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On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:14:45PM +0100, John Rigg wrote:
> The fact remains that a lot of high end professional users consider many

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> of the free software plugins to be "nearly unusable" (see Ben Loftis'

> earlier post in this thread). This isn't intended as a criticism of the

> developers, just an acknowledgement that perhaps more attention needs to be

> paid to some fairly subtle aspects of design that have not been

> considered important up to now, if these high end users are to take

> Linux audio more seriously.

One of the things missing in all the LADSPA compressors I've seen so

far is a feature called 'release gate'. This freezes the release (i.e.

the gain stops rising) if the input signal drops below a set threshold.

It helps a lot in avoiding excessive 'pumping' on some types of signal.
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