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indigo powercore manual.book Page 4 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Copyright 2004 Access Music GmbH. All rights reserved. Written by Ben Crosland. This manual, as well as the software and hardware described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice and should not construed as a commitment by Access Music GmbH.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 5 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Table of Contents Welcome Installation Installing the VPC On Your Computer . 9 Instancing the VPC in Logic . . . . . . . . 10 Instancing the VPC in Cubase SX2 . . . 12 Patch Management Total Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Loading Patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Saving Patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 How To Install Your Own Patches . . . 19 Using Multiple Parts Parts and DSPs . . . . . .
indigo powercore manual.book Page 6 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Patch Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 Delay/Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76 Reverb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 The FX2/Global Page Vocoder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
indigo powercore manual.book Page 7 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Welcome Thank you for purchasing the Access Virus PowerCore (VPC). You now have amongst your sonic arsenal a truly amazing synthesizer, fully equipped to infect your music with some serious attitude! Rest assured that no compromises have been made here Access have equipped the Virus PowerCore with a sound engine that is identical in every way to that of the now legendary Virus series.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 8 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM can get straight to the patches you want. All patches used in the current session are stored in the Recently Used folder, and over time, your most commonly-used patches will be automatically stored to the Favourites folder for instant recall. NOTE: The Virus PowerCore is 100% compatible with the majority of patches available for the Virus series, of which there are thousands available for free download at www.accessmusic.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 9 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Installation Installing the VPC On Your Computer > INSTALLING ON A PC/WIN32 Run the installer program ‘Virus PowerCore Installer.exe’ included in the download. The installer will copy both the Virus Powercore.dll and the Virus Input.dll into the VstPlugIns folder of your sequencer/host software. Virus Powercore.dll is the main synthesizer plugin, and Virus Input.dll is the side-chain effect plugin.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 10 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > AUDIO UNITS To use the Virus PowerCore as an Audio Unit, you need to run the TCAU Audio Unit wrapper after you have run the Virus installer. Installing the PowerCore driver also installs the TCAU wrapper although it’s recommended to ckeck the TC website for updates frquently.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 11 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM STEP3: To gain access to the Virus’ individual outs, create an Aux Object. Please note that you need to create an Aux object for every stereo output you wish to gain access to. STEP4: Now select the Virus' individual outs from the Aux channel's Input options STEP5: Now open up the environment, select the Virus instrument and change the MIDI in channel ("Cha") from 1 to All.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 12 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM STEP6: The Virus is up to 4 part multi timbal for each DSP used. The four multiparts receive MIDI data on the corresponding channels 1-4. To easily access all four parts, create four MIDI instruments within the environment, assign the MIDI channels 1,2,3 and 4 to the instruments and cable them into the Virus Instrument.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 13 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM STEP3: In the Arrange Window, the Virus is represented by a number of tracks that are created automatically by Cubase SX. The folder track "VST Instruments" shows all currently running VST Instruments; in this case it only shows the folder track "Virus Powercore" which contains a number of tracks to automate various aspects of the Virus Powercore.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 14 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM STEP5: Select "Virus PowerCore" from the "out" menu in the track inspector to route the MIDI output of the track to the Virus PowerCore. STEP6: Select MIDI channel "1" from the "chn" menu in the track inspector to play Part 1 of the Virus PowerCore. Now you can play the Virus Powercore via MIDI and record on the created MIDI track.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 15 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Patch Management Total Recall The Virus PowerCore has a sophisticated Patch Management system, designed to make browsing and sourcing patches easier than ever before. As soon as you instance the Virus PowerCore in your sequencer, it will automatically scan the Virus PowerCore folder on your computer’s hard-drive for any .mid files containing banks of Virus patches and store them in RAM for instant recall.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 16 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM · Select the patch you wish to audition with a single mouse click. NOTE: If the selected bank contains too many entries to display all at once, you will see a little arrow at the bottom of the list. Click on this arrow to scroll through the rest of the entries. > CATEGORIES The Virus PowerCore will scan all the patches it finds and organise them according to their category settings.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 17 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > FAVOURITES The Virus PowerCore will automatically compile your most commonly used patches in the Favourites folder. It works by assigning ‘points’ to the patches you have used in your projects, for instance: Patch is used in a project (host has saved the settings to a song) = 5 points Patch was saved (using the plug-in’s Save menu) = 2 points Up to 100 favourites can be stored internally, with the top twenty visible to the user.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 18 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Saving Patches If you make any changes to a patch, or indeed create a completely new patch, you may wish to save it for future use. > NAMING A PATCH It is always advisable to choose an appropriate name for a new patch, so you can locate it more easily in the future. To change the current patch name, click on the name pane at the top of the window. Type in the new name. Press Return on your computer keyboard to enter the new name.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 19 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM How To Install Your Own Patches Firstly, you will need to download some new soundsets. There are several available for free at www.access-music.de, between them covering a wide variety of musical tastes. Once you have downloaded some soundsets, locate the .mid versions and copy/paste them to the Virus Powercore folder.
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indigo powercore manual.book Page 21 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Using Multiple Parts Parts and DSPs The TC PowerCore has four DSP processors which it uses to process the various plugins including Virus PowerCore. The Base License package allows one of these DSPs to be used for the Virus, which can be split up into four ‘Parts’ - each with it’s own voice and individual output routing.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 22 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > GLOBAL EFFECTS Most of the effects in the Virus PowerCore are specific to each part, but the delay/reverb effect is global i.e. all parts using the same DSP use the one delay/reverb effect. Please refer to the Delay/Reverb section of the FX1 Page section of the manual for more specific instructions.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 23 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM NOTE: Many parameters in the Virus PowerCore are inter-dependent, meaning that adjusting certain parameters may or may not have an audible effect, depending on the value of another. For instance if Filter Balance is set to -64, only filter1 is audible; consequently adjustments to filter 2 parameters will be inaudible.
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indigo powercore manual.book Page 25 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Using Remote Controllers If you prefer you can choose to use an external controller to adjust the parameters of the Virus PowerCore. Ideally this will be a hardware Virus, as all of the controllers will be automatically mapped to their equivalent in the Virus PowerCore, but you could also use a third-party remote controller or hardware synthesizer.
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indigo powercore manual.book Page 27 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Getting Started An Introduction to Viral Synthesis For the benefit of synthesis newbies, we will first discuss some of the basic concepts to help you get an idea of what this is all about.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 28 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM The Virus also has a sub-oscillator, which is used to add extra bass to a sound by tracking the pitch of oscillator 1, only 1 octave lower. In addition to the 3 oscillators and sub-oscillator, there is also a noise generator. This generates ‘white’ noise, which sounds rather like the noise a television makes when you unplug the aerial.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 29 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Amplifier Once the signal has been suitably filtered, it then passes to the amplifier to be shaped by the amp envelope. The way that the volume of a sound changes over time is crucial to our perception of it, and so just like the filter, this is a very important stage of any synth sound.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 30 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM NOTE: LFO is an abbreviation of Low Frequency Oscillator. Whereas the Virus PowerCore's main oscillators generate frequencies high enough to be in the audio spectrum, the LFOs generate much slower oscillations, which are very useful for modulating any of the parameters in the both the synthesis section and the effects section. There are 3 LFOs in the Virus PowerCore.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 31 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > LFO The LFO Page contains the controls for the 3 low frequency oscillators (LFOs). > FX-1 The FX-1 Page contains the controls for Analog Boost, Input RingMod, Phaser, Patch Distortion, Chorus and Delay/Reverb effects. > FX-2/GLOBAL The FX-2 Page contains the controls for the Vocoder, Input, Envelope Follower, and several global settings such as Master Tune, Pitch Wheel, Unison Mode, etc.
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indigo powercore manual.book Page 33 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Easy Page Here you will find a selection of controls for the most commonly edited parameters in the Virus PowerCore. If you just want to tweak an existing patch without getting into it too deeply, then this is the page for you.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 34 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Parameters of the Easy Page > CUTOFF This adjusts the cutoff frequency of both filters. The result will vary depending on the currently selected filter modes. > RESONANCE This adjusts the amount of resonance (Q) for both filters. This determines how much those frequencies near the cutoff frequencies will be emphasised, so the result will depend largely cutoff frequency of both filters.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 35 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > AMP ATTACK Adjusts the time it takes for the sound to reach maximum volume. At zero, the sound has immediate impact, at higher values it will fade in gradually. > AMP DECAY This adjusts the time it takes for the sound to fall from maximum volume to the sustain level (see Filters/Env Page).
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indigo powercore manual.book Page 37 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM The Osc Page The Osc Page is the birthplace of any Virus PowerCore patch. Here you will find the controls for adjusting the 3 main oscillators, the sub-oscillator, the noise generator, ring modulator and FM.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 38 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Osc 1 This is where you will find the controls for adjusting oscillator 1. > SHAPE This defines the shape of the waveform generated by osc 1. When set to 0, the waveform will be whatever is selected with the Wave Select knob. Moving the knob in a clockwise direction will result in a gradual transition to a pure saw wave at value 64 (default).
indigo powercore manual.book Page 39 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM same scale will cause the pitch to rise in whole tone intervals. A setting of 0 results in every key sounding at the same pitch, and minus values will make osc 1 descend in pitch as you play up the keyboard (useful for left-handed players ;-) Osc 2 This is where you will find the controls for adjusting oscillator 2. Many parameters are identical in function to their counterparts in osc1.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 40 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > DETUNE This determines the detuning of osc 2 relative to oscillators 1 and 3. The subtle tuning variations between all the individual instruments in a string ensemble is a major factor in the ‘warmth’ that is associated with that sound – the same is true of many famous synth patches, which use detuned oscillators to achieve a similar effect.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 41 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > Tri: Modulates osc 2 with a triangle wave according to the pitch of osc 1. > Wave: Modulates osc2 with the waveform currently assigned to osc 1, according to the pitch of osc 1. > Noise: Modulates the frequency of osc 2 with the noise generator. > Input: Modulates the frequency of osc 2 with the audio input signal.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 42 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Osc 3 This is where you will find the controls relating to oscillator 3. > OSC MODE This allows you to choose from a selection of 66 waveshapes, including saw, pulse, sine and triangle, including 62 additional spectral waves (the same selection available to osc 1 and 2). There is also an additional ‘Slave’ mode, in which osc 3 takes it’s characteristics from osc 2.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 43 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Sub/Noise The sub-oscillator beefs up the sound by adding a square or triangle wave an octave below the pitch of osc 1. The noise generator adds ‘white’ noise to the sound. It is un-pitched, and is therefore used for percussion sounds, FX such as wind or surf, or for adding a little warmth to pitched sounds. > SUB SHAPE This toggles the sub-oscillator waveform between square and triangle.
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indigo powercore manual.book Page 45 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > PAN This determines to what degree panorama is affected by velocity. Positive values mean that as you play harder the sound will move towards the right speaker, whereas negative values mean that as you play harder, the sound will move towards the left speaker. > PUNCH INTENSITY This determines the volume of the click at the beginning of each note, which can help to add bite and punch to percussive sounds.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 46 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM NOTE: If the filters are in Split Mode, then Pan Spread will also affect the stereo separation of the signals from filter 1 and 2. > LFO PHASE* This determines the phase offset between the LFOs in each voice. At extreme settings, the LFOs of Voice 1 will modulate in opposite phase to the LFOs of Voice 2, resulting in a much busier sound. NOTE: *This parameter will have no effect if Unison Mode is Off.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 47 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > OSC VOL This adjusts the overall volume of oscillators 1, 2, 3 and the sub-oscillator in relation to the ring modulator and noise generator. At a setting of –64, only the ring modulator and noise are audible. At +0, the oscillators are at maximum volume, and from +0 upwards only the level of filter saturation is affected.
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indigo powercore manual.book Page 49 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM The Filter/Env Page The filter is arguably the most important section of any subtractive synthesizer – it is here that you determine the overall character of the sound. Filters work by removing certain frequencies from the signal, leaving only those that are required. The exact way in which this is done is different for every synthesizer, which is one reason why they all have such a distinctive character.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 50 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > SATURATION Saturation is the term used to describe the distortion effect applied to the output of filter 1. Some types just add overtones, whilst others can be used to completely warp the sound beyond all recognition. Saturation is always post-filter 1 and pre-filter 2, so you can use filter 2 to remove unwanted overtones if you like.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 51 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > Split : Like Parallel 4 mode, the filters run in parallel, with 2 poles each (12 dB/Oct), but the difference here is that the filters each receive different elements of the oscillator section. Oscillator 1 and the sub-oscillator are routed through filter 1 (+saturation), whilst oscilllators 2, 3 and noise are routed through filter 2. Filter 1 is panned hard left, and filter 2 is panned hard right.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 52 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Filter 1 > MODE Select from the following filter types: > Low Pass: The most commonly used filter type. Removes frequencies higher than the cutoff point. > High Pass: Removes frequencies lower than the cutoff point. > Band Pass: Allows only a narrow band of frequencies through - Resonance determines the width of the band in this case. > Band Stop: The opposite of Band Pass, this filter removes a narrow band of frequencies.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 53 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > KEYFOLLOW This determines to what extent the cutoff frequency of filter 2 is affected by MIDI note number. Positive values will cause the cutoff frequency to increase as you play up the keyboard, negative values will cause it to increase as you play down the keyboard. > RESO VEL This determines to what extent the resonance of filter 1 is affected by MIDI velocity.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 54 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > LINK (ENVELOPE AMOUNT, RESONANCE, KEY FOLLOW) When enabled, Env Amt, Resonance and Key Follow become linked with their counterparts in filter 2, so that both filters can be adjusted simultaneously. > KEY BASE This determines the MIDI note number from which the keyfollow parameter will start to have an effect.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 55 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > ENV AMT This determines to what degree filter 2 cutoff is affected by the filter envelope. > KEY FOLLOW This determines to what extent the filter 2 cutoff is affected by MIDI note number. Positive values will cause the cutoff frequency to increase as you play up the keyboard, negative values will cause it to increase as you play down the keyboard.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 56 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > ENV POLARITY Determines which way the filter envelope will sweep the cutoff frequency of filter 2. Normal polarity means that attack sweeps upwards and decay sweeps downwards. Inverse polarity effectively turns the filter envelope upside-down i.e. attack sweeps downwards and decay sweeps upwards. Filter Envelope The filter envelope is used to automatically control the cutoff frequency over a certain time period.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 57 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Amplifier Envelope The amp envelope affects patch volume in the same way that the filter envelope affects frequency cutoff. Use this to automatically control the volume of a sound over time. > ATTACK This determines how long it takes for the sound to reach maximum volume. > DECAY This determines how long it takes for the sound to decay from maximum volume to the sustain volume.
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indigo powercore manual.book Page 59 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM The LFO Page LFO is an abbreviation of Low Frequency Oscillator. Basically, these generate waveforms that oscillate so slowly that they are only useful as a modulation source for other parameters, such as pitch, cutoff, panorama etc. The Virus PowerCore has 3 LFOs.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 60 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM LFO 1 The controls in this section are used to affect the characteristics of LFO 1, and determine which parameters it will modulate. > RATE This determines how fast LFO 1 will oscillate. The higher the value, the faster it will oscillate. > CLOCK This overrides Rate and forces LFO 1 to sync its wave cycle to the clock control.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 61 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM >Oscillator Waveform : Selecting this button will open up a window from which you can choose any of the 62 spectral waves. > CONTOUR This determines the contour or slope of the currently selected waveform. It basically has the effect of ‘squashing’ the waveform from one side or the other, depending on whether you enter a positive or negative value.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 62 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > OSC 1 Determines the amount of modulation applied to the pitch of osc1. > OSC 2 Determines the amount of modulation applied to the pitch of osc 2. > LINK (OSC1 & OSC2) When enabled, adjusts the amounts of LFO 1-> Osc 1 and LFO 1->Osc 2 simultaneously. > PW 1+2 Determines the amount of modulation applied to the pulse widths of oscillators 1 and 2.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 63 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM LFO 2 The controls in this section are used to affect the characteristics of LFO 2, and determine which parameters it will modulate. Many of the parameters are identical in function to their counterparts in LFO 1. > RATE This determines how fast LFO 2 will oscillate. The higher the value, the faster it will oscillate. > CLOCK This overrides Rate and forces LFO 2 to sync its wave cycle to the clock control.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 64 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM >Oscillator Waveform : Selecting this button will open up a window from which you can choose any of the 62 spectral waves. Clicking on this box will open up a window from which you can choose any of the 62 spectral waves. > CONTOUR This determines the contour or slope of the currently selected waveform.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 65 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > LINK (FILTER 1& FILTER 2) When enabled, adjusts the cutoff frequencies of filter 1 and filter 2 simultaneously. > SHAPE 1+2 Determines the amount of modulation applied to osc 1 Shape and osc 2 Shape. > PANORAMA Determines the amount of modulation applied to the stereo pan position. > ASSIGN AMOUNT Determines the amount of modulation applied to the parameter selected in the Assign Destination window.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 66 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM LFO 3 The controls in this section are used to affect the characteristics of LFO 3, and determine which parameter(s) it will modulate. Many parameters are identical in function to their equivalents in LFOs 1and 2. NOTE: Note: the functionality of LFO 3 is not the same as that of LFO 1 and 2. This LFO is designed for creating vibrato effects, and as such only has one destination slot.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 67 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM >Sample and Hold (Random): This isn’t a waveform as such – instead LFO1 will generate random values, causing the affected parameter(s) to jump around unpredictably. >Sample and Glide : Like Sample and Hold, this generates random values between which the LFO will interpolate smoothly, causing the affected parameter(s) to slide up and down unpredictably.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 68 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > Osc1+2 Pitch: LFO 3 will modulate the pitch of oscillator 2. > Osc2 Pitch: LFO 3 will modulate the pitch of osc1 and oscillator 2. > Osc1 PulseWidth*: LFO 3 will modulate the pulse width of oscilator 1. > Osc1+2 PulseWidth*: LFO 3 will modulate the pulse width of oscillator 1 and oscillator 2. > Osc2 PulseWidth*: LFO 3 will modulate the pulse width of oscillator 2.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 69 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM The FX-1 Page Here you will find the controls for the Analog Boost, Input Ring Modulator, Phaser, Patch Distortion, Chorus and Delay/Reverb effects as well as the output selection for the current part.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 70 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Analog Boost This effect imbues your sound with the kind of bottom-end warmth more commonly associated with analogue synthesizers, by emphasizing certain frequencies. > INTENSITY This determines the degree of emphasis applied to the sound. > TUNE This determines the central frequency around which the emphasis will occur. Ring Mod With this effect you can ring-modulate an audio input signal with the oscillators of the Virus PowerCore.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 71 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM The phaser will also turn a mono sound into stereo. > MIX Determines the balance between the dry signal and the phaser effect. At 0, the phaser is Off. At 127, the signal is 100% wet. > RATE Determines how fast the phaser will sweep through the frequency spectrum. > DEPTH Determines the frequency range through which the phaser will sweep. The higher the value, the greater the intensity of the phasing effect.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 72 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Patch Distortion Use Patch Distortion to add saturation or clipping effects to the patch as a whole. Although the list is very similar to that of filter saturation (see Filter Page), the effect is quite different, as all the voices (notes) go through the same instance of the distortion effect.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 73 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > DEPTH Determines the depth of modulation applied to the chorus delay time. Use this to increase the intensity of the chorusing effect. > DELAY TIME Determines the time-delay between the original signal and the output of the chorus effect. Longer times result in a warmer sound, whilst very short times result in a flanging effect.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 74 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Delay/Reverb Use the controls in this section to determine the characteristics of the delay/reverb effect. Delay is used to create complex echo effects and reverb is used to simulate the effect of being in an acoustic space, such as a room or hall. > USE GLOBAL FX FROM The Virus PowerCore has just one global delay or reverb per DSP, therefore only one part can control the parameters of the Delay/Reverb at any given time.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 75 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > Reverb+Feedback 1: This variation of the reverb algorithm feeds the pre-delay signal back into itself to create rhythmic repetitions of the reverb signal. > Reverb+Feedback 2: This behaves in a similar fashion to Reverb+Feedback 1, with the only difference being that the Reverb is audible immediately after the dry signal.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 76 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Delay > TIME Determines the length of the delay time in milliseconds, to a maximum of 693.6ms. > CLOCK This slaves the delay time to the global tempo or incoming MIDI Clock signal. Choose a note value that represents the desired delay time i.e. a Clock value of 1/4 will result in quarter note (crotchet) repeats. NOTE: Note: The maximum delay time is 693.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 77 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM NOTE: Using different shapes for the delay LFO can result in audible artefacts. Reverb Use these controls to affect the various characteristics of the reverb effect. > DECAY TIME Determines the length of the decay or ‘tail’ of the reverberation. > TYPE Select from one of 4 types of reverb: Ambience, Small Room, Large Room or Hall.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 78 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM The maximum pre-delay times available depend on the reverb type, ranging from 150ms (Hall) to 500ms (Ambience). > CLOCK Selects a clock-synchronised pre-delay time. This is particularly useful for the Reverb+Feedback algorithms, as the repeats can be synchronised in the same way as in the delay. (See Delay Clock for further explanation.) > FEEDBACK This parameter is only functional in the Reverb+Feedback modes.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 79 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM The FX2/Global Page On this page you will find the controls for the Vocoder, Envelope Follower, External Audio Input, Arpeggiator as well as Global Tuning, Key Mode, Pitch Wheel etc.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 80 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Vocoder > ABOUT THE VOCODER The Vocoder is used to take the harmonic and dynamic properties of one signal (the modulator) and impose them on another (the carrier). The most widely known application of this is to make ‘talking’ synth sounds by using a voice as the modulator and an oscillator waveform as the carrier.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 81 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > Off: The vocoder is disabled. > Osc: The output of the oscillators, including noise and ring mod, provides the signal for the carrier. > Osc Hold: The same as Osc mode, but with key latch. > Noise: The output of the noise generator is used for the carrier signal. > Input: The audio inputs provide the signal for the carrier.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 82 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > CARR SPREAD Determines the spread of the bandpass filters in the carrier bank. Low values result in a narrow frequency spectrum, whilst a value of +63 results in the entire frequency spectrum being covered in the carrier signal. The value chosen for this parameter can have a dramatic affect on the intelligibility of speech. > SPECTRAL BAL Determines the spectral balance between the higher and lower frequencies of the vocoder signal.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 83 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Using the Audio Inputs The two audio input channels allow you to pass an external audio signal through the filters, amplifier and effects sections of the Virus PowerCore.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 84 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > Static: In Static mode, the audio signal is passed through the filters and effects sections, but bypasses the amp envelope. This means that the signal can be heard continuously, regardless of any keys played. > To Effects: Use this mode if you wish to bypass the filter section and send the input signal straight to the effects section of the Virus PowerCore.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 85 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > LEVEL Determines the sustain level of the envelope follower. This has a significant influence on the intensity of the effect, and it is recommended that you start with a value of 127 and reduce as necessary. > ATTACK Determines the envelope follower’s response time to the incoming signal peaks. It is recommended that you start with a value of 0 and only increase Attack if you require a softer response.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 86 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM NOTE: The state of this button is saved with the project data by your host software, i.e. it is not saved within the patch. > Extern: The Virus will automatically synchronise to the clock signal generated by the host application. In this mode, the Tempo control will be greyed out. > Intern: The Virus ignores the clock signal generated by the host software and uses the tempo as set within the patch.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 87 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Pitch Wheel The pitch wheel (also known as a pitch bender) is a controller found on pretty much all keyboard controllers. It usually takes the form of a sprung wheel that is moved either up or down, but is sometimes in the form of a lever, which is moved to the left or right. The most common application of this controller is to affect subtle changes in pitch on some notes, in order to make a performance more expressive.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 88 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Patch Param > CTRL SMOOTH Many digital synths, including many ‘soft’ synths in particular, cannot affect parameter changes without producing audible artefacts or ‘zipper noise’. This is because the resolution of the controllers is not high enough to affect smooth changes in realtime. The Virus PowerCore compensates for this however, by using Adaptive Parameter Smoothing or ‘Control Smoothing’.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 89 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > High Priority: When set to High Priority, the Virus Powercore will try to ignore this patch and look to other, Low Priority patches when stealing notes. Keyboard The following parameters define how the Virus PowerCore will respond to a keyboard controller. > LOW KEY Determines the lowest MIDI note number to which the current patch will respond. Any notes played below this key will be ignored.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 90 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > Mono 2: Only one voice is allowed to be played at any time. Portamento is only activated between notes that are played using a legato technique (legato technique = the first key is only released once the next is played). Envelopes are re-triggered with each new note. > Mono 3: Only one voice is allowed to be played at any time. Portamento is always active. Envelopes are only re-triggered when played in a non-legato manner (detached).
indigo powercore manual.book Page 91 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > Down: The arpeggiator will cycle through the notes of a chord in descending order. > Up & Down: The arpeggiator will cycle through the notes of a chord in ascending then descending order. > As Played: The arpeggiator will cycle through the notes of a chord in the order in which they were played. > Random: The arpeggiator will play the notes of a chord in random order.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 92 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM > CLOCK Determines the rate of arpeggiation relative to the MIDI beat clock. Choose a value between 1/64 and 1/1. Patterns 2 – 64 are designed to be used with a clock value of 1/8, but can of course be used with any of the available values. > HOLD When enabled, the arpeggiator will continue to arpeggiate the most recently played notes even after the keys have been released.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 93 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM The ModMatrix Page Here is where you determine which parameters are to be modulated by which control sources. Up to 6 parameters can be modulated by up to 3 control sources, allowing for some very complex movement within a sound.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 94 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Assign 1 > SOURCE Select the control source for Mod Slot 1. > AMOUNT Determines the degree of modulation. > DESTINATION Select the parameter to be modulated by Assign Source 1. Assign 2 > SOURCE Select the control source for Mod Slot 2. > AMOUNT 1 Detemines the degree of modulation for Destination 1. > DESTINATION 1 Select the first parameter to be modulated by Assign Source 2.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 95 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Assign 3 > SOURCE Select the control source for Mod Slot 3. > AMOUNT 1 Determines the degree of modulation for Destination 1. > DESTINATION 1 Select the first parameter to be modulated by Assign Source 3. > AMOUNT 2 Determines the degree of modulation for Destination 2. > DESTINATION 2 Select the second parameter to be modulated by Assign Source 3. > AMOUNT 3 Determines the degree of modulation for Destination 3.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 96 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Categories Here you can select up to two categories with which to label your patch. If you choose to use two different categories, then the patch will appear in both lists in the categories option in the Load menu. Click on the relavant pane to select the appropriate category for your patch.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 97 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Customer support For PowerCore and installation related questions, please contact http://www.tcelectronic.com/ For Virus PowerCore synthesis related questions, please contact http://www.access-music.de/?go=support Addiotional patches can be downloaded here: http://www.access-music.de The latest PowerCore driver version and TCAU TC Audio Unit wrapper can be downloaded here: http://www.tcelectronics.
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indigo powercore manual.book Page 103 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Appendix System Exclusive Data The Parameters of the VIRUS are organized in three so-called pages A, B and C. Each page contains 128 parameters, addressed by numbers from 0 to 127. Each parameter is represented by one byte with a maximum value of 127. All parameters are individually accessible by SysExParameterchange. The pages A and B represent a Single-Program, thus a Single-Program contains 256 Bytes.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 104 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM CONTROL CHANGE MESSAGE (ONLY PAGE A) Byte Meaning Remark Bc nn vv Status byte Parameter Number 0..127 Parameter Value 0..127 c=MIDI channel see parameter list Page A) see parameter list Page A) The Control Change messages are defined as Performance Controller (e.g. Modulation Wheel or Hold Pedal) or Sound Parameters (e.g. Cutoff or Patch Volume). The Performance Controllers are not stored with a Single-Sound.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 105 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Parameters Description No.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 106 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM 106 No.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 107 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Rang e No. Class Name A 64 A 65 A 66 A 67 A 68 p p p a a Hold Pedal Portamento Pedal Sostenuto Pedal Lfo1 Rate Lfo1 Shape 0..127 0..5 A 69 A 70 A 71 A 72 A 73 A 74 A 75 A 76 A 77 A 78 A 79 A 80 a a a a a a a a a a a a Lfo1 Env Mode Lfo1 Mode Lfo1 Symmetry Lfo1 Keyfollow Lfo1 Keytrigger Osc1 Lfo1 Amount Osc2 Lfo1 Amount PW Lfo1 Amount Reso Lfo1 Amount FiltGain Lfo1 Amount Lfo2 Rate Lfo2 Shape 0..1 0..1 0..127 0..127 0..127 0.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 108 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Class Name A 99 a A100 A101 a a Unison Panorama Spread Unison Lfo Phase Input Mode 0..127 -64..+63 0..2 A102 A105 A106 A107 A108 A109 A110 a a a a a a a Input Select Chorus Mix Chorus Rate Chorus Depth Chorus Delay Chorus Feedback Chorus Lfo Shape 0..8 0..127 0..127 0..127 0..127 0..127 -64..+63 0..5 A112 a Delay/Reverb Mode 0..1 A113 A114 A115 A116 a,ms a,ms,np a,ms,np a,ms,np 0..127 0..127 0..127 0..127 0..127 0..
indigo powercore manual.book Page 109 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Name Rang e PAGE B B 1 b Arp Mode 0..6 B B B B B B B No. Class Value Text 0:Off 1:Up 2:Down 3:Up&Down 4:AsPlayed 5:Random 6:Chord 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 b b b b b b b Arp Pattern Select Arp Octave Range Arp Hold Enable Arp Note Length Arp Swing Lfo3 Rate Lfo3 Shape 0..64 0..3 0..1 0..127 -64..+63c 0..127 50%..75% 0..127 0..5 B 9 B 10 B 11 b b b Lfo3 Mode Lfo3 Keyfollow Lfo3 Destination 0..1 0..127 0..
indigo powercore manual.book Page 110 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM 110 No. Class Name Rang e B 35 B 36 B 38 B 39 b b b,Vb b Osc Init Phase Punch Intensity Input Follower Mode Vocoder Mode 0..127 0..127 0..9 0..12 B 41 b,Vb Osc3 Mode 0..
indigo powercore manual.book Page 111 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Rang e No.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 112 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Classes P: PERFORMANCE CONTROLLER Accessible by Control message. Performance Controllers are not stored with a Single-Sound. If more than one Multi Part is set to the same MIDI channel, all Parts on this MIDI channel receive the same Performance Controllers. A: SOUND PARAMETER OF BANK A Accessible by Control message, SysEx-Parameterchange and Single-Dump.The Sound Parameters are stored with a Single Sound.
indigo powercore manual.book Page 113 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM BPC: BANK/PROGRAM-CHANGE PARAMETER BANK SELECT selects the Single bank accessed by a subsequent Program Change, similar to the regular Bank Select.Bank Change directly changes the Single program to the requested bank, without changing the program number. Program Change directly changes the Single program to the requested program number, without changing the bank number; similar to the regular Program Change.
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indigo powercore manual.book Page 115 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Installing the VPC On Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 - Installing on a Pc/win32 - Installing on a mac - Audio Units Instancing the VPC in Logic . . . . . 10 Instancing the VPC in Cubase SX2 . 12 Total Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 - The Powercore folder Loading Patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
indigo powercore manual.book Page 116 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Parameters of the Easy Page . . . . 34 - Cutoff - Resonance - Chorus Mix - Phaser Mix - Send - Osc Volume - Sub Volume - Ring Modulator - Amp Attack - Amp Decay Osc 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 - Shape - Wave Select - PW - Semitone - Key follow - Osc Mode - Semitone* - Detune* Sub/Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
indigo powercore manual.book Page 117 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM - Filter routing · Serial 4 · Serial 6 · Parallel 4 · Split - Filter Balance Filter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 - Mode · Low Pass · High Pass · Band Pass · Band Stop - Cutoff - Link (Cutoff) - Resonance - Env Amt - Keyfollow - Reso Vel - Env Vel - Env Polarity - Link (Envelope Amount, Resonance, Key Follow) - Key Base Filter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
indigo powercore manual.book Page 118 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM LFO 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 - Rate - Clock - Shape · Sine · Triangle · Sawtooth · Square · Sample and Hold (Random) · Sample and Glide · Oscillator Waveform - Contour - LFO Mode - Key Follow - Filter 1 - Filter 2 - Link (Filter 1& Filter 2) - Shape 1+2 - Panorama - Assign Amount - Assign Destination - FM Amt LFO 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
indigo powercore manual.book Page 119 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Delay/Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 - Use Global FX From - Mode · Off · Delay · Reverb · Reverb+Feedback 1 · Reverb+Feedback 2 · Delay X:Y · Pattern X+Y - Send Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 - Time - Clock - Feedback - Coloration - Rate - Depth - Shape Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 - Decay Time - Type - Damping - Coloration - Pre-delay - Clock - Feedback Vocoder . . . .
indigo powercore manual.book Page 120 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Pitch Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 - Curve · Linear · Exponential - Bend Up - Bend Down - Link (Bend Up & Bend Down) Patch Param . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 - Ctrl Smooth · Off · On · Auto · Note - Hold Pedal - Note Steal · Low Priority · High Priority Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 - Low Key - High Key - Mode · Poly · Mono 1 · Mono 2 · Mono 3 · Mono 4 · Hold - Portamento Arpeggiator . .
indigo powercore manual.book Page 121 Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:23 PM Parameters Description . . . . . . . 105 Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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