Digital Larry
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A comment about the new Faust Compressors. I had been looking at this article at the Spin Knowledge Base:
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I pointed Claude at this and said "make a block and show me its response". It was nothing like what you'd expect from a compressor. The notes talk about the controls being "interactive" - like when you adjust your monitor's red, the blue changes also and when you adjust blue, green changes too. This is a recipe for frustration and after 4 hours I knocked it on the head and pointed it at a couple of Faust compressors and said "how about these" which it did perfectly on the first try. The tradeoff is that they take around half of the available instructions.
This made me realize how unique the FV-1 really is - it does some things really well, others not so much but kinda sorta. Given how much of my life I've devoted to it, it's hard for me to say bad things about it.
Spin Semiconductor - Programming the FV-1
Spin Semiconductor designs and markets specialized mixed signal integrated circuits for the consumer music and audio industries
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I pointed Claude at this and said "make a block and show me its response". It was nothing like what you'd expect from a compressor. The notes talk about the controls being "interactive" - like when you adjust your monitor's red, the blue changes also and when you adjust blue, green changes too. This is a recipe for frustration and after 4 hours I knocked it on the head and pointed it at a couple of Faust compressors and said "how about these" which it did perfectly on the first try. The tradeoff is that they take around half of the available instructions.
This made me realize how unique the FV-1 really is - it does some things really well, others not so much but kinda sorta. Given how much of my life I've devoted to it, it's hard for me to say bad things about it.