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On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:11:42PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> >Another question to two (Joern and Fernando) AMB nerds: does

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> >a multicnannel AMB aware dynamics processor make sense ? When

> >would you use it ? I'm asking because one of the plugins I'm

> >developing could be exactly that.

>

> oh, certainly. it would be divine to *not* be able to do evil sum

> compression in ambisonics, ever, but sometimes, earthly matters

> require it...

>

> but my favourite solution to this approach would be for ardour to do

> the right thing wrt side chaining (or at least allowing the chains

> to be made manually). i'm told a3 can do it, and i'll be checking it

> out.

Well I don't think a plugin host can ever do the right thing unless

it is AMB aware itself. For a multichannel compressor the gain has to

be the same in all channels, AMB or not. So you can't just replicate a

mono plugin. For the compressor I'm developing, in AMB mode only the W

channel affects the gain. A host can't arrange that, unless 1) the

compressor is multichannel by design and 2) it has a separate detector

(sidechain) input and 3) the host allows you to send just one channel

of a multichannel track to that special input. Maybe A3 can do that.

But it would just cover this simple case. It's much easier to provide

the function *inside* the plugin. 
If you want to test it it's available (along with an EQ) if you accept

the NDA.
Ciao,
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