Dear fellow Cubase Users, dear Steinberg Team,
I think I found a bug in the attack and release controls of my beloved Frequency2’s dynamic mode. There was a post (more or less) concerning this topic back in the Cubase 11 forum, but it came to no conclusion.
The way I expect a dynamic eq (and basically any dynamics processor) to work is:
Attack:
determines how long the processor takes to react to the incoming signal, as soon as the signal surpasses the threshold.
Release:
determines how long the processor takes to “go back to normal”/release the applied gain reduction after the signal falls below the threshold again.
All the dynamic EQs that I know work following this principle (regardless of Cutting/boosting).
Now with frequency2, I noticed that there’s something different:
When applying negative gain in dynamic mode (dynamic cutting), the attack and release controls work just as I described above. When applying positive gain (dynamic boosting) the controls seem to be switched up, meaning the attack knob controls the release of the dynamic processor, and the release knob controls the attack of the processor.
Here you can see a video and audio demonstration of what I mean:
At first, I thought ‘nevermind, I can get used to this’, but the problem is: the time scale is not switched with the function! That means, in dynamic boosting, your attack range is 10ms-1000ms, and your release range is 0.1ms-100ms. And, a minimum attack time of 10ms is obviously not sufficient when it comes to working with fast transients.
So is anyone else also experiencing this? I guess this is a bug, not a feature, because in all of my other DynEQs it works as expected.
I’d be very happy if the Steinberg Team could take a look into this, because frequency2 is one of my favourite plugins, and now I had to swap it out for third-party-plugins in my projects because of this issue.
Thanks in advance!