Today I found out about another feature that makes HISE rock for me:
The decay curve of a HISE modulator is way closer to an ideal logarithmic one than I know it from Kontakt, Battery and many other software instruments. This comes very handy to me as I love to model analog synth drum sounds in digital realm.
To anyone looking for details on that:
Battery 4 and Kontakt 5 have a very steep curve, tending to almost linear – which is very different to how a native sound will decay.
HISE has a much finer finer curve, mimicking an almost perfectly logarithmic decay. With only a little imperfection: It breaks if it reaches -59.4 dbFS. See my comparison graphs below.
One thing I was surprised of to learn was that the Decay Curve parameter seems to not really alter the shape significantly. Turning it up to 100% makes it still look logarithmic like on 0% but seems to extend the actual time value. But that's not a problem to me as I rarely ever want a non-logarithmic decay.
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