Techivation just released their AI-Compressor, a smart dynamic processor, at an intro price of $55.
The list price is going to increase substantially to $129 when the intro sale ends, so get it while it’s hot. The offer ends May 25th.
What can this plugin do for you that other manual compressors don’t? Let you dial in your desired amount of gain reduction and then lean back to let the neural network take care of the rest.
Check it out here:
According to Techivation, their compressor operates in a “transparent and artefact-free manner” while preserving natural transients on any source material.
It’s meant to enhance loudness, clarity, and tonal balance at the individual track level, mixbus, or master.
Dialing in compressor settings can sometimes be a cumbersome affair. If you don’t know what you’re doing, the probability of destroying your source material is also significantly higher.
Techivation has removed all the classic compressor settings like threshold, attack, release, ratio, and knee. This is now handed off to the algorithm, while you simply decide how much overall gain reduction you want.
Play the loudest portion of your track and enable the “Learn” function to make the compressor analyse the material.
It’s not just simplicity that matters when it comes to AI-Compressor, though. Techivation promises a whole new way of audio compression that sounds completely different from any other audio compressor.
According to Techivation, the AI-compressor adds no harmonic material and sidesteps aliasing completely. What it does is to bring up the more subtle parts of your sound while capturing and compressing the transient separately without shaping it in the classical sense.
The goal is to reduce dynamic range in a precise and clear way.
People who hate setting their compressors would probably love a tool like this. It’s fast, effective, and probably less destructive than trying to apply some hastily applied subpar knowledge you got from a sketchy YouTuber three minutes ago.
I can also see people trying to optimize their workflow using this thing. If you know what compression you’re after and manage to get it from Techivation’s algorithm, you could probably save a lot of time in the big picture using it as an all-around tool for quick mixing tasks in your project.
Sometimes you just want a set-and-forget tool at your disposal.
The plugin uses a selectable perceptual filter to create more natural-sounding compression relating to the source material. It not only takes peak and RMS energy into account, but also what “feels” loud or quiet based on human perception.
If you’re interested in that kind of thing, check out the Fletcher-Munson curve.
AI-compressor comes with a mix control if you want to do parallel compression or let any amount of your initial source material through untouched. The “diff” button lets you hear the delta signal, informing you of what is being compressed at any given time.
Less control in the UI also means less creative control in those situations where you’re after something very specific, which is always something to consider when using automatic tools.
It all depends on what you need and how you use your tools.
The plugin works with both Windows and macOS, and comes in 64-bit VST, VST3, AAX, and AU formats.
Check out the deal: AI-Compressor ($55 intro price until May 25th)
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Last Updated on May 12, 2025 by Tomislav Zlatic.
