Can someone explain the PLParaEQ controls to me?

[dbmcclain]

... also, we implement the VST Host Callback "ioChanged()" in an attempt to notify the host whenever you change the Quality setting and hence the throughput latency...

However, I have yet to find a VST host that actually pays attention to this call... so complain to the VST hosts about this.

For now, you can download a PDF document that details the various delays in samples according to SR and Quality settings. Subtract out the (now 512 sample) initial delay setting to see the additional delay needed to line up the output to avoid comb filtering...

- DM

[Frippertronix]

David, thanks for coming on to respond. I apologize for the long list of complaints about the plug's functionality...

I got back on my machine tonight and quickly figured everything out. The main thing that threw me was the attenuation control defaulting to -20 when its effect was actually 0 db, and the lack of a slope or Q control for the LPF and HPF, but I'm seeing how everything works now. Thanks again for a great and generous free product!!

[fritzman]

Hi Fripper,

sorry dude, I dunno if this is new in the 1.0.7 version or if I only -thought- that it would be different but anyway: The gain slider is an additional volume control for the LPF, HPF, BPF and band reject filters. It makes -some- sense as sometimes the filters change the volume significantly.


Best wishes, FRitz

[Frippertronix]

Hi Fripper,

sorry dude, I dunno if this is new in the 1.0.7 version or if I only -thought- that it would be different but anyway: The gain slider is an additional volume control for the LPF, HPF, BPF and band reject filters. It makes -some- sense as sometimes the filters change the volume significantly.


Best wishes, FRitz

Is it 1.0.7 today? Man, seriously, I'll have to get a version each day just to be safe. Seriously, though, I got whatever version was current yesterday and yes, I heard that the gain is doing something to all filters now. I also got past some of my initial obstacles and everything is working with flying colors now except that in this version (maybe only with more than one parallel instance) the attenuation control doesn't seem to do anything, even when zeroed and brought down again, and I'm not totally sure but I think I'm not hearing cuts when using the bell curve, only boosts. I can hear bell cuts with only one instance, but once I load 2 or 3 instances it seems like bell cuts have no effect. Cuts with all other curves are very apparent, though. Anyone else experience this?

BTW, PL Quality 5 LPF sweeps sound INCREDIBLE! This is an instrumental tool, not just a mixing tool!

Dave

[dbmcclain]

The Gain slider has always acted on the LPF, HPF, BPF, and BRF filters. You guys were just confused about what it does... Nothing more, in those conventional filters, than an amplitude gain control. Nothing has changed in the DSP since introduction with version 1.00. All the changes have been to the GUI and control structure...

- DM

[fritzman]

The Gain slider has always acted on the LPF, HPF, BPF, and BRF filters. You guys were just confused about what it does... Nothing more, in those conventional filters, than an amplitude gain control. Nothing has changed in the DSP since introduction with version 1.00. All the changes have been to the GUI and control structure...

- DM

Thanx David,

After all this talk about what a certain slider does I simply thought what to my opinionated knowledge such a slider does normally and wrote my explanations from the head and not from checking every slider on your plugin. That was my "fault" with this.


Best wishes, FRitz

[Frippertronix]

I also owe an apology to fritzman and David since it was my ignorance that "Q" has multiple meanings and can be resonance as well as bandwidth. I went back and realized it's used as a label for both things in Kjaerhus GEQ-7. I've always known what that knob did, just never looked at the label for it carefully enough.

Dave