Today, while tweaking the cDSP Gate, I realized that the Attack and Release are the inverse of what I would expect.
My expectation (which may be wrong?) is that the Attack would be the amount of time it takes for the gate to open and Release is for the gate to close.
But with v5.0.2, at least, the cDSP Gate does those in reverse, based on my tests just now.
In all fairness, the SoundDesk documentation on the Gate details that it works exactly the way it does. In other words, it's not backwards from its documentation. https://www.loudlab-app.com/sounddesk/en/29.html
But it is backwards from, say, the way the gate in Logic Pro works (which is how I discovered this, copying settings from my old Logic-based podcast mixer to my new SoundDesk-based one )
This is by design. While incorrect from the engineering perspective, this is intended to be more intuitive from the operator's perspective:
Attack - the time it takes for the signal to become fully gated after dropping below the threshold level. Release - the time it takes for the signal to go back to the original state.
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Today, while tweaking the cDSP Gate, I realized that the Attack and Release are the inverse of what I would expect.
My expectation (which may be wrong?) is that the Attack would be the amount of time it takes for the gate to open and Release is for the gate to close.
But with v5.0.2, at least, the cDSP Gate does those in reverse, based on my tests just now.
In all fairness, the SoundDesk documentation on the Gate details that it works exactly the way it does. In other words, it's not backwards from its documentation. https://www.loudlab-app.com/sounddesk/en/29.html
But it is backwards from, say, the way the gate in Logic Pro works (which is how I discovered this, copying settings from my old Logic-based podcast mixer to my new SoundDesk-based one
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This is by design. While incorrect from the engineering perspective, this is intended to be more intuitive from the operator's perspective:
Attack - the time it takes for the signal to become fully gated after dropping below the threshold level.
Release - the time it takes for the signal to go back to the original state.
Thank you for the clarification! Now that I understand and have it tuned properly, it's working well!