Audio amp lowered when other sample playing

[ethancrawford]

Hi @latch,
You may be encountering the behaviour of the built in signal compressor. See here:

How to switch off amplitude compression?

Hi, sonic pi is fun but I need to switch off the automatic amplitude compression. The Tutorial says “Sonic Pi uses what’s called a compressor to squash them all to make sure things aren’t too loud for your ears. This can often make the sound muddy and strange. So try to use low amplitudes, i.e. in the range 0 to 0.5 to avoid compression.” First of all that seems not to be the case when using envelopes (my impression) and second I need the full range up to 1.0 to get a useful output-signal. Is …