Multiband Compressor

Parameters

Three bands (Low/Mid/High, LR4 crossovers), compressed independently.

Controls and display

The per-band Ratio knob is bipolar: right of centre = normal downward compression; left of centre = upward compression (bring quiet material up) — the same switch as the face's COMP / LIFT pads.

Surface (the in / out field): the track's spectrum drawn twice — the input as a faint fill in each band's colour (low violet, mid blue, high green), the output as the bright line — with the gap between them filled red where a band is pulling and in the band's colour where a LIFT band is adding, so the reduction is visible across frequency. Each band carries a chip (LOW · −22.0 DB · 3.0:1 · +1.5 · ▼ COMP), its threshold as a dashed line, and its reduction stamped in the lane; the crossovers are dividers with labelled pills.

The tower column on the right shows LOW / MID / HIGH / TOTAL reduction on a 0…24 dB scale (a COMP band lights red from the top, a LIFT band from the floor in its colour) with the value cells, the COMP / LIFT pads and the crossover cells. The knobs sit in three console decks under their band (threshold / ratio / makeup) with attack / release under the column; in the narrow pane they fold to one strip. In the focus pane the FIELD · TAPES chip switches the picture to three tapes: six seconds of each band's level with its threshold and its reduction as a curtain — the same switch as view.mb_tapes.

Focus-pane drags: a band's threshold (on the field or its tape), a crossover pill; click a pad to flip COMP / LIFT; double-click a threshold for −24 dB, a crossover for its default.