CT-STRIP01

CT-STRIP01 is a channel-strip plugin that brings a Gate / Expander, a Compressor, a four-band EQ, and a Tone / Saturation stage together under one set of controls.

Features

C-TAKEBEATS presets

• Ten C-TAKEBEATS presets sit at the top of the preset menu. They cover vocals, guitar, keys, synth, horns, bass, and drums, and also recall their input and output levels.

28 factory presets organized by use

• Starting points for vocals, guitar, keys, bass, drums, loops, the mix bus, reverb returns, and external sidechain.

Live spectrum with the EQ curve on top

• The lower-right display overlays the output spectrum with the EQ / filter response curve — the same response the audio is processed with. Click it to expand the EQ across the whole panel and drag the points on the curve directly.

Three compressor circuits (FET / TUBE / VCA)

• FET delivers attacks down to 20 us and a forward push; TUBE is slow, smooth, and grippy; VCA is transparent and bus-friendly. Ratio / Attack / Release knob positions are kept across circuits and re-read in each circuit's own time-constant range.

A four-band EQ with three characters (NOBLE / CONSOLE / PURE)

• With the same gain, frequency, and Q settings, only the interaction between bands and the phase behavior change. NOBLE has musically interacting bands, CONSOLE has analog-console-style gain-dependent Q and shelves, and PURE is gain-symmetric with a clean constant Q.

Tone / Saturation stage

• A +/-6 dB tilt EQ pivoting at 700 Hz (TONE), plus console-style saturation that saturates from the low end up and rounds transients (SAT). SAT runs from 0 to 100%, and drives noticeably harder above about 60%. CHAR selects the balance between odd (ODD) and even (EVEN) harmonics. At 0% the stage is a true pass-through.

A fixed signal order with a single swap point

• The PRE EQ switch swaps only the Comp and EQ positions (OFF = EQ -> Comp). Changing the order never changes the latency.

Presets and workflow

• User presets with save / overwrite / delete, A/B comparison with COPY, one-step-per-gesture UNDO / REDO, Shift for fine adjustment, mouse-wheel control, value bubbles on knobs, help bubbles on buttons, and window sizes from 75% to 200%.