[sdiy] fast-attack EGs and trigger sync

[Richard Wentk]

On 11 Nov 2008, at 13:43, Seb Francis wrote:

> Richard Wentk wrote:
>>
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>> Sonically I'm not sure why anyone would want a 0.1ms attack time.  
>> There aren't many applications where that would be musically  
>> useful, because your ear can't hear transients which are that fast.
>>
>
> Well I'm not sure this is completely true.  There's a significant  
> audible different between a compressor set with an attack time of  
> 0.1ms vs 1ms.  Perhaps this is more noticeable since the sound  
> starts loud and gets quietened during the attack phase.

With a compressor set to 1ms you'll get a 1ms transient spike added  
to the front of an event as the compression starts to work, which  
wouldn't be hard to hear. Depending on the release, with faster times  
you can make the compressor try to compress individual cycles, which  
is certainly very audible.

Not so much for an envelope, which will be ramping up from 0, not  
ramping down from fsdb.

Richard