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Equaliser Q - Width Problem

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:35 pm
by Irfan
Hi all :)

I'm new to flowstone.

I've found a design problem in flowstones basic Equalizer mouse range/scaling. So you are able to go much farther than you need to. After the Q value goes down to 0.05 it starts to rise again as you continue to drag. This is clearly not right.

Here is a picture for better understanding.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3vx3x1x0goeup ... 1.png?dl=0

If anyone know how to fix this please let me know.

Best wishes :D

Re: Equaliser Q - Width Problem

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:58 pm
by martinvicanek
Hey Irfan,

welcome to the forum! Your observation is correct, altough I think nobody ever bothered to test for Q below 0.05. Anyway, here is a fix preventing Q from rising again.

Re: Equaliser Q - Width Problem

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 4:07 pm
by Irfan
Thank you Martin,

it's cool and it works great :)
can you please tell me how did you do that?

Best,

Irfan

Re: Equaliser Q - Width Problem

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:28 pm
by martinvicanek
If you navigate to the "Convert" modules,
Parametric EQ/GUI/Controls/Convert
you'll see the following conversion from W (width) to Q.
convert.png
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The formula is

Q = 0.05 + 10*(1 - W)^6

So when you drag W from 0 to 1 (in whatever units), Q decreases from 1.05 to 0.05. All good so far. However, if you drag further, since the power 6 is an even number, Q starts to increase again.

What I did is place a Max module after (1 - W) with one input not connected (same as if connected to zero) :
convert_fix.png
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Re: Equaliser Q - Width Problem

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:37 pm
by Irfan
Thank you soo much!

Finally working how i wanted :)