[LAA] New 'Zam' suite of audio plugins released

Hi folks, I have been developing a suite of audio plugins using LV2 and LADSPA open formats. I am happy to announce that they are in working order and released on Github at the address: http://github.com/zamaudio The suite so far consists of: ZamAutoSat - Automatic saturation plugin ZamComp - Mono Compressor plugin* ZamCompX2 - Stereo Compressor plugin* ZamCompExp - Stereo Compressor/Expander plugin ZamEQ2 - 2x parametric EQ (with high/lowshelf and HP/LP) plugin ZamValve - Valve distortion (WDF physical model* or tanh*) plugin NB * In the same git repo under a different branch The purpose of these plugins is to provide high quality DSP without using an excessive amount of CPU, in an attempt to complement some of the amazing work done on other free audio software projects by other people. There is an exception: ZamValve has two different models one of which uses very large proportion of CPU but has been commented that it does sound much more realistic than the tanh model. The CPU hungry version is in a separate git branch and is not selected by default but can be compiled by switching to the zamvalve branch. There currently is no documentation on how to use these plugins, but anyone who is familiar with outboard gear should be able to work it out. Plus the default settings and almost every slider is calibrated to standard ranges. Thanks to naptastic on #lad for the auto saturation algorithm. Also, thanks to others in #lad for very useful input since I started writing these plugins. The rest of the algorithms were from DSP papers I have been reading from my library subscription and I have mish-mashed a number of different ones together to make these plugins function as expected. Please send me feedback on my blog if you want to discuss these plugins: http://www.zamaudio.com/?p=870 I would like to know how to improve them and appreciate all comments. Thanks, Damien Zammit