Operation Manual

OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE
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Polyphonic Devices – Subtractor, Malström, NN19,
NNXT, Dr. Rex and Redrum
D Try making the device play fewer voices.
This can be done for example by lowering the release and setting the Polyphony
setting to exactly the maximum number of notes played simultaneously by this de-
vice.
✪ Please note that just lowering the polyphony setting has no effect. Un-
used voices do not consume processing power.
D Where applicable, try the Low Bandwidth (Low BW) setting.
This will remove some high frequency content from the sound of this particular de-
vice, but often this is not noticeable (this is especially true for bass sounds).
Subtractor
D Try avoiding using Oscillator 2 altogether.
If you can create the sound you need with only one oscillator, this saves consider-
able amounts of processing power.
D Do not use the oscillator Phase mode if you don’t need it.
In other words, set the Oscillator Mode switches to “o”, not “
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” or “–”.
D Do no activate Noise unless required.
D Do not activate Filter 2 unless required.
D Do not use FM unless required.
In other words, set the oscillator FM knob to “0” and make sure no modulation
source is routed to FM.
Malström
D If it isn’t necessary, refrain from using Osc B at all.
If you can produce the desired sound by using Osc A only, this will save a lot of
processing power.
D If one or both Oscillators are routed to one Filter only, and/or the Spread
parameter is set to “0”, only connect one of the outputs (the one to which
the filter is connected) to the mixer, and leave the other one uncon-
nected.
D Try to see if you can achieve the desired effect by using only one of the
filters, and without using the shaper.
Using both of the filters and the shaper in conjunction requires considerably more
processing power than using just one of the filters and/or the shaper.
Redrum
D Do not use the Tone feature available on channels 1, 2 and 9.
In other words, make sure the Tone controls and their accompanying Vel knobs are
set to “0” (“twelve o’ clock”).
Mixer devices
D Avoid using stereo inputs when not required.
For example, if your sampler or Dr. Rex player is playing mono material, only con-
nect it to the Left input on a mixer channel. Leave the Right input unconnected.
D Do not activate EQ (Mixer 14:2 only) unless required.
If a channel doesn’t make use of EQ, make sure it’s EQ button is deactivated.
Distortion
D The D-11 Foldback Distortion will use up less CPU power than the
Scream 4 Distortion device.
Reverb
D The RV-7 uses much less power than the RV7000.
For some applications the RV-7 might do just fine, and will use up much less
power.
D If you are running out of processing power, try the Low Density algorithm
for the RV-7.
This uses up much less power than other algorithms.
Send Effects
D When you are using mono effects as send effects, you can connect the
effect returns in mono as well (disconnect the cable to Aux Return Right
on the Mixer).
This is true for the following effects:
• D-11 Distortion.
• Scream 4 Distortion
• ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter.
• COMP-01 Compressor.
• PEQ-2 Parametric EQ.
• DDL-1 Delay (provided the Pan parameter is set to center position).
• MClass effects; Equalizer, Compressor, Maximizer.