IN-DEPTH DISCUSSION OF THE POWER (P) FUNCTION
The power function allows you to change the general characteristics of the detector.
Power ranges from 1 to 5, where the value 1 corresponds to the typical PEAK-type de-
tector. The times written for attack and release are calculated on the PEAK mode and are
derived from sampled curves from the best existing hardware compressors.
NOTE: The 2 is theThe default setting of the plugin.
Tiger allows for variable integration of the exponent used in the detector: it goes from
the normal PEAK condition (represented by the modulus) to RMS (mean value of signal
power, i.e., the square root of the mean of the square of signal values over time) to cubic
RMS value (power 3) to power 5. The integrator continuously represents the RMS value
of order n (or, more simply, RMS value n).
There are two important considerations to take into account: the CPU consumption in-
creases when a value other than peak and RMS is selected due to internal optimizations
of modern microprocessors (in general, it doubles), and it should already be considered
that the FAST detector itself consists of two detectors acting in combination.
NOTE: however,with the latest optimisations, values 1-2 result in low CPU consumption.
The second consideration concerns the result created by this change in the measure-
ment. As the order increases, the attack time shortens (so the detector becomes more
sensitive to signal transients), but the release becomes longer. No problem! Tiger allows
this to be remedied by the attack and release shape modulation controls or the morph
control.
We have structured the control to intervene from order 1 to order 5 to allow for an in-
termediate position centered around value 2 (easily reached with the CONTROL-click
command) . In this way, values 1 and 3 are easily achieved. As for value 2, in Tiger, it is
represented by the “SLOW” detector based on the fixed RMS value (order 2).
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