JP Hutchins

VST compressors tend to model analog hardware compressors which of course have no look ahead or latency. There are modern digital implementations bit its not strictly necessary to introduce latency. For fun, leveling for cinema (where people conplain of dynamic range) can be tied to reading the level of the sub channel and and compressing all channels based on it. The important characteristic is a slow release in any dynamic range compression, even 1,000ms, 5,000ms and beyond IMO.