[LAU] The future of audio plugins ?

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Thu Oct 20 21:05:02 UTC 2016


On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:27:34 -0500, Chris Caudle wrote:
>I think a more concrete example would be helpful.

"more concrete" perhaps is diplomatically for "concrete", but this is
exactly what I ask for.

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:49:51 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:50:36 -0400, jonetsu wrote:
>>On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:38:30 +0000 Fons Adriaensen wrote:  
>>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 02:44:39PM -0400, jonetsu wrote:
>>>     
>>> > There are trim pots on every channel strip in Mixbus, for
>>> > starters.    
>>> 
>>> Ardour has them as well. They were added IIRC after I complained 
>>> about the limited (+6dB) gain available on the faders. 
>>> 
>>> There are other uses: they allow you to align a group of related
>>> faders (as a visual aid), or in cases where you need to fade in
>>> and out frequently (as in broadcasting) to have a standard 'target'
>>> fader position.    
>>
>>Certainly.  They have several uses.  
>
>Yes, but it won't help you too look better, since it's unrelated to the
>topic. The standard target position mentioned by Fons, for example is
>required, if you pair/group faders on analog mixers by a bridge. Using
>a virtual mixer it could be a visual aid, but you perhaps could link
>faders, even if they are on different positions, resp. simply add a sub
>group. Trim pots per se are seldom useful for mixing and especially not
>in context of this thread. Trim pots linked by networks with AI
>analysers is absurd.
>
>If you want to develop an idea, you should start with realistic common
>situations.

Fons' is likely thinking of another use case regarding the target
position ;), resp. there's a cut set. His visual aid statement covers my
analog fader's bridge. However, this becomes off-topic.


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