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Attack and Release
Use the Attack and Release controls to change how fast the compressor starts to
compress ( Attack ) and how fast it should recover from the gain reduction ( Release ). The
attack time on this unit is very fast,
ranging from about 20 µs at the
fastest setting to about 800 µs on
its slowest setting. Other kinds of
compressors often have much
slower attack times. In comparison
to the attack time the release times
are much slower – ranging
between 50 ms and 1.1 s. Please
note that these numbers only give
a general idea of the attack and
release times. In practice (and just like in the modeled hardware), the attack and release
times will be program dependent, ie. depend on the characteristics of the input signal.
Since a fast attack and release time leads to a fast gain reduction, sometimes
those settings will cause unwanted “clipping effects”. To remove this
unwanted side effect, you can either slow down the release time or add some
look ahead to the detector circuit. (See “Lookahead”).
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Figure 6: The Attack and Release knobs.