V1.376
V1.376
Holds the loud back so the quiet comes up
Holds the loud back so the quiet comes up: a compressor with threshold, ratio, attack and release in real units and a MAKEUP gain. The glue on a bus, the hold on a bass, the snap on a drum when the attack is slow enough to let the hit through.
Four to a socket, in order: sound runs through the slots top to bottom. Open the box and every knob is in real units; BYPASS takes it out of the path without losing its settings; the presets are along the top; any knob learns a controller and gets an automation lane.
| Knob | Range | Starts at | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| THRESH | -60 dB to 0 dB | -18 dB | linear |
| RATIO | 1 :1 to 20 :1 | 4 :1 | linear |
| ATTACK | 0.1 ms to 200 ms | 5 ms | log |
| RELEASE | 5 ms to 2000 ms | 120 ms | log |
| MAKEUP | 0 dB to 24 dB | 3 dB | linear |
Every box ships with a bank. AS SET is the knobs as you left them; the rest are starting points, each a sound someone wanted often enough to name. Star one and it sits at the front of the bank.
| Preset | THRESH | RATIO | ATTACK | RELEASE | MAKEUP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLUE | -18 dB | 2 :1 | 30 ms | 300 ms | 0 dB |
| GENTLE | -12 dB | 1.5 :1 | 40 ms | 500 ms | 1 dB |
| PUNCH | -20 dB | 4 :1 | 10 ms | 120 ms | 3 dB |
| DRUM BUS | -16 dB | 4 :1 | 20 ms | 200 ms | 3 dB |
| BASS | -22 dB | 5 :1 | 15 ms | 250 ms | 4 dB |
| VOCAL | -24 dB | 3 :1 | 5 ms | 150 ms | 4 dB |
| SQUASH | -30 dB | 10 :1 | 1 ms | 80 ms | 8 dB |
| PARALLEL | -40 dB | 20 :1 | 0.5 ms | 60 ms | 14 dB |
| LIMIT | -10 dB | 20 :1 | 0.1 ms | 50 ms | 4 dB |
Every box is also a line of the console's language, so a pad or a patch can carry its effects in text. The words are the knobs:
fx comp thresh=-18 ratio=4 attack=5 release=120 makeup=3