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I’ve never been an advocate of expensive outboard gear, but I never found a software compressor that had the ‘magic’ of outboard buss compressors… until I got The Glue. The difference between it and the typical software compressor is not subtle – it clamps and tames your signals without any of that transient coloration, or sterile clamping found on most software compressors. Don’t let the low price fool you, if you give it a test-drive I’m pretty sure you’ll hear why everyone is raving about it!

I’m in a mix right now and using The Glue. This vst is hot!!!! The Glue is a must have in my set up, it is simply on every track i’ve done so far since i have it. As a master, or sidechain, it’s simply wonderfull, punchy or smooth. I come from a 100% hardware environment, and so it took me a while to find a good alternative

I heart the glue… finally, a compressor with the short attack times i’ve always wanted plus side chainy goodness to deliver the meat to my productions that my butcher cannot…. Cytomic does no wrong here!

You won’t see my name associated with many products but I’m proud to be on your website. The features and purity of sound of The Glue show a deep understanding of how compressors work. Your mix control invites experimentation with parallel compression and your range control allows the Glue to grab the sound early without over compressing. The Glue not only moves more like analogue compressors but most surprisingly it also has a nice ‘tone’ which is always a characteristic of different analogue boxes but missing on other plugins I’ve tried. I don’t know how you’re doing this but congratulations and thank you.

This is so much more than a detailed plug‑in version of the beloved Tube Screamer. Not only has it been modelled in fastidious detail, but you can tweak to your heart’s content and really dig into the fine detail of circuitry design — with no risk of burning out any chips!

The Glue is a world-class plug-in and we reckon it offers amazing value. Factor in the extra options and you have a very tidy and useful compressor with more real-world uses than the design it’s based on. Both the Mix and Range controls add a host of options for dialling in the compression flavour, and in practice we found this made The Glue an incredibly flexible compressor suitable not just for use on the master bus, but for individual instruments too.

The Drop is a success on so many levels, it’s a little mind-boggling that it’s priced under $100. As an emulation of analog filters The Drop is a stunning achievement. It’s hard to overstate just how accurate these models really are. That The Drop actually models the circuits down to the transistors means that its sound is 99 percent identical to the real thing—and as someone with a studio full of the real thing, I’m not exaggerating. The Drop is pure magic and I’ll be using it daily for the foreseeable future. Get it now.

The Glue is based on the legendary SSL bus compressor and makes a mighty fine job of performing transparent bus compression. Compared to similar plug‑ins, it’s more transparent but without sounding flat or boring. It’s kind of a ‘more of everything’ compressor, and at a great price too! It not only performed impeccably on bus‑compression duties, but was also able to tighten up bass guitar, acoustic guitar, drums and vocals without adding a ‘sound’.

Now that the finished version is finally here, we’re happy to report that it’s turned out every bit as special as we hoped and expected it to. Indeed, The Drop is arguably the finest filter plugin ever made, with a superlative sound and extensive feature set. The Drop is packed with powerful, fun and genuinely useful features, making it a fantastic plugin for anyone who uses filters creatively. Crucially, no matter how deep you choose to go with it, it always sounds absolutely superb.