Version 2.0 of Voxengo's Crunchessor has been released. It's a general purpose track compressor that boasts tuning ease as well as exemplary sonic performance. It also applies valve-type processing in parallel to compression, delivering a sound more reminiscent of analog compression.

Crunchessor also provides a palette of coloration styles. This allows you to suit your track's character a bit better, but if you're into Swiss politics, you can disable coloration -- and even the valve-type processing -- for neutral compression.

Crunchessor even accepts external side-chain source signals, and you can filter signal sources pre-compression. It lives up to its "general purpose" claims too, suitable for drums, vocals, bass, guitars, synth sounds and any audio that needs to be compressed -- single track or whole mix.

Fast Features:

• Easy compression tuning
• Valve warmness
• Coloration styles
• External side-chaining
• Key signal filtering
• Multi-channel processing
• Internal channel routing
• Channel grouping
• Mid/side processing
• 64-bit floating point processing
• Preset manager
• Undo/redo history
• A/B comparisons
• Contextual hint messages