From 5115ff7b47716b9ef6462445f39b4a380fd70082 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robbert van der Helm Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:59:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Mention safe mode in Diopser readme --- plugins/diopser/README.md | 20 +++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/plugins/diopser/README.md b/plugins/diopser/README.md index d990f47f..7ac6a2d7 100644 --- a/plugins/diopser/README.md +++ b/plugins/diopser/README.md @@ -25,13 +25,19 @@ much better performance. Hertz or musical notes. - Hold down Alt/Option while dragging the filter frequency around to snap to whole notes. -- Because this plugin lets you crank every parameter up to 11, you may want to - avoid rapidly sweeping the frequency parameter down all the way to 5 Hertz - when you have many filter stages enabled. Because of the way these filters - work, this may cause comparatively loud resonances in the 0-15 Hertz range. In - that case you may want to use a peak limiter after this plugin until you - understand how it reacts to different changes. Or maybe you'll want to check - out [Safety Limiter](../safety_limiter), which is made for this exact purpose. +- The safe mode is enabled by default. This limits the frequency range and the + number of filter stages. Simply disable the safe mode if you want to crank + everything up to 11. With safe mode disabled you may find that going down to + the bottom of the frequency range introduces some loud low frequency + resonances, especially when combined with a lot of filter stages. In that case + you may want to use a peak limiter after this plugin until you understand how + it reacts to different changes. Or maybe you'll want to check out [Safety + Limiter](../safety_limiter), which is made for this exact purpose. +- Turn down the automation precision to reduce the DSP load hit of changing the + filter frequency and resonance at the cost of introducing varying amounts of + aliasing and zipper noises. +- The aforementioned artifacts introduced by setting a low automation precision + can actually be useful for sound design purposes. - Change the number of filter stages to immediately reset the filters and stop ringing.