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Dragon Fire – Tonal Compression
2025
Dragon Fire – Tonal Compression
Dragon Fire from denise – a monstrous way to tame dynamics of your track. Dragon Fire introduces tonal compression: a new and easier way to tame and color the dynamic of your tracks. On top of that, our Shape technology allows you to finely sculpt the flavor and behavior of the compressor algorithm.
Out of the box, the Dragon Fire offers many classic compressor types, but you can go next level and design your own compressor style. Go from vintage to transparent and finally create that OPTO style compressor with a hard knee, a touch of VCA punch, and add some transformer flavor on top.
To tame your track dynamics, the Dragon Fire offers a new approach that has the ease of use of an equalizer with its push-pull graph. Flavoring your sound and cutting through the mix has never been easier. Speed up your workflow and add creativity and fun to your production process while keeping your ears fresh, creative and healthy.
denise asked Rhys May for feedback on the plugin as he had the opportunity to test the Dragon Fire sometime before its release. He really flattered us as he sent over a short showcase video using the Dragon on a mix he was working on for Dohny Jep with his quote.
When denise started to conceptualize a ‘denise style’ compressor, denise wanted to go beyond emulating a classic compressor. It’s after all denise’s mission to take inspiration from the analog world, but create plugins with their own unique soul, craziness, and character.
They wanted their compressor to give you the freedom to tune the sound of the compressor itself – imagine fine-tuning the compressor’s saturation amount based on the gain reduction, or tweaking the envelope follower to sound more analog or vintage. Secondly, denise wants to make compressing multiple bands easy, controlled, and more flexible than with a traditional multiband compressor. To achieve this denise integrated the push-pull technology from denise popular God Mode, so you can target the compression towards specific elements in your mix, like the snare in a full beat. These new features and technology made us rethink the mixing process entirely.
Dragon Fire with its Shape technology offers multiple creative features Finely sculpt the flavor and behaviour of the compressor algorithm itself. Go from vintage to transparent and anything in between:
- Unique RMS and Knee functions to soften the compression sound.
- Interpolate between a fast and slow release curve for an ‘optic’ style response.
- Adaptive saturation: Like an old tube compressor, the more you push a signal the more it gets saturated.
Pricing and Availability
The possibilities with the Dragon Fire are endless. Please go try the Dragon Fire for yourself and find a FREE trial and plenty of examples here. The Dragon Fire is offered for a limited time at 50% off. Instead of €82/$99, get it for €40.50/£36/$49.90 (€49 incl. VAT).
The Perfect range of reverbs (i.e. the Perfect Room, the Perfect Plate, and the Perfect Plate XL) have all received updates to improve their functionality.
Perfect Room version 1.2.1
- The Perfect Room now has a resizable GUI!
- Solves an audio export issue with certain DAWs.
- The preset named “Vocals – Super short room” has been updated to adjust the output volume.
Perfect Plate and the Perfect Plate XL version 1.0.2
- Solves an audio export issue with certain DAWs.
Pricing and Availability
Download the updates from your denise library.
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Shape your own Perfect Plate by denise
Shape your perfect plate by taking control over character & movement, with the denise Perfect Plate and Perfect Plate XL plugins. The TXVerb™ technology that drives the Perfect Room – a plugin many engineers regard to be the best sounding natural reverb – is at the base of denise’s newest plugin: the Perfect Plate. The denise team believes that being able to take creative control over a plate reverb’s temper, character and movement gives you the ability to design your perfect plate reverb.
The denise Perfect Plate gives you control over 5 aspects to shape your plate sound. The plugin is great for users who simply require a lush and great sounding plate: Perfect Plate or Plate XL (Affiliate Link) is available now.
- How quickly the plate vibrates by setting the speed of the dampening curve.
- How long the plate vibrates by setting the tail length.
- How long it takes for the plate to react to the incoming signal with the pre-delay time.
- How much space the plate takes in the stereo field by setting the split and width features.
- How crazy the plate sounds by setting different creative effects that control character and movement.
With these features you can create a lush and rich vintage vocal plate: dark sounding, with a long tail and slow dampening. Or the perfect big rock drum sound: bright, with a short tail and fast dampening. Get really creative by combining the reverb’s plate features with the two built-in effects: Use for example the detune to create a unique detuning effect similar to the one produced by analog tape devices, giving your reverb an extra vintage flavour.
Perfect Plate Highlights
- Creative control over the plate’s coloration, character, and movement, with the 5 aspects that determine a plate’s sound.
- Control over the plate’s damping curve over time.
- Larger than life mono –> stereo: Create a wide stereo reverb from a mono source without any phase issues.
- Detune and Ducker: control the lofi and vintage quality and impact in the mix
- Resizable GUI & Catalina support
- Perfect for external FX: Used on a bus, you can combine the Perfect Plate with all kinds of effects to create character and excitement.
- TXVerb™ reverb technology: Unique algorithm that enhances natural character & coloration.
The XL version extends the sound design capabilities by adding an EQ graph, control of the damping slope and creative effects specifically tailored for this reverb.
Perfect Plate XL Highlights
- Creative control over the plate’s character and movement, with the 5 aspects that determine a plate’s sound.
- Control over the plate’s damping curve over time.
- Larger than life mono to stereo: Create a wide stereo reverb from a mono source without any phase issues.
- Rotator and Ducker: create movement by ducking and combining host-synced vibrato, tremolo, filtering and panning effects.
- Resonator: lets you inject metallic imperfections, build cinematic & SciFi effects or turn any audio source into a synth.
- Detune and Saturation: control the lofi and vintage quality
- Resizable GUI & Catalina support
- Perfect for external FX: Used on a bus, you can combine the Perfect Plate with all kinds of effects to create character and excitement.
- TXVerb™ reverb technology: Unique algorithm that enhances natural character & coloration.
- EQ graph: Adjust the reverb’s color by shaping its frequencies and resonances in the built-in EQ graph.
Pricing and Availability
Grab your copy of Perfect Plate or Plate XL (Affiliate Link) now for a limited introductory price of €39 ($38/£29/¥3,955) for the basic and €79 ($76/£56/¥8,013) for the XL until 6 November. Euro prices include vat, and both plugins are €49 and €99 at full price.
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