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- Dave has worked in Pro-Audio for over a decade, for prestigious companies such as Focusrite, Novation, Sonalksis, Neyrinck, Brainworx. DMGAudio was created to build the products that we've always wanted; free from the constraints of a board of directors and instead driven by our users.
- 1.2.1 Windows Compassion works with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, 32bit and 64bit. VST and VST3 are supported in both 32bit and 64bit hosts. RTAS is supported in 32bit ProTools 7 or newer. 1.2.2 Mac OS Compassion requires OSX 10.4.11 or better, on G4, G5 or Intel mac.
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Disclaimer: I'm at best a semi professional at this. I get paid to do some work around my profession (I'm a historian) doing historically themed soundtracks and background music, for example, a swing base tune for a short movie on the Korean War memorial. I'm also a semi-professional musician and record and mix my own and other bands. I work nearly all ITB. So there ya go, no fake expertise. I'm trying to do a real review, not an OMG I JUST BOUGHT HIS AND IT'S INCREDIBLE review
So I use Logic Pro, and Compassion is like a much better version of the compressor in Logic--which is very good. Logic's compressor seeks to emulate the various famous compressor styles--optical, fet, VCA etc. and it gives you the standard controls. DMG's Compassion is like that, only way more so.
Compassion has a simple mode, in which you mostly just have threshold, ratio, attack and release. In that mode it sounds good, is very straightforward and flexible, and has an excellent graphical representation of what's going on in real time. Much different from, and better than, the usual VU meter or LED strip. You can see as well as hear what you are doing.
And then it has a complex mode, where you can screw around with a lot of hard to understand parameters like 'hysteresis' and 'curve law' and 'timing scale.' The manual is very good, but some of these remain obscure and hard to hear, because they are all heavily interactive with other controls. And the graphical presentation is little help. You can spend quite a bit of time blundering around in the advanced area. I know I have.
Fortunately there are a set of 'mods' you can activate which emulate various familiar compressor styles. You click the little butting marked 'mod' and you choose a mod--say. 'classic opto' and hey presto! you're in LA2A land. Supposedly. Compassion makes no effort to emulate saturation; but it does model the specifics of the circuit path in the LA2A--thats what the controls calls hysteresis and curve law and etc are doing.
I'll say at the outset I have no idea if Compassion sounds exactly like the hardware these mods are based on. I know for a fact that it sounds 'a lot like' that hardware. There's no saturation modeling going on in Compassion, You can drive it into awful sounding distortion if you like, but thats' not what Compassion is about. It seems to me that it aims to do what the makers of the 1176 wanted to do, not to reproduce the distortion artifacts they were trying to avoid. If you think the best thing about the 1176 is the distortion, you might find Compassion disappointing. I generally like mixes with relatively little distortion, and I find Compassion to be great for dong the things compression was originally designed to do, control transients and dynamics
I find it much easier to use than Logic's compressor, and I get a good effective sound much faster. I often end up gong back to Compassion after dicking around with something else.
For example, I also use Kush Audio's UBK-1, which can be great but can also be just a disaster to use, glopping everything up with saturated compression and compressed saturation and distortion and some form of mojo known only to Kush. Sometimes, after muddling around with UBK, i take it off and put on Compassion and tweak few settings and it's like 'oh yeah, that's much better.' This is what I mean by no nonsense. It's not emulating chris lord alge or something, it's not imitating a record; it's reproducing the primary function of a set of tools. Sometimes I love UBK, and it's great, but Compassion is my default.
Compassion is a lot like Equilibrium, also from DMG. It can be set up to be really straightforward, or you can quickly get over your head if you want. It's expensive, but I've never regretted the purchase. i use it all the time, for everything that needs compression. Sometimes I go with something that adds more distortion, but if I had to pick one comp it would be Compassion, no doubt.
Cons: I wish it was easier to know what the advanced controls are doing. Each 'advanced' control typically does little on its own--it's when they move in groups that things happen. Supposedly Dave Gamble of DMG is aware of this problem and is working on a new version of Compassion. I await that eagerly. The preset and mods are annoying to manage. i think I have the hang of it, but they aren't straightforward.
So that's my bottom line--Compassion emulates what classic hardware compressors set out to do, rather than what they tried to avoid--it gives you the functional operational parameters of a DBX 160, rather than trying to emulate the distortions the DBX also produced. The line between what's distortion and what's a characteristic of the comp is hard to draw. I really lie this comp and consider it one of the best plugins I've ever used.
A note on the number/star ratings. It's hard to answer some of them, like 'ease of use' Compassion is really easy to use if you ignore it's more complex features. It sounds good in default, better if you start to get under the hood a little. So take those rating with a grain of salt
So I use Logic Pro, and Compassion is like a much better version of the compressor in Logic--which is very good. Logic's compressor seeks to emulate the various famous compressor styles--optical, fet, VCA etc. and it gives you the standard controls. DMG's Compassion is like that, only way more so.
Compassion has a simple mode, in which you mostly just have threshold, ratio, attack and release. In that mode it sounds good, is very straightforward and flexible, and has an excellent graphical representation of what's going on in real time. Much different from, and better than, the usual VU meter or LED strip. You can see as well as hear what you are doing.
And then it has a complex mode, where you can screw around with a lot of hard to understand parameters like 'hysteresis' and 'curve law' and 'timing scale.' The manual is very good, but some of these remain obscure and hard to hear, because they are all heavily interactive with other controls. And the graphical presentation is little help. You can spend quite a bit of time blundering around in the advanced area. I know I have.
Fortunately there are a set of 'mods' you can activate which emulate various familiar compressor styles. You click the little butting marked 'mod' and you choose a mod--say. 'classic opto' and hey presto! you're in LA2A land. Supposedly. Compassion makes no effort to emulate saturation; but it does model the specifics of the circuit path in the LA2A--thats what the controls calls hysteresis and curve law and etc are doing.
I'll say at the outset I have no idea if Compassion sounds exactly like the hardware these mods are based on. I know for a fact that it sounds 'a lot like' that hardware. There's no saturation modeling going on in Compassion, You can drive it into awful sounding distortion if you like, but thats' not what Compassion is about. It seems to me that it aims to do what the makers of the 1176 wanted to do, not to reproduce the distortion artifacts they were trying to avoid. If you think the best thing about the 1176 is the distortion, you might find Compassion disappointing. I generally like mixes with relatively little distortion, and I find Compassion to be great for dong the things compression was originally designed to do, control transients and dynamics
I find it much easier to use than Logic's compressor, and I get a good effective sound much faster. I often end up gong back to Compassion after dicking around with something else.
For example, I also use Kush Audio's UBK-1, which can be great but can also be just a disaster to use, glopping everything up with saturated compression and compressed saturation and distortion and some form of mojo known only to Kush. Sometimes, after muddling around with UBK, i take it off and put on Compassion and tweak few settings and it's like 'oh yeah, that's much better.' This is what I mean by no nonsense. It's not emulating chris lord alge or something, it's not imitating a record; it's reproducing the primary function of a set of tools. Sometimes I love UBK, and it's great, but Compassion is my default.
Compassion is a lot like Equilibrium, also from DMG. It can be set up to be really straightforward, or you can quickly get over your head if you want. It's expensive, but I've never regretted the purchase. i use it all the time, for everything that needs compression. Sometimes I go with something that adds more distortion, but if I had to pick one comp it would be Compassion, no doubt.
Cons: I wish it was easier to know what the advanced controls are doing. Each 'advanced' control typically does little on its own--it's when they move in groups that things happen. Supposedly Dave Gamble of DMG is aware of this problem and is working on a new version of Compassion. I await that eagerly. The preset and mods are annoying to manage. i think I have the hang of it, but they aren't straightforward.
So that's my bottom line--Compassion emulates what classic hardware compressors set out to do, rather than what they tried to avoid--it gives you the functional operational parameters of a DBX 160, rather than trying to emulate the distortions the DBX also produced. The line between what's distortion and what's a characteristic of the comp is hard to draw. I really lie this comp and consider it one of the best plugins I've ever used.
A note on the number/star ratings. It's hard to answer some of them, like 'ease of use' Compassion is really easy to use if you ignore it's more complex features. It sounds good in default, better if you start to get under the hood a little. So take those rating with a grain of salt