On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Will Light wrote:
I've been wondering if we could discuss the way the sliders in Beast's mixer work. I'd like to see the slider in the mixer do both amplification and limiting. In a real mixing board, the sliders actually don't amplify anything, they only attenuate the audio that passes through them. What's everyone's opinion on this?
as for limiting, that is actually a fairly complicated mechanism to implement, not just muting the signal to 0 if the mixer sliders indicate an amplification of -96dB, see: http://www.harmony-central.com/Effects/Articles/Compression/
we do have two plugins (in the upcoming 0.6.5 that is) which come close, ArtsCompressor and StandardSaturator. a pure limiter has yet to be implemented though.
deploying plugins in the mixer is currently in the works. the plan is to support adding effects/filters to mixer busses in the "reserved for effects" slot. this would ultimately be the place to hook up limiters, compressors, saturators, echos, flangers etc.
-will
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