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I got it working. I was misunderstanding the instructions. When it says save the preset in Reaktor I was going through the main drop down and saving the preset without hitting the store button in the panel set menu.

@tetsuneko yes, when I think of saving the preset I always used the drop down menu and "save as preset" option. So when the instructions were saying save that's what I thought it meant. Lol what it really meant was store the preset. Now that I understand the process I'm gonna start building more FX ensembles from scratch. I'm currently working on a saturator and a soft clipper.

With the saturator I'm either going to have tube, tape and a slightly more aggressive saturation that is switchable or make them all separate FX if I can't get it to work smoothly as a single ensemble

Thanks a lot!

A couple of observations (from someone who's rarely using dedicated clippers):

• Clip Amount values from 1.0 to 50.0 are an odd choice. Range should probably go from 0.0 (no clipping) to 100.0 (clipping mayhem).
• Threshold seems behave odd, as there's a huge loudness jump from -0.1 to about -0.5 then an increase until about -12 and from there on a slow decrease in loudness until -100 which is close to -0.1 regarding loudness.
• It's unclear what the current (fixed) compression ratio is.
• Maybe controlling the compression ratio would be more understandable than just the knee - which AFAIK is the curvature of the transition into the compression and results in different compression ratios depending on the input level (higher level results in more compression).
• Maybe a (considerable?) shorter attack would be nice to allow clamping down on transients
• Maybe it would also be nice to have reduction, not only increase of Gain after clipping, as I found it was easy to make the signal super loud but it was not is to loudness match the unprocessed signal. Could also be me or the somewhat unconventional behavior of the compressor.

Would be interesting to understand your design choices and also know what other users think.

PS: If you feel your Ensemble is finished, please also make it available from the Reaktor User Library.

@Astralbeats_225 wrote

I really was trying to simplify it a bit for the E.U. so I opted for some fixed controls on the comp. This was me Taking a little inspiration from the trs soft clipper but I think you're right about making that modifiable by the End user.

I think it would be nice to have the additional controls, but maybe you could provide a couple of presets which contain what you consider the most useful settings.

You could even put the additional controls on the second parameter page, as sort of an "expert panel". But IMO it's unnecessary if all controls (threshold, ratio, attack, release, knee) with proper labels can fit on the first page.

BTW, does "knee" work as I described above?

I'll make the clip amount a 0-100 scale as well. Initially I found around 60 to be where the signal became mangled lol so I backed it back down to 50.

Ok, I understand your intention. But if only the raw values from 0-60 are considered useful for the purpose, then it should still be labelled 0 - 100% in the interface. 100% then is clearly a sonic design choice of whatever value that might be, while 50 is telling the user "there's actually more, but you're missing out". Additionally, I guess the actual clip amount is depending on the input signal level. Thus, a low signal could not be clipped at 50 or 60.

Thus it might be valuable to have the full range available, but it is up to you to decide whether this is to be considered useful or not.

Again, thanks for sharing!