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

Robert Jonsson robert.jonsson at dataductus.se
Fri Jan 10 05:39:01 UTC 2003


Steve Harris wrote:
> 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.
>  
Okay, I see. The only solution, apart from actually sending the audio 
data, which doesn't sound that nice to me, would be to make the 
sidechain specifically designed for a certain plugin then (plugin 
specific logic placed in the sidechain), which isn't that nice either. 
But maybe it can be done such that other plugs can benefit also, i still 
want to control that room-size !! :)

/Robert





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