On Thursday 05 October 2006 19:59, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:07:34PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:12:20PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > > > > > The SC* plugins do the same as TAP (calculate the gain every 4 > > > samples), > > > but I interpolate the gain values between each computation. The > > > attch/deacay times were slow enough in my testing that it was OK > > > to do > > > that. > > > > It should be OK for all practical attack/release times. The only > > penalty is 3 samples of delay on the gain change and maybe that's > > to be avoided for a hard limiter. For a normal compressor it > > should not matter. > > That is what, 90 microseconds at 44.1 kHz? I don't think there are > any analog compressors that react anywhere near that fast. Don't > worry about it :-)
I don't know how fast it *actually* is, but FWIW, my old Behringer compressor/limiter has a lowest attack setting of 0.1 ms, and a lowest release setting of 50 ms. //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .------- http://olofson.net - Games, SDL examples -------. | http://zeespace.net - 2.5D rendering engine | | http://audiality.org - Music/audio engine | | http://eel.olofson.net - Real time scripting | '-- http://www.reologica.se - Rheology instrumentation --'
