User Guide

Waves IR-1 software guide page 36
NOTES ON “FLAT POINTS” OR UNITY GAIN SETTINGS FOR CONTROLS
• For Reverb controls having a ratio scale of 0.25 to 4 (Reverb Time, Density,
Resonance, Size) the flat point is 1.
•
For Reverb controls having a percentage scale of 0% to 100% (Decorrelation,
Crosstalk, Dry/Wet), the flat point is 0%.
• Predelay reverb controls (Direct Predelay, ER Predelay, Tail Predelay, ER/ TR-X,
Dry latency) have a flat point of 0
• Flat point for Direct/ER/Tail gains and switches is 0dB with all switches “On”.
•
For Full-CPU/Low-CPU, the flat point is Full-CPU.
•
In the Gain-Envelope graph, the flat point is obtained by using the Gain
Envelope
•
Bypass control or by using the Gain Envelope Clear control.
•
In the Damping Filters section, set the ratios to 1 for the flat point.
•
In the EQ filters section, the flat point is obtained by setting all bands to Off, or by
setting all the gains to 0dB.
•
You can set the flat point of any control by option-clicking (Mac) or alt-clicking (PC)
on that control. The only exception is the Wet/Dry control. Opt or alt- clicking the
Wet/Dry control sets it to 100% (but the flat point is 0%).
NOTES CPU ABOUT OPTIMIZATION
Here are a few points to use in order to increase performance, sorted by priority:
BUFFER SIZE: This doesn't compromise any aspect of audio quality. Thus it is the first
place the user should try to optimize system performance. A buffer of 512 is optimal.
Lower buffer sizes will increase the peak CPU consumption. Higher Buffer sizes may
reduce the average CPU consumption, but the peaks will be similar.
Beware that not all hosts have friendly default buffer settings. In fact, ASIO host users use
small buffers for lower latency, as do people who use virtual instruments.