Software Compressors

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I noticed in Sonar's Timeworks compressor, there is a selection for 'in' on the visual of the compressor..........does this mean that i can use a softare compressor as a pre-compressor to compress the signal as it comes in? is this possible?
 
Bump.

I'd like an answer as well, because I haven't figured it out either. I was just looking at that this morning actually.
 
I don't think to check earlier when it was on (two p/c's one screen:p ) , but there's a bunch of buttons on the right that select the meter assignment: off, input, output, g/r yea sure.
Yea?
 
How about if you patch the thing into the channel you'r recording. Does it get compressed on the recording?
But you said 'pre-compress'. As in input protection? .:DNot.
If the above patch works, you might be able to hear it work going in by setting that track to it's own V-bus and set it up for 'input monitor'.
(Sorry, that's a shit load of maybes and maybe I don't even know the question.
Please don't hit me:)
 
I am fairly sure that the IN button merely shows you what is going INto the compressor - as a visual aid to then show you what the OUT signal looks like. It is not doing pre-compression at this point.

If you wanted to use a compressor to record your stuff, I think you are still better served using the compressor as a track insert and using Sonar's input monitorring to hear the effect back as you record it.

This method also has the advantage of being non-destructive, ie. the track that will be recorded won't have the compression settings actually applied until you choose the APPLY EFFECTS TO TRACK button in the PROCESS menu (from memory).

If you have a hardware console, then you would be able to route an actual hardware compressor into the input track which would then record a true compressed signal directly into Sonar.

If you have a somewhat sexy sound card, sometimes these compression features are built into their virtual mixer, eg. Aardvark DirectPro 24/96.

Ciao,

Q.
 
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