Manual

15 MD3 NATIVE User Manual
Turn o DYN LINK to allow separate expander and compressor control of the Mid
and Side. For MID, an "M" appears in each of the controls.
Select SIDE, and the Compressor controls will aect the Side instead of MID. An
"S" appears in each of the controls.
If at any time you want the SIDE control settings to be the same as the MID
settings, press the COPY button. (It will not copy from SIDE to MID).
X Over
The expander and compressors operate in three bands, using a low crossover and
a high crossover. The Gain Reduction meters show these three bands: L, M, and H.
Select X OVER and the Lo Xover and Hi Xover frequencies can be viewed and
adjusted in the rst 2 Focus Fields. Note that any changes you make here will also
aect the expander, as it uses the same crossover.
The two crossover frequencies can be set to OFF (turn all the way down) in order
to run MD3 NATIVE as a two band or full band compressor/expander.
Controls
Use the rotary Compressor control knobs to adjust the overall Threshold, Range,
Ratio, Attack and Release. The knob values correspond to the Comp All values you
will see in the 4th Focus Field shown below.
If you select from the row of Threshold, Range, Ratio, Attack and Release buttons,
then the Focus Fields will show the Com Lo, Com Mid, Com Hi and Com All values
for the selected parameter. This allows you to adjust the compressor parameters
for the low, mid, and high bands. Adjusting the Com All value in the 4th Focus
Feild adjusts the value of all three bands. However, the Com Mid value only
adjusts itself and the Com All value.
The example below shows RATIO selected, showing the separate ratio values in
the Focus Fields for each band, and the "Com All" parameter in the 4th Field. In
this example, the Lo band ratio is 3.20:1 and the Mid and Hi are 2.00:1.
The Mid Band value follows the Com All value, and is the same value as the rotary
knob. If you vary Com All then all three bands will change, but keeping in the
same relative levels from each other.
Note that an "M" appears in the controls if they are for the Mid.
Note that an "S" appears in the controls if they are for the Side.
Threshold
Range: -25dB to 20dB (in 0.5dB steps)
Relative to the Ref.Level setting (Main page).
When the Input signal exceeds the Threshold value, the Compressor starts to
reduce the dynamic content of the signal according to the set Ratio.
Ratio
Range: O to Innity
Species the Ratio of the performed compression.
Example: With a Ratio setting of 2:1 the compressor will reduce every 2dB above
the Threshold point to only 1dB.
Makeup Gain
Range: -12dB to 12dB in 0.5dB steps.
Manual Makeup-gain for each compression band.
Where the Auto Gain control in the Main page compensates for the total gain
reduction caused by the Compressor, the Gain controls in the Compressor page
are used as additional gain controls on the individual bands.
Attack
Range: 0.3 to 100ms
The Attack time is the time the Compressor uses to reach the gain reduction
specied by the Ratio parameter.
Example: If the Input signal increases by 4dB above the set Threshold, with a
Ratio set to 2:1 and the Attack time is set to 20ms, then the Compressor will use
20ms to reach a Gain reduction of 2dB.
Release
Range: 20ms to 7s
The fallback time. This is the time it takes for the Compressor to release the
attenuation of the signal.
G/R Meter Zoom
Press to zoom in on the range of the Gain Reduction meters, from +/- 18 dB to
+/- 9 dB