On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 01:12:45AM +0100, Julien Claassen wrote: > Having read the description of the dpl1, I was wondering, if you might > consider including a LADSPA version of this. It sounds very interesting. > I remember, that we had a few discussions and you occasionally mentioned, > that you could see a few flaws in currently used limiters. I find, that > limiting for me too, can turn into a bit of a hassle. It will work very > smooth for most of the song and then distort in two or three places, > resulting in less limiting for the complete piece, which I suspect > wouldn't so easily happen with your app? Every form of peak limiting produces distortion (almost by definition), the question is if it remains acceptable or not. You are right that DPL1 won't produce the amounts of distortion that you would have with e.g. a scaling limiter - it really tries to remain linear in the short term, and gain changes are always smooth even if they can be quite fast. The way it is intended to be used (at least on a mix) is to limit occasional short peaks (which can be done without too much impact on the sound) so as to allow a higher average level. If you drive it so the limiting is active all the time (which can be done with DPL1), little more is gained in terms of loudness, and whatever remains as dynamics is then controlled by peak sample levels which in almost all cases produces something horrible. So you need to monitor what it is doing, and that's one reason why DPL1 has the type of display it has, and why it is not a Ladspa plugin. A second one is that I wrote this to have a limiter that can be used on multichannel (mainly AMB here) mixes. Since Ladspa has no 'create-time' parameters, this would require a different plugin for each channel count. I could make mono and stereo Ladspa versions, but then they would either require some way to monitor the gain reduction (which can't be reduced to some slow-changing number easily), or you'd need careful control of the input level. So that leads to my question: how do you monitor levels ? Ciao, -- FA Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal, die Sonne scheint - ein Glitzerstrahl. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
