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Author:  \_/ [ Sat Mar 07, 2015 7:45 pm ]
Post subject:  attack percentage

Just being nosy: where does this 86% for the attack time stem from?
Usually it's 63% = 1 - 1/e. Is it 1 - 1/e^2 here or something completely different and why?

Author:  Bojcha [ Sat Mar 07, 2015 8:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: attack percentage

Quote:
Because increasing time has a diminishing effect on gain for compressors, it is practical to specify attack as the time required for gain to settle to a defined percent of final value. Typical are 86% or 95% of the final value.
http://www.rane.com/note155.html

Author:  Slawomir B. [ Sat Mar 07, 2015 8:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: attack percentage

Whoaaa! Bojcha, this is what I've been looking for! :D

Author:  \_/ [ Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: attack percentage

What I meant was where these numbers come from, what's there motivation? They look a lot like this RC capacitor voltage response:
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Author:  hvz [ Sun Mar 08, 2015 12:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: attack percentage

I actually have no idea. I read descriptions of these numbers being more or less a standard so I used them...

Author:  \_/ [ Sun Mar 08, 2015 7:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: attack percentage

Now I'm stunned. But ST is still using an exponential function, i.e. to reach 86% needs two times as long as reaching 63%, correct?

Author:  hvz [ Sun Mar 08, 2015 2:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: attack percentage

Probably, yes. If you're not using things like Inertia.

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