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Old 07-10-2017, 12:10 PM   #8
ashcat_lt
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Originally Posted by Judders View Post
Out of interest; how do you link gain reduction to parameter modulation?
Depending on what you're trying to do, there are a number of ways to accomplish it. I actually wrote a JS "clone" of ReaComp that will send its gain reduction factor as a "control voltage" out a couple channels. There are other ways to skin that cat, though.

Really, you could probably get close just using the original signal for audio control and tweaking it so that whatever parameter is responding to the same signal in about the same way as the gain reduction in your comp.

Edit to add -

Realize also that if you run a DC voltage of 1 (0dbfs on the positive side) through ReaComp and the original signal through the sidechain, the output will be exactly the gain factor with all of the RMS/attack/release integration included. That's going to be like the inverse of the gain reduction, and you could do things with that. We do start to run into the limiting factor that PM is not sample accurate and most good plugin parameters are "smoothed" so that they won't follow sample-to-sample either, but most of the time close enough is close enough, and there are ways around that, too.

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