Big Blue Compressor

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System requirements

Windows: 10, and up
Mac OS X (Intel or Apple Silicon ): 10.11 (El Capitan), and up

Big Blue Compressor is available in VST2 & VST3 (64-bit), AU (64-bit), and AAX (64-bit) format

Native Apple Silicon support

System requirements: Windows 10 and up, or Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and up

Formats: VST2 & VST3 (64-bit), AU (64-bit), AAX (64-bit)

Please note that a valid license is required in order to use this product. Don't have a licence yet? You can request a demo license, or purchase your license below.




Release Notes

Big Blue Compressor 2.0.2

release date: 20 August 2025

Bug Fixes

  • VST3 can replace VST2
Note: This fix can break settings if you had an earlier VST3-version installed.

Big Blue Compressor 2.0.1

release date: 30 April 2025

New Features

  • mono version

Bug Fixes

  • channel configuration (Cubase crash on mono tracks)

Big Blue Compressor 2.0.0

release date: 19 March 2025

New Features

  • VST3-version
  • native Apple Silicon Support
  • resizable GUi

Big Blue Compressor 1.1.0

release date: 4 March 2023

Bug Fixes

  • The plugin didn’t show up or crash in the latest versions of Logic and Ableton Live

Big Blue Compressor 1.0.9

release date: 15 June 2020

New Features

  • Installer will remove unused files

Big Blue Compressor 1.0.8

release date: 28 November 2019

Bug Fixes

  • Big Blue Compressor didn't adapt correctly after a buffer size change.

New Features

  • MAC OS X Catalina (10.15) compatibility
  • User friendly installer for MAC OS X
Note: we no longer provide 32-bit support for MAC OS X with this update. For earlier 32-bit versions, please contact support@112db.com

Big Blue Compressor 1.0.7

release date: 2 August 2016

Improvements

  • Metering
Note: we no longer provide RTAS support with this update. For earlier RTAS versions, please contact support@112db.com

Big Blue Compressor 1.0.5

release date: 20 December 2015

Bug Fixes

  • The 'Russian bug': unresponsive GUI on OSX when language was set on Russian or other languages using non-western characters. several stability improvements

New

  • Windows 10, Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) & Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) are officially supported

Big Blue Compressor 1.0.4 (MAC only)

release date: 1 February 2015

Bug Fixes

  • Yosemite compatibility update (unresponsive number boxes fix)

Big Blue Compressor 1.0.3

release date: 21 November 2014

New Features

  • AAX version

Bug Fixes

  • several bug fixes and stability improvements

Big Blue Compressor 1.0.2

release date: 3 December 2013

New Features

  • Modern skin by Scott Kane

Bug Fixes

  • 64-bit VST version sometimes caused a crash on Windows systems with more than 4 GB memory
  • sample rate wasn't retrieved correctly from the host (AU): attack/decay times were off at non-44.1 sample rates
  • latency wasn't communicated correctly to certain hosts
  • several memory leaks

Big Blue Compressor 1.0.1

release date: 16 June 2013

New Features

  • 64-bit VST & AU version for MAC OS
  • extra large GUI for easier reading on high resolution screens
  • auto make-up function can be turned off

Improvements

  • less CPU load

Bug Fixes

  • Big Blue Compressor would randomly crash AU Validation Tool(Logic Pro)
  • Big Blue Compressor couldn't be inserted on mono tracks in RTAS & AU
Note: we are no longer able to provide support for PowerPC & OSX 10.5 with this update. The reason for this is that Apple has discontinued support for OS X 10.4 / 10.5 and the Power PC platform, and their latest development environment does not allow developing for PowerPC anymore.


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