Plug-in Reference

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The included VST Instruments
Embracer – Surround Pad
Synthesizer (Cubase only)
Embracer is a simple but powerful polyphonic synthesizer
designed entirely for producing pads and accompaniment
sounds. With its easy-to-use envelope and tone controls,
it gives you fast access to the sounds you need without
having to search through thousands of presets. However,
the most powerful feature of Embracer is its surround out-
put. With a single switch, you can turn the instrument from
stereo to surround and the width control allows you to
spread your pad sound anywhere from mono to stereo to
full 360° surround. The unique “eye” controller gives you
an exact idea of how the sound will be placed in a mix.
If you’ve never worked with a surround system before,
now is the time to start exploring these possibilities.
The Embracer Surround Pad Synthesizer has the follow-
ing properties:
• Embracer is a Polyphonic surround pad synthesizer.
• 2 oscillators with 12 waveforms.
• Independent envelope and tone controls.
• Stereo and surround outputs.
• Up to 32 voices of polyphony per instance.
• Dynamic width control for exciting 3D sounds.
• “Eye” controller for simultaneous tone and width control.
• Full MIDI control implementation.
Osc 1 and 2
Envelope and Level
Master
Parameter Description
Wave Selects the waveform for each oscillator. Available wave-
forms are: Carpet, DigiPad, Choir, Ensemble, Metal
Phaze, Phase Strings, Sing Sing, Soft Wave, Spit Strynx,
Stepfloor, Submerged, Wave Bellz.
Note: If you want to use only one oscillator, set the wave-
form to OFF. In this case only one voice per key will be
used.
Tone Embracer offers a high pass and low pass filter for each
oscillator. Both filters are controlled via a single Tone
knob. In the 50% center position, the signal will not be fil-
tered. Reducing the tone value adds low pass filtering.
Values above 50% add high pass filtering. This parame-
ter can also be controlled by the “eye” controller.
Width Controls the spatial spread of the signal. A value of 0%
puts the signal mono into the center position. In stereo
mode, a value of 100% results in a maximum stereo
width. In surround mode, a value of 100% creates a full
360° surround image. The width parameter can be con-
trolled by a variety of modulation sources, as well as by
the “eye” controller.
Coarse
(Oscillator 2
only)
Changes the pitch in semitones. Maximum range is +1/24
semitones = 2 octaves.
Fine
(Oscillator 2
only)
Changes the pitch in fine steps with a range of up to
+/- 50 cents.
Note: If you want to create a slight detune effect between
the oscillators, make sure to set the master tune parame-
ter to a negative value of the same amount to keep the in-
strument in tune.
Parameter Description
Attack Controls the attack time of each oscillator. Higher values
create slower attacks.
Attack Vel Sets the amount of velocity control of the attack time.
Higher values increase the velocity sensitivity.
Level Controls the oscillator output level.
Level Vel Sets the amount of velocity control of the oscillator level.
Higher values increase the velocity sensitivity.
Parameter Description
Release Controls the overall release time of the volume envelope.
Higher values result in longer release times.
Mode Sets the output mode of Embracer. You can choose be-
tween “Stereo” and “Surround”. In Stereo Mode, Em-
bracer has one stereo output in the VST Mixer. In Surround
Mode, Embracer has either a quadraphonic 4-channel out-
put or two independent stereo outputs in the Mixer. See
below for more details on using Embracer in a surround
mixer setup.