[linux-audio-dev] Re: Sidechains, was Re: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] swh-plugins 0.3.4

[Steve Harris]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:12:21 +0100, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> >Ahh, theres a misundersantding about what sidechains do here, they really
> >are just an audio stream.
> 
> Hmmm, how do you recon? A sidechain for a compressor may be an audio 
> stream, but it's the "control" behaviour of that stream that is of 
> interest, right? That should mean that it would be possible to extract 
> just the behaviour and only distribute "that".

Not in practice, each compressor will want to extract different features
from the audio stream.
 
> >There is an auto-phaser (sweeping allpass filter), but no auto wah
> >(sweeping bandpass), or auto panner, true. I tend to build things like
> >that out of SSM or pd. But there should be complete plugins.
> 
> Ya, working mostly in MusE I'm somewhat limited in the number of 
> solutions I can try. Currently MusE only supports basic features (pretty 
> much modeled after Cubase).

OK, I'm not familar with MusE, I should try it again.

- Steve