CS-26 Transparent Compressor Sustainer

Our own compressor, designed from scratch for guitar: it evens out your playing and adds sustain without changing your tone. BLEND brings the clean signal back in so your pick attack stays alive, a 100 Hz switch keeps the low strings from pumping, and a row of LEDs shows how hard it's working. Free, with no key and no limits.

Windows | 10 or later, 64-bit. Nothing else to install.

macOS | 10.13 High Sierra or later. Universal binary: runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

Linux | x86_64, with glibc 2.35 or later (Ubuntu 22.04 and equivalents onward).

Formats | VST3 on all three systems; Audio Unit (AU) on macOS for Logic Pro and GarageBand. It is an effect for your DAW: there is no standalone application.

CPU | Light: on our test machine, about 4% of one core at 48 kHz at the default 2× oversampling (about 2% at 1×). When the track is silent or POWER is off, practically nothing.