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C O N T E N T S

CONTENTS

THANKS!

INTRO

About FilterFreak

What and Who is SoundToys?

GETTING STARTED

System Requirements

Installing FilterFreak

Registration

USING FILTERFREAK

What’s a Filter

Basics

Knobs

Toggle Switches

LED Displays

Accessing FilterFreak

Real-Time Processing (RTAS or HTDM)

Non-Real Time Processing (AudioSuite)

Using FilterFreak Within Pro Tools

The FilterFreak Preset Library

Compare Button

Bypass

Using Parameter Automation

Locking FilterFreak to Tempo and Down Beat

Using the HTDM Version of FilterFreak

Optimizing CPU Usage

The FilterFreak Control Panel

Analog Mode Switch

Input and Output Level

Mix

Frequency

Resonance

Shape

Poles

Mod

Summary of Contents for FilterFreak

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Page 2: ...FilterFreak 10 Real Time Processing RTAS or HTDM 10 Non Real Time Processing AudioSuite 11 Using FilterFreak Within Pro Tools 12 The FilterFreak Preset Library 12 Compare Button 13 Bypass 13 Using Pa...

Page 3: ...de 25 Rhythm Mode 27 Envelope Mode 30 Random S H Mode 31 Random Step Mode 32 ADSR Mode 33 Tweak Page 35 FilterFreak 2 36 Serial Parallel Mode 36 Link 37 Tweak Page 37 Summary 38 FINAL PAGE 39 Getting...

Page 4: ...erful collection of guitar pedals we ll return them soon we promise and for all the help and feedback along the way Wendy Letven for her amazing design work on the SoundToys logo all the SoundToys pac...

Page 5: ...so what the heck is SoundToys anyway SoundToys is a concept a vision a new line of totally cool sonically superior audio FX plug in devices designed to set a new standard in regards to plug in proces...

Page 6: ...y Once you re ready simply pop the FilterFreak CD into your computer s CD ROM drive and when the CD icon appears on your screen double click the FilterFreak installer program to start the process Foll...

Page 7: ...m account and register your FilterFreak authorization So why should you bother with all this tedious registration stuff When the day comes that your pet boa constrictor swallows your iLok in the middl...

Page 8: ...knobs in FilterFreak and they all work in the same way To turn a knob up to the right clockwise etc click on the knob with your mouse and drag the cursor to the right or slide the cursor up towards th...

Page 9: ...the display Clicking on the upper button will increase the value by one and clicking once on lower button will decrease the value by one This is useful for tweaking a value by small steps Numerical R...

Page 10: ...erFreak is available to process your audio in two dif ferent ways Real Time or Non Real time Real Time Processing RTAS or HTDM As a real time plug in FilterFreak works a lot like a real hardware filte...

Page 11: ...FilterFreak can also be used to process a specific region of audio destructively This is done in ProTools using the AudioSuite version of FilterFreak To do this first select the region of audio you d...

Page 12: ...ded a bunch hundreds really of carefully crafted creative cool presets with FilterFreak You might want to check these out as they not only provide a good example of the var ious types of effects that...

Page 13: ...the original preset and your current changes Bypass One of the more useful features on any plug in is the Bypass button Click on this to bypass the effect of FilterFreak This also recovers any CPU cyc...

Page 14: ...ote In auto touch mode the automa tion data you ve just recorded will be played back and any new control changes you make will be written over the older automation data To prevent these new control ch...

Page 15: ...ronize its sweep to the tempo BPM and downbeat the 1 of 1 2 3 and 4 in your music This is a totally awesome way to make FilterFreak hip hop and groove along with your tunes Mastering this feature will...

Page 16: ...ts and tempo in your Pro Tools session If you ve recorded everything to a click track within Pro Tools everything should be cool If not you ll need to enable the conductor track within ProTools and cr...

Page 17: ...tracks look at Chapter 21 of the ProTools 6 reference guide For info about Beat Detective see Chapter 22 and for info about the extremely useful tab to transients feature read Chapter 16 Playing and S...

Page 18: ...Usage FilterFreak is a native plug in which means that it uses your computer s processor to do its audio processing Because of its advanced DSP algorithms FilterFreak can put a pretty heavy load on yo...

Page 19: ...witch is off FilterFreak is in digital mode In this mode higher signal levels will clip in the typically nasty crunchy digital way This too can be desirable depending on what effect you re trying to a...

Page 20: ...D indicates that the signal is 6dB below clipping The red LED indicates maximum signal level and possible clipping which may or may not sound so good depending on the switch setting and what your ears...

Page 21: ...ll affect What effect the Frequency knob has on the sound is greatly dependent on the setting of the S Sh ha ap pe e knob When the Shape knob is set to Lowpass the filter becomes a Lowpass Filter Duh...

Page 22: ...nct flavors LPF or Lowpass BPF or Bandpass HPF or Highpass and finally BRF or Band Reject Notch Filter We kind of hope that you already have some understanding about filters in general as describing t...

Page 23: ...ction of 6 dB is referring to the gain of harmonics that are one octave away from the cutoff frequency So in a 1 Pole LP filter the harmonics one octave above the cutoff frequency will be lowered by 6...

Page 24: ...knob is used to control the depth or amount of modulation applied to the filter s Frequency The higher the Mod knob setting the greater the modulation depth and the greater the filter sweep the lower...

Page 25: ...ertz 1Hz means that the LFO modulation will repeat once per second As we mentioned the maximum setting of the LFO in FilterFreak is 100 Hertz 100Hz meaning it will repeat 100 times per second Modulati...

Page 26: ...e on the green waveform this will insert a new point To remove a point hold down the option key while clicking on it with the mouse To change the shape of the wave click on the new point and drag it u...

Page 27: ...exponential analog ADSR envelope Sym Produces a curved shape that is even and symmetrical Naming and Saving Custom Waveforms Once you have edited a shape and created a new LFO waveform the Shape LED d...

Page 28: ...imply high light the desired rhythmic interval with your mouse and let go You can also use the two nudge buttons to move through the various rhythm choices Custom Rhythm Editor In addition to the pres...

Page 29: ...stored and named for future recall After creating your rhythm the Rhythm LED display will show the word custom Pressing the S Sa av ve e button will allow you to name and save the pattern Once saved t...

Page 30: ...evel and the louder the input signal the more the filter will be modulated As the signal falls below the threshold level no modulation occurs It is important to adjust the Threshold based on the type...

Page 31: ...site of the Attack knob Again a faster release setting will produce a more dynamic effect and slower release times producing a slower smoother effect as the sound decays Random S H Mode The Random S H...

Page 32: ...nvelope fol lower Instead of changing to a new value at a specific set rate a new random value is triggered when you press the T Tr ri ig gg ge er r button in response to a M MI ID DI I n no ot te e t...

Page 33: ...cay Sustain and Release which also happen to corresponds to the four knobs of this mode Funny how it works that way With the ADSR you can define a specific envelope shape that will be used to modu lat...

Page 34: ...he faster the attack time As you increase the setting of the Attack knob the attack time will get longer slower like increasing the Smoothing parameter Keep in mind that the possible modulation level...

Page 35: ...e Depth control to 1 Octave means that the maximum modulation will increase and sweep the filters frequency up to one octave above Frequency setting A setting of 1 Octave will sweep the filter frequen...

Page 36: ...individually and the out puts of the two filters are then mixed together In this mode each filter affects the sound individually and there is no real interaction between the two filters Serial Mode I...

Page 37: ...s possible However using the same example if you were to turn DOWN the value of the same knob on Filter 2 the corresponding knob on Filter 1 will move as it is not set to it s extreme and has room to...

Page 38: ...manual down and start tweaking anyway Which in all honesty is what you should do FilterFreak and the whole series of SoundToys plug ins were MADE for tweaking There s nothing to break no parts to rust...

Page 39: ...g info The product version and serial number The version number of your Pro Tools system and type of hardware e g Mix HD Digi 001 etc Your computer type and operating system version number e g System...

Page 40: ...ce analog flanging effects with the same kind of creative options offered with FilterFreak Crystallizer A software emulation of a mind blowing granular echo effect first heard in the classic Eventide...

Page 41: ...u want to fix pitch without killing the performance PitchDoctor is the only option Speed Jaw dropping time compression expansion and pitch transposition that works incredibly well even on full mixes W...

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