sascha wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 6:22 am Inflation should be used with caution, at least with attention to details. You don't want to just crank it up.
It's not really upward compression. We had this in mind, but the problem with upward compression is that the envelope always acts unnatural on more complex or 'difficult' sources, and it's hard to keep an upward compressor under absolute sonic control (or it's me being not 'experimental' enough). What it actually does in its current state is sort of parallel limiting (along with gain compensation). Slope-wise, it's equivalent, but with a natural or just more predictive envelope behaviour.
Sure, the process brings up low-level partials (and that's why it's there), such as room ambience or tiny nuances in acoustic performances (that's what I use it for, often just lightly, below 20% or so). It can also exaggerate noise floor, so be cautious. AFAIR, we've cut the process off around -60dBFS, but maybe someone could look into it to make sure it's a good compromise. Maybe the knob scaling should change to being slightly exponential and thus less sensitive in the lower region.
i like that you're still around sascha
What you say makes perfect sense, maybe an intensity switch that would change knob behaviour to something with more nuance wouldn't be bad either. (i.e. i had 30dB written in the previous post before i edited it - i see that i perhaps wasn't that far off)
but since it's an alpha version backward compatibility isn't an issue yet so exponential knob would probably work just as well
