Denny Jagard wrote on Sun, 26 March 2006 21:48 |
Funny you mentioned that, since I want one.
And somewhere I read (probably an obsolete post) that the gate feature was not available as a plug in.
Thanks for that tip. denny
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Actually, you get
both gates and comps in the Serato Dynamics plugin.
Serato Rane Series DynamicsPersonally, I love my 2U hardware G4 and use it all the time on both musical sources and industrial speech-only gigs. The way you can control gate depth on it is great and the way the display shows input level relative to threshold setting is brilliant.
Yes, it really cures clicking. The 333 microsecond Look Ahead window that helps the G4 predict when to open means that your lowest frequency signals will have a certain amount of silent ramping-up envelope synthesized for them at the gate open event. 333 microseconds isn't long enough to be able to encompass your entire LF wavefront and preserve the low level parts of the attack. For instance, a 31 Hz sine wave takes about 2000 microseconds to ramp a third of the way up (assuming your threshold is set there.) That means your extreme LF sine wave signals will have a smooth but abbreviated attack envelope at the beginning--the original will NOT be preserved. Lucky for us a 5-string bass guitar pluck is a steeper, quicker envelope than a sine wave and is passed in satisfying fullness by the G4.
They'll take my G4 from my cold dead hands.
-Bink