User manual KURZWEIL KSP8 ALGORITHM REFERENCE REV A

[. . . ] Kurzweil KSP8 Algorithm Reference October 1, 2001 ©2001 All rights reserved. Kurzweil is a product line of Young Chang Co. Kurzweil, KSP8, KDFX, LaserVerb, and Pitcher are trademarks of Young Chang Co. All other products and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. [. . . ] Parameters for PolyDistort + EQ Parameters Page 1 Wet/Dry Dist Drive 0 to 100 %wet Off, -79. 0 to 48. 0 dB Out Gain Off, -79. 0 to 24. 0 dB Page 2 Curve 1 Curve 2 Curve 3 Curve 4 0 to 127 % 0 to 127 % 0 to 127 % 0 to 127 % Curve 5 Curve 6 Curve 7 Curve 8 0 to 127 % 0 to 127 % 0 to 127 % 0 to 127 % 164 Page 3 LP0 Freq LP1 Freq LP2 Freq LP3 Freq LP4 Freq 8 to 25088 Hz 8 to 25088 Hz 8 to 25088 Hz 8 to 25088 Hz 8 to 25088 Hz LP5 Freq LP6 Freq LP7 Freq LP8 Freq 8 to 25088 Hz 8 to 25088 Hz 8 to 25088 Hz 8 to 25088 Hz Page 4 Bass Gain Bass Freq Mid1 Gain Mid1 Freq Mid1 Width -79. 0 to 24. 0 dB 8 to 25088 Hz -79. 0 to 24. 0 dB 8 to 25088 Hz 0. 010 to 5. 000 oct Treb Gain Treb Freq Mid2 Gain Mid2 Freq Mid2 Width -79. 0 to 24. 0 dB 8 to 25088 Hz -79. 0 to 24. 0 dB 8 to 25088 Hz 0. 010 to 5. 000 oct Wet/Dry Out Gain Dist Drive This is a simple mix of the distorted signal relative to the dry undistorted input signal. The overall gain or amplitude at the output of the effect. For distortion, it is often necessary to turn the output gain down as the distortion drive is turned up. Applies gain to the input prior to distortion. It is the basic "distortion drive" control. Normally clipping would be bad, but the distortion algorithm tends to smooth things out. Still, considering that for some settings of the other parameters you would have to back off the gain to -48 dB in order to get a not very distorted sound for full scale input, you should go easy on this amount. The curvature of the individual distortion stages. 0% is no curvature (no distortion at all). At 100%, the curve bends over smoothly and becomes perfectly flat right before it goes into clipping. These are the one pole lowpass controls. LP0 Freq handles the initial lowpass prior to the first distortion stage. The other lowpass controls follow their respective distortion stages. With all lowpasses out of the circuit (set to the highest frequency), the sound tends to be too bright and raspy. With less distortion drive, less filtering is needed. If you turn off a distortion stage (set to 0%), you should turn off the lowpass filter by setting it to the highest frequency. The amount of boost or cut that the bass shelving filter should apply to the low frequency signals in dB. Every increase of 6 dB approximately doubles the amplitude of the signal. Positive values boost the bass signal below the specified frequency. Negative values cut the bass signal below the specified frequency. The center frequency of the bass shelving filter in intervals of one semitone. The amount of boost or cut that the treble shelving filter should apply to the high frequency signals in dB. [. . . ] The choices are Bypass (no compression), Comp1, Comp2, Comp3, and Comp4. For a conventional routing, you might use only one side chain to compress all the channels by the same amount. A more interesting configuration might be to compress the front left and right channels together, 327 the surround channels together, and the center and LFE channels separately. Of course very unusual compressor routings are possible. [. . . ]