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| 2465.1 | I *can* read... ;) | GSRC::COOPER | MIDI rack puke | Fri Oct 05 1990 02:12 | 2 |
| Obviosly, I don't have a manula for this thing...
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| 2465.2 | Yeah, A Good Deal | AQUA::ROST | She moves me, man | Fri Oct 05 1990 10:50 | 21 |
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OK, what you have is a stereo parametric EQ/compressor. You can use it
as two two band EQs, or four single band EQs. When used as four,
only two get use of the compressor.
A little bit of patching and experimenting should make it obvious how
to patch the EQs into singles from pairs. The "key" input allows you do
what is known as "ducking", that is, the compressor will react to some
external signal...like a radio station application, where the music
level goes down when the DJ starts talking.
The "companding" means it will also do dynamic range *expansion* which
is a cool effect although not overly useful for many things.
Was $45 a used price? They're no longer made, but the cheapest I've
seen one go for new in a store was about $150. Maybe not the greatest
compressor or EQ, but for the amount of function you can get from it,
at $45 it's a steal.
Brian
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| 2465.3 | | GSRC::COOPER | MIDI rack puke | Fri Oct 05 1990 14:06 | 12 |
| Great ! I like to hear that Brian. ;)
I hope to use in with my four track for some home
recording projects. I think I'll hook it up to my guitar
also to see what I can do with it there.
The dude at the store I bought it from called this morning and
said they found the manual for it, so that'll help too.
Anyone out there have one of these beasties ?
jc
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| 2465.4 | Compand? | VOLKS::RYEN | Rick Ryen 240-6501 AET1-1/A6 | Fri Oct 19 1990 06:25 | 22 |
| RE .0
$45 for a 4 channel parametric EQ doesn't sound too bad to me.
I believe that the Alesis micro series are about double that,
only have two channels and no compression.
but... what really caught my interest here was the use of the word COMPAND!
I have been waiting for quite some time to catch somebody using that word.
Why, so I can ask what it means.
My MC300 sequencer has a compand editing function, and I have
been trying to figure out what it's purpose is. It doesn't seem to do any
thing useful.
I thought that maybe if I understoiod what 'compand' meant, that maybe
I'd be able to find some use for that editing function.
Anybody wanna take a stab at a definition (explaination)?
(sorry to take this off track)
Rick
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| 2465.5 | Velocity Scaling | WEFXEM::COTE | Light, sweet, crude... | Fri Oct 19 1990 07:47 | 11 |
| Compand is a contraction for "Compress/Expand".
My guess, as it applies to the MC-300, is it's an operation that
re-scales velocity data. Compression would move all values closer to
a common point, while expansion would increase the difference.
The MC-500 has this feature, allowing you to not only select the
amount of "compansion", but also the point the values are referenced
to.
Edd
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| 2465.6 | More on Companding | AQUA::ROST | She moves me, man | Fri Oct 19 1990 09:42 | 10 |
| Re: .4, .5
A very common "compander" is the Dolby NR in tape decks. On recording
high frequencies are compressed, on playback exapnded. The expansion
causes the tape his (which wasn't compressed) to be lowered in level,
thus the noise is reduced.
Brian
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| 2465.7 | Put me in compand, sir | VOLKS::RYEN | Rick Ryen 240-6501 AET1-1/A6 | Fri Oct 19 1990 13:54 | 5 |
| Okay - compress/expand. Now it starts to make sense.
I'll have to re-visit that MC300 function, and see I can make
use of it, given my new insite.
Thanks
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