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McDSP Chrome Tone

Congratulations on purchasing Chrome Tone, the plug-In that brings the world

of custom guitar amps, boutique outboard gear and pedal effects inside Pro

Tools.

The Chrome Tone plug-In is a collection of effects that includes distortion,

compression, gating, chorus, ange, EQ, wah, tremolo, spring reverb, and tape

delay. These effects can all be used together in a single stacked conguration,

or as independent effects. All the Chrome Tone effects can share the same dsp.

The Chrome Tone effects can respond dynamically to the incoming audio, side

chain audio, or various MIDI events including MIDI note and velocity, and MIDI

control data. A Dynamic section, standard on the Wah, Tremolo, and Chorus

plug-Ins provides a fully controllable envelope follower to modify the effect

itself (the frequency of the lters in the Wah, the gain in the Tremolo, the delay

length in the Chorus). The Auto section provides periodic modulation via a

low frequency oscillator (LFO). The LFO can be synced to MIDI beat clock in a

variety of tempo derivatives. The LFO rate, shape, and depth can be further

modulated by the state of the Dynamic section. The Stack conguration has

separate Dynamic and Auto sections for each of its Wah, Tremolo, and Chorus/

Delay stages.

The Chrome Tone Amp has six distortion modes for everything from light grit

to full shred. Distortion Drive, Type, and Frequency controls allow ne tuning

of the distortion tone. The Amp also includes a full featured noise gate,

compression and sustain circuits, low cut lters, shelving and parametric EQ, a

guitar cabinet simulator (great for direct recording), and a reverb.

The Chrome Tone Wah has much more than the standard wah pedal offers.

Three types of band pass (wah) lters are included, plus multiple low pass, high

pass, and phasor lter congurations are available with 12, 24, and 36 dB/oct

slopes. All lter congurations have selectable frequency and Q values.

The Chrome Tone Tremolo allows the mixing of the tremolo’d signal and the

unaffected signal. Tremolo speed-change tremolo affects are possible using the

Dynamic and Auto sections.

The Chrome Tone Chorus section has ange and two chorus modes. In the Stack

conguration, there is also an analog delay line, up to 1 second long.