KVR Audio

vieris · Post by **vieris** » Sat May 03, 2008 5:56 pm

SongMonkey wrote:Hmmm, hard as it is to critique something that I think sounds great, let's see what I can do....

I'm finding the use of the filters and the detector drive rather unpredictable and not extremely useful at this point, and I don't yet understand the effect that overdriving the detection signal has on the envelope of the compressor, it seems as if a straightforward amplitude knob might be more useful (not sure of that), so that seems kind of odd to me at this point. Too, it's conceivable that my current lack of delight in the filters is due to the particular source material I've been experimenting with. I can't imagine that being able to filter out low end content is not going to be useful to me someday soon.

But I look upon those aspects as its funny quirks at this point. I like what the feed-forward does so much that I'm very hesitant to be in favor of any changes that might mess with the code, with the sound of the thing.

Happy to beta test as time allows. Keep up the great work.

Cheers!

Don't worry about that.. These guys are made to run as they are. No plans to change them. Unless a graphic designer wants to reface them.
But i do have some rather exciting/interesting ideas i'm playing with at the moment. It's the feedback from these that might influnce change on them.

ccosta · Post by **ccosta** » Sat May 03, 2008 6:35 pm

vieris wrote:Ok well i just did a 15 min mix of a track i started thats been laying around. I replaced my usual URS compressors with the Feed-Forward. It's the 1st time I've had a chance to actually mix with them. Wow I know I'm the the developer but i have to say it's not right that the FF is punchier then my usual goto URS compressor.
Theres part of me that doesn't want it to sound better. I love my URS plugs

For those that are curious checkout my test.
Quick FF test mix.mp3
I used the Feed-back on the rhoads.
Keep in mind this is just an sketch idea i'm working on nothing final.

Very good example. The "basic" track is also good of course.

How the guitars were recorded ? amps etc ...

And what did you use for "tape emulation" ?

SongMonkey · Post by **SongMonkey** » Sat May 03, 2008 7:11 pm

vieris wrote:These guys are made to run as they are. No plans to change them.

Very cool.

vieris · Post by **vieris** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:20 pm

I'm curious if any more have had a chance to put these to the test. Let me know your thoughts & any other wanted features. (I've been taking notes for new designs)

alteregoxxx · Post by **alteregoxxx** » Tue May 06, 2008 6:27 pm

vieris wrote:I'm curious if any more have had a chance to put these to the test. Let me know your thoughts & any other wanted features. (I've been taking notes for new designs)

I rarely write on this forum because my english is poor so...sorry from now(i am italian)...i have tried your compressors on various sources(bass,drums,vocals) and ever i have found that the zone between too much compression and no compression at all(or at least subtle compression) is....uhmm....quite small...pheraps i think that this thing has much to do with the sliders tweekability that with the compressor's algo...i have the perception for example that the hi pass filter slider respond "too quickly" at the start and have no effect at all right over 0.100...i feel similar behaviour with all the controls...with the drive engaged however the feel is slightly better...but on the other hand the sound simply is not the same that this compressor is capable(punchyyyyyyyyyy!!!) with the drive off...i think that a "more small range of tweekability" of the sliders could favour the usability of the sliders itself and better metering references could make these compressors my go to....i hope that my toughts are well write...infinite thanks for your hard work...respect

Saluti dall'Italia

vieris · Post by **vieris** » Tue May 06, 2008 6:34 pm

Thats random I've been working on this very issue for the last few hours today.. Thanks to some email help from xoxos. I'll have the more friendly fader version out soon. Thanks for checking them out..

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Tue May 06, 2008 9:02 pm

That's great to hear; my sole "complaint" is that the slider values do seem to be very drastic. Look forward to update!

vieris · Post by **vieris** » Tue May 06, 2008 9:16 pm

Well complain no more.. Now with sweeter then ever sounding sliders! Had to say it.

Update ver 1.1
-changed slider increment curve. (Tip CTRL+Mouse drag for fine tuning)

Download - Link

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:19 pm

YAY!

(can't test this now, away from home)

alteregoxxx · Post by **alteregoxxx** » Thu May 08, 2008 12:18 am

a little bump for these gems....have to say that the feel is much better now with the new sliders's behaviour...the compressors are "smooth and puuuuuunchy" at the same time...better metering references could be the cherry on the cake...awesome work Vieris!!!

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Thu May 08, 2008 12:34 am

now that is what I'm talking about! give this man plug-ins a skin job and you got an instant colt following! me i can use them like this! at the end all i care about is the sound and i like the sound. as far as the gain reduction meter we could use a peak hold in ther

vieris · Post by **vieris** » Thu May 08, 2008 12:36 am

Thanks i am proud of these. I put my share of work & research into these. I'm very happy with the sound. I agree with you about the metering. GUI's are my weakest skill.

News alert: I have been working on a new plugin "EQ-1" should go very well with the COMP-1 series. So far it's coming out very nice..

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Thu May 08, 2008 2:24 am

vieris wrote:Thanks i am proud of these. I put my share of work & research into these. I'm very happy with the sound. I agree with you about the metering. GUI's are my weakest skill.

News alert: I have been working on a new plugin "EQ-1" should go very well with the COMP-1 series. So far it's coming out very nice..

legendCNCD · Post by **legendCNCD** » Fri May 09, 2008 4:29 pm

I made a quickie mock-up, maybe its a littlebit too 'nuclearexplosion' at the moment.

D-listen button doesnt exist yet, Ratio is supposed to be a slider and maybe the threshold and ch-link should change places. I'm just doing this for fun & rehersaling my too-many-years latent gfx skills.

vieris · Post by **vieris** » Fri May 09, 2008 4:55 pm

WOW thanks for giving this a stab. I'll have to PM you for more details. Any knob/slider ideas?

Feed-Back Comp-1 & Feed-Forward Comp-1 /SC