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Summary of Contents for RESTORATION SUITE

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Page 2: ...TC SUPPORT INTERACTIVE The TC Support Interactive website is designed as an online support and information center At the site you can find answers to specific problems regarding TC software All resolv...

Page 3: ...GLOSSARY OF TERMS 2 GENERAL PLUG IN CONTROLS 3 DECLICK 6 DECRACKLE 8 DENOISE 10 DESCRATCH 16 DEThump 19 PRESET MANAGEMENT 23 TUTORIAL 25 APPENDIX A PROCESSING DELAY 26 APPENDIX B CPU OVERLOADS IN WAVE...

Page 4: ...ution catering for all your restoration needs The RESTORATION SUITE introduces Noveltech s unrivalled breakthrough technology for the removal of scratch and large artifacts from your audio material th...

Page 5: ...POWERCORE FIREWIRE to be available in your system These Plug Ins will NOT run without POW ERCORE CPU PERFORMANCE NOTE RESTORATION SUITE is a set of hybrid Plug Ins utilizing native CPU processing and...

Page 6: ...ifact but appears as an almost constant surface noise as you would hear in the background of a record Crackle typically ranges from 1 to 20 samples in length Fingerprint A Fingerprint is a short sampl...

Page 7: ...trol Mouse Button KEY COMMANDS IN WINDOWS Fine Adjust Alt Reset To Default Shift AND Control Contextual Menu Right Mouse Button METERING OPTIONS By clicking on the meters you will have access to custo...

Page 8: ...ved This is extremely helpful when checking your Plug In settings the more of your original signal you hear while in Audition mode the more of that signal is removed by the processing If you can hear...

Page 9: ...signal large spikes imposed on the waveform will indicate clicks scratches and pops while lower level red lines which in some cases appear to be a constant will reflect crackle INTENSITY DISPLAY Inte...

Page 10: ...s Declick s processing strength high values will leave most of the signal untouched whereas lower values might have Declick remove more than just clicks and crackle Move the Threshold fader slowly up...

Page 11: ...u may want to use slightly higher threshold val ues than when the slider is set to Crackle where a lower threshold may be the better the choice STATISTICS Declick also offers statistical feedback base...

Page 12: ...as a sonograph It shows the signal as frequency content over time where the color represents the level of the particular frequency Red indicates the highest level black indicates that there is no sign...

Page 13: ...gnal is only slightly touched Compare the signal with the bypassed process and with the plug in in audition mode to find the setting where you do not remove more signal of your music than necessary RE...

Page 14: ...ich is activated by pressing the Learn button on the user interface The third mode is the Draw mode that will allow to adjust any taken fingerprint manually Let s first have a look at the parameters a...

Page 15: ...this means that there is currently no processing going on If the line gets thicker at a certain frequency this indicates processing at that frequency To get a feeling of how this display works move th...

Page 16: ...automatically stops at the end of the adjusted Capture Time When there is no fingerprint in Denoise s memory the Learn button appears with a transparency background and a light gray outline While the...

Page 17: ...e a handle in Mac OS X control click on a handle To remove a handle in Windows right mouse click on a handle The fingerprint can be edited for left and right channels independently e g if you have som...

Page 18: ...g preset based on a Fingerprint from another audio file As the Fingerprints do not completely match you may want to Bias the Fingerprint to meet the needs of a different audio file If your only chance...

Page 19: ...s set to a longer value the space in between the dialog will slightly pump sounding unnatural In switching to Type 2 you may find less breathing artifacts in the dialog and a more consistent high freq...

Page 20: ...g of the clean signal immediately before and after the damaged portion of the signal Descratch extrapolates the undamaged signals across the damaged portion creating an accurate mathematical estimate...

Page 21: ...r scratch removal you should be aware that smaller artifacts such as crackle and clicks will not be processed by Descratch LINK DETECTION Link Detection might be better described as Link channels for...

Page 22: ...hat is used by Descratch STATISTICS Descratch also offers statistical feedback based on your plug in settings Max Size will let you know the size of the largest scratch detected in your signal Avr Siz...

Page 23: ...plug ins a hybrid plug in that requires both DSP power from the PowerCore hardware as well as native CPU power Note Due to the nature of the plug in processing DeThump works best with large audio buff...

Page 24: ...NAL CHAIN SHOULD DETHUMP BE USED DeThump should be the first restoration plug in in the signal chain It is removing the low frequency part of a distorted part the thump but keeps transients necessary...

Page 25: ...es that a low frequency thump follows a strong click A lower Threshold value will increase the sensitivity of the detection algorithm Set the Threshold to a value where Thumps are detected but low fre...

Page 26: ...subtraction A higher Length value will correct longer thumps DEPTH Range 0 9 Depth determines the complexity of the thump model where a higher depth value gives more complexity and should be used with...

Page 27: ...UITE presets Only presets located in the default file location will appear in RESTORATION SUITE pop up preset menu SAVING A PRESET By selecting Save you can save your preset to any folder on the syste...

Page 28: ...n the Windows OS hard drive TCWorks System Application Support Restoration Suite TCDeclick TCWorks System Application Support Restoration Suite TCDenoise TCWorks System Application Support Restoration...

Page 29: ...specific size Let s consider the following example should you load a Declick plug in and set it to Crackle it will not fix a severe click but it might smooth a severe click so much that a subsequent D...

Page 30: ...order to line up with the other tracks in you mix 44 1 kHz 48 kHz 88 2 kHz 96 kHz Declick 2048 Samples 2048 Samples 2048 Samples 2048 Samples Denoise 2048 Samples 2048 Samples 4096 Samples 4096 Sample...

Page 31: ...WAVELAB It is possible to generate host CPU overloads in when using Descratch in Wavelab These overloads will typically appear when you start playback Should you encounter high CPU activity in the CP...

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