Holy duck-farm, that's quite a drive you guys were on if you started on the British isles and drove all the way to Copenhagen!! (I'm guessing you're somewhere in the south of UK then, since if you were in the north you'd probably have gone by air)

Did you go via Holland or the Dover-Calais crossing?

I assume you didn't spend much time in Hamburg then, but if you ever get the chance it's definitely a city well-worth a weekend because it really is beautiful and worth a closer look if you like the more old-school European style (Frankfurt, on the other hand, is glass-skyscrapers and a completely different animal. Germany is bigger and more diverse than the map might suggest )

Speaking of road-trips and coast-lines; there's this BBC-show called "Antiques road trip", where they drive across the countryside of all of Britain on small winding picturesque roads in older classic cars, and whenever I watch that I really want to do that myself. They visit all types of both small and large towns and talk about the local history of the various places and it just looks super cozy and interesting and always reminds me of the old slow island where I grew up eons ago

So I WAS correct

Being interested in linguistics I've noticed that people typically tend to structure their sentences in ways that are based on their original language. So Germans, for example, tend to put certain words in front or behind other certain words, or spell certain words in certain ways.

Being fascinated by these things I can't help but notice them, and something about the way you type just said British to me, so when you mentioned Hamburg it surprised me but obviously makes sense now

And speaking of rabbit-holes; who knew that slew-rates could lead to talks about Old England

I live in Wales but we went from the gf's house which is in southern Ingerlund, got the tunnel cos we had a supermarket savings discount and the time saved. Having been band van driver on enough European tours and cos I basically learned to drive in Spain (taught English there lol) I quite like a nice long drive through Europe.

We spent the night in Osnabruck of which the less said the better. What we did see of Hamburg was pretty amazing as the satnav sent us rather slowly round the west side through the docks so we got to see a very cool curvy bridge and great mountains of multimodular containers and the boats carrying them.

Hmmm, this makes me think maybe slew-rate could be useful in setting cassette tape-head azimuth correctly for random old tapes... will have to investigate..

Oh yes I forgot about the tunnel there
I do like a good old ferry-ride myself though. There's something very relaxing about the deep hum and rumble of a ferry's diesel-engine and the slow movement/bobbing of the floor when there's some wind.

I'm fully with you on the driving. It's super-relaxing once you get going in a steady tempo on the freeway/autobahn (There's a standing joke that you should tell non-German first-timers of the autobahn that they should look for a city called "Ausfahrt" I've yet to hear about anybody actually falling for it, and obviously it's too evil to do to somebody who might actually fall for it, because it is possible given that some cities are named stuff like "Erfurt" and such Yeah, the German autobahn is notorious. Some of the accidents you see on it can be quite disturbing though. And the German "Radio FFN" was always a classic station to tune into. All the good classic 90s hits Oh well, lots of memories)

I guess we're drifting off-topic here, but thanks for the talk about all this Since I got struck by sclerosis I'm unfortunately not very mobile anymore, but at least have many good travel-memories that you made me think about these past few days

I've never tested for anything like that, so I'm very curious about what you find

As far as I know summing is an easy method to check head-azimuth of multi-track tape-machines, but it's not something I have much experience with.

Ah, soz about the sclerosis, the gf. has mobility issues, which was another incentive for not flying 'cos wheelchairs, airports and airplanes is thoroughly unfun. We did get the ferry and another fine sunset experience going back the Puttgarden way. Fret not, ausfahrt never grows old for us Brits. The other amazebobs Hamburg autobahn experience we had was when the traffic ground to a halt for quite a while and the cars in the fast lane pulled up against the inside divider just in case an emergency vehicle needed to get through. Don't get that on the autostrada.

Sauntering back to the topic, today I learned that the ways an AS-1 can analog synthesize bonkers levels of slew are many and various. And monitoring sound designing several hardware sources at once has emphasized how, unlike say noise when two channels are mixed, slew rate doesn't add itself to itself. So that AS-1 blip may end up very low in the mix but perhaps that's how ASMR works, very spiky things at a subliminal level.

I think I have some old holiday-video of that exact behavior on the autobahn (That they pull against the center-divider to make room when traffic comes to a halt)
There are these, like unwritten rules-of-the-road or whatever one might call it, that you learn when you drive there. And when everybody follows them the traffic glides really smoothly (Even at very high speeds)

It's kinda funny how people drive very differently in different places (In Italy they drive like maniacs. Very disorganized. In Germany, at least on the autobahn, it's all very structured somehow. At least that's how it was, but I don't know if this has changed over the years. It's been a while since I was in Germany the last time)

Switzerland also had their own rules. On some of the very narrow roads in the mountains; if you approached a sharp turn where you couldn't see if there would be oncoming traffic, you'd honk your horn as you entered and that would signal you had the right-of-way and anybody approaching would then hold over to the side and let you pass (And they would expect you to do the same if they honked first)

You don't learn that kind of stuff at Driver's Ed

In that regard it becomes super-clear that each European country has their very own culture.

Give my regards to your better half, because yep it really sucks when the legs start misbehaving, and then the meat-markets, also known as larger airports, quickly lose all appeal.

I've done the Rødby-Puttgarden many times too. Nothing beats their stale and expensive ham'n'cheese sandwiches If you're lucky the cheese isn't too crusted, but it's part of the charm I suppose (And using the bathroom on windy passes can be a fun experience too, but we probably shouldn't go there

I don't know the AS-1, but if my Google-foo is accurate it's a Pioneer synth?

When you say slew-rate doesn't add onto itself; it should actually increase if total signal-volume increases, since slew-rates are linked to signal-volume (Louder volume requires more amplitude, thus a faster slew-rate)

I'm using Reaper and it has a stock white-noise plugin, and I just tested the effect of daisy-chaining a series of them with the actual noise-volume set to -36 dB and the dry pass-through set to zero dB (Such that the noise of each plugin would pass through at un-modified volume), and sure enough; each added plugin contributes to increased volume and an increased slew-rate.

So I would be puzzled if you find a different behavior?

EDIT: Try adding two sine-tones at almost the same frequency, for example 880 and 880.1, and you'll notice the Puttgarden ferry on a bad day (The in and out of phase does its thing and everything waves slowly up and down)

It was just my ad hoc impression from feeding two drum channels into one buss! I guess there's also a time domain effect with drum hits. Today's lesson from loading up the finally found files of a tune I did last year is that it's a lot easier to sound design to ameliorate the slew than try and fix it in the mix.

Wales being a bit like little Switzerland with little roads going round mountains so honking beforehand is not unfamiliar to me from when I was a child, in Wales it was more to let the tractor round the corner know you're there than assert dominance.

I had naively thought that 5 years of driving round Spanish towns and cities would prepare me for Italy. No. Disorganized is an understatement lol. Out of 10 drivers, 3 will drive like utter maniacs, 6 will go along with what the utter maniacs are doing, but the actual problem is the 1 guy who adheres with fanatical dedication to every speed limit and passing restriction. And the road signs. Either insanely OCD (Turin bypass, 8 lanes all strictly signposted to dozens of different destinations or nonexistent (Pisa, easier to find directions to the nearest sex shop than to the next town up). Still, I learned in Italy how to tailgate to stop the guy in front of you from overtaking the guy in front of him. And sometimes on a deserted stretch of UK motorway I let my inner Italian out and drive in the middle of two lanes just 'cos.

Yeah the slew-rate graph shows the fastest/highest/strongest recorded slew-rate within each frame-update of the GUI, so that would be about 30 times per second.

So if 2 drum-hits (Or any significant transient of course) fall at 2 different frames, they will each get their own slew-rate detection (Spike on the graph), but if they fall within the same frame, then only the fastest one will be shown)

It's basically similar to how a peak-meter works.

This of course also affects amplitude and thus can be used as some trickery for the loudness-war (If 2 drum-hits are smack on top of each other, the volume is louder than if they're separated by just enough time for the transients to 'miss' each other. Whether one wants to mix music to perfect alignment on a grid or allow things to fluctuate a bit is of course dependent on what the style of music requires and whatever personal taste one has)

But perfect transient-alignment is, at least initially in the FX-chain, an enemy of low slew-rates (It can still be desired if one wants more contrast in the sound, and deals with all the spikes later via compressors, clippers or however one prefers to deal with all this)

As you say, it's all part of the sound-design process and whatever goal one has with the music/sound

I really want to visit your Portmeirion one day

It's the colorful town used in the 60s British cult TV-series "Prisoner" with Patrick McGoohan as "No. 6" (I'm a huge fan of that iconic show. "I'm not a number! I'm a FREE MAN!!" followed by number 2's laughing )

Obviously everything looks better on film, but it really does look like a town it would be fun to get a little lost in.

It looks like it exists outside of time and space somehow

Same here. I'd love to visit that town because of that amazing series.
Your Turntable Tonearm plug is a godsend.

Yeah Portmeirion is quite something, I live a couple of hours south of there.

Glad to hear that

Yep, that series is indeed amazing.

Any chance of a VST3 version?

Unfortunately the compiler I use for audio-plugins only supports exporting to VST2.

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