I usually use this on HiHats and little Stabs, they are always <1sec and the decay can go up to 60sec. So its basicly the same? I find it this way quite useful, so I only have to automate the decay and not the whole midi notes. thx Yeah, I mean, in most cases the ADSR decay stage is an exponential ...

Max decay is typically around 60s, so for samples of less than 10 seconds or so (very roughly speaking), the amplitude won't really vary *that* much if you have the decay at max and sustain at zero. Depends on the sample and how long the max decay is, obviously.

Given the choice between being able to hear what's going on with a really uneven response, or not being able to hear it at all, I'd pick the former, but I know a lot of people who would rather use smaller monitors so the messy low frequencies won't distract them. Either way, it's more or less the s...

reckon in here would be better, feels like this place is getting a bit quiet somehow...

I don't agree, tbh. If your space has a shitty bass response, it has a shitty bass response whether you have monitors with lots of low end or none at all. Using smaller speakers won't improve your room acoustics. The idea is that a monitor that produces less low freq will exite the low freq problem...

i dont have room for stands. My room is quite small. Then I'm afraid you probably don't want HS80M's. You (ideally) should match the monitor to your room. A pair of 8" drivers in a small room is likely to cause all sorts of problems and foam wont help solve them. Is your room treated at all? I...

ok, nothing scientific proven, but maybe a first finding. abletons compressor seems to have an exponential release curve and cubase compressor an logarithmic. logarithmic: http://img101.imageshack.us/f/cubasesidechain.png/ exponential: http://img34.imageshack.us/i/peakff2a001r802ratioinf.png/ Actua...

So I guess FF1 has an exponential attack and FF2 linear (at a guess). no. the attack/release curves are defined by the PEAK/RMS/OPTO modes. Oh yeah, I guess you're probably right on that. FF1 just acts way faster than FF2. for example if you set the lookahead of FF2 to 10ms, the results are very si...