Here is a band-limited hard limiter with the gain reduction calculated every 16 samples.

Actually, now that I think about it, it might be possible depending on the layout of your compressor. You could do calculate gain reduction every 'x' samples, as long as you are calculating before the envelope follower and your envelope follower is running at the sample rate. The envelope follower ...

Another thing to consider is that if you can 'downsample' you will also have to 'upsample'.

If you do use 'hop' to process every 16 samples, then potentially you will end up with an output that has steps. If you are trying to do a smooth gain change you don't want sudden jumps every 16 samples. You ...

I am not familiar with FLStudio but I have attached a schematic with a more normal Mid/Side stereo width adjustment arrangement.

I've played around with pre-filtering with a low-pass filter before the waveshaping. The idea is that the content in the top octave or so will be masked by the harmonics of the distortion and the ear is not very sensitive in this range anyway. You could think of it resampling to half the sample rate ...

Hi,


Thanks. Using the HOLD function gives interesting results.
To my mind a 'dual pass' mechanism will give the same result as a 'single pass' mechanism with doublt the 'HOLD' time, if hold is long enough to flatten the sine wave shape.

I thought that too, but 2 pass seemed better when I tested ...

Have you considered adding a 'hold' element to help smooth ripples?

I've added a hold section into your test schematic so you can see what it does.

Through some experimentation, I have found '2 pass' of a short peak hold time better at reducing ripples than a single longer hold time.

Edit: there ...

martinvicanek wrote:Hi there,
here ya go, stable running average. BTW you'd get better response if you tidy up your schematic before posting,

Thanks!

And you are quite right I should have tidied up my schematic. Sorry about that everybody.

Here is the latest version of my limiter. Nice and tidy this time.

Hello Iainmf,

Very clever and already working quite well. Keep up the great work and can not wait to see the finished product. Also hope to lots more cool stuff from you in the future.

Take care, BobF.....

Thanks.

I made some improvements but there was a fundamental problem with detecting the ...

Hi All,

I am new here and trying to get familiar with Flowstone.

One of my projects is this Frankenstein's monster of limiters. I figured that if you can do very quick gain changes when the signal is at or very close to zero it would be quite transparent. So I have created a limiter that measures ...