DJANGO : GYPSY JAZZ GUITAR
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Attack
: Controls the scaling of the attack portion of the input signal’s volume envelope.
Increasing this parameter will add more punch and decreasing it will reduce sharp
attacks.
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Sustain
: Controls the scaling of the sustain portion of the input signal’s volume
envelope. Increasing this parameter will add more body to the sound and decreasing it
will reduce the sound’s tail.
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Gain :
Controls the input gain to the effect.
COMPRESSOR
The compressor that comes next helps transform the individual samples into a performance
by gluing the notes together. Its controls are :
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Threshold :
Sets a level threshold above which the Compressor starts working. Only
levels that rise above this threshold will be reduced by the compression; signals that stay
below it will be left unprocessed.
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Ratio :
Controls the amount of compression, expressed as a ratio of “input level change”
against “output level change”. A Ratio of 1 :1 means that no compression will be
happening. For example, a Setting of 4 represents the ratio 4 :1, which means for every
4 decibel increase of amplitude above the threshold, the output will increase by only 1
decibel.
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Attack :
Adjusts the time the Compressor will take to reach the full Ratio value after an
input signal exceeds the Threshold level.
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Release :
Adjusts the time the compressor will take to fall back to noncompression after
the input signal falls below the threshold.
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Makeup :
Controls the output gain of the compressed signal. Used to compensate for
the gain reduction of the effect.
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Parallel Mix :
Sets the dry/wet mix of the compressor to 50/50 %. This parallel
compression style routing increases the quieter signals rather than reducing the louder
ones.
LIMITER
Last in the signal path is the Limiter, which acts as a “safety net” to keep short signal peaks
from overloading the system, which would result in audio clipping. Controls :
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Input :
Sets the gain of the input signal. The Limiter is different from the Compressor in
that it has a fixed threshold; to achieve a sensible peak reduction, use this control to
adjust the input gain until you see the Attenuation meter responding only to occasional
level peaks.
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Release :
Just like the Compressor’s control of the same name, this knob adjusts the
time it takes the Limiter to return to an unprocessed signal after the input level falls
below the threshold.
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