “glue” to your mix while being transparent.

The effect is accomplished using a simple assumption: the compression moves dynamically with the track so attack and release time should be set according to the track’s tempo, for this reason in SyncPressor you will not find the usual attack and release knobs, but two dropdown that use time divisions relative to the compressor’s internal tempo, which in turn can be synched to the DAW, set manually or automatically detected from the audio.

With this trick the time constants of the compressor will always be set to a useful amount for your track and will never work “against” it.

HoRNet SyncPressor can also work as a track compressor, so you get the usual compressor settings with variable knee, RMS mode, feedback processing, external sidechain and an HP filter on the sidechain detector (both internal and external).

Another master bus specific option is the ability to “unlink” left and right channels in the internal detector so that the compressor actually works like a “dual mono” processor compressing left and right channels individually; this trick gives you a wider stereo image and it’s one of secrets for a high level mix.

Finally a dry/wet control allows you to mix back some of the “clean” unprocessed signal and a “tempo multiplier” setting lets you double or halve the attack and release times to quickly try out different combinations.

HoRNet SyncPressor uses a fully hardware accelerated GUI using OpenGL on windows and Metal on macOS so the CPU is left for audio processing.