1.2.6 is the hero version as far as I know. Chris was working on advanced versions when the project stopped. The only shortcoming I know of, and not everybody has the problem, is what to do at the beginnings and ends. Look-Ahead processing is just ducky when there is show before and after the sample point, less so when there isn’t.
I use it as a broadcast compressor simulator. I record the Car Talk radio show once a week. I used to do it off the air and I have quite a few shows in the can like that. I have excellent TV and FM radio reception in Los Angeles. I can see Mt Wilson from here.
http://kozco.com/pix/WilsonTransmitters.jpg
Then the local station started to mess with it and slide promos and announcements into the show in place of show segments. Minnesota Public Radio is the grand champion at this. They hide between two and three segments each week. Of course if you didn’t know they were doing that, you would never figure it out.
“Wasn’t the woman with the exploding Mustang funny?”
“What exploding Mustang?”
So I started to download the podcast which has all the show segments in it. However, the download is basically the studio presentation missing the broadcast compressor. Ray mumbles in his beer and Tom has a laugh that is detectable on Cal Tech seismometers. The shows are unlistenable in the car.
Enter Chris’s compressor. With the first number, Compression Ratio, advanced from the default 0.5 to 0.77, the shows are nearly carbon-copy perfect to the shows as broadcast by KPCC. They are louder, denser and more even, but you can’t quite put your finger on why.
You know if you’ve been in the documentation that Chris designed his software so he could listen to opera in the car. Same problem. Tutti Orchestra and Chorus with Diapason Organ in one instant and single violin in the south forty the next. Unlistenable in the car.
I always said his software sounded so good because he started with cellos and worked up instead of starting with algorithms and working down.
Koz