Re: NAMM & the new Plex

["Dennis W. Leas" <dennis@mdbs.com>]

>What we are doing is quite different. We are toying with mostly 
>uncompressed
and
>more suttle sounds in a much wider range, including many low level sounds.
(Think
>of decayng audio!). These suttle low-level sounds only use a few bits 
>(say 4 or
5)
>to encode the sample. Ever heared an old 8-bit sampler? Well, this is 
>worse.
>Try it. Take a  continous sound, feed it through the plex at a very low 
>level,
crank
>up the volume and enjoy the low bit rate noise.

Sounds like a good experiment.  I'll try it this week-end.  I have two 
'plexes
and I'm particularly interested in seeing if they behave the same.

But before I do, I'll shoot my mouth off :)

What I suspect you're hearing is the noisegate opening and closing 
sporadically
on the 'plex.  I've ran into this "feature" when I've tried to loop sounds 
that
come-up from inaudibility to a decent level and return to inaudibility.  I 
hear
the gate snap-open and snap-shut rather than a smooth transition from/to
inaudibility.  Not the effect I was after.

Now the gate is required for the UNDO feature but it would be nice to 
defeat it
sometimes, when you know you not going to UNDO.  (Kim?)

A signal that is only 4 or 5 bits in magnitude is REAL quiet.  Perhaps I 
need to
find less rowdy places to play or a more polite audience? :)  Kind of a new
definition for a "two bit place"?

Good discussion.

Dennis Leas
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dennis@mdbs.com