Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Safe-Ears/software volume
From: Juhana Sadeharju (kouhia_AT_nic.funet.fi)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 13:50:57 EEST
>From: Tom Pincince <stillone_AT_snowcrest.net>
>
>I think that all you really want is a stereo limiter plugin inserted
>across the monitor output.
Yep, it is gain followed by limiter. It only has to be in the system
in a natural way. Just hooking up two plug-ins to before hardware output
is not an user friendly way to do it.
>the music would come out at the same volume and all dynamic information
>from the recording would be lost.
It is only a tool which can be turned off. It is meant to be used in
context of editing fades and the like. After editing it can be taken
off.
When it is used in normal playing, the compression doesn't happen at all
if you listen to at reasonable volume levels. Its purpose is to be
a replacement system when one wants to hear quiet places more better,
i.e., when engineer turns the volume louder from normal volume levels.
By the way, it doesn't help if a quiet sound is hidden under louder
music.
>A zoomed in waveform graph often displays regions of 1 second or less.
>Having the zoom level dynamically adjust itself durring playback would
>be confusing.
I agree. In editing context it is slightly better.
We can check how it practically works when somebody implements it --- at
least me after my Waver is ready enough.
Juhana
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