Acustica has released a free compressor effect for Mac & Windows, TAN.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

TAN is based on CORE8, with a classic analog VCA compression.

TAN it is a very versatile tool to provide a lot of possibilities to shape the sound with gorgeous graphical user interface.

In TAN you will find the most common compressors parameters like attack, release, threshold, ratio, dry/wet and gain, to allow you an extremely wide range of adjustments, but the exciting news is what we call “ShMod”, a compressor shape control for the attack behavior that allows you to fine-tune the attack shape so you can really customize the attack behavior for any audio source.

Features:

• Preamp Section:
  • Hardware preamp simulation (PRE): on and off.
• Compressor Section:
  • Threshold: from -64 dB to +0 dB.
  • Ratio: from 2, 4 and 8.
  • Attack: from 0.1 ms to 30 ms.
  • Release: from 0.1 sec. to 1.6 sec.
  • SHMod (adjustable attack shape): from 0 to 4.
  • Gain: from 0 dB to 24 dB.
  • Dry/Wet (parallel compressor): from 0 to 100%

Pricing and Availability

TAN is available now as a free download for Mac & Windows (AU, VST & AAX).