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THE DESTROYER's pixelEXCESSOR v1.1
V1.1: - added optional DC blocker button - 16x oversampler - oscilloscope improved: less flickering on complex waveforms MAIN FEATURES: - input gain - output gain - threshold - ratio - attack - release - internal sidechain high pass filter (INT SC HPF) - character knob - wavefolder - make up gain - built-in oversampler 2x/4x/8x for both inputs for superior saturation quality - x2 zoom - external sidechain - pixel-perfect oscilloscope - output clip
THE IDEA BEHIND: I first discovered the De La Mancha GT series years ago and I was immediately struck by something unusual: feeding a sine wave kick through them would produce sharp and aggressive spikes! A behaviour I had never seen in any other compressor. That characteristic became the sound I wanted to recreate: a native 64-bit plugin free from the bridge issues that made the originals painful to use in FL Studio. released only in 32-bit. Additional inspiration came from Acustica Audio ARCTIC and GREY that can achieve a similar behavior with better quality details. So my final goal was to capture a similar algorithm at zero latency, wrapped in a light and small interface as all my plugins.
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The Destroyer's Pixel Excessor

The Destroyer's Pixel Excessor is a free Windows VST compressor by THE DESTROYER, focused on aggressive character, spike-like compression behavior and zero-latency processing.

Main features

The idea behind

The plugin was inspired by the De La Mancha GT series and their unusual sharp, aggressive spike behavior when processing sine-wave kicks. The goal was to recreate that kind of character as a native 64-bit plugin, without bridge issues, wrapped in a small and light interface.