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Bob Perry Ducker Pro 2 – Manual – Page 1/18

Ducker Pro 2 Manual

Preface

Thank you for purchasing Bob Perry Ducker Pro 2. To be able to get the best out of this 
product, we recommend you carefully read these instructions. 

Firstly we will describe the user interface and will give a brief introduction to the control 
elements. After that we will provide a quick guide to show some typical use cases for the 
plug-in. 

System Requirements

To use Bob Perry Ducker Pro 2, a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with support for AU (Mac), 
VST2 (PC, Mac), VST3 (PC, Mac) or AAX 64 bit (PC, MAC) is required. We thoroughly tested 
the plug-in with various versions of the following DAWs:

Steinberg Cubase (Mac, PC)
Steinberg Nuendo (Mac, PC)
PreSonus Studio One (Mac, PC)
Image-Line FL Studio (PC)
Adobe Audition (Mac, PC)

Reaper (Mac, PC)
Logic Pro X (Mac)
Avid Pro Tools (Mac, PC)
Harrison Mixbus (Mac, PC)
Cakewalk Sonar (PC)

Installation – macOS

Extract the downloaded .zip file, if it hasn’t been extracted automatically. Then simply open 
the .pkg file and follow the installer’s instructions.

Installation – Windows

Extract the downloaded .zip file, then open the installer file and follow the instructions.
The first installation path you will be prompted for will be the location of the manuals and the 
uninstaller.
Then you will be asked for your VST2 paths. If you want to install the VST2 plug-ins, select the
VST2 path of your preferred DAW. If you don’t want to install the VST2 plug-ins, you will be 
able to deselect the VST2 components after clicking ‘Next’.

Bob Perry Ducker Pro 2 Copyright © 2015-2021 Jonas Peters
VST is a software and trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.

20210113160816

Содержание Ducker Pro 2

Страница 1: ...e Mac PC Image Line FL Studio PC Adobe Audition Mac PC Reaper Mac PC Logic Pro X Mac Avid Pro Tools Mac PC Harrison Mixbus Mac PC Cakewalk Sonar PC Installation macOS Extract the downloaded zip file if it hasn t been extracted automatically Then simply open the pkg file and follow the installer s instructions Installation Windows Extract the downloaded zip file then open the installer file and fol...

Страница 2: ...GUI scaling and global saving of preferences You now have the ability to resize the plug in window This and other preferences can be saved globally so that new instances of the plug in appear pre configured to your taste Visual Waveform Display with Threshold Lines The new four way Waveform Display visualises Input Output and Aux Signals and also your Gain Reduction Additionally we added mouse dra...

Страница 3: ...he Aux chain surpasses the Threshold While setting the Threshold the AUX waveform white will be displayed in front of the other waveforms in the waveform display Additionally the Threshold Line will appear to visualise the Threshold in relation to your signal LEARN Click and hold the LEARN button to automatically set the Threshold value While this button is pressed Ducker Pro 2 will analyse the Au...

Страница 4: ...ction positive values result in boost For subtle effects we recommend using a range of up to 3dB For pumping club house music sound go down to 10dB Use boost for special effects it s all up to your creativity CURVE The CURVE switch lets you choose between linear LIN logarithmic LOG and S CURVE volume curves for attack and release of the ducking process The decision which one to take will solely be...

Страница 5: ...will be displayed in front of the other waveforms when setting the Threshold or Hysteresis and when in FILTER LISTEN mode You can use your mouse wheel or trackpad scroll function to zoom in and out Threshold and Hysteresis Lines Whenever hovering over the Threshold or Hysteresis dials or over the Waveform Display itself these lines are displayed You can use your mouse or trackpad to set Threshold ...

Страница 6: ...to disable the corresponding filter Double click Area C to synchronize LO CUT and HI CUT frequencies Use your mouse wheel on any area to change the FILTER RESONANCE See below for details Area C does not exist when the filter frequencies are too far apart Display AUTO Mode Click AUTO to enable AUTO mode In this mode the Display automatically switches between WAVE and SPEC modes defaulting to WAVE m...

Страница 7: ... to its original state When One Shot mode is enabled this is also the time until the Ducker starts to listen to the aux signal again Please note Very short Attack and Release times might cause distortion when working with low frequencies This might happen when the Attack and or Release are shorter than the frequencies oscillating period Right click the RELEASE dial to display a menu that lets you ...

Страница 8: ...he left While Attack Link is enabled the pointers of the ATTACK and LOOKAHEAD DELAY dials will glow red It is not possible to use DELAY with Attack Link enabled Bottom Right Corner Window Grabber Use the bottom right corner of the window to resize it Double click it to reset the plug in window to its default size The window size can be saved for this instance or globally depending on the settings ...

Страница 9: ...ATTACK HOLD RELEASE X10 Multiplies the corresponding time parameter by 10 This allows you to set time values of up to 10 seconds Tip You can use high values for triggering fadeouts M S MATRIX Switches Mid Side modes NORM Stereo MID SIDE for the Main and Aux signals AUX M S Switch Sets which signal shall trigger the ducker MAIN M S Switch Sets which signal shall be modified by the ducker Examples Y...

Страница 10: ...MAIN RELEASE When your AUX SRC is set to MAIN ATTACK S C RELEASE this toggle switch allows you to reverse OUTPUT GAIN Output Meter Adjusts the plug in s output level Although the plug in itself won t distort even with very high signal levels we recommend setting a value that won t saturate the output meter on the right of the OUTPUT GAIN dial Undo and Redo Buttons Click the undo button to quickly ...

Страница 11: ...of the LO CUT and HI CUT filters You can see a preview of the filter curves below the dial MORE SETTINGS AUTO FILTER LISTEN When enabled FILTER LISTEN will be activated when hovering over or using the LO CUT or HI CUT controls This lets you quickly check your Aux signal If the Display Mode switch is set to AUTO the display will switch to the spectrogram view accordingly when doing so MIDI TRIGGER ...

Страница 12: ...NCE DRAW WAVEFORM You can disable Waveform drawing if you have performance issues DRAW WF WHEN STOPPED When using Ducker Pro 2 with live sources you can enable this setting to force the waveform display to draw even when your DAW is not playing or recording PREFERENCES SAVE WINDOW SIZE Saves the window size of the plug in When SAVE PREFS GLOBALLY is enabled all Ducker Pro 2 instances will open wit...

Страница 13: ... to explain the function of the current control NORMAL Shows you a normal quick tooltip DISABLED Disables all tooltips Select this if you don t want to be bothered by tooltips OPEN MANUAL If you have selected the manual option when installing the plug in you can click OPEN MANUAL to open this manual CHECK FOR UPDATES This will open a browser window with the Bob Perry Audio Update Checker Click to ...

Страница 14: ...of our Ducker 1 Clean Up the Basement Sometimes you may run into trouble when you have a bass drum and the bass competing in the same range of frequencies In most cases you certainly don t want muddy low frequencies but cleanly separated instruments To clean things up a bit the Ducker can lower the volume of the bass each time the bass drum kicks in To do this we firstly need to find out the avera...

Страница 15: ...lking To get this done do the following 1 Assign the plug in to a channel or a channel group 2 Send your vocal track s signal into the Ducker s side chain 3 You might want to choose relatively high values for hold and release to achieve smooth blending of phases 4 De esser If you have vocal recordings with too strong sibilance you can use Ducker Pro 2 as a perfect de esser Unlike the usual compres...

Страница 16: ...ch the M S modes of the Main and Aux to MID Now you only process the center of the mix without touching the side signal 5 Pumping Remix of a mixed Stereo Track For a very quick solution of a pumping remix you can use the M S Matrix and filters to detect only the Bass Drum hits of a stereo track to trigger the Ducker Set up the Ducker Pro 2 like we described for de essing But instead of filtering t...

Страница 17: ...einberg Cubase VSTPlugins 32 bit AAX plug ins in 64 bit environments C Program Files Common Files Avid Audio Plug Ins MacOS VST3 plug ins Library Audio Plug Ins VST3 VST2 plug ins Library Audio Plug Ins VST2 Audio Unit plug in components Library Audio Plug Ins Components AAX plug ins Library Application Support Avid Audio Plug Ins You cannot use the Windows 64 bit version in a Windows 32 bit envir...

Страница 18: ...manual leaves no questions unanswered If you still have questions feel free to contact us support bobperry audio com Bob Perry Ducker Pro 2 Copyright 2015 2021 Jonas Peters VST is a software and trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH 20210113160816 ...

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