[linux-audio-dev] Paper on dynamic range compression

[Paul Winkler]

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 :-)

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