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Old 03-20-2008, 09:15 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by griz lee View Post
I totally understand your point. Also, I know the price of the TC to which i'm making a comparison, but source code complexity doesn't really come into it. A good algo is a good algo, be it a few lines or a few thousand.

I'm willing to bet some uber-price products sometimes only contain a few lines of code with a really glitzy retro interface strapped on !!

Based on what I hear, i'd also wager that some EQ's i've purchased previously in the bad-old-days (pre Reaper) are in fact only re-hased RBJ algos.

I can see that it's complex argument, particularly if you need to make your living from software. This won't stop people asking for new features unfortunately, but you've got to remember that most folk around here probably absolutely respect the work you've done and are very grateful for the free products you've released.
Well good code is certainly short, but my point was that TC electronic doesn't give there source code away (in JS you have to! no matter what). If this wasn't a JS but a VST I'd totally would try to improve the low frequency distortion, but it isn't.

Also btw regarding the RBJ "algorithm", it is really just a methode of calculating the filter coefficients of second-order IIR filters, which I'm pretty sure everyone who has got the math and dsp skills for it can calculate on his/her own .
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