Solid Bus Comp
Solid Bus Comp is a VST audio compressor plugin from Native Instruments, part of the Solid Mix Series. It is designed to add cohesive "glue" compression to buses, subgroups, master channels, and individual tracks. The plugin emulates classic analog console compression with controls for threshold, ratio, attack, release, makeup gain, and sidechain filtering. It is used by music producers and mixing engineers to add warmth, clarity and punch to mixes across genres. Solid Bus Comp is available in VST, VST3, AU, and AAX formats and must be hosted in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) running on macOS or Windows.
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1 suggestionSolid Bus Comp is a VST plugin distributed and updated through Native Instruments' Native Access application, not as a standalone app. To ensure you have a native Apple Silicon build, open Native Access, search for Solid Bus Comp or the full Solid Mix Series, and install or update to the latest version. Native Instruments confirmed Apple Silicon compatibility for the Solid Mix Series in their official support documentation, and the plugin is now available as a native build. If you are still running an older Intel-only version of the plugin, Native Access will serve the native Universal Binary on your M-series Mac when you update. After installing the native build, your DAW will load and run Solid Bus Comp natively without Rosetta 2, providing better performance and lower CPU usage. Make sure your DAW itself is also updated to a native Apple Silicon build for optimal compatibility.
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