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Empirical Labs Arousor v2.3.2-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 01 Jan 2021 | 16.3MB
The Arousor™ is the only Distressor plugin made by the makers of the Distressor themselves, Empirical Labs Inc. It’s been well over 20 years since Empirical Labs released its first compressor, The Distressor. From those early days on, Empirical Labs has been bombarded with requests for a great compressor plugin for those working in the box… and it had to be one with the creamy sound and ease-of-use of our own award winning hardware compressors. We are sure you will find the 20+ year wait worth it!


Features
Foolproof operation – It is almost impossible to get a bad sound.
Empirical Labs White Knobs, with parameter readout and direct entry.
Proprietary Empirical Labs Detector modeling. High resolution.
Broadband Saturator, controllable by user. A novel approach was used to allow control over peaks.
Unique AtMod Attack Modification Control. Changes the shape of the initial attack, and can lengthen attack times in a different manner than the ATTACK control.
HP Sidechain EQ.
BP Sidechain EQ.
Rivet, a brick wall ratio great on room mics, and for skimming peaks.
Linkable with the stereo version.
BLEND Control – Mix in the dry signal with the compressed one.
18 Lock n Load Presets, finely tuned and named intuitively.
Backwards compatible features coming.


HAPPY NEW YEAR!

* No iLok Driver is required to run.
* Our release loads faster and uses less memory than original.


If you don't like MetaFortress, use old version.
MetaFortress bloats the binary and affects the performance.

Empirical.Labs.Arousor.v2.1.0-R2R




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  Resident 7.07.2016 11 986
+725
Jesus they went full stop. Congrats Windows people
  Member 6.10.2017 5 83
+230
Can confirm. Tried it now and it sounds amazing!
  Member 8.03.2016 1 367
+323
Thanks a lot for this update!!
MY GEAR: Only Hi-End HW sonically engineered for us cats, which you've probably never heard about and will never have access to, cuz we r awesome and u suk.
  Resident 23.07.2014 3 217
+132
...fainted here......
  Member 8.03.2016 1 367
+323
I uninstalled the previous R2R version and installed this one, and I am having issues with sessions that have the previous version in them in Reaper/win10 (both latest versions), sometimes crashing, but there are no problems at all when I load a new instance of the plugin, anyone knows what could be happening?
MY GEAR: Only Hi-End HW sonically engineered for us cats, which you've probably never heard about and will never have access to, cuz we r awesome and u suk.
  Member 4.10.2017 46
+15
lol i came in here to see if anyone else was having crashes. I'm using fl studio 20.8 :(
  Member 8.03.2016 1 367
+323
I decided to rollback to the previous version, that one worked just perfect. In the NFO R2R said this could happen, so yeah, no big problem, I don't think there were any improvements sound quality wise with the new version (I am assuming, since Empirical Labs don't provide changelogs), I only really wanted this latest version because the knobs look prettier lol.
MY GEAR: Only Hi-End HW sonically engineered for us cats, which you've probably never heard about and will never have access to, cuz we r awesome and u suk.
  Member 4.10.2017 46
+15
Thanks for the tip i did the same! damn i was actually hoping there would be some performance improvements haha.

Edit: wow i also just noticed it was actually causing huge audio glitches in a big project i was working on. they might have to delete this one
  Member 8.03.2016 1 367
+323
yah, same happened to me, I've been using this comp for about 3 years, it is in every session, I think it sounds fantastic. But yeah, this new version was causing lots of glitching, and made reaper crash a couple of times.
MY GEAR: Only Hi-End HW sonically engineered for us cats, which you've probably never heard about and will never have access to, cuz we r awesome and u suk.
  Member 4.04.2015 154
+27
There were actually some improvements in this plugin on the latest revisions, look it up on gearslutz https://www.gearslutz.com/board/product-alerts-older-than-2-months/1048067-major-compressor-plugin-empirical-labs-arousor-155.html#post14766736 the plugin was generating a sub-noise bump that then was fixed on a "minor revision 2.31" , that update obviously wasn't part of the old R2R version release
  Member 8.03.2016 1 367
+323
Thank you very much for the info. I just read the gearslutz thread you linked, and what you say is true, but according to Dave Derr, the problem was only present in Pro Tools AAX version of the plugin, I quote:

"Actually, we were able to reproduce the Saturators sub-noise problem here, and investigating what is introducing it in the AAX version. It's ironic because up until recently all our testing was done on Pro Tools, and never noticed it, being 100dB down. It is not measurable once it comes out of the converters (I just looked on an analog analyzer), but we have to assume it is still there, just swamped out by converter noise, etc.

The good news is its so far down that compared to any analog compressor, it is insignificant, and not going to degrade anyone's mixes at all. The better news is that Marc found it, and we will fix it promptly, probably putting out a minor revision that only affects the Pro Tools Arousor version. But once you know something is there that shouldn't be, even if its impossible to hear or measure, you still know it's there."

"We will put a new Rev up in the next couple days and notify everyone, but it will only affect AAX (Pro Tools versions) as far as we know."
MY GEAR: Only Hi-End HW sonically engineered for us cats, which you've probably never heard about and will never have access to, cuz we r awesome and u suk.
  Member 4.04.2015 154
+27
I'm sorry, I suffer from insomnia, so it was very early in the morning when I saw this, I was very sleepy so it seems I did get confused
  Member 25.03.2014 8 1110
+777
same here...do you have 2.3.1 version? looks like only 2.1 here...
  Resident 12.03.2014 637
+339
the famous Distressor...
almost every single "pro" has 2 or 3 of these hardware units... and they probably wish they could have 5 or 10 extra units...

being able to use this tool, without any ilok dongle/soft crap, is just amazing. we can't thank R2R enough.
  Member 15.05.2018 46
+11
The swiss army knife compressor!
  Member 29.11.2014 43
+60
This one doesn't seem to be cracked correctly. It is causing constant CPU-spikes and the legit demo doesn't.
  Member 25.03.2017 3 28
+28
Not having the problem you have on Reaper with vst3 but the plugin produces a clicking sound only if used on tracking, i solved it by recording without it active but maybe this can give some insight to r2r i guess
  Member 16.02.2014 66
+6
I can confirm CPU spikes as well. Rolling back to previous one.
  Member 15.05.2018 46
+11
CPU spikes here too!
  Resident 25.12.2017 6 1898
+704
This would *easily make a Top 5 Compressors list, for me.
Appreciated, R2R.

Edit: Very minor glitches occur in the audio; small, infrequent ticks. This happens on new instances and old, equally. (Win7Ult.x64 Studio One v4.6.1) Kinda bummed, but I'll survive.
"Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the Hip Hop, The Culture." ~ Method Man ~
  Resident 21.03.2014 1 77
+144
Thanks R2R! Great plugin.

As stated above, some sound glitches happens now and then, sometimes crashes the daw. I'm on win 10 x64, reaper 6.13.
  Resident 24.07.2019 15 853
+796
Glitches here too, unfortunately! For me it pretty much sounds like a metronome at 250bpm
  Resident 21.10.2014 10 823
+1103
Thanks R2R, but this plugin like Relab LX480 are heavy on Cubase 10. Yes, it is due to MetaFortress protection but is quite unusable.... Realab LX480 from AudioUTOPIA is good on Windows 7 but not on Windows 10.
Thanks for your efforts :)
AiR addict!
  Resident 24.03.2013 533
+192
showing 100% cpu usage in live just at idle, looks like an issue with the crack.
  Member 7.08.2017 2 109
+211
plugin update v3
price black frayday
$99,00

the best compressor opt
  Member 8.01.2020 3 144
+80
Not working in Windows 10 20H2 and Studio One Pro 5.5.2 !
Strange clicking sounds and noises.... both VST3 and VST2 x64
Is it possible to release a fix version ..... an update ???
Cheers :-)
  Member 3.01.2024 5
0
all offline. any chance that somebody could upload it again?

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