It's a transient shaping plugins, it's tight, can also be used a noise gate.
It can deal with very loud/saturated signals.
It's your threshold basically.
At noon, the plugin is dry.
Fully left only "enveloped" signal comes through.
Fully right, only the signal out of the envelope comes through
The compression relies on an envelope
The attack is static, but very fast.
You control the release (from 0 to 100ms), and the hold (from 0 to 200ms)
The envelope is triggered when a dynamic change is bigger than sensitivity.
Check out this great video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX42g_E88Ak
The gen~ max/msp algorithm was transpiled to C++ with this nice Max package: https://github.com/Cycling74/gen-plugin-export
(You need Xcode/Visual Studio and Projucer)
Open the .jucer file in Projucer, and hit your IDE.
The gen~ algorithm also works as an electro-smith daisy patch* using
the oopsy Max/Msp package.
You even get an envelope monitor (with CV OUT 1)
[*] likely works fine on their other gears too