[LAU] The future of audio plugins ?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:58:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:44:39 -0400, jonetsu wrote:
>>And this comes from famous consoles used since the 70s.  
>
>Pff, DAWs in the 70s? You only need to trim for the analog domain. I
>don't know what and why mixbus provides, perhaps they add a feature to
>attenuate or boost a signal, but adjustment isn't required. There is
>nothing like line level required, because it is not analog. You seem
>not to understand what a trim pot is good for, when using analog
>mixers. A trim pot for DAW mixers could make sense, if a signal should
>be too silent, while the fader is at maximum, but a DAW's mixer doesn't
>require to adjust input levels. This is ridiculous.

PS: If you would use it in general to e.g. drive a pre fader compressor
or to generally mix with trim pod and fader, you are making something
completely wrong, either if you boost or attenuate. For a DAW mixer it
should be a feature just in case, assuming you have bad luck with the
signal of a single channel and don't want to remix 20 other channels.
An analog mixer needs a trim pot, because the input not necessarily is
line level for all tasks of the analog mixer.