Compote
Five classic compressors in one: VCA, FET, Opto, Vari-Mu and Diode with 15 vintage voicings. Topped off with a Preserve panel that adds the lookahead, oversampling, range and knee control the vintage units never had.
Small-batch audio software
Compote
Five Compressors, One Box
macOS · Windows · 64-bit
- 2 machines on one license
- No expiry, no subscription
- Free updates within v1
- Works in every major host
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A closer look
Every screen, up close.
A live dot rides the curve as you play, so at a glance you can see where your signal sits and how hard it’s getting squeezed.
Five compressors in one
Pick the circuit. Keep the layout.
Each mode is its own compressor, with its own feel and sound. It’s not one engine wearing different settings. Switch between them and everything you learned stays right where it was.
Tight and clean, the everyday workhorse.
Very fast, and it colors when you push it.
Levels rather than clamps; slow and forgiving.
Tube warmth, and the ratio rises as you push it.
Dense and heavy, the rock one.
Why we built this
Five boxes, one window.
Every engineer keeps a shelf of compressors and reaches for a different one depending on what’s in front of them: a fast FET to nail a snare, an optical cell to smooth a vocal, a tube to glue a bus. They’re not presets of one another. They’re different circuits that hear the signal in different ways, and that difference is the entire reason the shelf exists.
But a shelf is friction. Five plugins, five layouts, five gain structures to line up before you can even A/B them. By the time you have loaded the right one and hunted down the knob you wanted, the idea you were chasing has already left the room.
So we built one window where the circuit changes and your hands don’t. Pick VCA, FET, Opto, Vari-Mu or Diode and the compressor underneath genuinely swaps, but the layout, the curve and the meters stay exactly where you left them. Same muscle memory, five different compressors.
Then we gave all five the thing none of the originals ever had: lookahead, an oversampled path, a variable knee and a gain-reduction ceiling, the digital precision the vintage boxes were built too early to include. Punch when you want it, control when you need it. That’s Compote.
The Berry FX Team
What it is
Inside the box.
Five circuits, not one with a table
VCA, FET, Opto, Vari-Mu and Diode each carry their own detector and their own character: a microsecond FET grab, an Opto with two recovery stages, a Vari-Mu that slows under load. Fifteen voicings across the five, on one fixed control layout.
The Preserve panel
Lookahead, a variable knee, an oversampled path and a range limit, the digital precision the modeled circuits never had, on tap over any of the five.
Snapshots, and a bypass that doesn’t move the track
Fifteen voicings and a Preserve panel is a lot of ground to lose track of. SNAPSHOTS captures the whole face under a name, up to eight, and recalls one in a click, saved in the session rather than in your preset folder, so they come back with the project, and a recall leaves your preset selection and its modified marker alone. BYPASS is the parameter your host’s bypass button drives, and because Compote reports lookahead and oversampling as latency, the bypassed path hands the dry signal back delayed by that same figure: the compressor drops out without the track sliding against everything else in the session.
Four ways to watch it work
The transfer curve with a live dot, a scrolling history, a METER view with a VU needle and held gain reduction, and ZOOM, which fills the window with the graph and meters and keeps every control at hand. Peak or RMS detection sits right under Threshold.
Pick by ear
AUDITION shuffles your snapshots behind numbered buttons and hides every control, so you choose with your ears alone. Delete the ones you don’t like as you go, set each one’s level, and recall the winner to see which it was.
Specification
- Engine
- Five modeled compressor circuits
- Modes
- VCA, FET, Opto, Vari-Mu, Diode
- Flavors
- 3 vintage revisions per mode (15 voicings)
- Detection
- Peak or RMS
- Sidechain
- Stereo key, filter, MAX/SUM detect, momentary LISTEN
- Snapshots
- Up to eight, with blind audition
- Metering
- Input and output, gain reduction with peak hold, VU needle
Runs on
macOS
10.15 or later
Windows
10 or later, 64-bit
Formats
- Windows
- VST3 · AAX
- macOS
- VST3 · AU · AAX
- License
- 2 machines, no expiry
- Trial
- 30 days, everything unlocked
- Updates
- Free within the major version
Requirements. Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. macOS 10.15 or later, Intel or Apple silicon. A VST3, AU, or AAX host. No iLok and no dongle. Your license is a signed string this machine checks by itself.
Works with
Take 30 days with it.
The whole plugin. Every preset, every mode, no noise burst, no silence every thirty seconds. Install it, and it starts.
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