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Page 2: ...is is an incredibly accurate software recreation of my original A Range design from 1971 It exhibits all of the nuances of tone from the original right down to the saturation control which emulates the overdriven artifacts from the original when large amounts of equalisation are applied or the input is driven hard Well done to all the guys at Softube Professor Malcolm Toft Original designer of the...
Page 3: ...bout the Trident A Range 7 User Interface 8 Equalizer Bands 9 Low Pass and High Pass Filters 10 Phase Invert 11 Saturation 11 Output Volume 11 Key and Mouse Commands 12 Technical Side Notes 13 Mono and Stereo Operation 13 RTAS on Pro Tools HD 13 Buying Recommendations 14 System Requirements 15 3 ...
Page 4: ...t interest you Support questions can be posted at http www softube com where we will help you as fast as we can 2010 SOFTUBE AB SWEDEN ALL PRODUCT AND COMPANY NAMES ARE TRADEMARKS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS SOFTUBE IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF SOFTUBE AB SWEDEN ALL VISUAL AND AURAL REFERENCES TO THE TRIDENT A RANGE ARE TRADEMARKS BEING MADE WITH WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM PMI AUDIO THE TRIDENT A RANG...
Page 5: ... O N L I N E and have got the confirmation e mail the license will already be deposited in your iLok account 2 Make sure that you have the latest iLok drivers installed They can be found at http www ilok com 3 Log on to http www ilok com and transfer the newly received license to your physical iLok dongle 4 Install the software from the DVD or download the latest version from http www softube com ...
Page 6: ... originally designed in the early 70 s for Trident Studios in London by Malcolm Toft and Barry Porter Toft was employed as a sound engineer at Trident Studios and when the studio needed a 24 track recording console he started Trident Audio Developments to design and build the Trident A Range Other products followed and found their way to studios around the world Toft remains active to this day dev...
Page 7: ...f Puppets and And Justice for All The A Range channel features four bands of equalization and high and low pass filters the sound of the filters are often referred to as colorful and musical When running a hot enough signal through the original unit and boosting the bands it is possible to get it to distort the sound is a hairy and effective saturation that is just right in some situation and just...
Page 8: ...ion just put it in the OFF position and all saturation circuits will be de activated The A Range console was actually designed to have very little distortion but it was nevertheless possible to crank up the input volume and equalization bands to make it distort an effect that has been of much use in lots of recordings The actual amount of saturation depended heavily on the audio material and ampli...
Page 9: ...himmer to just about any material Don t be afraid to try it on a master bus as the result can be fantastic High Mid Band The High Mid Band is of bell type with the following center frequencies 9 kHz 7 kHz 5 kHz and 3 kHz The bell filters interacts with each other in a rather funny way For example even if the gain of the Low Mid Band is set to zero changing the frequency of that band will affect th...
Page 10: ...ff frequency for the filters 15 KHz 12 kHz and 9 kHz for the Low Pass and 100 Hz 50 Hz and 25 Hz for the High Pass The cut off characteristic is unusual and not exactly coherent but the slope is about 12 dB per octave The three settings work independently and can be used in any combination which means that the more buttons you engage the more attenuation you get For example pressing all three Low ...
Page 11: ...b that basically is a volume compensated input gain for the saturation circuits The LED next to the saturation knob indicates when the signal is being distorted If you want to be sure not to add any saturation to the sound click the OFF label and the saturation circuit will be bypassed You will get the best result if the saturation is used sparingly on percussive sounds like a drum bus Let it take...
Page 12: ...only Use the mouse wheel to change parameters Keyboard Commands Use these key commands while changing a parameter F I N E A D J U S T Command Mac or Control Win R E S E T T O D E FA U LT Alt while clicking on the knob or fader Pro Tools Specific Keyboard Commands A U T O M A T I O N C O N T R O L W I N D O W Control Command Alt click Mac or Control Windows Alt click Windows S H O W A U T O M AT I ...
Page 13: ...ver available in RTAS If you plan to use deck change online switching between RTAS and TDM you should always use the M U LT I M O N O mode instead of S T E R E O mode otherwise deck change won t work RTAS on Pro Tools HD There are some specific issues to consider when using an RTAS plug in in recording mode on a Pro Tools HD system First of all an audio buffer latency is introduced in the RTAS ver...
Page 14: ...of the original Trident A consoles These two are the ones we measured for the A Range plug in A few cosmetic changes have been made to these units while at the Sweet Silence Studios the original flip switches on the Mute button has been changed to big red switches the gray fader handles have been changed to bright yellow and three frequency selector knobs have also been replaced But it has the ori...
Page 15: ... VST Audio Units or RTAS Pro Tools 7 or higher compatible host application iLok USB key and the latest iLok drivers download them from http www ilok com DVD drive or Internet access for installation TDM and VENUE versions Pro Tools HD Accel card is required Pro Tools HD compatible system Please make sure that you always use the latest iLok driver It is not included in the Softube installer but can...
Page 16: ... modeling Torsten Gatu framework programming Arvid Rosén framework programming Ulf Ekelöf 3D rendering Original hardware was designed by Malcolm Toft and Barry Porter at Trident Audio Developments The original unit is owned by Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios 2010 Softube AB Sweden ...
