On 03/02/2011 11:49 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > Here (for once) we do agree :-) There's probably no worse way > to show what a compressor is doing than showing the input and > output waveforms. A simple bargraph showing the current gain > - or better, the gain range over a short period - will do fine.
What about the idea of representing the threshold as an interactive horizontal line? The attack, release and ratio could also be represented as a single bezier curve with 3 control points. And the output waveform would be drawn over the input waveform, for visual comparison. All of this over a short period as you mention. Also, I personally find waveforms useful when trying to achieve loudness, but I'm not much of a sound engineer. Quoting your other mail: > I guess the situation could be somewhat different for an audio > engineer controlling a 'standard' app such as mixer, and a > musician using a GUI as an interface to his instrument. That's what I think. Also, visualization can be pedagogical, as here if the musician is not very familiar with compression. -- Olivier _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
