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Free Tool · No Sign-up

The trance compressor, explained.

A real Ableton Compressor you can actually drag. Pick the sound you are working on and watch the settings change, see what each control does, and learn what too much or too little does to that sound. One device, the way Mix Lock teaches all of them.

More free device guides: Glue Compressor → · Saturator → · Dynamic EQ →

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Organise every track you're working on — free.

Mix Lock Lite keeps your whole slate in one place: stages, checklists, notes and bounce reviews you can pin to the waveform. Works offline, no sign-up.

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This is one device

Mix Lock does this for your whole mix.

Every channel and the devices on it, taught the same plain way — live in your own Ableton session, with a mix scorecard and a fix queue. Try it free for 72 hours, no card — the 43-channel peak-time template ships with the full app.

or get Mix Lock outright — £59 →