The GLD has one of the best Gates available – with side-chain, depth and several time constants! But…
There are times, particularly on a loud stage, where an Expander (aka downward-expander) would be VERY useful.
Please consider, for a future software/firmware release, adding a “Gate/Expander” mode selector to the channel Gate functionality.
Not to be pedantic, but for comparison of features between the Gate & Expander…
- Common between Gate & Expander
- sidechain
- threshold
- attack
- release
- Differences
- hold (gate only)
- depth (gate only)
- ratio (expander only)
- knee (expander only)
While performance testing would obviously be required as proof, I believe the processing overhead for the Expander would not be much greater than that of the Gate, particularly compared to such a full-featured Gate as on the GLD-112.
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