ZL Compressor

ZL Compressor is a compressor plugin.

Build from Source

Install Dependencies

Please make sure Clang (AppleClang 16+ or LLVM/Clang 17+), cmake 3.25+, ninja are installed and configured on your OS.

On Windows (with Intel chips), you may install Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives and set its path as an environment variable IPP_DIR. It is not a hard requirement as KFR has already been used for SIMD/DFT acceleration.

On Linux, you can install the remaining dependencies with the following command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install libasound2-dev libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxext-dev libfreetype-dev libfontconfig1-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

Clone and Build

Once you have set up the environment, you can clone the ZL Compressor code, populate all submodules, then configure & build the code. Please set the variable ZL_JUCE_FORMATS as a list of formats that you want, e.g., "VST3;LV2".

git clone https://github.com/ZL-Audio/ZLCompressor
cd ZLCompressor
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake -B Builds -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DKFR_ENABLE_MULTIARCH=OFF -DZL_JUCE_FORMATS="VST3;LV2" .
cmake --build Builds --config Release

After building, the plugins should have been copied to the corresponding folders. If you want to disable the copy process, you can pass -DZL_JUCE_COPY_PLUGIN=FALSE, find the binary folders under Builds/ZLCompressor_artefacts/Release and copy them manually.

If there are multiple compilers on your OS, you may need to pass extra flags to maker sure that cmake uses LLVM/Clang. On Linux, you may pass -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++. On Windows, you may pass -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang-cl -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang-cl.

AAX plug-ins need to be digitally signed using PACE Anti-Piracy's signing tools before they will run in commercially available versions of Pro Tools.

License

ZL Compressor is licensed under AGPLv3, as found in the LICENSE.md file. However, the logo of ZL Audio and the logo of ZL Compressor are not covered by this license.

Copyright (c) 2023 - zsliu98

JUCE framework from JUCE

JUCE template from pamplejuce

kfr by KFR

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Reference

Dimitrios Giannoulis, Michael Massberg, and Joshua D. Reiss. Digital dynamic range compressor design—A tutorial and analysis. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. (2012).

Martin Vicanek. Matched One-Pole Digital Shelving Filters. (2019).

Martin Vicanek. Matched Second Order Digital Filters. (2016).

Nigel Redmon. Cascading filters. (2016).

Cleve Moler. Makima Piecewise Cubic Interpolation. MathWorks Blogs. (2019).