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Jan Marguc wrote:

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>     Sadly, I just found out the hard way that it has a really nasty

>      denormalization problem. It's so bad I may not be able to use it

>     any more.

>     People have tried fancy anti-denormalization plugins ahead of it,

>     with no

>      luck, apparently.

>

>     MusE has a basic DC anti-denormalization feature, and it didn't help.

>

>

> I completely agree with you: The JCM900 VST rocks! I've been using it

> a lot on Windows, now I'm on the Mac, so I haven't used it in a while.

> Too bad the source code for these plugins is not available. The papers

> on the website only explain the basic principles.

> Anyway, I also ran into the denormalization problem quickly, so I just

> made a small VST that mixes some -100 dB white noise into the signal.

Wouldn't Jack's -z option solve this issue too?
$ jackd -d alsa --help | grep dither

    -z, --dither     Dithering mode (default: n)
> Actually, I made the noise gain adjustable, because the added noise

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> made my synth-guitars sound much more authentic. ;-)

> Alternatively one could make it more convenient to use by creating a

> separate wrapper .dll that loads the JCM900 and just intercepts the

> process-calls, while passing any other call to the plugin.

>

> Jan

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