THE DESTROYER's PIXEL EXCESSOR Plugin Interface

UPDATES:

V1.1:

- added optional DC blocker button

- 16x oversampler

- oscilloscope improved:
less flickering on complex waveforms

MAIN FEATURES:

- input gain

- output gain

- threshold

- ratio

- attack

- release

- internal sidechain high pass filter
(INT SC HPF)

- character knob

- wavefolder

- make up gain

- built-in oversampler 2x/4x/8x/16x
for both inputs for superior saturation quality

- x2 zoom

- external sidechain

- pixel-perfect oscilloscope

- output clip

THE IDEA BEHIND:

I first discovered the
De La Mancha GT series plugins
years ago and I was
immediately struck
by something unusual:

feeding a sine wave kick
through them would produce
sharp and aggressive spikes!

A behaviour I had never
seen in any other compressor.

That characteristic became
the sound I wanted
to recreate:

a native 64-bit plugin
free from the bridge issues
that made the originals
painful to use in FL Studio,
Released only in 32-bit.

Additional inspiration came from
Acustica Audio ARCTIC and GREY
that can achieve
a similar behavior
with better quality details.

So my final goal was
to capture a similar algorithm
at zero latency ,

wrapped in a
light and small interface
as all my plugins.

DOWNLOAD THE DESTROYER's pixelEXCESSOR v1.1

The Destroyer's Pixel Excessor

The Destroyer's Pixel Excessor is a free Windows VST compressor by THE DESTROYER, focused on aggressive character, spike-like compression behavior and zero-latency processing.

Main features

Input gain and output gain.
Threshold, ratio, attack and release controls.
Internal sidechain high-pass filter.
Character knob and wavefolder.
Makeup gain.
Built-in 2x / 4x / 8x oversampler for both inputs.
External sidechain and pixel-perfect oscilloscope.
Output clip and x2 zoom.

The idea behind

The plugin was inspired by the De La Mancha GT series and their unusual sharp, aggressive spike behavior when processing sine-wave kicks. The goal was to recreate that kind of character as a native 64-bit plugin, without bridge issues, wrapped in a small and light interface.