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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 About This Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 About This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 2 2 Registration, Activation, and Installation 2.1 Registering Your Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Activating Your License . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Installing Your Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 Moving or Removing an Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.8 3.7.5 3.7.6 3.7.7 3.7.8 Saving 3.8.1 3.8.2 Global vs. Current . . . . . . . Proper Snapshot Hygiene . . . Restoring Global Defaults . . . Automating Snapshots . . . . . and Recalling Plug-In settings Mix Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . Key Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 About This Product The Eventide Octavox plug-in is a powerful audio engineering plug-in for Avid AAX, Apple Audio Units, and Steinberg VST formats. Octavox brings you our time-based diatonic harmonizer technology presented in an easy to use and unique interface. Eight voices of pitch-shifting and delay are combined in the Notation Grid™ to let you create simple harmonies or complex rhythmic sequences.
• Integrated mixer for placing voices on the sound stage • Complete automation support for Snapshots 1.2 About This Manual While we’re very confident you’ll be able to use your new plug-in without reading this manual, we urge you to have a quick look. There are several unique features and interesting options presented in Octavox and a cursory glance will illuminate any features you may overlook. We’ll try to keep it all relevant and highlight any tips or cool tricks for you.
Chapter 2 Registration, Activation, and Installation Eventide uses PACE’s ilok.com licensing system, with or without an iLok hardware dongle, to license our plug-in products. Each license provides two activations which can reside on either your computer or on an iLok license dongle. Once you’ve purchased your plug-in, you’ll need to register it on Eventide’s website, activate your license, and install the plug-in on to your computer. 2.
2.3 Installing Your Plug-In You should have been given a link to the Eventide Native plug-in installer when you purchased your plugin, but if you haven’t, you can find downloads for all of Eventide’s Native Plug-Ins at http://https: //www.eventideaudio.com/products/plugins. Please download and launch the correct installer for your system. Once you’ve launched the plug-in installer, it will take you through several pages of options.
Chapter 3 Eventide Octavox This chapter details the overall operation of the plug-in as well as what each of the parameters do. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with what each parameter does and be sure to read the section on Snapshots. Snapshots are a new and unique part of the product and may take a little getting used to in order to utilize them fully. The Octavox user interface (below) is a compact yet intuitive environment that uses consistent conventions throughout.
3.3 Pitch and Delay Controls Derived from such flagship effects processors as the Orville™ and Eclipse, Octavox produces high quality harmony effects available from Eventide. An extensive set of useful parameters is offered to give you the freedom to create the sound you need, quickly. Each of these parameters is detailed below. 3.3.1 Voice Select More of tool than a parameter, Voice Select allows you to bring voices forward when manipulating them in the Notation Grid.
3.3.7 Pitch Interval This parameter sets the interval of diatonic pitch shift that is applied to the individual voice. Up to 2 octaves are available in diatonic steps and appropriate intervals are created based on the selected key and scale. If you’re trying to create harmonies that will always be in key, use these parameters. These pitches can be combined with the Pitch Cents parameter. The two values will be added together to create a final pitch shift amount. 3.3.
• Off – incoming MIDI notes are ignored. • Routed – each time a new note is received, the enabled voices’ intervals are set to the currently pressed keys. The lowest note is mapped to the appropriate interval for Voice 1, the next lowest to the appropriate interval for Voice 2, etc. If less than eight notes are pressed, the notes will be mapped repeatedly until all the voices’ intervals are tuned. For example, playing a single note will map to all eight voices.
3.5.1 Input This parameter allows you to adjust the signal level in to this plug-in. Up to 12 dB of gain is provided to recover low-level signals. 3.5.2 Output This parameter sets the final output level of the plug-in. Up to 12 dB of gain is available. 3.5.3 Mix This parameter sets the overall balance of wet (effected) signal to dry (original) signal. 3.6 Notation Grid The Notation Grid takes a very unique and musical approach to creating pitches or rhythmic sequences.
3.6.1 Tempo Based Enabling this button will cause the delay times to be calculated based on the Tempo parameter. As the tempo value changes, the delays will be scaled appropriately to maintain the rhythm. When this parameter is off, changes in the Tempo will be ignored. Note that you can have tempo-based delays and ignore the plug-in host’s Tempo (below). 3.6.2 Key This parameter sets the Key that will be used as the pitch reference for scales and intervals. 3.6.
3.7 Snapshots Eventide Octavox incorporates our unique Snapshots feature that allows you to quickly and easily load, save and even automate up to 32 of your favorite Octavox ”scenes.” They’re very much like presets, but you can load them directly from the plug-in panel. This means that you get the live performance functionality offered from our high-end hardware processors directly in your DAW. 3.7.1 Loading To load a Snapshot, simply click on any of the numbered buttons at any time.
3.7.5 Global vs. Current There are two kinds of Snapshots, Global and Current, and they are grouped in banks of 16. During installation, the Global bank is created as a preference file on your hard drive. You can overwrite each of these 16 defaults at any time and they will be available for every instance of the Octavox plug-in, on every DAW session on the hard drive. Use these like your favorite 16 Octavox effects.
3.8.2 Key Lock Located at the top right of the plug-in next to the Live Mode and Mix Lock buttons is a button called ”Key Lock”, which performs a similar function to Mix Lock. Pressing this will keep the key and scale related parameters the same as you flip between presets, meaning that all preset values will be modified to stay in the key you currently have selected.
Chapter 4 Conclusion We hope you enjoy the Eventide Octavox plug-in and put it to good use in all of your mixes. Please be sure to check over Eventide’s other Native Plug-In offerings for more unique and interesting effects.
