Plug-in Reference

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The included VST Instruments
SR parameters
With these buttons you can change the sample rate.
Lower sample rates basically reduces the high frequency
content and sound quality, but the pitch isn’t altered. This
is a great way to emulate the “lo-fi” sounds of older digital
synths!
• If button “F” is active, the selected Part’s program will play
back with the sample rate set in the host application.
• If button “1/2” is active, the selected Part’s program will play
back with half the original sample rate.
• If button “1/4” is active, the selected Part’s program will play
back with a quarter of the original sample rate.
• A bonus effect of using lower sample rates is that it re-
duces the load on the computer CPU, allowing more si-
multaneous voices to be played etc.
Mystic (Cubase only)
The synthesis method used by Mystic is based on three
parallel comb filters with feedback. A comb filter is a filter
with a number of “notches” in its frequency response, with
the notch frequencies harmonically related to the fre-
quency of the fundamental (lowest) notch.
A typical example of comb filtering occurs if you are using
a flanger effect or a delay effect with very short delay time.
As you probably know, raising the feedback (the amount
of signal sent back into the delay or flanger) will cause a
resonating tone – this tone is basically what the Mystic
produces. As you will see, this astonishingly simple syn-
thesis method is capable of generating a wide range of
sounds, from gentle plucked-string tones to weird, non-
harmonic timbres.
The basic principle is the following:
• You start with an “impulse sound”, typically with a very
short decay.
The spectrum of the impulse sound will largely affect the tonal quality of
the final sound. To set up an impulse sound on the Mystic you use a
slightly simplified version of the synthesis found on the Spector synth.
• The impulse sound is fed into the three comb filters, in
parallel. Each of these has a feedback loop.
This means the output of each comb filter is fed back into the filter. This
will result in a resonating feedback tone.
Feedback The feedback parameter controls the amount of positive
or negative feedback for all four delay lines. The adjust-
able range is from -1 to 1.
Level This controls the output level of the effect.
Parameter Description