Re: [PD] limiter~ problem

-- Best regs, Yury mailto:yurolog@mail.ur.ru Tuesday, April 20, 2004 7:01:08 PM i wrote: Y> Hello list, Y> i'm now testing zexy's [limiter~] and can't get clue of one thing. Y> according to the sound processing literature [1] the release time of a Y> compressor/limiter is the time of response to the signal's decrease Y> in level from one that is being compressed to one that is lower than Y> the threshold. Y> ok, that's fine. Y> but when i set the threshold level in zexy's limiter to, say, 95 dB, Y> and release time - to 300 ms and feed it an impulse, Y> rising from 90 dB to 110 dB and back, I find out that the release time Y> is in fact 750 ms ! Y> May be this is some feature that i'm missing ? Y> To check it out i fed the same impulse to another Y> limiter, taken from the WONK's site[2], with the same Y> threshold/release parameters and got an opposite result: Y> the release time was just about 160 ms ! Y> Where i can get a Mulder to find out the truth ? Y> What i need to know is the definition of release time in terms of zexy's limiter. Y> so i could predict the results of its output. Y> you will find the test-examples in the attachment. Y> thanks in advance !
Y> [1] = Introduction to Sound Recording by Geoff Martin: Y> http://nml.cult.bg/data/music%20research/audio%20engineering/Introduction%20... Y> [2] = http://wonk.epy.co.at/work.pd/limiter/limiter.tar.gz