Cupwise Smack VU Compressor [Nebula]

P2P | 18 January 2026 | 85 MB | 官网

这是一款早期基于VCA的压缩器，被许多人认为是同类产品中最好的鼓、贝斯、人声等压缩器之一。当然，它也并非完美无缺，一些人认为它功能单一，主要是因为原版硬件缺乏可调节的起音和释放控制。我在这里制作的Nebula程序增加了起音和释放控制，使其更加灵活。程序默认加载的设置最接近原版硬件。在此基础上，您可以调整这些控制，获得原版硬件无法实现的各种效果，同时保留原版硬件的特色，使其更具个性。

起音控制允许您设置比硬件更慢的起音时间，从而增强鼓声的“敲击”效果，甚至超越硬件本身的效果。释放控制可以设置比原版更快或更慢，从而实现从强烈的抽吸效果到更微妙的压缩等一系列不同的效果。即使压缩超过30dB，音质依然出色。

所有程序都以立体声采样（使用两台设备），左右声道略有不同，增添了模拟信号的瑕疵，而这正是我们大多数人选择 Nebula 的原因。此外，还有一个“直通”程序，其工作方式与典型的 Nebula 前置放大器程序类似，用于在不进行任何压缩的情况下获得硬件本身的（非常微妙的）音色。JPN

为 N4 和 N3 设计了一些非常漂亮的皮肤！

An early VCA based compressor, considered by many to be among the best of its type for drums, bass, vocals, and more. It’s not without its detractors, with some considering it to be a simple one trick pony, mainly due to the original hardware’s lack of adjustable attack and release controls. The Nebula programs I’ve made here do have added attack and release controls, making it much more flexible. By default the programs load on settings that represent the hardware closest. From there you can adjust the controls and get different behaviors that weren’t possible with the original hardware, while retaining the rest of the original characteristics that got the original labeled a character piece.

The attack control allows you to set slower attacks than the hardware allowed, which lets you to actually enhance the ‘knock’ effect heard on drums even beyond what the hardware did. The release control can be set faster or slower than the original, allowing a range of different behaviors, from intense pumping to more subtle compression. You can get over 30dB of compression and it still sounds great.

Programs were all sampled in stereo (using 2 units), providing left and right channels that are very subtly different, adding to the analog imperfections that most of us came to Nebula looking for. There’s also a ‘pass-through’ program done like the typical Nebula preamp style programs, for getting some tone (very subtle) of the hardware without any compression.

JPN has done some really nice skins for N4, and N3!