User Manual

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WELCOME
Congratulations on your purchase of iZotope Spectron. Simply put, Spectron lets you make sounds that
just weren’t possible before: spectrally morph, delay, pan, smear, and filter sound with fully sweepable,
triggerable, and automatable parameters.
This guide will get you up and running with Spectron quickly. To learn more about Spectron’s features, see
“Getting More Help” at the end of this guide..
INSTALLATION
Mac OS X
1. Insert the iZotope Spectron disc into your CD ROM drive.
2. Double-click on the iZotope Spectron disc icon on your desktop to view the disc’s contents.
3. To start the setup program, double-click on the Install iZotope Spectron icon.
4. Follow the steps in the setup program.
Windows
1. Insert the iZotope Spectron disc into your CD-ROM drive.
2. If the Install Spectron web page does not appear automatically, double-click on the CD ROM drive’s icon
in Windows Explorer, and double-click on the “index.html” or “index” file.
3. Click the link “Install Spectron” to start the Spectron setup.
4. If you are asked to “Open” or “Save” the file, choose “Open”.
5. Follow the steps in the setup program.
LAUNCH
Spectron is a plug-in which means it must be opened inside of an audio application often called a “host
application”. Below are directions of one way to open Spectron in common host applications. Other
applications have similar methods for loading a plug-in. Please consult your host application documentation
for specific instructions.
Pro Tools LE
1. Switch to the “Edit View”.
2. Show the “Inserts View” under the “Edit View”.
3. Under “Inserts” on a track, click one of the empty plug-in slots.
4. Select “multi-channel plug-in” and “iZotope Spectron (stereo)”.
Pro Tools TDM
1. Switch to the “Edit View”.
2. Show the “Inserts View” under the “Edit View”.
3. Under “Inserts” on a track, click one of the empty plug-in slots.
4. Select “TDM”, “multi-channel plug-in”, and “iZotope Spectron (stereo)”.
Live
1. In the “View” menu, select “Plug-In Effects”.
2. From the list under “Plug-Ins” double-click on “iZotope Spectron”.
3. To view the Spectron interface, click the wrench icon in the upper-left corner.
MOTU Digital Performer
1. Open the “Mixing Board”.
2. Click and hold on an empty insert at the top of a track.
3. Select “iZotope Spectron”.
Logic
1. In the “Arrange Window”, click on an audio track to select it.
2. On the left of the window, click and hold on an empty insert.
3. Select either the mono or stereo folder in the menu and then “iZotope Spectron”
English
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