blockfish

[Polite Company]

Blockfish and Endorphin, used judiciously, are really all the compression one needs for all kinds of musical applications.

Well software compression anyway...

[sascha]

As Diverdee said...

There's saturation going on

So, of course there's limiting going on. Although I would suspect the saturation is level-dependent. I haven't tested if there's any saturation on low levels - if it were trying to be a real emulation, then it wouldn't.

Let me just throw in here... the output stage is just a saturator. Neither is it level-dependent nor does it introduce any envelope processing. Just clipping in a relatively soft way.
'saturation on low levels' is only true if you consider saturation as a whole level-dependent: it only takes place on loud signals as the in-out curve is nonlinear and squashes the more things get closer to 0dBFS.
The 'main' saturation stage in blockfish & andorphin is partly level-dependent. The signal shifts the bias point (adjustable with blockfish) and saturation changes therefore.

So no 'limiter' on the very output. Also not with endorphin. I read such assumptions a few times, utters being multiplied, and that makes me grin... those folks, use your ears and don't believe everything they say on the net

[Urs]

Thanks for clearing this up dude... I was almost gonna boot an old computer to verify this, b/c I couldn't remember any limiter...

Urs

[Lee702]

I heard there was a limiter on them on gearwire crosstalk

[Madness]

I don't really know what they did then at the end with the square wave but it seemed cool enough.... I would have prefered to see what they can do with some nice modern filter bassed delays and dub delay recreations!!!

[DuX]

I asumed there was a limiter, because I couldn't make it to clip . So it's only the clever saturator. Nice. Irons the sound quite well.

Thank you Sasha for these gems.

Cheers!

[musicL]

This is my favourite compressor EVER. I've always hoped it would be updated, expanded, and continued forever.

[Kingston]

This is my favourite compressor EVER. I've always hoped it would be updated, expanded, and continued forever.

It is.


... in samplitude. (although I doubt much of the original blockfish code has survived during all the improvements)

[sascha]

This is my favourite compressor EVER. I've always hoped it would be updated, expanded, and continued forever.

It is.


... in samplitude. (although I doubt much of the original blockfish code has survived during all the improvements)

Close to nothing. Mainly some of the concepts deep in my head survived and those are quite independent of written code. Code is always subject to changes.

[smart]

Sacha, what plugins did you make that are in Samplitude/Sequoia?

[Kingston]

Sacha, what plugins did you make that are in Samplitude/Sequoia?

http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.p ... &subItem=1

and their previous incarnations (and probably more that hasn't been mentioned on that site)

[sidrat]

maybe it's just me, but i compared blockfish against the am-track (on drums/bass/guitar) and still preferred blockfish in most instances. i REALLY wish it was still being developed.

[wsaidah]

thank you Sascha for your time. is there any other compressor that has cliper on the out? i thought it was a cliper i even suggested that the next voxengo compressor have one in this post http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 09#2083909 clipers can limt the dynamics! gclip is another free vst that i use in protools it is that good

[beej]

Waves RenComp has an L1-style limiter on its output.

[bduffy]

Waves RenComp has an L1-style limiter on its output.

You sure? I never heard that before...