Didn't you ask this question already? You poste it under the title "ducking". I think you will get the same answers. A little elbow grease never hurt anyone.

hueseph, post: 299720 wrote: Didn't you ask this question already? You poste it under the title "ducking". I think you will get the same answers. A little elbow grease never hurt anyone.

My apologies - you are correct. What I did what post this question on many forums and forgot that I already hit Recording.org. I will try to delete one of them. And just an FYI I have put time and effort into finding a solution well before coming to the forums to ask

No apology needed.

If you're just looking for a compressor with longer Attack I'm sure there are a number of them out there. I use the Waves Renaissance Compressor, which has Attack up to 500ms and Release up to 5000ms.

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Another idea that might help is to clone the vocal track slide it forward a half second and key the compressor from the one that's cheated ahead (but routed out of the mix).

Just a thought...

Anyway, good luck.

dvdhawk, post: 299723 wrote: Another idea that might help is to clone the vocal track slide it forward a half second and key the compressor from the one that's cheated ahead (but routed out of the mix).

This. Cheap, dirty, fast, done.

That'll work but you still have a 100ms attack - it's just that the attack is now coming in earlier.

ReaComp from the Reaper plugin pack does 5000ms release and ... *checks* 500ms attack, with 250ms "pre-comp" option. Sort of like automatically pulling the track forward (note that it does cause equal delay in the output so the host better support plugin delay compensation).
[[url=http://[/URL]="http://www.reaper.fm"]REAPER | Audio Production Without Limits[/]="http://www.reaper.fm"]REAPER | Audio Production Without Limits[/] but your other post suggests you're on a mac, so this is probably no use.

csi, post: 299694 wrote: **Edit** my apologies, I posted this subject twice accidentally - forgot that I hit the forum with this question.

Hi,

I do v/o productions that are longer in length and would like to find a sidechain compressor that has the ability to look ahead and drop the audio down slowly (compress) before the v/o comes in. The release should also graduate up slowly. Now when I say slowly I need the fade in/out to be just under 2 seconds on each side of the v/o. I am currently using 'Slim Slow Slider' which almost does the job - The attack max is only 100ms and the Release goes up to 1000ms. The release is PERFECT but the 100ms attack is a bit to quick. I've scanned the web looking for a compressor that does side chain and am amazed at how little there are that do this.

If you know of one, and even if you don't know if it has a long attack please give me the name or web site of it.

Thanks!!

Hey Waves has the C6 now which is like the C4 but with 2 more bands and a sidechain. I don't know if it does exactly what you need it to but they say it's good for post production.