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also influence the attack and release. A gain controller has also been added to the
controller for compensating the volume reduction.
Expander: The dynamics of a frequency band are increased, loud sequences remain loud,
quiet sequences become even quieter. Dynamics expansion is often used for recording
speech with a high noise level. The expansion causes the level of the speech to be raised
while the noise is suppressed. Please note that there is also a powerful DeNoising
algorithm provided.
Gate: Here, very quiet passages below the threshold level are dampened or set to zero.
This way, you can effectively suppress noise during the pauses between takes. Even at
high compression (ratio > 5) the gate function is still useful to avoid a strong increase in the
quietest of passages and background noise. If you enter different threshold values in
different bands, you can, with a bit of skill, "chop up" drum loops.
Limiter: Only the loudest passages are limited (above the threshold). Quiet passages
remain unchanged. Limiters are used to reduce the level peaks without reducing the
master dynamics.
Limiter 100%: Performs the same editing as the limiter, but the level is immediately raised
to 0 dB and corresponds with subsequent normalization.
Hint: If you want to use the limiter as protection against overmodulation, you should take
into account that the limiter can only reliably prevent overmodulation in a single band. If the
bands are mixed together, the sum can again result in an excess of the threshold level set
for the bands.
Out (All)
Here you can set the volume level of the entire algorithm. This parameter cannot be set
individually for each band. The graphic does not reflect this setting. Use the "Out (All)" fader
to balance the volume difference through dynamic editing.
Limiter On/ Edit (only in the Master area of the mixer and in the Object Editor):
Here you can turn off / edit the Peak Limiter. It prevents overmodulation of the volume
increases when using the multi-band dynamics section.
Separation frequencies
With the sliders at the bottom of the graphic you can adjust the separation frequencies of
each of the filter bands. The number of separation frequencies depends on the number of
selected bands (Number of bands parameters). The border frequencies for the deepest
and the highest band (high-cut and low-cut) are shown. The border frequencies are those
at which filter damping amounts to -3 dB. For mid bands (band pass 1 and band pass 2)
the mid frequencies and bandwidths are displayed. The bandwidth is, in this case, the
distance between both separation frequencies. This corresponds to the intersection of the
neighboring frequency curves.
Band separation (in the setup area)
A higher setting for "Band separation" ("Normal", "High") has a similar influence on the
various properties of the filter, whereby the "precision" also increases: