[LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

[Ralf Mardorf]

Jan Marguc wrote:
>
>     Sadly, I just found out the hard way that it has a really nasty
>      denormalization problem. It's so bad I may not be able to use it
>     any more.
>     People have tried fancy anti-denormalization plugins ahead of it,
>     with no
>      luck, apparently.
>
>     MusE has a basic DC anti-denormalization feature, and it didn't help.
>
>
> I completely agree with you: The JCM900 VST rocks! I've been using it 
> a lot on Windows, now I'm on the Mac, so I haven't used it in a while. 
> Too bad the source code for these plugins is not available. The papers 
> on the website only explain the basic principles.
> Anyway, I also ran into the denormalization problem quickly, so I just 
> made a small VST that mixes some -100 dB white noise into the signal.

Wouldn't Jack's -z option solve this issue too?

$ jackd -d alsa --help | grep dither
    -z, --dither     Dithering mode (default: n)

> Actually, I made the noise gain adjustable, because the added noise 
> made my synth-guitars sound much more authentic. ;-)
> Alternatively one could make it more convenient to use by creating a 
> separate wrapper .dll that loads the JCM900 and just intercepts the 
> process-calls, while passing any other call to the plugin.
>
> Jan