Schlap

If you want your tracks to be energetic, in-your-face and bold, make ’em “Schlap”.

Schlap is a characterful, colourful and aggressive sounding program-dependent compressor. It takes inspiration from hardware RMS compressors of the past and evolves them into a modern setting.

The compressor uses a program-dependent attack and release influenced by old hardware making the compression sound characterful and dynamic.

The RMS detection means that Schlap detects the average loudness of a signal, resulting in sudden short peaks being uncompressed so that they can attack hard and sound heavy hitting. Also inherently in RMS detection, there is a slight delay in compression which allows the initial, early transients to sneak through uncompressed so they keep their punch.

You’ve got a safe, controlled track you think you’re happy with, but you have to ask yourself… “Does it Schlap?”

Features

• RMS Detection; Emulates RMS detection circuitry to create short sharp transients before hard hitting compression kicks in.
• Intelligent Envelopes: No need to think about attack and release settings, the automatic envelopes result in the most colourful sound possible.
• Ratio Variety:  A range of ratio settings: expansion and gating, standard compression, infinite limiting compression and negative over-compression.
• Sidechain Control: Focus the compression using sidechain filtering and/or rhythmically trigger it using external sidechain sources.
• Add Colour: Bring down the compressors headroom by using the colour control to add some tasty harmonic grit. New in v1.1
• Aggressive, in your face compression.
• Program dependent – attack and release settings are automatic.
• 4 ratio styles: expansion and gating, standard compression, infinite limiting compression and negative over-compression.
• Optional external side-chain input.
• Sidechain filtering.
• Inspired by old hardware.