Hardware compressors

[RichNH]

digital will never crack the behaviour of Analog outboard!!! Maybe next generation when 'quantum computers' get invented but until then....
Even my crappy Drawmer DL241 kicks waves' arse

[danielmarshall]

digital will never crack the behaviour of Analog outboard!!! Maybe next generation when 'quantum computers' get invented but until then....
Even my crappy Drawmer DL241 kicks waves' arse

This is why newbies get burnt on internet forums.

Anyway, quantum computers will be of little use for the things that we traditionally use digital computers to do.... Quantum computing allows you to do things (at least theoretically anyway) like computing very large prime numbers, or factoring an integer into it's constituant primes. That and performing multilpe opperations (billions in fact) simulataniously and almost instantaniously makes it very useful for scientific computing and cryptography, but it's not really going to impact the desktop computer market directly as far as I can see. Then again, every 5 years features that were only available on supercomputers seem to migrate to desktops, so I'll try not to be too dogmatic on that one.

[Andy]

Ive got a pair of TLA 5051 mk2 channel strips which have sidechain inputs for compression

So i'd imagine the stand alone compressor in the ivory 2 range also does this

the TLA stuff is great if you want to colour your sound, transparent it is deffinetly not

[benjames]

i stand corrected on the price argument, i was thinking of the UAD / DSP signal processing method as competiton for hardware as discussed earlier in the thread.

I do find it interesting how strong you feel about vst (software only) compression, since this relies on a decent platform, decent hardware, plenty of spare CPU, plenty of spare RAM, and no other issues that are commonly associated with PC/MAc operation.

Maybe this is taken for granted in the cases discussed but i know i personally would have a problem freeing up spare load for the amount of standard / sidechaining & Parallel compression required to get that lovely analogue warmth into the tracks.

[rhythmtech]

i stand corrected on the price argument, i was thinking of the UAD / DSP signal processing method as competiton for hardware as discussed earlier in the thread.

I do find it interesting how strong you feel about vst (software only) compression, since this relies on a decent platform, decent hardware, plenty of spare CPU, plenty of spare RAM, and no other issues that are commonly associated with PC/MAc operation.

Maybe this is taken for granted in the cases discussed but i know i personally would have a problem freeing up spare load for the amount of standard / sidechaining & Parallel compression required to get that lovely analogue warmth into the tracks.

most up to date pc's can handle a shed load of compressors. i know i can lay a sonalksis across 15-20 tracks without barely moving the cpu meter.