Re: foo-plugins 1.0

On 5 Feb 2007, at 18:09, John Rigg wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:50:46AM +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
>> I've been frustrated with Jamins' limiter for quite a while now. I've
>> tried debugging it's DSP code with Steve Harris, but we have been  
>> unable
>> to fix the issue.
>>
>> Instead of trying yet again to fix the old, I became inspired to  
>> write a
>> new limiter. Thanks to the Christmas holidays, I built codename
>> "foo-plugins". This is a set of plugins containing a lookahead  
>> limiter.
>>
>> I'm proposing this limiter to be considered as a replacement for the
>> Fast Lookahead Limiter in Jamin.
>>
>> http://www.studionumbersix.com/foo/
>
> vote++
>
> I just tried it by mastering a track with some particularly severe
> drum transients that defeated JAMin's default limiter. The default
> limiter allowed clipping at even a moderate average level. The foo
> limiter on it's default release setting allowed me to increase the
> average level by around 4dB, and it sounds very good with no
> clipping or pumping.

vote++

We should decide how to handle the transition, users clearly need to  
be able to drop back to the old limiter incase they have old session  
files created with the old limiter, we don't want the sound to change  
suddenly.

There may need to be UI changes too, I'm not sure if the new limiter  
expresses the same controls or not.

We should also work out if we want the new limiter to be a  
requirement for jamin $version+1, or a recommendation.

I think Sampo was keen to include his new limiter in my plugin  
package, which I'm fine with, I just need to get a new SVN repository  
sorted out and make a new release.

- Steve

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