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Double Pack???

Archive · 2009 4 old posts

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McBarGig ·

I was just going through and cleaning up my schematic, removing labels not required, etc. I found a pack and unpack in a module that I forgot was there. Here'sthe thing, I packed the signal at the veryu start of the VST, Then Unpacked it at the end. So if I had a pack/unpack halfway though the schematic in essence would'nt I be double packing, what is goibng on when this happens. I removed the second set of pack's and it completely changed the sound. Just wanted to know more in depth what SM does to the signal in this situation.. Thanks

stefan ·

McBarGig wrote: I was just going through and cleaning up my schematic, removing labels not required, etc. I found a pack and unpack in a module that I forgot was there. Here'sthe thing, I packed the signal at the veryu start of the VST, Then Unpacked it at the end. So if I had a pack/unpack halfway though the schematic in essence would'nt I be double packing, what is goibng on when this happens. I removed the second set of pack's and it completely changed the sound. Just wanted to know more in depth what SM does to the signal in this situation.. Thanks

I'm not sure the answer will be to your satisfaction 🙂 Basically, what SM "does to the signal" totally depends on the situation. But, IIRC, what happens when doing a double pack is basically that you take the first of the four signals inside the stream for the inputs of the 2nd pack.

With me? 🙂 What I mean is that if you're feeding four streams into a pack, each stream containing for channels of audio, you will take the FIRST of those four channels and pack them together into a new stream. You'll most likely end up losing the audio for 12 channels!

McBarGig ·

OK Just curious, actually, I have a left right channel packed then at some point in the schem they become a mono channel. If you are using a single channel(mono) is there any benefit to packing it? or is it best just to leave it as a mono channel?

Thanks

stefan ·

McBarGig wrote: OK Just curious, actually, I have a left right channel packed then at some point in the schem they become a mono channel. If you are using a single channel(mono) is there any benefit to packing it? or is it best just to leave it as a mono channel?

Thanks

Packing only makes sense if you want to process several channels at once.

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