eq soft saturation bug

[suneel]

when using "enable soft saturation " on the mixer eq
and when the synth sound is loud after playing for while the sound will peak to infinity and remain untill
-the sfs is reloaded again
-soft saturation is turned off and on again ( the bug repeats itself again)

It is something to do with soft saturation unable to clip loud notes like low bass and the signal peaks and then sounds incorrect. But before this happens soft saturation works fine.

need the sfs (devs)?

[HYPNAGOGIA]

Woot... will have a look on that on the beta version later

[suneel]

ok, try it on toxic3

[HYPNAGOGIA]

Ok, just used a preset that's loud enough, kept mixer level at -15db, master at -18db (haven't touched the volume control on the toolbar - center position), only a Brickwall Limiter L-1 and SSL X-ISM (for measurements) on master inserts.

For initial export, tweaked EQ a little (just just maxed T3 into clipping (with L-1 on), X-ISM showing analog clipping leds going on. Export.... result is this:



Then just enabled Soft Saturation for EQ, everything else remained unchanged. It reduced the volume of T3. Result:



Left it playing in the loop for a while, nothing changed, did another export... result:



Haven't closed, haven't even saved the file at all. It's all in one shot, but if I did this right, it looks ok here.
Can you give any more details how to reproduce it accurately? Maybe I'm missing something.

[suneel]

will mail you the sfs

[HYPNAGOGIA]

Sure, you can use the email address that's on this forum, I'll get it instantly, and take a look at it, see if it behaves the same or not.

[suneel]

already did on your old y-hoo id

[HYPNAGOGIA]

Oh... Ok, got. I hardly ever check that one. This one on the forum is my main now.

[HYPNAGOGIA]

Well, most unusual, for sure. It started to misbehave like you described within the first 10 seconds.
I noticed few interesting things:
1. It occurs randomly - times between two occurance can vary greatly.
2. It can recover from it on its own.
3. It occurs on both high or low volumes.
4. It is always the only one channel that goes off fully; the other one sometimes contines to play normally (or at least to my observation here), other times you can hear only ticks of it, kind of like hearing it through the high-pass filter.

Interesting bug, I have to say. It can't be a human error, that's for sure, I haven't been able to see or determine what could be the cause of that. I see that you emailed it to Richard as well, so I guess he'll take a look at it, too. Just in case he misses it in his email, I'll post this bug on the Bugs Tracker.

[suneel]

Oh... Ok, got. I hardly ever check that one. This one on the forum is my main now.

ok nxt time

I noticed few interesting things:

yep i had them too

4. It is always the only one channel that goes off fully; the other one sometimes contines to play normally (or at least to my observation here), other times you can hear only ticks of it, kind of like hearing it through the high-pass filter.

actually sometimes it flags off both( see img), but most of the time its one of the channels.

I see that you emailed it to Richard as well, so I guess he'll take a look at it, too. Just in case he misses it in his email, I'll post this bug on the Bugs Tracker.

ok thanks!

[HYPNAGOGIA]

4. It is always the only one channel that goes off fully; the other one sometimes contines to play normally (or at least to my observation here), other times you can hear only ticks of it, kind of like hearing it through the high-pass filter.

actually sometimes it flags off both( see img), but most of the time its one of the channels.

I haven't seen that, but yes, I see on your images it flags both channels.
Yesterday, during the tests, I did a song export, a little over 11 minutes of it.



It was basically as I wrote. Just one of the channels goes off, the other makes barely audible "ticks".

[HYPNAGOGIA]

Good news!

Marked as fixed on the Bugs Tracker. Will see in the next beta.