Re: [PD] avoiding collapse of freeverb

2011-01-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, ronni montoya wrote: hello, if i send signals with extreme amplitude to freeverb it collapses and it stop making any sound, and then it just output the word nah if i conect the output to a env~. what [env~] does is mostly just multiply each sample by itself and add them

[PD] avoiding collapse of freeverb

2011-01-08 Thread ronni montoya
hello, if i send signals with extreme amplitude to freeverb it collapses and it stop making any sound, and then it just output the word nah if i conect the output to a env~. For avoiding this i tried to connect a clip -1 1 object before freeverb but it doesnt work and freeverb still crashing, any

Re: [PD] avoiding collapse of freeverb

2011-01-08 Thread Derek Holzer
Any digital filter will blow up when it becomes saturated. Clipping to -1 and 1 doesn't help, because then you could be sending values of -1 and 1 almost constantly to the object. Look at the help file for [limiter~] and use that ahead of your freeverb perhaps. Not having a high value for the

Re: [PD] avoiding collapse of freeverb

2011-01-08 Thread Derek Holzer
Alternately, use [/~ 10] in front of the freeverb and [*~ 10] after. This should scale things enough without losing too much resolution. It is digital after all. D. On 1/8/11 6:28 PM, Derek Holzer wrote: Any digital filter will blow up when it becomes saturated. Clipping to -1 and 1 doesn't