On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:11:42PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > >Another question to two (Joern and Fernando) AMB nerds: does > >a multicnannel AMB aware dynamics processor make sense ? When > >would you use it ? I'm asking because one of the plugins I'm > >developing could be exactly that. > > oh, certainly. it would be divine to *not* be able to do evil sum > compression in ambisonics, ever, but sometimes, earthly matters > require it... > > but my favourite solution to this approach would be for ardour to do > the right thing wrt side chaining (or at least allowing the chains > to be made manually). i'm told a3 can do it, and i'll be checking it > out.
Well I don't think a plugin host can ever do the right thing unless it is AMB aware itself. For a multichannel compressor the gain has to be the same in all channels, AMB or not. So you can't just replicate a mono plugin. For the compressor I'm developing, in AMB mode only the W channel affects the gain. A host can't arrange that, unless 1) the compressor is multichannel by design and 2) it has a separate detector (sidechain) input and 3) the host allows you to send just one channel of a multichannel track to that special input. Maybe A3 can do that. But it would just cover this simple case. It's much easier to provide the function *inside* the plugin. If you want to test it it's available (along with an EQ) if you accept the NDA. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
