[PD] compander-limiter from slop~-help.pd

[Philipp Schmalfuß]

i made this thingie, "pp.dynamics~.pd". It uses slop~ for attack  
release, "lookahead" and Katja's Pd implementation of Olli Niemitalo's  
quadrature transformer for fast peak detection.  
https://www.katjaas.nl/compander/compander.html optionally if you  
wish, you can have the warm analog distortion as well.

it's pretty decent, check it out.
you can find it in the "audiolab" library via deken.



Quoting Miller Puckette via Pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at>:

> Ahhh, you noticed that "warm tube-compander" sound - producers pay top $ for
> that :)
>
> I think it's pretty easy to get lower distortion by making the response curve
> exactly flat below maximum amplitude - I didn't do that in this application
> thinking that the limiting is going to kick in often and so there will
> often be distortion anyway... anyone who hits, say, 0.7 with any frequency is
> also going to hit 0 sometimes, and that will be the loudest sound where the
> distortion is also most noticeable.
>
> It's possible to add a "blanking" interval like some analog solid-state
> limiters did.  In digital, if you add "lookahead" (also known as "delay")
> you can do much, much better without having to think too hard (that's what
> Ableton's built-in compressor does; it won't do zero-delay at all).
>
> For live applications I prefer to make them zero-delay, preferring some
> inevitable distortion to adding delay.
>
> all part of the Dark Art (tm:)
>
> Miller
>
> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:14:42AM +0200, Peter P. wrote:
>> * Miller Puckette via Pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at> [2021-04-24 17:45]:
>> > As far as I can tell limiter design is a dark art.  Here's one  
>> (that imposes
>> > a hard limit just within the (-1, 1) range - I made this for  
>> "music101" where
>> > I needed a hard limit and am assuming the input signal is a voice  
>> (so unlikely
>> > to have extremely fast attacks)...
>>
>> Thanks Miller,
>> it seems that this implementation causes harmonic distortion to a (200Hz
>> in my case) sine wave scaled to less than 0dBFS [*~ 0.9].
>>
>> best, P
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pd-list at lists.iem.at mailing list
>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management ->  
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list__;!!Mih3wA!RfZssKp-q7I14kLPeiwejHETPGDSEookaDEJqhALu2GMjtbLvEIBwjCrVEXw$
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pd-list at lists.iem.at mailing list
> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management ->  
> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
>