Quickstart Guide : Strip and Bus Tools - Plug-ins
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handle and dragging with the mouse. Handles of bands which are not selected are displayed as small gray
squares. Grabbing and drag a handle selects the band.
The frequency response display uses two separate gain scales. The left hand, blue scale shows the scale used for
individual bands. The right hand, gray scale shows the scale for the overall EQ curve. Both scales automatically
adapt their range according to the settings of the curves they apply to. The range of the left and the right scale my
be different. The ranges for the individual bands can be /- 6 dB, +/- 12 dB or +/- 24 dB, but the scale for the
overall curve may go up to +/- 72 dB.
The upper area of the
Big Graph Window
provides an
On/Off
switch and buttons to select and indicate the char-
acteristic (High-Pass, Low Shelf, Peak, High Shelf or Low-Pass) for the selected EQ band together with numeric dis-
plays of Gain, Frequency and Bandwidth.
Frequency and Bandwidth setting.
Shortcuts
•
Double-click on a handle to reset the gain of this band to unity.
•
The
Tab
key switches between EQ bands.
•
Clicking and dragging a handle with the right mouse button alters the Q (bandwidth) of this band.
•
Hold the
Ctrl
key while dragging with the left mouse button to lock the gain parameter and only change
the frequency.
•
Hold the
Shift
key while dragging with the left mouse button to lock the frequency parameter and only
change the gain.
Bus Tools
Bus Tools
are very similar to
Strip Tools
but are specifically designed to be inserted into busses rather than chan-
nels.
Bus Tools
combine the most frequently used ‘mastering’ processing blocks you find on the output busses of
a mixing console in a single plug-in, including an advanced limiter. Like Strip Tools multiple instances of the Bus
Tools plug-in are displayed in one large window. The number of instances displayed is user selectable.
IMPORTANT! Pre-Anticipation (PA) and Delay Compensation (DC)
Delay compensation adds a delay determined by the Pre-Anticipation delay setting to all channels passing
through a Bus Tools plug-in NOT selected for processing.
If two or more Bus Tools are inserted in a Bus with PA & DC on, the delay times of each Bus Tools will add together
for all channels:
Big Graph floating Window
