MDA

**One compression system across many tracks, without routing their audio through a conventional bus.**

MDA is a cross-track compressor made of two plugins. Put MDA Send on every track that should participate, put one MDA Sum on a blank track, and match their colour-coded Bus numbers. MDA Sum owns the compressor settings and makes the shared decisions; each Send applies the result to its own latency-aligned audio. Your tracks, inserts, faders, and downstream routing remain separate.

Four Distribution laws decide how gain reduction reaches the group. Standard applies the shared settings independently to each track. Adaptive increases a track's effective ratio as it moves farther over threshold. Density responds to how many tracks cross threshold together. Peer compresses tracks that rise above the group mean.

Unison moves continuously from Independent detection, where every Send follows its own detector, to Joined detection, where the Sum's combined detector drives every Send with the same envelope. This lets you move between compressor-per-track behaviour and bus-compressor behaviour without rebuilding the routing.

FEATURES

- MDA Sum and MDA Send included as one system
- Shared threshold, ratio, knee, attack, release, makeup, and mix controls
- Standard, Adaptive, Density, and Peer Distribution laws
- Continuous Independent-to-Joined Unison control
- Peak or RMS linked-stereo detection
- Per-Send detector HPF and LPF that do not filter the audible track
- Program-dependent Auto Release and host-synced release values, including triplets
- Collapse adds up to 4 dB of bounded extra reduction on hard hits, followed by a bloom back
- Live connection and gain-reduction display
- Null Test, latency-stable bypass, fail-open audio, and 16 independent Bus groups

FORMATS AND PLATFORMS

- Windows: VST3, CLAP, AAX
- macOS universal, available August 1, 2026: VST3, CLAP, AU, AAX
- Linux: VST3, CLAP

DEMO AND DOWNLOAD

https://brucejames.studio/downloads/mda