trigger - sensitivty knob?

[colonel_claypoo]

hey all,

I'm curious to know how and why you use the sensitivity knob in slate trigger.
I have never found any use for it. maybe it's because I don't get what it's for but whenever my detail and retrigger settings don't trigger a hit or produce flams, I will automate them to get the result - the sensitivity knob is left as it is, always.

so what's it for?

thanks

 

[Fandus]

it's basically for times when there might be a complex snare roll, marching band style. when all the transients aren't obviously tall peaks and the waveform is a bit more mashed up.

works the other way too, if its mis-triggering off bleed, for example in a fill the tom track commonly gets alot of snare bleed, so you turn down the sensitivity until only tom hits get through.

thats my use for it anyway.

 

[AdamWathan]

Yeah it basically controls how obvious the transient has to be to be recognized. Higher sensitivity means increases in amplitude that are less sharp will still be recognized as transients, lower sensitivity means only really sharp changes in amplitude will be registered as transients.

 

[colonel_claypoo]

thanks. so do you use the sensitivity knob much at all or do you automate the detail and retrigger knobs?

 

[Fandus]

i usually print the tracks @ 100% mix, reset the controls in any fills that it didn't get right, then i have a 100% sample replaced track and the original to blend/process differently.