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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 About This Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.8.4 High Mid Filter (1 KHz - 20 kHz) 3.8.5 High Filter (5 kHz - 20 kHz) . . . 3.8.6 Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.8.7 Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.9 Micro Pitch Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.9.1 Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.9.2 Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.9.3 Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.9.4 Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.10 Stereo Delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.10.1 Tempo Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.10.2 System Tempo .
Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 About This Product The Eventide UltraChannel plug-in is a powerful audio engineering plug-in for Avid AAX, Apple Audio Units, and Steinberg VST formats. It provides you with a routable Gate, Parametric EQ, two Compressors, a Micro Pitch Shift section, and Stereo Delays.
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 UltraChannel The UltraChannel user interface is a compact yet intuitive environment that uses consistent conventions throughout. It should take you no time at all to effortlessly navigate through each part of the plug-in. UltraChannel is comprised of the following discrete components, which collectively or individually provide you a robust and precise tone-shaping and frequency-manipulation environment.
Figure 3.1: UltraChannel Input Section 3.1.3 Overload Display When a signal transient peaks above -0.1 dBfs, the area directly above this point on the bar frequency graph displays red to indicate an overload. If an overload is detected, the overload light will stay lit until it is cleared by clicking on it. 3.1.4 Input Gain The Gain control is specific to the Input module. It can be adjusted from -60 dB to +12 dB.
Figure 3.2: UltraChannel Gate Section 3.2.3 Threshold (TH) Move the slider up or down (or enter a value in the text box) to increase or decrease the threshold level for the signal. Values can be adjusted from -60 dB to 0 dB. The threshold value displays numerically beneath the Threshold slider. (For visual setup, the gate threshold can be set by viewing it against the input meter.) Signals below this threshold will be removed. 3.2.
Figure 3.3: UltraChannel Compressor Section 3.3.2 Saturation (SAT) Click the Saturation button to activate soft saturation at the Compressor’s output. This soft saturation sits after the Compressor’s gain control and allows will introduce a nonlinearity which will keep the output from going above 0 dBfs. This can also be used to add character to your peaky audio. 3.3.3 De-Ess The De-Ess control allows you to de-emphasize the hiss associated with prominent ”S”es on vocal signals.
3.3.7 Ratio The Ratio control is used to select how much gain reduction occurs for each decibel of signal level above the threshold. The range is from 1:1 (no compression) up to 20:1. To create a hard limiter, set the ratio to 20:1 and the Knee parameter to 0dB. 3.3.8 Attack Time This control allows you to adjust how quickly the Compressor reacts to signals above the selected threshold. Values range from 100 us to 50 ms. The attack value displays numerically beneath the Attack control. 3.3.
Figure 3.4: UltraChannel O-Pressor Section 3.4.3 Threshold The threshold control sets the knee level of the O-Pressor’s compression circuit. This control ranges from -50 dB to 0 dB. 3.4.4 Ratio This sets the O-Pressor’s ratio from 1:1 (off) to 100:1 compression. 3.4.5 Attack Time This control allows you to adjust how quickly the O-Pressor reacts to signals above the selected threshold. Values range from 100 us to 50 ms. The attack value displays numerically beneath the Attack control. 3.4.
3.5 Five-Band Parametric Equalizer The Equalizer module of the UltraChannel plug-in consists of five parametric filter sections that collectively cover the entire audio spectrum. An editable EQ curve graphical display renders each equalization filter curve individually, as well as a composite equalization curve for the cumulative EQ setting. Q settings may be assigned for each filter section, and several boilerplate settings are configured for each EQ section.
3.8.1 Low Filter (20 Hz - 800 Hz) The lowest frequency filter section supports the following filter types: • 6 dB/Oct Low Cut • 12 dB/Oct Low Cut • Low Shelf • Classic Peak • Modern Peak 3.8.2 Low Mid Filter (100 Hz - 2 kHz) This filter section supports the following preset EQ values: • Classic Peak • Modern Peak 3.8.3 Mid Filter (500 Hz - 800 kHz) This filter section supports the following preset EQ values: • Classic Peak • Modern Peak 3.8.
3.8.7 Gain Each filter section also has its own accompanying Gain control. Use these to set the gain or attenuation for each band’s center frequency. Each filter’s Gain may be set from -24 dB to +24 dB. The gain value is numerically displayed to the right of the Gain control for each filter section. 3.9 Micro Pitch Shift Figure 3.6: UltraChannel Micro Pitch Shift Section The Micro Pitch Shift module is unique to the Ultra-Channel plug-in.
the Ultra-Channel plug-in. This feature allows you to easily add filtered, ducked, or gated delays to any signal simply by selecting the feedback destination from a drop down list. The Stereo Delays are after the main modules, in parallel with the Micro Pitch Shift, and before the Output Module. Figure 3.7: UltraChannel Stereo Delays Section 3.10.1 Tempo Sync The Tempo Sync control allows the delays to be synchronized to the tempo, or to be set in mS.
3.11 Output The final stage in the UltraChannel plug-in is, fittingly, Output. Figure 3.8: UltraChannel Output Section The Output module is used to set the final output level for the audio being processed. 3.11.1 Transformer The final signal processing element, the Output module contains a model of a Transformer which can be driven into saturation. This analog model is after the output level control so that it can be driven if desired.
Figure 3.9: UltraChannel Preset Bar 3.12 Saving and Recalling Plug-In settings When UltraChannel is installed, a library of settings is placed into the /Documents/Eventide/UltraChannel/Presets folder. In this folder is a series of .tide files which will show up as options in Eventide’s plug-in preset bar. From inside the Eventide UltraChannel you can load or save these settings.
Chapter 4 Conclusion We hope you enjoy the Eventide UltraChannel 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.