[PD] adaptive amplification?

[Oded Ben-Tal]

hello,

I need to mic a player who will play either tiny, soft sounds (extended 
technique playing) or normal musical sounds soft-to-load. I want to mix 
the instrument sound with pd generated material BUT I want to amplify the 
soft sounds while only mixing a little bit of the normal sounds.
Is there some clever way of making pd 'identify' the incoming sound and 
boost the signal when the input is the soft ones only?

thanks
Oded

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Oded Ben-Tal
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