[PD] Limiter Patch

Winfried Ritsch ritsch at iem.at
Mon May 26 09:55:59 CEST 2003


guenter geiger writes:
>On Fri, 23 May 2003, Wade McDaniel wrote:
>
>> So, I was wondering if anyone knows how a limiter/expander/compressor works so I can build a patch. It seems
>> to me that these devices simply turn up/down the volume at different
>> levels, correct?
>
>There is a good introduction at:
>http://www.harmony-central.com/Effects/Articles/Compression/
>
>> Is there spectrum analysis involved?
>> Should I do a [fiddle~] and when some collection of resultant amp's cross some threshold level chenge the volume?
>
>The "env~" object can be used to build a simple compressor/limiter.
>

There is a quite good one  under zexy-lib as external called
limiter~ with which you can build a limiter and compressor system.

mfg winfried




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