Official effect
Envelope clamp that currently behaves as the same hard gate used by Noise Gate rather than as a gentler ratio-based expander.
This preview currently uses the exact clamp-style gate path used by Noise Gate: a smoothed absolute-value envelope is pushed through a threshold-and-multiplier calculation and clamped into a 0-to-1 gain control. That means it behaves more like a hard gate today than a dedicated downward expander with a gentler slope.
Static peaks come from the compiled FAUST preview render. The live scope is drawn from the browser playback output in real time.
How It Works
This preview currently uses the exact clamp-style gate path used by Noise Gate: a smoothed absolute-value envelope is pushed through a threshold-and-multiplier calculation and clamped into a 0-to-1 gain control. That means it behaves more like a hard gate today than a dedicated downward expander with a gentler slope.
Signal Path
Preview source: An internally generated picked-string phrase is widened to stereo with a 19-sample right-channel delay and slight left/right shelf-EQ offsets before it hits the dynamics or EQ core.
An internally generated picked-string phrase is widened to stereo with a 19-sample right-channel delay and slight left/right shelf-EQ offsets before it hits the dynamics or EQ core.
Smoothed-envelope clamp gate with post-gate high-shelf tone shaping.
The static waveform and the live player both reflect this compiled signal chain.
These are the currently active controls detected in the FAUST source for this effect.
The generated description is tied to the active helper blocks and routing found in the current DSP.
Controls
Blends the untouched stereo preview source with the processed path after the core effect.
Lower settings keep more dry attack and natural dynamics; higher settings push the processed behavior forward.
Applies final post-effect level trim after DC blocking and before the output limiter.
Matches loudness without changing the actual dynamic or EQ structure.
Aliases into the internal threshold term used by the clamp gate.
Higher settings allow more low-level content through before the gate closes.
Adjusts the post-gate high shelf.
Shapes how bright the expanded-or-gated result sounds.
Raises the multiplier that steepens the clamp gate response.
Makes the transition between open and closed states more abrupt.
Analysis
Current implementation shares the same clamp-style gate core as Noise Gate, Intelligent Noise Suppressor, and Resonance Suppressor, and is not yet a gentler ratio-based expander.
No current warnings are attached to this effect.
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Each effect page uses the same generated description pipeline and compiled waveform preview assets.