Studer Vista, Operating Instructions Manual

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Vista Digital Mixing System
3-48 Parameters
SW V3.3 Date printed: 05.08.03
3.6.6 Operating in Reverb-Only Style
As previously described, in the Reverb Style of operation ( chapter 3.6.2 ),
the sound sources are brought into normal Input channels. One or more
Reverb Channels can be set up, each one with a corresponding VSP chan-
nel. The following is the normal of operation in this mode.
Associate one VSP Channel with each Reverb Channel
This is done by simply making sure that each VSP channel is assigned to
its associated reverb bus, as previously described.
Patch an AUX Bus to each VSP/Reverb Pair
Using the General Patch, patch the output of an AUX bus to the appropri-
ate VSP/Reverb pair, by patching to the input of the VSP channel. If de-
sired, another method would be to patch the direct output of an AUX
Master Channel to the input of the VSP channel, although there is nor-
mally no specific advantage to this method.
Once this is set up, each VSP/Reverb pair can be adjusted as desired, and
signals from any input channel can be sent to the reverb by simply using
the AUX send controls on the input channels, just as if these AUX sends
were feeding external devices. The VSP channel as well as the Reverb
channel should be assigned to the appropriate output buses, so that early
and late (reverberant) reflections are fed to the buses. But of course, if
only late reflections are desired, the VSP channel can be de-assigned to the
buses and only used to feed the reverb channel.
Alternate Method: While the reverb generator was designed to be fed from a VSP channel,
there is no technical reason why an AUX bus cannot be patched directly to
the input of a Reverb channel, with no VSP channel being used. If through
experimentation, this acoustic result satisfies a requirement, by all means,
this much more simple method may be used. In particular, good results can
be expected, if the input already contains natural early reflections, which
have, for example, been captured by a microphone set-up sufficiently dis-
tant from the acoustic source.