ELYSIA XFILTER 
I believe I’m an Elysia fan!
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wow… i really thing to get both after some research (Elysia comp and EQ).
thanks for your tip. 
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I use this http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/tk-audio-bc1-mkii
Clean and good, sounds like a master unit.
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the tk audio unit is the business. have a friend with one and surprised at how good it sounded and at an affordable price too.
+1 for elysia xpressor, I’m biased though owned one for 3 years and it has been rock solid for my purposes processing the elektrons/modular
if you want something with more color, more aggressive design check out the single channel mpressor, I’m tempted to buy a couple to process the rytm
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What are your goals? I find there’s lots of great vintage emus in the digital realm this is why I decided to get a wa76 that I go through before I hit the ADC. This allows me to record without worrying about clipping and you get the transformer warmth.
It really depends on what you’re looking for!
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make sure to check out this guy… if I had more $, I’d be all over it
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I just love the sound of the elysia expresser.
It’s got the HPF side chain filter which is great for techno and house, and also the dry/wet which is great if you want to squeeze more character out of it without annihilating the dynamics.
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Does it catch super fast transients like the 1176s? Seems to cover a lot of ground from what I read on the website. Demos sound good… and it’s stereo, which is a big plus versus regular 1176s…
0.01ms attack.
It is quite fast.
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I’ve had the Shadow Hills comp, and a few other “high end” comps, but the Elysia Xpressor seems like its made for the Elektron boxes and electronic music in general. The Xfilter as a combo with the Xpressor and Heat is the best master buss chain I’ve heard so far.
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I own both the 1973 and the xpressor(actually 2 xpressors😅). If I had to choose one it would be the xpressor. It is suuuper flexible and can do a lot of really cool compression tricks. Can be extremely transparent or extremely over the top if you want it to be. The 1973 is great too, but it is more for special cases where as the xpressor is applicable to practically everything.
The 1973 did get used on the Silver Souls tribute comp in the mastering stage, maybe on about half of the tracks. It’s parallel features really allow you to fine tune density in certain frequency ranges.
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do you use ableton?
check the Looptrotter Emperor too…mid-way between Elysia Karacter and dynamics processor.
Yes, why?
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You can get a nice deal under $200 bucks
Valley People Symetrix 522
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how do you use it? with the the build in “external audio effect” plugin?
and than recording the processed to a new audio track? warping off right?
I was about to pull the trig on a EMI TG12413 Zener Limiter which seems like a “eveything sound good through it” comp.
…followed up by a EMI TG12345 Curve Bender EQ by Chandler Limited. That sound…Mmmmm!!!
But I also got sold on the Elysia 500 series which gives you 4 modules for the price of one of the above. Youtube playlist processing Elektrons.
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valley people is serious compression smash
I never use the external audio effect plugin. I basically treat DAWs as tape machines and editors. When mixing, verything is routed to an SSL XDesk, XPanda and Sigma and hardware inserts are used on individual tracks, busses and on the master buss. When mastering, I set up the analog signal path and run to the DAC on one track and capture on a seperate track. That way I can use plugins before and after the analog processing.
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Serious crush. Probably the most over the top sounding compressors I’ve ever played with. Amazing pumping action, but I would never let a Valley People comp near my 2bus😜