Compressor is available in the Creator tier and Pro tier.
Compression reduces the total range in volume between the loudest and quietest points in the audio. This allows you to either reduce the audio peaks without making the quiet bits too quiet, or increase the level of the quiet moments, without pushing the peaks too high and causing them to clip.
- Input Gain: Adjusts the gain of the source audio being fed into the Compressor effect.
- Threshold: The Threshold is the level above which the audio will be compressed, and below which the audio will remain unaffected.
- Limiter: Sets a fixed level which the audio peaks will not be allowed to exceed. Limiting should be used judiciously, because excessive clipping can cause unwanted distortion.
- Ratio (x:1): The ratio at which audio levels will be attenuated once they exceed the Threshold.
- Knee: Low values will result in a hard knee, or a severe transition at the threshold, while higher values will create a soft knee, and a more gentle transition from uncompressed to compressed audio.
- Attack Time: Defines how quickly, in milliseconds, the audio will be compressed once it exceeds the Threshold. Faster attack times are good for ensuring that extreme peaks in the audio are caught and reduced right away.
- Release Time: Defines how quickly, in milliseconds, the compressor will stop reducing the audio level, once the source level falls below the threshold.
- Output Gain: Sets the overall level of the audio after the compression has been applied.