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Orra Press
Multi-Module Serial Compressor
Six dynamics engines. Six reorderable slots. One waveform at a time. Chain a Classic into a Spectral into a Limiter — or any combination you want.
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Six engines, one compressor
Built for the song, not the spec sheet.
Most compressors give you one engine and one workflow. Orra Press gives you six dynamics engines that can be loaded into any of six reorderable slots — so the chain matches the song, not the other way around.
Traditional Approach
Open one compressor for tone. Open another for control. Open a third for limiting. Switch between plugin windows. Lose your place. Try to remember which knob you turned and why.
A different plugin for every stage of dynamics.
The Orra Way
Load engines into your slots. Reorder with arrows. Stack a fast FET into a slow Optical into a transparent Limiter — or three Classics in a row, each doing 2 dB. Compare four arrangements with A / B / C / D and ship the one that wins.
One plugin. Six engines. Every dynamics decision in one window.
The Six Engines
Each slot can hold any of the six engines — duplicates allowed. Switching engines on a slot doesn't lose your dial-ins, so audition freely.
Try it — use the < > arrows to reorder the cards, just like reordering slots in the plugin.
Classic
VCA-Style · Zero Latency
The workhorse. A feedforward VCA with stereo-linked peak detection, soft-knee static curve, and standard attack / release. Predictable, transparent, and dependable on busses, vocals, and second-stage glue.
Use it for
- •Drum bus glue
- •Vocal smoothing
- •Stage two of a chain
Optical
Opto-Style · Program-Dependent
An opto emulation that trades precision for feel. Dual-stage release — fast on isolated peaks, slow on sustained activity. Soft initial ratio that climbs as you push. Compress or Limit modes.
Use it for
- •Vocal leveling
- •Bass guitar
- •Two-bus glue with Limit mode
FET
Aggressive Grab · ALL Mode
Fast-attack FET-style with input-driven engagement. Push the INPUT knob to drive harder — the tanh saturation stage scales with gain reduction. ALL mode (all-buttons-in) hits past 20:1 with British-mode chaos.
Use it for
- •Drum room in parallel
- •Vocal peak control
- •Snare top transient grab
Multiband
4-Band Linear-Phase FIR
Four-band compressor with a linear-phase FIR crossover network. All bands share group delay — no cross-band bleed. Draggable crossover handles. Visual threshold lines per band on the spectrum.
Use it for
- •De-essing
- •Full-mix mastering glue
- •Kick / bass separation
Spectral
FFT-Domain Per-Bin
Frequency-domain compression on ~1000 independent FFT bins. The Resonance control targets narrow ringing peaks while letting broadband content pass through. Focus handles limit compression to a frequency range.
Use it for
- •Taming snare ring
- •De-harshing vocals
- •Killing room modes dynamically
Limiter
Mastering-Grade · True-Peak / LUFS
Brick-wall limiter with soft-clip pre-stage, lookahead, parallel fast/slow release, ISP prediction, and ITU-R BS.1770 true-peak detection. Three styles (Clean / Warm / Smash) and three quality tiers (4× / 8× / 16×).
Use it for
- •Final mastering brick-wall
- •Loudness boost on stems
- •Transparent peak control
How it works
Three simple steps that scale from a single track to a full master chain
Load
Each of the six slots has a dropdown that picks the engine: Empty, Classic, Optical, FET, Multiband, Spectral, or Limiter.
Switching engines on a slot doesn't overwrite your settings. Flip a slot from Classic to FET and back — your Classic dial-ins are still there.
Per-slot oversampling (Off / 2× / 4× / 8×) on every type, with the Limiter exposing 4× / 8× / 16× quality tiers for ISP-aware mastering.
Six engines, ready in any slot
Reorder
Each slot card has < and > buttons that move it earlier or later in the signal chain. Reorder without losing parameters — settings travel with the slot.
Fast / aggressive engines before slow / gentle ones generally sounds cleaner. End the chain with the Limiter when you're ready to bring loudness up.
Multi-stage compression sounds better than one big squash — try a 2:1 Classic into a 2:1 Classic, both at 2 dB. Same total reduction, half the artifact.
Order matters — change it instantly
Compare
Four full-plugin snapshots (A / B / C / D) live in the header. Each captures every slot's engine type, all parameters, the chain order, and sidechain routing.
Click A. Dial in a setting. Click B. Tweak. Switch back and forth instantly to compare. Hit STORE to overwrite the highlighted slot.
Snapshots persist with the project and with saved presets — ship a preset that includes four named variants of the same starting point.
Decide with your ears, not your memory
Sidechain anything from anywhere
Every slot has its own independent sidechain source. Combined with Orra Link — the included companion plugin — you can sidechain any track in your session, in any DAW, even ones whose routing won't let you sidechain across busses normally.
Six slots. Six independent sidechain sources.
Each slot's sidechain is configured independently — duck the bass on slot 1 with the kick, then have slot 3's compression react to a different track entirely. No bus juggling, no aux tracks.
Three sidechain modes per slot
- OffThe default. The compressor keys off its own input — standard compression behaviour.
- ExternalThe host's dedicated stereo Sidechain bus. Whatever your DAW routes drives detection — kick to bass ducking, the classic move.
- Link 1–3636 sidechain channels fed by Orra Link. Drop Link on any track, pick a channel, and that source is now available to any Press card in the project.
Visualized in the analyzer
When sidechain is active, the analyzer shows it. The Scope tab adds a thin red SC strip above the GR strip. The Spectral view replaces per-bin GR with the sidechain's FFT — see exactly which frequencies in the sidechain are carving the main signal. The Multiband spectrum tints each band by its current SC drive.
Multiband and Spectral aware
Multiband splits the sidechain through its own FIR crossover bank so each band's detector keys off the matching SC band. Spectral runs a parallel FFT on the sidechain — meaning you can carve spectral space in the main signal wherever the sidechain has energy. (The Limiter ignores sidechain by design — brick-wall limiters don't sidechain.)
Orra Link
Sidechain Sender — Included
The all-in-one compressor
Workflow, visualization, and technical detail — every move in one window
Multiple of the same type
Nothing stops you from loading two Classics, two FETs, or three Opticals. Multi-stage compression — small amounts of GR at each stage — routinely sounds better than one big squash.
Mix knob for parallel compression
Every engine has a Mix knob. Set it to 30–50% with an aggressive setting and you get parallel compression within a single instance — the classic "New York" drum trick without an auxiliary bus.
A / B / C / D snapshots
Four full-plugin states stored in the header. Snapshots persist with the project and with saved presets — ship a preset that includes four named variants of the same starting point.
16 factory presets
Curated starting points covering vocals (Tight FET, Smooth Opto, FET + Opto chain, Spectral Polish), drums (Gentle Glue, Parallel Crush, Punchy FET on kick), bass (Classic Control, Multiband Tight), master bus (Transparent Glue, Opto + Classic, Final Limiter Light), and Spectral utilities (De-Resonate, Broadband Tame). Save your own with one click.
Per-slot oversampling
Off / 2× / 4× / 8× per slot for the detector and gain stage. The Limiter exposes Standard (4×) / High (8×) / Ultra (16×) for ISP-aware mastering with tighter true-peak control.
Tracking-friendly modes
Classic, Optical, and FET are all zero-latency with oversampling off — load Press while tracking without timing issues. Multiband, Spectral, and the Limiter add latency that the host compensates for via PDC.
Orra Press in action
Six engines, six reorderable slots, and the Orra Link sidechain system — see how it all comes together in a real session.
Six Engines, One Waveform
Watch Orra Press in a real mix — chaining classics with multiband, dialing in spectral compression on a resonance, and using Orra Link to sidechain any track in the session.
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