The way things are going, there's going to be plugins that monitor your pupil dilation and adjusts compression settings to maintain maximum exhilaration

It’s good that fabfilter has some competition. Competition gives us better and cheaper products!

As a digital product designer and a music geek, I love your excitement over the controls and UI of this compressor. Somehwere out there should be a very proud product design team watching this video, congrats.

You rock! This plug-in changes everything. Just remixed a song that was giving me a ton of problems with the drums and the bass, and.. amazing! Thank you!

Mid/Side! 🎉 Version 1 was already my go to for general compression tasks. The UI and the auto gain function has made it a huge level up not only for workflow but for training your ears. Going to give this a spin tomorrow.

Informative, entertaining - very useful. Thank you!! One just can´t stop watching this. Enjoy your day! Rolf

Thanks for a video! Sounds and looks like an amazing plugin

I'm already a Sonible fan. Bought their limiter, EQ, comp, reverb bundle after watching your previous reviews and my mixing and mastering results are way better than I ever achieved with Ozone. So thanks for that :). I'll definitely upgrade to comp 2 after seeing this video - your enthusiasm is infectious!! Thanks!

I bought it for the upgrade price, like $25 or something. A real steal. And you didn't even touch the eq/filter section, which allows you to shape the frequency response of the compression. This is by far my favorite compressor, especially in the sidechain. The ducking transparency is unparalleled (pun intended). The additional plugin states at the top make A/B/C..ing different settings seamless. You can go into mid/side mode and also control the channel linking. They also added a delta button. What more could anyone possibly want?

Fantastic comp!!

love your vids sir. Thanks for reminding me this came out today. I have all their products and love them!

fun watching you flip out on shapes!

I'm loving your reviews of Sonible's smart plugins! 😄

Check out their sidechain compression. With its spectral pixie dust, it's the cleanest I have ever heard. Duck the bass under the kick with no weird pumping effect. You can also really go crazy with creative use of the transfer curve for expanding / compressing different bands - even if they are below the threshold.

This one is soooooo great! Unbelievable!! I tested it with vocals bass drums.. amazing workflow and sound!

The part beneath the threshold bar is the expander/upwards compressor ratio, not a limit for how low you can set the threshold.

Bought it ,, versatile and very useful comp! I loved it immediately ..

I am definitely going to know Compression better, thank you for this video.

Wauw, geweldig. ’k ga ’t probeere! Dankje.

One of my favourite compressor is Brainworx Opto. It's like La2a, but also it has regulation for speed of transients.

Thank you so much! It work!

Excellent. Was just coming to YT to look for a vid on this (I own V1 of the comp). I wonder if the AI in the comp has been sharing learning with the YT algo AI cause your video was the first to pop up. Thanks for your always enthusiastic review style.

Idk what exactly the curves are that you were so excited about but it was contagious and now I’m excited too! Kudos, also cool nail color today. 💪👏👏

Great job Sonible!

Really nice. I actually had the idea once of building a compressor with configurable attack/release/gain reduction curves, and I was always annoyed by the fact that I couldn't really see/know what the Pro-C „styles“ were actually doing. I guess it totally makes sense to do something like that.

I've been wanting a visual compressor exactly like this since forever!

Frankly, Smart Comp 1 already was a no brainer tot me. It's been my go-to compressor since I got it. Of course I have La2a, Fairchild, 1176 for their character, but as a starting point, Smart Comp is hard to beat. The new version I haven't seen yet, but at €28 upgrade fee that's only a matter of time. Brilliant stuff

I had already bought it before you even released this video 😅 but sonible just makes incredible good stuff! And as owner of smart comp 1 I had the chance to upgrade and just paid like 28€!

We will need a in depth review of this in a month or so

Damn that UI is incredible! Sonible is always top notch with their UI! I was coming to check out the AI stuff, but the UI won lol. I'll have to pick this up at some point. Not in a huge rush though as my current workflow is great and I don't see this fulfilling an urgent need I have. I feel like, lately, a few times every year a company innovates with a plugin that does amazing thing i've always wanted. It is kinda hard to keep up. to learn the new workflows to make things easier always trying to keep up with tech makes things less efficient if you gotta spend a few hours with the newest greatest thing to save a few minutes every session.

Very interested, does anyone know if it is M1 native? I’m sick of using Rosetta.

I'm very much a novice at production, but my major is computer science and I have to agree this excellent user interface design. Hopefully it doesn't come with much of a cpu hit though. Having a more interactive, informative, and elaborate visual interface does expect a lot more from the cpu than a static display with some knob pictures that rotate in place when you drag them. And gives the programmers a second item they have to try and optimize after they have a build of the UI that fully functions as intended to begin with. It's impressive when they pull it all off.

That control layout is so cool, people actually can know what it's doing.

i just like seeing you freak out in the best way 😁this plugin is insane!

This is how digital tools leave analog behind in possibilities, progress! It’s amazing to have all these options. And while flexibility and powerful tools are great, I seem to be lost about what use cases actually require this amount of flexibility. Like use the tool with the end goal in mind, over use the tool cause its powerful. What a great time to play with audio ! Thanks!

Me literally a week ago: I have every tool I want and need, I won't buy another plugin for a long time Me now: I knew I shouldn't have clicked on this video

Melda Production compressors have all of this, including the shape control for ages already.

Does this have a low latency mode, or is the processing not really adding any latency? I'm finding with a lot of these newer plugins, because they're doing so much clever processing, they tend to add a lot of latency , and I don't like using them very much while I'm in the production stage.

This plugin is insane. I just got a few hours ago and it puts so much power at users fingertips that its ridiculous. Its literally the one compressor that replaces all other plugin compressors, and the quality of the algorhitms is phenomenal.

This looks like a bit of a game changer, going to check out this plugin today.

Great video title! 😁

Love your reactions 😂😂😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏻🙌🏻

Argh, I am so tempted to buy. But I will wait to see if I truly need...

I'm putting a bit of money in my plugins... I really hope you are sincere about how good this one is, as I will be buying it in a few minutes... It seems really great from what I understand about compression, and I am hoping it helps me learn exactly how compression works, as you said it can help you learn compression. Thanks for the vid!

Yay!!! Great plugin

Smart comp 1 is incredible. Can't imagine what this upgrade will do.

That UI is really cool, and spectral compression is a nice touch.

Adjustable attack and release curves is something i have been asking for for years. so it finally happened. somebody made a compressor with that feature.

Sonible smart EQ and limiter are pretty damn good, I would imagine their game changers for many : )

Someone please give this guy IL maximus. The way he was shocked about shapes and all

5:19 "cooool" like a kid seeing some badass toys for the first time :D I can definetely comprehend your amazement!

This is a lot like Maximus, graph based compression is actually quite old, Image Line did it years ago, but this looks interesting

I have their Smart EQ3 and their Smart Limiter 2 and I might have to try this out

Sale is over-- glad I snapped it up immediately after your review for $24, now $89

gotta love hearing someone geek out over something they like its priceless

sonible changing the game, amazing gui's i just love their stuff. throw your money at them! all the power to them

Im sold! Buying asap

Haha! Decent kick in FabFilters nuts :)) Kinda good, those guys need to pull themselves together and start pushing the boundaries just how they used to!

Without even checking out the trial I went ahead and bought it considering it looks like it offers some unique things! Even if just a great companion/alternative to fabfilter, I’d say it’s worth having in the toolbox! Excited to try it out on mixes :) Thanks for the tip!

Melda multiband compressor beats everything is out there right now, 1 band, multiband, spectral, tonal, downwards, upwards etc in just one single plugin

This is what I always liked about Unfiltered Audio's ZIP Compressor; you can control every aspect of the compression curve. Sonible have taken it to a whole different level!

Smart comp 2 is amazing, the sound is incredible, you dont have to check the threshhold that much compared to smart comp 1 and it makes me feel like Im using real analog compressors.. the only thing is that Ive never been able to use the spectral compression, it just makes thing sound "untight", I guess white sea dude is right maybe on some source where a sound is messing the reduction. Anyway best AI ever, and maybe best compression tool ever. Be aware of sounds with reverb and delay (tails) on them cause it will over-compress it heavily, tho my workaround is to get him to analyze the sound before the reverb or delay start.

Hi Wytse, the Plugin Alliance Dynamic Spectrum Mapper has "shape" presets as well (a lot) but is far from user friendly. It takes a while to get used to it and dial in good results but I use it (as a semi-pro hobbyist) from time to time. Thanks for the review, Patrick Peeters

I did too. Q3 was my mainstay for dozens of mixes, but the others, while functional, never thrilled me. No mojo? I had the whole collection. They didn't survive my recent shootouts and now they're all gone. But more than the compressor, Sonible limiter does a ton of work for me.

I bought the upgrade to V2 this morning as soon as I got their email without even considering getting the trial or watching any review. They just create so awesome plugins ❤️

Downloaded.. boy it sounds nice! I like the dirty dial! I have the first one which i didn’t use a lot but i’m thinking this will get lots of use.. for $24..! 😀

Thanks!

Sometimes I get worried when I see a plugin has amazing UI/UX. Often times the budget goes into a product to look nice, but while the sound really is the main target. Not sure if this is the case here- all I know is not to be sucked into a polished looking plugin but a polished sound first.

Muito bom sou do Brasil e sempre vejo os seus reviews

thanks!

It looks like it can do upward compression as well. Is that the case?

I'm curious to know the CPU Load?

I just got it after watching the video and playing with the demo for like 20 minutes.

Great review! What music was used in this video? Love this kind of jazz/fusion.

could someone explain the shape/graph on the left?

Oh carp! I spent the morning going back and forth between a mix with smartComp 2 and a mix with my Shadow Hills Vandergraph. I'm sure I could make the Vandergraph sound as good or better with a few more years of practice but right now, smartComp 2 has the skills I don't and the little extra dynamic range and clamping down at exactly the right moment gives that pleasing musical glue. Damn! It's one thing to mothball your copy of Pro C, it's another to put a $2500 compressor in the closet! It's possible that this is the tool and the moment that triggers a mass exodus to ITB.

Thank you

Bought all of Sonible stuff, having all of them already cracked, also Ozone and FabFilter. Sonible deserves all my money. They just did the best plugins out there, AS IT MUST BE. If they do top notch plugs, then I'm happy to pay.

have you seen maximus from fl studio? it works in a very similar way

I'M Just Happy To See How Amazed You Were, But That Is Dope As Well and Definitely On My Purchase List. Thank You.

IL Maximus has this "shape" modelling for like forever. Also it's multiband. You should check this out.

It was bugging me, the track playing at 7.27. I KNEW I knew it. It sounds a lot like Sister Sledge - Thinking Of you!. Oh and great video by the way.. I'm sold on this plug-in!!!

Sonible has been very CPU hungry in the past, whereas FabFilter is insanely light. How does this compare?

Hi, found you video and you channel and really liked it as a beginner, I want to remaster techno music from 90's... I'm very confused with sonible many softwares out there and if maybe can you recommend me on which to use? thanks

My other Sonible vst is a CPU hog, and I end up having to use something else. I'd like to know how much CPU this compressor is using. Thoughts??

ok im sold

lol/ Its rare to see you this excited about a plugin. I have the first version of this but only use it on occasion )usually on bass and kick since I have the most trouble with those) I have all of their smart plgins and use some more than others. Smart limiter I use all the time now. I'm still deciding if I'm going to upgrade to this one but after seeing your demo I'm leaning more towards the upgrade.

Maximus from FL Studio can do this with points and shape from long time ago...

Is there an upgrade for those of use that already own smart:comp ?

Voxengo TEOTE and Soniformer are the only spectral compressors worth having since they process the audio in minimum phase, zero nasty pre-ringing!

shape presets ? ever heard of maximus from fl studio ? this has been a thing for ages

Nails looking fresh

With its A.I. characteristics, and comparing to Fabfilter, Sonnox, Brainworx, and Melda Audio, Smart::Comp 2 has the most transparency between them all. What is frightening is the track the Presenter used as the video example has compression already implemented. I noticed immediately before the learning A.I. began. Once it finished, the results enhanced "TREMENDOUSLY" as if compression was not utilized. There was more perceived presence, punch, and transparency. This compresser is ideal for Mastering. The moment I heard how it sounded, I purchased the upgrade from its initial version. The Spectral Compression feature can be compared to Saturation. Even when it was implemented, it was clean without the grit and distortion when applying more drive, regardless how it processes the frequency spectrum. Sonible outdid itself. It utilized the concept of Smart:Limit within this updated version. I can imagine when Smart::Limit 2 is released. Keeping the processing as simple as possible is the key. Other vendors has been put on notice.

Heck my grandmother used to spin yards about a spectral locomotive that would rocket past the farm where she grew up.

Can you put spectral-filtered signal into the sidechain? That would be killer

Another comment... it was your video on Sonible's Smart Limit plugin that convinced me to just get the entire bundle. Slowly but surely, Sonible pushed out Fabfilter one by one. It's almost like a battle between contemporary, modern style plugins. Fabfilter are amazing, and they certainly set the standard for modern ui type plugins. But with the Sonible stuff I seem to get there earlier, and get more consistent results. If I go for a piano ballad it's easy to find the mellow, smooth, intimate processing you often want. If I go for hardstyle hiphop it's so easy to get aggressive and punchy and gritty. You almost wish like the companies that like to emulate vintage plugins would program their algorithms behind UI's like this. In the end, I seriously hope Fabfilter and Sonible, and in a way Izotope keep pushing each other to take modern style plugins to the next level.

Dammm. I see what the compressor is doing!!!

hence on here a month later. thanks for making feel normal again.

does it work with my smart thermostat though?

Is that the proximity effect or the processing on that mic that is so harsh? Paging an EV RE20...