User manual LEXICON PANTHEON

[. . . ] Owner's Manual AND USER'S GUIDE PANTHEONTM VST REVERB PLUG-IN WORLD CLASS REVERB LICENSE AGREEMENT LICENSE AGREEMENT YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE USING THIS PRODUCT. INSTALLING AND USING THE PRODUCT INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. ONCE INSTALLED, THE PRODUCT MAY NOT BE RETURNED FOR YOUR FAILURE TO AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW. 1. With the purchase of this product Harman Music Group, Inc. [. . . ] Small rooms can provide envelopment, but often the sound can be too clear and present. Our solution has been to study the physics and the neurology of human hearing, to discover the mechanisms by which reflected energy patterns create the useful perceptions of distance and envelopment, and to discover how to recreate these perceptions without compromising clarity. Using knowledge of these mechanisms we can create reverberation algorithms that can give the desired acoustic impressions ­ rooms that sound plausibly real, but that give the recording engineer complete control over the sense of distance and the sense of envelopment. These rooms seem real, but they are not. They are designed and adjusted by the engineer to the specific needs of the recording. 5 COMPUTER MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS PANTHEONTM COMPUTER MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Powerful software for audio recording requires a powerful computer with the right operating system software, processor, memory, and hard drive space. Most currently sold computers already meet these requirements, or can be upgraded to be compatible with the Lexicon Pantheon Plug-in. As with all such systems, adding more RAM than the minimum will allow you to do more processing and improve performance. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR PC · Pentium® III 500 MHz or AMD K7 processor , or better (Pentium 4/AthlonTM 1 GHz or faster recommended) · Windows® XP Home or XP Professional · 128 MB RAM (512 MB recommended) · 100 MB of available hard disk space · Steinberg Cubase LE, SE, SL, or SX SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR MAC® · · · · · PowerMac®, G4 Processor (450 MHz or faster) Mac OS X version 10. 2. 8 or higher 256 MB RAM minimum (512MB recommended) 100 MB of available hard disk space Steinberg Cubase LE, SE, SL, or SX Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries. AMD, and Athlon are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Windows XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. Mac, Mac OS and Power Mac are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. Cubase and VST are registered trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. 6 PANTHEONTM NAVIGATION PANTHEON NAVIGATION SELECTING A PRESET Pantheon comes complete with 35 factory presets to choose from. These presets are designed for a variety of reverb applications such as placing the sound into a hall, chamber or room, vocal plates, or for adding just a touch of ambience to your project. Click the arrow to the right of the Preset field in the Pantheon's plug in window. Click on your desired preset and it will now become active. EDITING AND SAVING A PRESET Once a preset is selected, use Pantheon's sliders and knobs to adjust the individual parameters to the desired settings. If Pantheon is inserted in line with a track, set the reverb Level slider to 0dB and control the ratio of reverb to dry signal using the reverb Mix slider. If Pantheon is inserted in an auxiliary bus, set the reverb Mix slider to 100% and the reverb Level slider to 0dB. Control the ratio of reverb to dry signal using the auxiliary send and return controls in your recording application. Once a preset has been edited to your liking, you can save the changes as a User preset. To store changes and create a User preset, select the Save function in the Pantheon's plug-in window. 7 DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS PANTHEONTM DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS REVERB TYPE The type parameter gives six selections of reverb types including: Hall, Chamber, Room, Plate, Ambience, and Custom. Hall is a hall effect with gradual build-up, well suited to complex sounds like orchestral music. Its reverberators avoid the buildup of tinny, grainy, metallic colorations. Chamber is a complex miniature-space effect resembling an echo chamber at its smaller settings and, at its larger ones, a small performance space with a more rapid build-up of reflection density than Hall. [. . . ] Except for creating special effects, Delay settings in the range of 7-15 milliseconds are the most useful. 10 DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS ECHO LEVEL LEFT/RIGHT In many real spaces, distinct reflections and echoes are an important part of the sound. Although many natural-sounding environments use little or no echo there are some cases where they can be used to help define the size of the space or to give a slapback or doubling of the diffused sound. The echo signals are fed from the diffusion section to the left and right output with independent control of the left and right echo levels. These levels, when used, should be set to lower than the original signal with values in the range from -6 dB to -24 dB the most useful. ECHO TIME LEFT/RIGHT For natural echo sounds, the setting of the echo time is very dependent on the size of the reverberating space. [. . . ]