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Re: NAMM & the new Plex
>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