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The document provides an overview of dynamic processors and their key parameters. It defines dynamic processors as rule-based gain controls that analyze and respond to the audio signal intelligently. The major parameters that control dynamic processors are threshold, ratio, attack, and release. Threshold determines the level where processing begins, ratio sets the input to output ratio of gain reduction, attack controls how fast processing engages with transients, and release governs how quickly processing is released at sound end.

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Week 5 Assignment

The document provides an overview of dynamic processors and their key parameters. It defines dynamic processors as rule-based gain controls that analyze and respond to the audio signal intelligently. The major parameters that control dynamic processors are threshold, ratio, attack, and release. Threshold determines the level where processing begins, ratio sets the input to output ratio of gain reduction, attack controls how fast processing engages with transients, and release governs how quickly processing is released at sound end.

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LESSON 3 ASSIGNMENT

DYNAMIC PROCESSING
Dynamic processors and description of; threshold, ratio, attack and release.

Hi! Im Daniel Eduard from Barcelona, Catalonia. This lesson is for week 5 of
Introduction to Music production at coursera.org. Ill be teaching the concept behind dynamic

processors and describe threshold, ratio, attack and release. I work with Cubase 5, so this is
the program im going to use to teach these concepts.

Dynamic processors
Dynamic processors are rule-based gain controls. The major parmetres aret he same, but
the rules are diferent. They just control volume, but they do it in an intelligent way, analyzing the
signal and responding to it. Theyre called non linear devices, because they work at diferent
levels of amplitude, distortion, etc. Compressors, limiters, gates and expanders are all of them
non lineal. They will use a set of parmetres called threshold, attack, release and ratio, all of
them working with sidechains (analyzers of RMS envelopes) and volume faders (controllers).

THRESHOLD:

The threshold is the level point where the dymanic processor starts to function. Below the
threshold, the compressor does nothing, but above it, the compressor does his work modifying
the output signal. It must always be adjusted

RATIO:

We call ratio at how much does the output signal change, having the threshold pointed in a
concrete input level, we have to know how much reduction we really want the compressor to
give us.

Ratio is expressed as input:output, and the higher the ratio is , the more extreme the dynamic
processor gets. At 1:1 the DP is doing nothing, at 2:1 a compressor output is half the input
above the threshold, and at 10:1 the compressor output is a tenth of the input above the
threshold. This is so extreme that we call it Limiter.

ATTACK:

It means how fast (quick) the compressor acts considering the threshold in the beggining (the
transient) of the signal, the lower it is, the more fast it changes the volume fader, normally going
down. It will make it more natrual and comfortable for the listener to hear the sound at the
beggining.

RELEASE:

It means how fast the compressor acts considering the threshold in the end of that piece of
audio. When the envelope drops down through the threshold, the fader comes back up after
the sound has gone below the threshold. It will make it more natrual and comfortable for the
listener to hear the sound at the end.

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