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Table Of Contents
- Soundtrack Pro 3 Effects Reference
- Contents
- Introduction to the Soundtrack Pro Plug-Ins
- Delay Effects
- Delay Designer
- Getting to Know the Delay Designer Interface
- Getting to Know Delay Designer’s Main Display
- Using Delay Designer’s View Buttons
- Zooming and Navigating Delay Designer’s Tap Display
- Creating Taps in Delay Designer
- Selecting Taps in Delay Designer
- Moving and Deleting Taps in Delay Designer
- Using Delay Designer’s Tap Toggle Buttons
- Editing Parameters in Delay Designer’s Tap Display
- Aligning Delay Designer Tap Values
- Editing Filter Cutoff in Delay Designer’s Tap Display
- Editing Pan in Delay Designer’s Tap Display
- Editing Taps in Delay Designer’s Tap Parameter Bar
- Editing Delay Designer Taps with the Shortcut Menu
- Resetting Delay Designer Tap Values
- Synchronizing Taps in Delay Designer
- Using Delay Designer’s Master Section
- Working with Delay Designer in Surround
- Stereo Delay
- Tape Delay
- Delay Designer
- Distortion Effects
- Dynamics Processors
- Equalizers
- Filter Effects
- Imaging Processors
- Metering Tools
- Modulation Effects
- Pitch Effects
- Reverb Effects
- Space Designer Convolution Reverb
- Getting to Know the Space Designer Interface
- Working with Space Designer’s Impulse Response Parameters
- Working with Space Designer’s Envelope and EQ Parameters
- Working with Space Designer’s Filter
- Working with Space Designer’s Global Parameters
- Using Space Designer’s Input Slider
- Using Space Designer’s Latency Compensation Feature
- Using Space Designer’s Definition Parameter
- Using Space Designer’s Rev Vol Compensation
- Using Space Designer’s Output Sliders
- Working with Pre-Dly (Predelay) in Space Designer
- Using Space Designer’s IR Start Parameter
- Using Space Designer’s Spread Parameters
- Automating Space Designer
- Specialized Effects and Utilities
- Utilities and Tools
• Sum and Max buttons: Determine whether a summed or maximum level is displayed
in the Analyzer results in the main display. These buttons are relevant only when
multiple channels are selected with the channel buttons.
• Channel buttons: Used to select a single channel or a combination of channels for
metering. The number and appearance of these buttons varies when different surround
modes are chosen.
• View fields: Alter the way that values are shown in the Analyzer by setting the maximum
level displayed (Top) and the overall dynamic range (Range).
• Mode buttons: Determine how levels are displayed. You can choose from Peak, Slow
RMS, or Fast RMS characteristics.
• The two RMS modes show the effective signal average, and provide a representative
overview of perceived volume levels.
• The Peak mode shows level peaks accurately.
• Scale (shown in the main display): Indicates the scale of levels. Adjusting the scale is
useful when analyzing highly compressed material, as it makes it easier to identify small
level differences. Drag vertically on the scale to adjust it.
Using the Surround MultiMeter Goniometer
A goniometer helps you to judge the coherence of the stereo image and determine phase
differences between the left and right channels. Phase problems are easily spotted as
trace cancelations along the center line (M—mid/mono).
The idea of the goniometer was born with the advent of early two-channel oscilloscopes.
To use such devices as goniometers, users would connect the left and the right stereo
channels to the X and Y inputs, while rotating the display by 45° to produce a useful
visualization of the signal’s stereo phase. The signal trace slowly fades to black, imitating
the retro glow of the tubes found in older goniometers, while also enhancing the
readability of the display.
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