User manual ARBORETUM HYPERPRISM-VST

[. . . ] Hyperprism-VST Manual Table of Contents Copyright ©1999 by Arboretum Systems, Inc. This documentation may not, in whole or in part, be copied, reproduced or translated without prior written consent of Arboretum Systems. Hyperprism-VST for MacOS VST Plug-in Compatible Applications Real Time Digital Audio Signal Processing Software by Arboretum Systems Inc. This documentation current for Hyperprism-VST version 1. 5. 5, last updated 11/10/98. Copyright ©1997, 1998 by Arboretum Systems, Inc. [. . . ] The role of Parameter Speed Change is to interpolate between mouse movements in order to lessen the unwanted side-effects. A value of 100% makes all delay values coming from the Blue Window take effect instantaneously. This will often result in soft clicking when rapid mouse movements are made. A setting of 1% corresponds to the slowest change possible. Parameter Speed Change can be used as an effect in itself. Notice how the delay progresses depending on different settings in the Parameter Speed Change parameter. High Parameter Speed Change settings can result in extreme tape-shuttling effects. Mix The Mix slider sets the volume balance between the original sound and the overall volume of the repeats. Delay Rate Change Hyperprism 2 only. Controls how quickly the Delay time parameter moves. At a 0% setting delay rate will not change. At low settings pitch changes will occur more slowly. At higher settings faster pitch changes will be heard when adjusting the Delay settings. HyperVerb (TM) HyperVerb offers a significant improvement in sound quality over previous software reverbs. It simply sounds more realistic than any previous attempt. The two most important improvements are significantly increased echo density and virtually no coloration in the late response, all while running in real-time on a modest processor (e. g. One or both of these deficiencies has plagued most digital reverberators since their initial development more than 30 years ago. HyperVerb features super smooth impulse response and sounds great on percussive tracks. HyperVerb won't color your sound unnaturally, gives you lots of parameter control and dense reflections without ringing or metallic sounding artifacts. Want to know more about why HyperVerb sounds better, and view hard evidence that proves it?Click here for our report on how HyperVerb really stacks up against its competitors. Naturally there's full Blue Window gestural control over all effect parameters, but if you're after a naturalistic effect it's usually better to just dial up the perfect setting, save it as a preset, then treat your file with all the parameter settings staying constant. Pro Tools/Avid users: Although there's only one H-DAS HyperVerb plug-in in your DAE folder, the HyperVerb effect shows up twice in the AudioSuite menu as separate Mono HyperVerb and Stereo HyperVerb selections. Choose according to the number of audio channels to be processed. Note that there is no direct mono-to-stereo processing under the AudioSuite format. [. . . ] Lower sample rates lose high frequency response, and 8-bit storage causes a reduction of your sound's dynamic range, resulting in noisier, "grainy-sounding" audio, especially during softer passages. If you are creating 8-bit audio (for example, for multimedia or Internet distribution), you will get best results if you do all your signal processing at 16-bits and 44. 1 or 48 kHz, and then create an 8-bit file at the end of the process. The distortion of low-level signals can be minimized by normalizing your 16-bit file before 8-bit conversion, or better still, by using dynamic range compression or manual gain-riding to make soft parts of your sounds louder before reducing their resolution. The use of dither can improve the sound quality of 8-bit audio, although at the expense of a slightly noisier signal. [. . . ]