Devious Machines Multiband X6

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Define Your Sound and Stay in the Flow

X6 is an advanced multiband compressor designed to provide you with optimal control over the character and dynamics of your sounds, without making you lose sight of the bigger picture or getting bogged down in the details.

Whether it’s radio-ready vocals, a pumping drum bus or punchy mastering, X6 gives you the power. But where "power" often means complexity, X6 is different: It’s also really easy to use.

Work smart and fast

With its streamlined workflow, X6 can be dialled in as quickly and easily as a single-band compressor. Load it on a channel, set the threshold, twist the compression knob. It’s that simple.

How? Natural Balancing Technology and Smart Gain Compensation work to keep your sound balanced and consistent, minimising the need for manual adjustment.

Four Modes, Four Compression Characters

After an extensive development period and in collaboration with leading engineers, Devious Machines crafted a compressor with its own unique modern sound.

At its heart is a high-quality dynamics engine with a choice of four models, each with its own distinct character:

Punch: A modern, clean-sounding compressor with adaptive attack and release, which allows transients to cut through. Great for adding bite.

Smooth: Our reimagining of a classic FET model. The two-stage attack brings transients under control, for smooth, natural compression.

Crunch: A Devious invention which adds a little dirt, saturating loud transients for a pleasing, gritty character.

Expand: A versatile expander that can add impact by emphasising louder parts of the signal, or function as a noise-reducer.

Why Multiband X6?

Every aspect of X6 has been carefully designed to help you bring your music to life.

It excels at a variety of tasks: radio-friendly vocals, huge drums, biting synth stabs, punchy masters and much more. It’s also great with a single-band, for a classic compressed sound. Whether you want big in-your-face transients, well-controlled dynamics with no surprises, or an immersive wall of sound, you’ll get there easily with X6.

And with its low latency, low-cpu engine, it may be hard to resist putting it on every channel.

• Up to Six Bands: Use X6 as a single-band compressor, or precisely control every part of the frequency spectrum
• Smart Gain Compensation: Keeps the level consistent as you dial up the compression, saving you time and effort
• Auto-Threshold: Analyses the input signal, then sets the thresholds for consistent compression across all bands
• Input-Output Match: Automatically adjusts the output level to match the input, for accurate A/B-ing
• Configurable Crossover: 6-band Linkwitz-Riley crossover, with configurable slope per-band up to 48dB/oct, with minimum and linear-phase modes
• Mid/Side Processing: Shape the stereo width of your mix, and control mono elements independently
• External Sidechain: Perform sidechain ducking, with exact control over every frequency band
• Lookahead: Reduce transients in advance, with a selectable lookahead of up to 20ms
• Up to 4x Oversampling: For the ultimate in mastering-grade sound quality
• Professional Metering: Peak, true-peak, LUFS and RMS metering of both input and output
• Spectrum Analyser: Visualise the spectrum of both the input and output in realtime