11 Sep
2008
11 Sep
'08
8:40 p.m.
Back on Thursday 11 September 2008, Emanuel Rumpf was like:
2008/9/10 Fons Adriaensen
<fons(a)kokkinizita.net>et>:
Exciter has nothing to do with dynamics. And not really anything to do with
distortion so much as harmonics.
You use a harmonics generator, cut the fundamental, and add in odd ordered
harmonics, with each successice odd harmonic going in opposite directions.
The lower order harmonics are not very noticeable, but very smooth. The
higher order harmonics are much more noticeable, but very abrasive sounding.
I generally use all of the first, and about half of the third.
It goes:
original signal => high pass filter => harmonics generator => attenuator
(variable depending on how much you want to add in) => mix back in with
original signal.
Here's a jack-rack file demonstrating it. Route your source into the
jack-rack, and then direct jack-rack's output to the same destination as your
source. Change levels on the "simple amplifier" to adjust how much you need
added back in.
You need the proper ladspa plugins installed for this...
-Reuben
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:01:58PM +0200, Martin
Horn wrote:
Someone wrote a kind of tutorial some time ago:
http://ardour.org/node/405
Would be nice to have this as jack-rack file or in rackarrack.
exciter : audio-signal => highpass
=> dissortion => add to audio-signal
enhancer: audio-signal => (different) bandpass filters => dissortion
=> add to audio-signal
(so described in wikipedia) I don't know if such a thing exists for the
linux audio world, but to
get the effect of an exciter you basically need multiband dynamics. That
is a compressor/ expander that works in multiple frequency bands which
are separated by crossovers.
That would be more a 'compellor' than an exciter.
Easy to confuse, both are originally from Aphex.