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hello,

this is Megatone X, a VST multiband compressor for pc.(VST is a technology by Steinberg)

the three bands are defined with two horizontal sliders, that show a value in khz for the
crossover points.

each band (low, mid, hi) has two knobs:

 1)Comp.: amount of compression, it works in a different way than common compressors, it's similar to a tape type compression. it's action turns down the db level. very high settings can degrade the signal. it's attack rises at 1ms, and due to the design, it's free from cracklings and doesn't need longer times (apart of the "Transient" mode, described later.)

 2)Boost: it rises the level of the signal. if applied to bring the compressed signal db level at the same level of the uncompressed signal, the appearent gain is impressive, and more the compression, more the boost that can be applied.


 all bands can be muted with a "M" button for each one.


 there are other two buttons, Mid-Transient and Hi-Transient. if pushed on, the attack of the compressor is slightly delayed, respectively in the mid-band and in the hi-band. this changes a bit the behaviour of the plugin, as the uncompressed transients are fully powered up by the boost knob. if the dry signal is very high, near the 0db, the boost knob will bring to overload the uncompressed attacks. but this feature is very useful for percussive sounds, of course they must be recorded with some headroom. the effect is a sort of attack booster. 
 for common compression tasks is good to leave them off.

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 to install it you have to copy the two files "Megatone X.dll" and "Megatone X.dat" in your Vst plugin folder before starting your host application.

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 Megatone X has been developed with SynthEdit, a great software by Jeff McClintock(jeff@synthedit.com)-www.synthedit.com, and nice knobs created by Hockinfinger 2002-hockinfinger@yahoo.com

 Megatone X is a freeware application, and no warranty of any kind is provided, any result of it's utilization is exclusive responsability of the user.

 it can be distributed to anybody, but only together with this document.

 If you like Megatone X, or if you don't, i'll be glad to know, you can mail at:

  aromad@libero.it


 have fun with Megatone!
 
 Alfonso D'Amora, 
 composer, performer,sound designer.


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