This is an improvement to the current compressor which I have added
to my own Sansa Fuze V2 build. I am submitting here in case others
find it interesting.
Features added to the existing compressor:
Attack, Look-ahead, Sidechain Filtering.
Exponential attack and release characteristic response.
Benefits from adding missing features:
Attack:
Preserve perceived "brightness" of tone by letting onset transients
come through at a higher level than the rest of the compressed program
material.
Look-ahead:
With Attack comes clipping on the leading several cycles of a transient
onset. With look-ahead function, this can be pre-emptively mitigated with
a slower gain change (less distortion). Look-ahead limiting is implemented
to prevent clipping while keeping gain change ramp to an interval near 3ms
instead of instant attack.
The existing compressor implementation distorts the leading edge of a
transient by causing instant gain change, resulting in log() distortion.
This sounds "woofy" to me.
Exponential Attack/Release:
eMore natural sounding. On attack, this is a true straight line of 10dB per
attack interval. Release is a little different, however, sounds natural as
an analog compressor.
Sidechain Filtering:
Mild high-pass filter reduces response to low frequency onsets. For example,
a hard kick drum is less likely to make the whole of the program material
appear to fade in and out. Combined with a moderate attack time, such a
transient will ride through with minimal audible artifact.
Overall these changes make dynamic music sound more "open", more natural. The
goal of a compressor is to make dyanamic music sound louder without necessarily
sounding as though it has been compressed. I believe these changes come closer to this goal.
Enjoy. If not, I am enjoying it
Change-Id: I664eace546c364b815b4dc9ed4a72849231a0eb2
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.rockbox.org/626
Tested: Purling Nayuki <cyq.yzfl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Giacomelli <giac2000@hotmail.com>
Creates a standard buffer passing, local data passing and messaging
system for processing stages. Stages can be moved to their own source
files to reduce clutter and ease assimilation of new ones. dsp.c
becomes dsp_core.c which supports an engine and framework for effects.
Formats and change notifications are passed along with the buffer so
that they arrive at the correct time at each stage in the chain
regardless of the internal delays of a particular one.
Removes restrictions on the number of samples that can be processed at
a time and it pays attention to destination buffer size restrictions
without having to limit input count, which also allows pcmbuf to
remain fuller and safely set its own buffer limits as it sees fit.
There is no longer a need to query input/output counts given a certain
number of input samples; just give it the sizes of the source and
destination buffers.
Works in harmony with stages that are not deterministic in terms of
sample input/output ratio (like both resamplers but most notably
the timestretch). As a result it fixes quirks with timestretch hanging
up with certain settings and it now operates properly throughout its
full settings range.
Change-Id: Ib206ec78f6f6c79259c5af9009fe021d68be9734
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.rockbox.org/200
Reviewed-by: Michael Sevakis <jethead71@rockbox.org>
Tested-by: Michael Sevakis <jethead71@rockbox.org>
