Gersic Pressure v2.0.0 - macOS Apple Silicon

Gersic Pressure v2.0.0 (macOS, Apple Silicon / arm64)

A more faithful and modernised recreation of Tom & Jeremy Gersic's 2006 PRESSURE upward compressor.

Fidelity fixes

• Release ballistics corrected. The envelope now uses SynthMaker's 1 % time convention, verified against coefficients cached in the original schematic. v1's release was ~4.6x too slow (GR recovery 1220 ms → 266 ms).
• Per-channel detection by default, as in the original (the new Link control restores v1's linked behaviour).
• Parameters are smoothed per sample (v1 stepped once per block).
• Latency is reported to the host, so lookahead no longer shifts your track out of time.
• Click-free lookahead changes.

New

• HQ: 4x linear-phase oversampled saturator. Aliasing −29.7 dB → −65.4 dB on a 7 kHz 0 dBFS sine.
• Color (saturator drive), Link (stereo link), SC HPF (detector high-pass). All default to the original sound.
• New editor modelled on an Ableton Live device, with Transfer/Activity display and GR/output meters.
• v1 projects and the 10 factory presets load unchanged.

Downloads

• gersic-pressure-2.0.0-macos-arm64.pkg: installer (CLAP, VST3, AU v2 + presets, user scope).
• gersic-pressure-2.0.0-macos-arm64-bundles.zip: raw bundles.
• SHA256SUMS-2.0.0.txt: checksums.

Apple Silicon only. Builds are ad-hoc signed and not notarized: right-click → Open the installer, or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine on the bundles from the zip.

Note: the v1.0.0 release notes say "Universal", but its binaries are arm64-only.