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taylor12k Member |
posted 18 February 2011 11:55
 
i'm really interested in the Pigtronix Attack/Sustain guitar pedal... it's one of the types of guitar pedals that gives your hard input a soft, fade-in attack... like an auto-swell. it detects your input and fades each note in. the Pigtronix is nice because it has quite a long (5 seconds or so) attack time, where many of the other similar pedals have a 1 sec fade in.. i think the pedals are designed around compressor functionality.. but i'm not quite sure. how would one go about duplicating this effect in kyma? some sort of signal detection followed by a simple volume curve... or with this compression technique.. anyone have any starting tips? anything like this exist already in the kyma library? IP: Logged |
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SSC Administrator |
posted 18 February 2011 12:10
I would try experimenting with the PeakDetector. You could route your input signal through the PeakDetector and then multiply the input signal by the PeakDetector. Then you can adjust how quickly the PeakDetector reacts to attack and to decay. So something like this: PeakDetector (input) * input IP: Logged |
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taylor12k Member |
posted 18 February 2011 12:15
thanks... i'll start looking into that the idea, tho, would be to have a parameter for attack time... so basically volume swells on anything that's going in.. from short to long came in real handy this past weekend during a recording session.. we were recording some very high pitched bells and the attacks were just too sharp... one of the guys had a cheap behringer pedal that had an attack parameter and it was perfect to soften the attack of the bells as we recorded them. but, i want to take the effect more extreme, to be able to give these things long attacks... i mean, obviously they could be sampled and played back with attacks.. but the idea is to do it on real time recordings.. i'll start with the peak detector! IP: Logged |
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