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User Manual

15 November 2016

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Page 2: ...ent control of processing path for left and right channels It also emulates the nature and of many various hardware devices of this kind including the classic effect units When the plug in is loaded to the hosting application its graphic interface appears Repeater graphical interface ...

Page 3: ...3 www d16 pl Overview Configuration and Preset management section Configuration and Preset management section And the Signal processing section consisting of the all remaining controls ...

Page 4: ...N L OUT R OUT L RIGHT CHANNEL FLOW LEFT CHANNEL FLOW OUT L OUT L OUT VOLUME X X IN L X INPUT CLIPPER IN OUT COLOR COLOR L IN R CLIPPER IN OUT COLOR COLOR R X LEFT CHANNEL FLOW RIGHT CHANNEL FLOW IN OUT R OUT L OUT DRY IN WET IN DELAY LINE IN OUT DELAY TIME IN SPREAD X FEEDBK L DELAY L DELAY LINE IN OUT DELAY TIME X FEEDBK R DELAY R IN L IN R LEFT CHANNEL FLOW RIGHT CHANNEL FLOW PING PONG DELAY LIN...

Page 5: ...N OUT CLIPPER N OUT PHASE INV IN OUT FILTER IN OUT PANNING IN OUT R PANNING OUT L OUT DRY IN MIX WET IN MIX STEREO DELAY LOOP IN R IN L OUT R OUT L RIGHT CHANNEL FLOW LEFT CHANNEL FLOW OUT L OUT L OUT VOLUME X X IN L X INPUT CLIPPER IN OUT COLOR COLOR L IN R CLIPPER IN OUT COLOR COLOR R X LEFT CHANNEL FLOW RIGHT CHANNEL FLOW IN OUT R OUT L OUT DRY IN WET IN DELAY LINE IN OUT DELAY TIME IN SPREAD X...

Page 6: ...rs that control this section are as follows INPUT Controls the input signal gain from 12 up to 12 dB Input parameter COLOR L COLOR R The parameters that control the tone characteristics of the left and right channel audio clipper Left and right channel Color parameter ...

Page 7: ...EFT CHANNEL FLOW RIGHT CHANNEL FLOW DELAY LINE IN OUT DELAY TIME IN SPREAD X FEEDBK L DELAY L DELAY LINE IN OUT DELAY TIME X FEEDBK R DELAY R IN L IN R LEFT CHANNEL FLOW RIGHT CHANNEL FLOW PING PONG IN HPF LPF PANNING IN OUT R PAN PAN L PANNING IN OUT L PAN PAN L OUT R OUT L DRY IN MIX MIX WET IN MIX L DRY IN MIX MIX WET IN MIX L WET L WET R DRY L DRY R Schematic diagram of Repeater delay line Its...

Page 8: ...peater delay line parameter control section Delay line times DELAY L and DELAY R control independently the line delay times of the left and right channel from 0 1 up to 1000 ms while tempo syn chronization is disabled Delay L and Delay R parameters ...

Page 9: ...e digits representing the consecutive delay decimal position on the adjacent display Display with the current delay time for the left and right channel Tap TAP is used to set the delay time using ears by clicking TAP rhythmically The plug in measures the time between the consecutive clicks averages it and sets it as a new delay time Tap button ...

Page 10: ...hosting application tempo Sync mode parameter This parameter takes one of the two values NONE Synchronization with the hosting application tempo is deactivated default value and the delay times are set in milliseconds HOST Synchronization with the hosting application tempo is active In this mode the delays are set as note values tempo depend ent units It should be mentioned that when this mode is ...

Page 11: ...f the selected Note Value exactly Triplet Delay time equal to 2 3 of the duration of the selected Note Value Dotted Delay time equal to 3 2 of the duration of the selected Note Value Keep in mind due to internal buffer s limitation maximum delay time can t exceed 10 seconds Switching between SYNC MODES convert From note duration to delay time ms when you switch from Host to None From delay time ms...

Page 12: ...The function operates with two intensity levels and is controlled with the SPREAD switch Spread parameter It takes the following values OFF Function inactive A Function active with the lower intensity smaller phase offset B Function active with the higher intensity larger phase offset Feedback Feedback value of the left and right channel delay lines is controlled with FEEDBACK L and FEEDBACK R res...

Page 13: ...cts with the right channel summing node and vice versa IN L X INPUT GAIN CLIPPER IN OUT PHASE INV IN OUT FILTER IN OUT PHASE INV FILTER PANNING IN OUT R PANNING OUT L OUT DRY IN MIX WET IN MIX IN L OUT L LEFT CHANNEL FLOW OUT VOLUME X IN L X INPUT CLIPPER IN OUT COLOR COLOR L IN R CLIPPER IN OUT COLOR COLOR R X LEFT CHANNEL FLOW RIGHT CHANNEL FLOW DELAY LINE IN OUT DELAY TIME IN SPREAD X FEEDBK L ...

Page 14: ...ion and control of the blocks processing the signal outgoing from the feedback loop delay line Phase inverter The signal from the feedback loop is fed to the Phase inverter This block allows the signal phase be reversed signal mirror reflection relative to the time axis Phase invert buttons The PHASE INVERT toggle buttons activate the Phase inverter for left channel upper button or right channel l...

Page 15: ...Y IN MIX WET IN MIX OUT L OUT L OUT VOLUME X X IN OUT R OUT L OUT DRY IN WET IN DELAY LINE IN OUT DELAY TIME IN SPREAD X FEEDBK L DELAY L DELAY LINE IN OUT DELAY TIME X FEEDBK R DELAY R LEFT CHANNEL FLOW RIGHT CHANNEL FLOW HPF LPF PANNING IN OUT R PAN PAN L PANNING IN OUT L PAN PAN L OUT R OUT L OUT DRY IN MIX MIX WET IN MIX L OUT DRY IN MIX MIX WET IN MIX L WET L WET R DRY L DRY R OUT L OUT L Dua...

Page 16: ...sequent block in the processing path It has two functions Firstly it provides independent panning of each stereo channel which actually implies that the Repeater may be considered as a delay effect with two independent processing paths rather than an effect with the stereo processing path with the independently controlled parameters of both left and right channels Secondly it is able to mix the pr...

Page 17: ...xer block is controlled from the following GUI section Stereo mixer section The following parameters are available PAN L PAN R Re panning the signal of the left and right channel respectively MIX L MIX R Mixing together dry and wet signal for the left and right channel respectively ...

Page 18: ...he VU meter shown below OUT PUT METER indicates the current level of this signal Delay line models The previous chapters focused on specifying and describing the processing modules which are the components of the Repeater explain ing their roles in this effect and their interconnections As already said at the beginning the basic feature of the Repeater is its ability to emulate the tone characteri...

Page 19: ...ne Model affects only its tone characteristics and the lowest level of the processing path processing blocks implementation to be precise The Model is changed by clicking the DELAY MODEL control Delay model parameter From the dialogue box we can select one of the several dozen of available items Cassette Tape A model of an early 80 s Japanese cassette tape deck Not too lofi or hifi I d call this o...

Page 20: ...Try it on vocals Old Radio Delay tone with AM radio style grainy lofi tone Pitchy Delays Delays with slight pitch modulations for extremely spatial and deep effects Sounds great when both delay lines are set to the same time creating a chorusing mono effect These can also be used with tight delays with Spread A or B for widening and thickening effects Plexy Echo Based on an old 70s tape delay unit...

Page 21: ...Dual filter calibration Feedback loop response Stereo link The Repeater processing paths and blocks are identical for left and right channel Owing to that the sets of parameters controlling each of them are also identical The GUI controls are located so that it is easier to see which parameters control the left or right channel path So the upper row contains the controls for the left channel and t...

Page 22: ...t with the LINK LEDs located in the middle of the interface Link LEDs row to join the controls in pairs left right channel When the connection is enabled LED is on the controls are interconnected and any change of the value of one of these controls automatically changes the value of other control Win Ctrl Link Mac Cmd Link Links Delinks all stereo control pairs ...

Page 23: ...to one linear structure list in the Preset Browser Browsing Presets Presets Conﬁguration and Management section enables quick navigation and browsing the presets structure Presets Conﬁguration and Management Section PRESET NAME Displays the name of the currently loaded preset PREV NEXT Buttons that allow for linear browsing of presets list depending on currently set ﬁlters see sections below INIT ...

Page 24: ... one see sections below BROWSE Expands the Preset Browser panel at the bottom of GUI section The Preset Browser looks as follows Preset Browser One can see three main sections Content Sources from which presets can be read Filters Conﬁguration of presets Filters non active by default Results List of presets from resources that meet criteria set by Filters ...

Page 25: ... cannot be modiﬁed read only User Created by the user during using the plug in and can be freely modiﬁed shared with other users etc Choosing any of them will cause narrowing the results to the presets from one resource Preset Filters The plug in enables classiﬁcation of presets with the use of Categories and Tags system whose aim is to facilitate the process of browsing the content by ﬁltering Pr...

Page 26: ... in such a way so as to describe the content in the best possible way taking into account the plug in purpose Editing of Categories and Tags in case of Factory content is not possible it is blocked User presets may be described only with Categories and Tags from factory content or alternatively the users may deﬁne their additional Tags in order to describe their own pre sets Results This is a list...

Page 27: ... each of these columns represent Tags available within each Category Preset Browser Categories Filters Filtering results have a form of a cascade columns from left to right This means that all presets available in the selected resources are filtered as to presence of Tags from the first Category first column from the left next a set of presets being a result of filtering by the first Category is f...

Page 28: ...Grey color means that the Tag in inactive teal blue means that the Tag is active If at least one Tag in a column Category is active then the Filter also becomes active For example if the first column represents Category 1 Category with a set of the following Tags Tag 1 1 Tag 1 2 Tag 1 3 clicking the Tag 1 1 Tag will activate the Category Filter Category 1 and narrow down a list of presets to the i...

Page 29: ...Presets Filtering with the Use of Categories Tags Clicking the left arrow for the Category located on the far left does not change anything The same is true for the Category located far to the right and right arrow as the column has no predecessor successor with which it could be replaced Presets Editing Edit Mode An active Edit Mode in Preset Browser changes its function enables the change of pre...

Page 30: ...on is used not as a ﬁlter but as an editor of Categories and Tags of chosen presets 2 The role of the Results section is to choose presets for edition edition is possible only for user presets 3 At the bottom of the screen there are Delete Export and Import buttons used respectively to delete or export selected User presets as well as to import a set of presets to the User resources 4 The choice o...

Page 31: ...ets from the last chosen preset to the item clicked together with Shift key Tags Edition Change of Tags status in Presets Tag buttons work in toggle mode similarly as in case of ﬁltering Clicking them you can respectively set Tag or erase them from chosen presets Filters tags Choosing a greater number of presets in which the tags were already deﬁned enables their re edition Consequently in case wh...

Page 32: ...tiﬁcation about Changes in Tags Status in Chosen Presets Elements Tag buttons highlighted with pale teal blue colour meaning different values of a particular Tag buttons for the highlighted pre sets work in a three state system erasing the Tag grey colour setting of the Tag intensive teal blue colour or no changes pale teal blue for all selected items Changes introduced during edition do not have ...

Page 33: ...vates Delete button at the bottom left corner It can be used to delete the selected presets Presets Export and Import The use of Import or Export buttons at the bottom part of the Preset Browser enables a proper import of presets package exported before or export to the presets package the presets selected in the Results section Export and Importare possible only for presets from User resources ...

Page 34: ...ser with an active Edit Mode Saving the Settings as Preset Additionally at the bottom there will be a textbox into which you should enter a name of a newly created preset and then confirm it by clicking Save or cancel by clicking Cancel As the Preset Browser is in the Edit Mode before confirmation of the newly created setting as preset we can straightaway categorize a particular setting using func...

Page 35: ... It allows for Checking the name and current value of a parameter Checking if the parameter is attributed to MIDI CC controller and if it is to which number Linking the parameter to MIDI CC controller Clicking the arrow in any area of the menu expands it and displays all available options Next right click on the parameter or left click outside the menu area closes it automatically ...

Page 36: ...steps 1 Right click the parameter which you want to attribute to physical MIDI controller in order to expand the context menu 2 Click arrow at the bottom in order to expand the context menu Expanded Context Menu 3 Click the Learn button to put the plug in into a pending state until you move any MIDI CC controller 4 Click OK to save the change or click the Cancel button to restore the previous sett...

Page 37: ... Clear button 8 Confi rm with OK button Plug in s current settings Current settings are relevant to a specific instance of a plug They are initialized with the Default settings when the plug in is loaded see the next chapter At the bottom of UI there is a status bar that enables the change of Current settings Current Settings in a Status Bar From left to right there are The setting of Current proc...

Page 38: ... Real time or Offline modes In a case of Repeater the quality setting doesn t affect the delay loop but audio clipper only ProcessingPathQualitySettings We can choose from four available grades for each mode Saving Loading the MIDI CC Map This item enables to save current parameters of MIDI CC codes as MIDI Map in a file or to load them Saving Loading the MIDI CC Map ...

Page 39: ...ug in is loaded in the host application new instance is created a Default settings are used for initialization of the Current settings Default settings are stored within a configuration file of the plug in This file is updated at the moment of unloading any of active plug in instances from the host application Use the Options button on GUI to open the panel Options button ...

Page 40: ... it Options Panel There are three sections Processing Quality Default Processing Path Quality Presets Presets loading settings MIDI Default MIDI CC Map Default Processing Path Quality Processing Quality Choice Section In this section you can configure a default quality of the processing path for the Real time mode and the Offline mode ...

Page 41: ...efault MIDI CC Map Default MIDI Map Choice Section This section allows for setting of a path to a file with a default MIDI Map that was prepared before Clicking MIDI CC Map check box activates load of MIDI Map and the possibility of pointing it Browse button ...

Page 42: ...3 Preset Storage 23 Browsing Presets 23 Resources 25 Preset Filters 25 Categories and Tags 26 Results 26 Presets Filtering 27 Basic Actions on Filters 28 Reordering Categories 29 Presets Editing Edit Mode 29 Selection of Presets for Editing 31 Tags Edition 31 Change of Tags status in Presets 31 Presets Names Editing 33 Deleting Presets 33 Presets Export and Import 33 Saving the current settings as...

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