Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Sun May 02 2010 - 09:39:23 EEST

Jan Marguc wrote:
>
> Sadly, I just found out the hard way that it has a really nasty
> denormalization problem. It's so bad I may not be able to use it
> any more.
> People have tried fancy anti-denormalization plugins ahead of it,
> with no
> luck, apparently.
>
> MusE has a basic DC anti-denormalization feature, and it didn't help.
>
>
> I completely agree with you: The JCM900 VST rocks! I've been using it
> a lot on Windows, now I'm on the Mac, so I haven't used it in a while.
> Too bad the source code for these plugins is not available. The papers
> on the website only explain the basic principles.
> Anyway, I also ran into the denormalization problem quickly, so I just
> made a small VST that mixes some -100 dB white noise into the signal.

Wouldn't Jack's -z option solve this issue too?

$ jackd -d alsa --help | grep dither
    -z, --dither Dithering mode (default: n)

> Actually, I made the noise gain adjustable, because the added noise
> made my synth-guitars sound much more authentic. ;-)
> Alternatively one could make it more convenient to use by creating a
> separate wrapper .dll that loads the JCM900 and just intercepts the
> process-calls, while passing any other call to the plugin.
>
> Jan
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