Plug-in Reference

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The included VST Instruments
The following controllers are available:
To assign any of these controllers to one or several pa-
rameters, proceed as follows:
1. Click in the “Mod Dest” box for one of the controllers.
A pop-up appears with all possible modulation destinations are shown.
All Sound parameters as well as most LFO and Envelope parameters are
available as destinations.
2. Select a destination.
The selected modulation destination is now shown in the list. Beside the
destination, a default value (50) has been set. The value represents the
modulation amount when the controller is at its full range.
• You can set positive and negative modulation values by
clicking on the value in the list, typing in a new value and
pressing the Enter key.
To enter negative values type a minus sign followed by the value.
3. Using the same basic method, you can add any num-
ber of modulation destinations for the controllers.
They will all be listed in the “Mod Dest” box for the respective controller.
• To remove a modulation destination click on its name in
the list and select “Off” from the pop-up.
Effects (EFX) page
This page features three separate effect units: Distortion,
Delay and Modulation (Phaser/Flanger/Chorus). The Ef-
fect page is opened by clicking the EFX button at the top
of the lower half of the control panel.
• Each separate effect section is laid out with a row of
buttons that determine the effect type or characteristic
and a row of sliders for making parameter settings.
• To activate an effect, click the “Active” button so that a
dot appears.
Clicking again deactivates the effect.
Distortion
You can select between 4 basic distortion characteristics:
• Distortion provides hard clipping distortion.
• Soft Distortion provides soft clipping distortion.
• Tape Emulation produces distortion similar to magnetic tape
saturation.
• Tube Emulation produces distortion similar to valve amplifiers.
The parameters are as follows:
Delay
You can select between 3 basic delay characteristics:
• Stereo Delay has two separate delay lines panned left and
right.
• In Mono Delay the two delay lines are connected in series for
monophonic dual tap delay effects.
• In Cross delay the delayed sound bounces between the ste-
reo channels.
The parameters are as follows:
Controller Description
Modulation
Wheel
The modulation wheel on your keyboard can be used to
modulate parameters.
Velocity Velocity is used to control parameters according to how
hard or soft you play notes on your keyboard. A common
application of velocity is to make sounds brighter and
louder if you strike the key harder.
Aftertouch Aftertouch, or channel pressure, is MIDI data sent when
pressure is applied to a keyboard after the key has been
struck, and while it is being held down or sustained. Af-
tertouch is often routed to control filter cutoff, volume,
and other parameters to add expression. Most (but not
all) MIDI keyboards send Aftertouch.
Key Pitch
Tracking
This can change parameter values linearly according to
where on the keyboard you play.
Parameter Description
Drive Sets the amount of distortion by amplifying the input sig-
nal.
Filter This parameter sets the crossover frequency of the dis-
tortion filter. The distortion filter consists of a lowpass fil-
ter and a highpass filter with a cutoff frequency equal to
the crossover frequency.
Tone This parameter controls the relative amount of lowpass
and high-pass filtered signal.
Level This controls the output level of the effect.
Parameter Description
Song Sync This switches tempo sync of the delay times on or off.
Delay 1 Sets the delay time ranging from 0ms to 728ms. If MIDI
sync is activated the range is from 1/32 to 1/1; straight,
triplet or dotted.
Delay 2 Same as Delay 1.
Feedback This controls the decay of the delays. With higher set-
tings the echoes repeat longer.
Filter A lowpass filter is built into the feedback loop of the de-
lay. This parameter controls the cutoff frequency of this
feedback filter. Low settings result in successive echoes
sounding darker.
Level This controls the output level of the effect.