User`s guide

5. Play “What If...” games

What if you used the pitch of a sound to control its panning? What

if the amplitude of a sound controlled the speed and depth of its

vibrato? What if you became a total SFX Machine Pro virtuoso?

6. Let the material dictate the process

Start with a sound sample and ask yourself what it wants. Listen

with your mind’s ear.

7. Design a patch on paper

It may be easier to design a complicated patch by drawing it out

first, then translating the drawing to Preset Editor modules and

settings.

8. Debug a patch by selectively enabling outputs

If a complicated patch is not giving the desired result, try

disabling the outputs and outputting various intermediate control

signals instead. For example, you could route the Envelope

Follower’s output to the left channel out and send the Raise to

Power output to the right. Then click the Process button and view

the waveforms from the host program. This should help you see

what each section of the Preset is doing. Afterwards, use the

host’s Undo command to undo SFX Machine Pro’s processing.

Then invoke SFX Machine Pro again and correct the problem.

9. Start with an idea and figure out how to implement it

The idea could be for a musical effect, a sound effect, a

simulation of a real or imagined acoustic process, or a purely

electronic effect anywhere between music, sound design and

noise.

Ideas for New Presets

Here are some ideas to start with:

•Simulate ocean waves rolling in and crashing on the shore.

•Simulate imaginary landscapes.

•Implement a brightness follower (Envelope Follow the output of a

high-pass filter). What could you do with this?

•Make a set of commonly used test tones.