1.4. Key features
Here is a summary of Tiger’s main features:
• Tiger includes four different plugins to choose from (‘Tiger flat’ and Tiger; ‘Tiger Mix
flat’ and Tiger Mix).
• Tiger implements a long list of compression curves accurately sampled from the
best analog compressors and software. We have found that this is a relatively rare
added value in software implementations (often, these curves are clean, synthesized,
modified, and are not the actual result of a sampling operation). In this respect, Tiger
copies Ash’s strategy for clippers, but in the realm of compression.
• Tiger implements the shapes of attack and release curves (ATTACK and RELEASE)
in the detectors from the best HARDWARE we have measured over the years. The
multi-segment shapes endow the product with program-dependent characteristics
(auto-attack and auto-release on steroids).
• Tiger implements in its detectors modulators of the shape for attack and release
times (ASHMOD, RSHMOD) coming from the best SOFTWARE (yes, this time software
as well) and hardware attack and release curves we have analyzed. It’s the first time
we have introduced release modulation in one of our products.
• Tiger implements a HOLD functionality for both the attack and the release (this com-
bined presence is also quite rare in software compressors).
• Tiger implements multiple variable-weighted detectors for handling transients simul-
taneously concerning the rest of the signal (this is also a program-dependent feature).
• Tiger implements a concept of a managed fast compressor and slow compressor to
balance aggressive and soft compressions within the same pattern precisely.
• Tiger implements an integrator (POWER) in the detectors to parametrically manage
transient response speed. In contrast to a purely PEAK or RMS compressor, Tiger can
represent compressors that implement detectors based on variable-pitch RMS power
measurements.
• Tiger implements a circuit in the sidechain path (DEEP SPACE) dedicated to optimi-
zing distortion in the presence of fast time constants.
• Tiger implements a true look-ahead on the attack (thus independent of the release)
that can optimize distortion in the presence of fast time constants.
• Tiger implements a relatively comprehensive sidechain equalizer based on a hi-
gh-pass filter and a dual semi-parametric peak or shelf-type equalizer and accepts
external sidechains.
• Tiger implements sophisticated oversampling (which has become a distinctive fe-
ature in the latest products we have released), characterized by a particularly tran-
sient-friendly impulse response and zero phase alteration.
• In each signal path, each dynamic element is independent of the input channels (in
fact, Tiger consists of 6 separate compressors)
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