Ace!Eleventh wrote:So, any news about this great plugin? I've been trying it out for a couple of days now and I really like it so far. Especially the split-band compression and expansion are great tools to have!
There was talk of adding tooltips.There really seems to be a lot of depth in the plugin and I've already spent several hours tweaking sounds with the help of the manual. Still, there are some things that could be explained a bit more carefully. For example the Release Type parameter should more clearly state that it scales between releasing to signal or to zero, so that I wouldn't have to refer to the manual every time I happen to forget it (which still happens quite often with so many different parameters).
It's a low-pass filter on the gain reduction signal.The "VCA Smoothing" remains very mysterious too.
This is what you'd get from a slow-reacting gain-change element.
Hopefully my last post helps a little?I would also like to have more information about the transient shaper circuit. The attack control seems pretty straight-forward with the length determining the duration of the affected attack, but I'm not really getting the hang of the Env Follower and Sustain Env, and particularly the interaction between the two.
VCA smoothing is the dominant parameter for emulating optical compression, in practice, but the auto-release circuit does indeed model the behaviour you describe. The longer you're in release, the longer the release time lasts for... but in an optical circuit, that stuff is in the order of microseconds, and the actual release circuitry supervenes entirely.Also I saw somebody asking about the auto-release times and their relation to actual optical compression, where the length of the release is not only dependant on the intensity but also the duration the light has been lit.
(assuming here we're talking about LA2 type circuitry)
The classic opto preset is a "vibe" preset; so it's not precision configured, but for that kind of slow, post-filtered compression, a little loss at the bottom-end fitted the character. Feel free to calibrate - the presets are not canonicalDoes Compassion model that "after-glow" effect too? I'm curious about the Main-EQ filtering (72hz HPF) in the "Classic Opto" preset too.
You can; I think this is in the manual...Oh and another thing: I find the preset loader hard to use, because it always defaults to the Desktop directory and navigating to Compassion's folder is very time consuming. And when I load a preset list, for example bmaniac's mastering presets, it overrides the default ones, so I can't really use it like that. The mod system works well with clearly labeled subdirectories though. There should be the same kind of subcategory system in the preset list where you could just add presets at will. Or perhaps just combine the two to reduce complexity.
If you go to the Mods folder you can just drop some presets in there, and it'll expand them into a folder, as if by magic.
Krzysz?Btw, how's the preset sharing thing coming along? One would think that with a quality plugin like this there would be more buzz and presets floating around, but I can't find much of anything. It seems very underrated, but maybe most of the people just don't like detailed tweaking that much.
Hehe. And to you!I'll definitely be buying this one in the near future along with EQuick (awesome functional GUI, unlike EQuality).
Oh, and merry christmas to you all!
Dave.