KVR Audio

Optomadic · Post by **Optomadic** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:33 pm

Awesome!

Thanks

Ronny Pries · Post by **Ronny Pries** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:14 pm

a little bit OT, but what happened to Chordme? I lost it after a crash and couldn't find it anymore. Missing it!

jens · Post by **jens** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:42 pm

Thnaks a lot for the update!

Caco · Post by **Caco** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:29 pm

bduffy wrote:
Caco wrote:
ST54 wrote:I tricked myself
The 'lite' version is/was OK with WL5/6.Same behaviour as the previous version.(was a long time I tried that)
Only the pro version doesn't do it in the mastersection of WL.
Possibly something to do with the 'external input/aux' capabilities.
Some error about "not supporting the number of channels".
You can use them both in the WL montage.
Anyway thx for the update ....esp. the ratio knob
S.
Ah it sounds like wavelab can't deal with plugins that have more than one stereo input then. Good to see Steinberg fully supporting the VST spec

@S-N-S - glad to hear it's working

@bduffy - let me know what you think, I'd be interested to hear any feedback you have
Freakin' excellent so far. I don't recall a lot of CPU-use in the previous version, but seems quite low now. The only comment I can think of right now is that the sidechain monitor is loud as hell; when I have a significant boost it nearly blows my head off!

Sounds great, though: I'm getting a really slamming drum bus right now, using the sidechain to compress the kick and snare and leave let the lows and highs through; very nice. Hard to think of any compressor sounding better; this is top-notch stuff, my friend.

Thanks for the kind words bduffy, I'm glad you like it

Thanks Jens - have you found the CPU lower for the sidechain?

coops2 · Post by **coops2** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:42 pm

It sounds fantastic. I didn't really notice its CPU usage before but it doesn't seem to use any now

jens · Post by **jens** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:46 pm

Yes, I have indeed - and quite significantly!

Just one minor niggle: the ratio-value is still the wrong way around.

jens · Post by **jens** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:50 pm

Oh, I just noticed another problem which I didn't see before:

I don't know if this is caused by denormals, but when there's no input, the cpu-usage approximately tripples on my AthlonXP.

Putting Digitalfishphones' Normalizer before it fixes the problem.

Caco · Post by **Caco** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:00 pm

Hi Jens - does this possible denormal happen using the 'default' preset? Also, do you see it with both Compressive Lite and Pro or just one of them?

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:18 pm

I haven't been able to recreate any denorm problems over here (Intel P4), but I did notice that the output level graphic jumps "outside" of its container.''

Also: have you ever considered putting an input level meter on Compressive?

jens · Post by **jens** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:21 pm

I made some experiments now:

it's the sidechain - at least one band must have a value other than 0db and the sidechain must have been fed with a signal once. The signal of the Normalizer plugin is enough to trigger it (-608db).

The cpu consumption slightly depends on the value of the sidechain-band (it doesn't seem to matter though whether it's a boost or a cut) and with the high band the effect is significantly less drastic than with the medium and the low band (which are both about the same).

Caco · Post by **Caco** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:24 pm

jens wrote:I made some experiments now:

it's the sidechain - at least one band must have a value other than 0db and the sidechain must have been fed with a signal once. The signal of the Normalizer plugin is enough to trigger it (-608db).

The cpu consumption slightly depends on the value of the sidechain-band (it doesn't seem to matter though whether it's a boost or a cut) and with the high band the effect is significantly less drastic than with the medium and the low band (which are both about the same).

Cool, thanks Jens will look into it.

jens · Post by **jens** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:26 pm

Great, thanks!

Caco · Post by **Caco** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:19 am

bduffy wrote:I haven't been able to recreate any denorm problems over here (Intel P4), but I did notice that the output level graphic jumps "outside" of its container.''

Also: have you ever considered putting an input level meter on Compressive?

yep, I had noticed that as well and I have added it to my todo list to fix. I had been thinking about meters recently and whether I can fit one on there without having to redo the GUI. I an not sure if or when but it would be nice to have input/output and gain reduction meters.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:41 am

Caco wrote:
bduffy wrote:I haven't been able to recreate any denorm problems over here (Intel P4), but I did notice that the output level graphic jumps "outside" of its container.''

Also: have you ever considered putting an input level meter on Compressive?
yep, I had noticed that as well and I have added it to my todo list to fix. I had been thinking about meters recently and whether I can fit one on there without having to redo the GUI. I an not sure if or when but it would be nice to have input/output and gain reduction meters.

Cool! I love Input/Output/GR meters...

Looking at the GUI now, I kind of expect to see an input meter on the left, where you have almost precisely the right amount of space for them; gain reduction...yeah, that could be a problem. If you shifted all the knobs over a few pixels, you could free up some room on the right to at least get a numerical readout in, perhaps...

Caco · Post by **Caco** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:59 pm

I have updated the link on the first page with a new version that fixes Jen's denormal problem and stops the level meter drawing outside its container.

Compressive Update