SPL Transient Designer 2880 Bedienungsanleitung

SPL Analog Code

® Plug-in

Manual

Transient Designer

2Transient Designer Analog Code® Plug-in

Manual

Transient Designer Analog Code® Plug-in

Model Number 2880

Manual Version 2.0 – 12 /2011

This user‘s guide contains a description of the product. It in no

way represents a guarantee of particular characteristics or results

of use. The information in this document has been carefully com-

piled and veriﬁed and, unless otherwise stated or agreed upon,

correctly describes the product at the time of packaging with this

document.

Sound Performance Lab (SPL) continuously strives to improve its

products and reserves the right to modify the product described in

this manual at any time without prior notice. This document is the

property of SPL and may not be copied or reproduced in any way, in

part or fully, without authorization by SPL electronics GmbH.

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E-Mail: software@spl.info

Website: spl.info

The SPL logo, The Analog

Code®, Vitalizer® and Atmos® are trademarks of SPL electronics GmbH.

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owners.

Transient Designer Analog Code® Plug-in

Content

Installation 4

Plugin Alliance Activation 4

System Requirements and Compatibility 4

MAC and Windows Installation 4

Introduction 5

The Analog Code 5

Transient Designer 5

Control Elements 7

On 7

Link 7

Attack 7

Sustain 7

Output Gain 8

Power LED 8

Signal LED 8

Overload LED 8

Settings A, B, C, D 9

Mouse Wheel Control 9

Applications 10

Overview 10

Drums & Percussions 11

Drums: Ambience 12

Guitars 12

Bass: Staccato vs. Legato 13

The Re-Invention Of Reverb 13

Backings 14

Keyboards & Sampler 14

Post Production 14

Mastering 14

Your Notes 15

4Transient Designer Analog Code® Plug-in

Plugin Alliance Activation

Your Analog Code plug-in must be activated in your Plugin Alliance

account. You can set it up and log into your account anytime at

http://www.plugin-alliance.com

For details about the activation process, read the Plugin Alliance

Activation Manual. The PDF ﬁle is stored in the same folder of your

computer like this product manual ﬁle.

Alternatively, the following web page provides the same informa-

tion: http://www.plugin-alliance.com/activation

System Requirements and Compatibility

For details about system requirements and supported platforms or

formats visit http://www.plugin-alliance.com/compatibility

MAC and Windows Installation

1. Check for the latest plug-in software version before installation:

http://software.spl.info/download

2. Execute the installer ﬁle and follow the instructions.

Installation

Transient Designer Analog Code® Plug-in 5

Introduction

The Analog Code

While SPL hardware products have been fascinating audio pro-

fessionals from home studio owners to mastering engineers in

the world’s most renowned facilities for years, the need for this

technology in the form of plug-ins has also been an ever-growing

demand. With the Analog Code® plug-ins we have ﬁnally accom-

plished our much desired goal: to transfer to the digital domain the

high quality we have striven to achieve with our analog processors

throughout several decades.

The ﬁrst time we ever heard a software that fulﬁlled our expecta-

tions, one of our hardware developers said to the programmers:

“you have cracked the Analog Code” — thus was coined the name

of our digital products.

Transient Designer

The Transient Designer plug-in provides a revolutionary concept

for level-independent dynamic processing. It is completely differ-

ent in principle from common compression technologies that are

based upon processing signals from a speciﬁc signal level.

Working with the Transient Designer is very simple: Attacks can be

ampliﬁed or attenuated and sustain may be prolonged or short-

ened. However, the possibilities for studio and live applications

are seemingly endless.

The technical foundation for processes inside of the analog para-

gon is SPL‘s Differential Envelope Technology (DET). DET allows

level-independent dynamic processing by calculating differences

in generated envelopes.

DET represents a radically dif ferent approach to dynamics process-

ing, both from the technical and creative way of signal processing:

thanks to the level-independent processing the setting of a thresh-

old is not necessary. Other common controls, for example param-

eters for time-constants are set automatically—and in a musical

manner as they follow the characteristics of the input signal. >

6Transient Designer Analog Code® Plug-in

After all, only two controls allow to completely reshape the attack

and sustain characteristics of a sound. Attack can be ampliﬁed or

attenuated by up to 15 dB while sustain can be ampliﬁed or attenu-

ated by up to 24 dB.

Thus, in a very obvious and simple way, the Transient Designer

opens a whole new dimension in dynamic processing with entirely

new, stunning and vast possibilities for dynamic manipulation

and processing that cannot even be duplicated with several daisy-

chained, conventional compressors or other dynamics devices.

The Transient Designer plug-in is modeled from the SPL RackPack

module. A new feature of this module in comparison to the stand-

alone hardware versions is the output gain control that allows to

compensate for level changes after processing the signal. This

ensures a simple and safe adjustment of levels and helps avoiding

internal clipping.

Introduction

Transient Designer Analog Code® Plug-in 7

Control Elements

With the ON button you can turn the Transient Designer on or off.

The ON button is illuminated when the plug-in is activated. You can

also click on the Power-LED to activate or bypass the plug-in.

Link

The LINK mode can not be activated when a mono track is pro-

cessed. Thus the LINK mode can only be activated when a stereo

track is processed. In that case the louder of the two stereo tracks

determines the control signals (according to ATTACK and SUSTAIN

settings). If the LINK mode is not activated for a stereo track, left

and right channel are processed independently according to their

individual levels.

Attack

With the ATTACK control you can amplify or attenuate

the attack of a signal by up to 15 dB. Positive ATTACK

values emphasize attack events, negative ATTACK

values smooth out the attack envelopes of sound

events. For an extensive description and explanation of the pos-

sible applications of the ATTACK control please refer to “Applica-

tions” on page 9 cont.

Sustain

With the SUSTAIN control you can amplify or attenuate

the sustain of a signal by up to 24 dB. Positive SUSTAIN

values lengthen the sustain, negative SUSTAIN values

shorten the sustain. For an extensive description and

explanation of the possible applications of the SUSTAIN control

please refer to “Applications”, page 9 cont.

8Transient Designer Analog Code® Plug-in

Control Elements

Output Gain

The OUTPUT GAIN control allows you to reduce the

output signal by up to -22dB or boost it by up to +6dB.

This ensures that following devices receive an opti-

mized level. The center position at 12-o‘clock equals

0 dB output. If the OVL-LEDs keeps ﬂashing reduce the

Output Level to avoid internal clipping.

Power LED

With a click on the POWER LED you can turn the Tran-

sient Designer™ on or off. The POWER LED is illumi-

nated when the plug-in is activated. You can also click the ON

button to activate or bypass the Transient Designer.

Signal LED

The SIG. LED indicates that an audio signal reaches the input. In

the analog world this LED helps the operator especially in complex

setups to determine immediately whether the Transient Designer™

actually receives any signal. In the digital domain it simply tells you

that the channel where you inserted the plug contains a signal that

is loud enough to ensure correct processing.

Overload LED

The OVL LED indicates internal clipping. Wether the clipping is

audible or not depends on the kind of audio material you are pro-

cessing. Nevertheless it should be avoided that the OVL LED illumi-

nates. Use the Output Gain control to reduce the output level if the

OVL-LEDs keeps ﬂashing.

Transient Designer Analog Code® Plug-in 9

Settings A, B, C, D

The settings feature allows to store four different sets

of adjustments (A, B, C, D). Much faster than with the

usual save and recall preset dialogs, the respective

current setting is stored automatically when you switch to another

setting – to recall previous settings by just one click.

For example, leaving setting A (by calling another setting) stores

the current parameter setting under A, calling B restores the last

adjustment made under B.

Settings A, B, C, D can also be included into the automation of

host applications to apply different sets of parameters to different

parts of a song.

Mouse Wheel Control

All SPL Analog Code plug-ins support mouse wheel control for

rotary controls and faders. Place the mouse cursor over a rotary

control or fader and move the wheel or scroll ball of your mouse

to adjust the control or fader. Hold the CTRL (Windows) or APPLE/

COMMAND key while moving the wheel or scroll ball for ﬁne adjust-

ments with higher control resolution.

Control Elements

10 Transient Designer Analog Code® Plug-in

Applications

Overview

The Transient Designer™ RTAS/AU/VST plug-in can be used with

any host application that supports VST (i. e. Cubase, Nuendo, Wav-

eLab, ...), AU (Apple Logic), or RTAS (Digidesign ProTools).

You can manipulate the attack and sustain characteristics of a

signal regardless of level in the most intuitive and simple way. Usu-

ally equalizers are used to separate instruments in a mix – the tonal

aspect of the signal is considered, but not the temporal aspect.

The Transient Designer now opens this next dimension in signal

processing. By manipulating the attack and sustain curves of a

sound event, the mix can be made to sound more transparent.

Instruments can be mixed at lower levels while still maintaining

their positions in the mix—but occupying less space.

The following examples are given as suggestions and examples.

The described procedures with speciﬁc instruments can of course

be transferred to others which are not mentioned here.

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