Masa

Hi, I am using live.gain~ to adjust the loudness of audio signal with dB.

Has anyone implemented the dB functionality (silence, -70. dB to 6. dB) of live.gain~ without GUI?

Perhaps the combination of 'scale -70. 6. 0. 157.' and 'gain~' is the simplest solution...?

Hi, I am using live.gain~ to adjust the loudness of audio signal with dB.
Has anyone implemented the dB functionality (silence, -70. dB to 6. dB) of live.gain~ without GUI?
Perhaps the combination of 'scale -70. 6. 0. 157.' and 'gain~' is the simplest solution...?
I am optimising my patch.

db-based-70-db-to-6-db-gain-control-without-gui

As far as I know, the above solution, even if it is correct, won't reflect the values output by live.gain. I had a very hard time trying to get this using expressions or that kind of stuff and never got a clear answer by Ableton about their scaling, even for internal live mixer. The closer solution used an array of values. I'm going to try to find it...

I think it's something more like this. (I.e., if gain value is less than -70 dB, set gain to 0.)

Hi, thank you very much Franz, Stephane and Christopher for your smart input.

OK, then I will replace all my live.gain~s with Christopher's approach and see if it reduces CPU usage.

Hi, thank you very much Franz, Stephane and Christopher for your smart input.
OK, then I will replace all my live.gain~s with Christopher's approach and see if it reduces CPU usage.


I modified Christopher's patch, as live.gain~ mutes the signal when equals to -70.

As Stephane noted, when trying fading out with gain value, live.gain~ sounds smoother than my patch above. I am not sure why.

dB-based (-70. dB to 6. dB) gain control without GUI?