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Chrome Tone
User’s Manual
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.
Feature List:
• Power and Flexibility: Four different effect congurations are available - Amp, Wah, Trem, and Chorus, plus an all in
one Stack conguration. Many of the Chrome Tone congurations can share the same dsp chip. There are mono,
mono to stereo, and stereo version of each conguration. See the Reference section for a complete listing of all
Chrome Tone congurations and their specications.
• Double-Precision Arithmetic: at all stages of processing.
• Chrome Tone is compatible with ProTools and other DAW applications that support TDM, RTAS, and Audiosuite plug-
In formats. McDSP’s Chrome Tone plug-In operates on Mac OS X and Windows XP systems.
• Supports Digidesign’s™ ICON, Command 8, ProControl, and Control | 24, and Mackie’s™ HUI external control
surfaces.
Digidesign™ and Pro Tools™ are registered trademarks of Digidesign, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Chapter 1:
Introducing Chrome Tone