User Manual

POLAR
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and three quarters of a beat long. When you add 5
or 6 layers with lengths that don’t match, you can
end up with some very interesting results.
Setting the length of the first pass
When you first open the POLAR window, it opens
empty, with no passes. As soon as you press the
record button, the first pass is created. So be sure to
set the Memory Cycle points before you begin
recording (or before you click the new button, if
you’re using it to create the first pass) so the first
pass is the length you want.
CHOOSING AN INPUT AND SETTING INPUT
LEVEL
Use the INPUT section of the POLAR window to
choose the input you would like to record from.
The input menu shows all of the inputs provided by
your audio hardware; these are the same inputs that
are available to regular audio tracks in the Tracks
window.
You can switch the input at any time during
POLAR recording.
Input level is determined by your audio hardware,
just like it is for a regular audio track.
PROCESSING POLAR INPUT WITH EFFECTS
Notice that the input menu lets you choose a bus
(or bus pair) as an input. This allows you to process
the live input going into POLAR with real-time
effects plug-ins in Digital Performer’s Mixing
Board. Here’s how:
1 Create an audio track or aux track.
2 For the track’s input, choose the input from
which you’ll be feeding POLAR your live audio
material.
3 For its output, choose a bus (or bus pair).
4 In the Mixing Board, choose whatever plug-ins
you would like from the track’s five plug-in inserts.
For example, you might use echo and PreAmp-1
fuzz on a live guitar input.
5 In the POLAR window, choose the same bus
from the input menu.
☛ When applying effects to input in this manner,
the effects will be recorded as part of the signal in
POLAR, so you won’t be able to remove or modify
them later on. If you’d like to have that flexibility, do
your processing on output instead (discussed
shortly).
RECORDING MULTIPLE CHANNELS INTO
POLAR
If you need to record multiple channels of audio
into POLAR, the way you set this up depends on
whether or not you’ll be recording them simulta-
neously.
If you are recording several live inputs simulta-
neously, you’ll need to create a separate track with
the appropriate input for each one and then bus
them all to POLAR on the same bus. For example,
you could assign all of their outputs to bus 1-2 and
then choose bus 1-2 from POLAR’s input menu.
Notice that this technique allows you to apply
different effects processing to each input in the
Mixing Board.
If you are going to record several inputs one at a
time (not at the same time), you can set them up as
just described above, or you can set up each one on
its own input and then just switch inputs on the fly
in POLAR during recording.
CHOOSING AN OUTPUT
Use the OUTPUT section of the POLAR window
to choose the output you would like to send
POLAR’s master stereo output mix. The output
menu shows all of the outputs provided by your