[PD] fader gain

Dafydd Hughes dafydd61 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 00:04:45 CET 2007


Hi Derek

Probably not the best solution, but to my ears, it sounds good to
scale the input to 0-1 and then square it.

cheers
dafydd

On 2/18/07, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> wrote:
> I've been using the following to control the output volume of a channel
> from my MIDI faders:
>
> [ctlin 7 1]   (in from faderbox)
> |
> [* 0.787402]   (scale 0-127 to 0-100)
> |
> [dbtorms]
> |
> [pack 0 50]
> |
> [*~]   (multiplied by sound from channel)
>
>
> I know that this is the "mathematically" correct way to do decibels to
> RMS, but it doesn't sound right. The bottom 2/3rds of the slider are
> almost silent, then the sound comes in very loud at the top. What other
> kind of setup are people using to control gain?
>
> d.
>
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