Owner’s Manual AND USER'S GUIDE PANTHEON™ VST REVERB PLUG-IN WORLD CLASS REVERB
PANTHEON™ LICENSE AGREEMENT LICENSE AGREEMENT YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE USING THIS PRODUCT. INSTALLING AND USING THE PRODUCT INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. ONCE INSTALLED, THE PRODUCT MAY NOT BE RETURNED FOR YOUR FAILURE TO AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW. 1. GRANT OF LICENSE. With the purchase of this product Harman Music Group, Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 History 4 The Pantheon Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 ™ REVERB OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Using Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PANTHEON™ INTRODUCTION HISTORY In 1971 Lexicon released the first Digital Audio product ever to the world, a simple delay line called the Delta-T 101. Since this time Lexicon has been at the forefront of digital audio. In the late 1970’s after finishing his Ph.D. in Physics, Dr. David Griesinger developed one of the first digital reverberation devices. The product eventually became the Lexicon 224 reverberator.
REVERB OVERVIEW USING REVERB Music recorded in a typical studio sounds lifeless. In a performance space the music is enhanced by reverberation, but even in an ideal space capturing that reverberation can be difficult. Lexicon reverberators solve this problem by enabling you to generate exactly the reverberance that your recordings call for. The Pantheon Reverb Plug-in is designed to create, through software, the acoustics of any real or conceivable space.
COMPUTER MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS PANTHEON™ COMPUTER MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Powerful software for audio recording requires a powerful computer with the right operating system software, processor, memory, and hard drive space. Most currently sold computers already meet these requirements, or can be upgraded to be compatible with the Lexicon Pantheon Plug-in. As with all such systems, adding more RAM than the minimum will allow you to do more processing and improve performance.
PANTHEON™ NAVIGATION PANTHEON NAVIGATION SELECTING A PRESET Pantheon comes complete with 35 factory presets to choose from. These presets are designed for a variety of reverb applications such as placing the sound into a hall, chamber or room, vocal plates, or for adding just a touch of ambience to your project. To select presets, do the following: 1. Click the arrow to the right of the Preset field in the Pantheon's plug in window. 2. Click on your desired preset and it will now become active.
DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS PANTHEON™ DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS REVERB TYPE The type parameter gives six selections of reverb types including: Hall, Chamber, Room, Plate, Ambience, and Custom. Hall is a hall effect with gradual build-up, well suited to complex sounds like orchestral music. Its reverberators avoid the buildup of tinny, grainy, metallic colorations.
DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS Custom is a effect suited to achieve unnatural or special application reverbs where a wide parameter range is needed. PRE-DELAY Pre-Delay controls the amount of delay time that precedes the initial sound from the reverb. This parameter is used to place the reverberated signal in time with respect to the unprocessed signal. Natural settings for this are based on the size of the environment and range from 0 to 19 milliseconds.
DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS PANTHEON™ DAMPING In real rooms, the timbre of the reverberant tail becomes darker over time due to the air’s absorption of high-frequency sound energy. The Damping control models that behavior with even greater range of control than could be achieved in any physical space. Setting the cutoff frequency in the Damping parameter within a range between 2 kHz to 6 kHz is the most natural sounding with larger spaces needing a lower damping cutoff frequency.
DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS ECHO LEVEL LEFT/RIGHT In many real spaces, distinct reflections and echoes are an important part of the sound. Although many natural-sounding environments use little or no echo there are some cases where they can be used to help define the size of the space or to give a slapback or doubling of the diffused sound. The echo signals are fed from the diffusion section to the left and right output with independent control of the left and right echo levels.
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