Waves API 2500
Waves API 2500: Versatile vintage compressor with switchable topologies. Excellent on Everything. Glorious on Drums, Bass, and Your Stereo Bus.
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Description
In studios around the world, the API 2500 has earned a reputation for always being able to deliver the right solution for virtually any compression need. Based on precise, accurate VCA-type technology, the API 2500 is all about choice—including compressor topologies, punch, and tone.
A modern classic, the API 2500 has now been discovered by a new generation of modern producers in hip hop, pop/R&B, dance, and rock, who treasure the punchy vibe that brings drums and grooves to life.
Features
- Modeled in close collaboration with API
- Shape gut-punching bass with API’s proprietary Thrust option
- Added Mix control for easy parallel compression
- Fixed or variable release time, up to 3 seconds
- Shape energy with variable L/R linking, from 50% to 100%
- Official emulation of the famed API bus compressor
- Glue your groups, especially drum buses, or your entire stereo mix
- Choose vintage feedback or modern feedforward design
- 3 optimized knee curves—clamp down hard, or compress gently
- 7 attack options, from super-fast 0.03 ms up to 30 ms
- Additional infinity:1 ratio provides limiting as well as compression
- Tie the stereo linkage to frequency ranges
Tech Specs
MAC
OS X macOS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14
Memory: 8 GB
Disk: 16 GB
CPU: Intel or Silicon Architecture
WINDOWS
Windows Windows 10 64 bit Windows 11
Memory: 8 GB
Disk: 16 GB
CPU: X64 compatible Intel or AMD CPU
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