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Aura8ip / Jan 2012
A u r a 8 i p G U R U G U I
What Causes a Guru Tweaker to Stop Before Reaching 0 or 10?
Because Guru is adjusting parameters that would normally be associated with the
Professional GUI, it’s possible for one of the parameters being adjusted to encounter its
normal end stop while being adjusted by a Guru tweaker. Since we’re not allowed to go
past a control’s natural end stop Guru must do something to let the user know that an
end stop he can’t see has been reached, and we do this by preventing the Guru tweaker
from going any further in whatever direction is causing a parameter to reach one of
its own natural limits (the same limit that Pro GUI would bump into if it were being
used). The following graphic shows one Guru tweaker manipulating eight processing
parameters and it will help to illustrate this point.
At left, eight Pro GUI parameters
are being simultaneously adjusted
by one Guru tweaker. These param-
eters are represented by the eight
vertical bars labeled Var 1 through
Var 8, and the horizontal lines inside
each one show where that parameter
currently is within its available ad-
justment range.
Notice now the vertical bars for “Var 3” and “Var 7,” and how close they already
are to their minimum and maximum values. Remember that these controls are
not seen
by a Guru GUI user but they do
exist in Professional GUI. Remember also that each
“Var” has
its own
pre-determined minimum and maximum limits.
Imagine now that the Guru tweaker is being moved up towards 10 and all eight
“Var” sliders are following along. It should be obvious that “Var 7” is going to reach
its upper limit long before the other “Vars,” and it might also reach its limit before the
Guru tweaker does. What happens?
As soon as one of the eight ‘Vars’ reaches its limit, the Guru tweaker is stopped from
moving any further in the direction that it was being moved. This same scenario applies
when a Guru tweaker is being moved downward to reduce a setting.
This is an important concept to remember: if a Guru tweaker won’t go any further in
one direction or the other it is because one of the values that it is modifying has reached
a normal predefined limit. Each Guru tweaker can do the work of many controls. Each
Guru tweaker has enough range to provide a lot of variability from Factory presets,
even when the adjustment range seems to be inexplicably restricted by control limits
that are not seen by a Guru user.
Guru GUI Caveats
If you’re a processing expert, Professional GUI is your gateway to extremely deep
customization of Factory presets. Guru GUI, on the other hand, is designed for those
without a lot of audio processing experience, helping them quickly achieve a desired
sound without needing to learn the interactions of literally hundreds of controls.
What follows is an overview of things to keep in mind about how the Guru GUI
interacts with both the Aura8ip and the Professional version of the GUI.
