On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:43:18 +0000
Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> http://plugin.org.uk/releases/0.2.3/
> 
> * Spellunk fixes (thanks to Frank Neumann)
> * Almost all plugins now have working activate methods, so they won't have
>   spillover if you stop and restart them (on propertly wrtten hosts)
> * Added crossover distortion
> * Added tube rectifier simulation
> 
> The additions mean that it should be possible to simulate a tube (valve)
> amp (but not cabinet yet) with a chain of:
> 
> tube (or harmonic gen) -> tube rectifier -> crossover dist -> EQ

I have never seen a real tube guitar amplifier with a crossover so the
crossover should probably be ditched. Because guitar amps usually have
10, 12 or 15 inch speakers (from 1 up to 8) and rather large cabinets the 
correct EQ should probably be a high order (8 to 12) butterworth lowpass 
at somewhere between 4Khz and 10kHz to accurately model the frequency 
response of the speakers and cabinet.

> I haven't forgotten about the compressor, I just haven't worked up the
> energy to tackle it yet.

I have a rough hack of a compressor (but nice sounding) I'm getting ready 
for a tutorial I'm presenting at Linux.conf.au in a couple of weeks. I 
should probably downlaod the LADSPA stuff and see if I can create a plugin. 

My compressor currently has:

   - switchable feed-forward / feed-back architecture
   - attack time
   - hold time
   - release time

The attack and release timers currently do exponential ramps, but I should
also look into doing linear ones.

Cheers,
Erik
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