PWM style compressor

[danial stocks]

>OPinions... why sure !!!
>
>The electroluminescent panel was the fastest light source of
>its day. It could actually respond fast enough to compress the peaks
>of the waveform, like a log response.
>
>IMHO an LED is also fast enough to do this.
>
Both leds and electrolum are pretty fast, but LDR's are hell slow..
I remember someone telling me about a design they had using LDR's 
specifically because the slowness made for a nice bit of atk/decay edge to 
the sound as it changed not some lightning fast ota tracker..
Cheers,
Dan



><flamesuit on>
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>But without TUBES in the audio path, new designs will never
>have the "sound"    (tee hee....)
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>H^) harry "le provocateur" bissell
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>
>>From: Paul Perry <pfperry at melbpc.org.au>
>>To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
>>Subject: PWM style compressor
>>Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:04:31 +1000
>>
>>I was looking at compressor sites the other day & saw that there
>>have been 2 'classic' compressors based on PWM, in years gone by.
>>Does anyone kow whether the RNC operates this way? I know there
>>is a micro in there (or at least I have been told so).
>>
>>Also, there was some old valve compressor that used electroluminescent
>>panel to change the resistance of a LDR. I can't personally see any
>>advantage over using leds, which didn't exist at that time AFAIK.
>>Any opinions?
>>
>>paul perry melbourne australia
>>
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