User manual SERATO PARAMETRIC EQ

[. . . ] If anything is missing please contact your dealer immediately. 1x Serato plug-ins Installation CD 1x Parametric EQ User Manual 1x Installation Guide + Serial Number System Requirements The following are the minimum system requirements for all of the Rane Series plug-ins. Digidesign Pro Tools HD or Digidesign VENUE Mac OSX or Windows 2000 or better iLok key required for authorization What is the Rane Series Parametric EQ? The Rane Series Parametric EQ is a TDM plug-in for the Digidesign Pro Tools HD or VENUE platforms. It combines the pristine sound quality and excellent features of Rane's top-of-the-line hardware, the PEQ 55, with the ease of a functional graphical user interface. [. . . ] As the frequency increases beyond this filter, the output phase steadily lags more and more behind the input. This example also clearly shows the effect of the tone controls and the cut filters on the response curve. For this example only band filter 7 is enabled, the high-cut is set to around 10 kHz and the low-cut to around 12 Hz. 0° L Trailin g ding ea 180° The gain vs. frequency grid also displays a shaded curve which represents the soloed gain change your selected filter is causing. This may not necessarily line up with the graphical curve, especially if the point is sitting over another point or is working against another adjustment. For an example of this see the screenshot on the previous page. 6 The Parametric EQ Interface Using Filter Selections The Parametric EQ allows you to alter the characteristics of several filters at once by using a selection of filter bands. Filters in the selection are displayed with green filled icons (filters 5 and 8 are part of the selection in the screenshot above). A filter can be added to a selection by command-clicking (control-clicking in Windows) its icon in the band filters' panel. Only enabled filters can be added to the selection. This shortcut can also be used to remove a filter from the selection. Note: Holding the command key (control in Windows) and dragging a box in the band filters' panel toggles the selection membership of the enclosed enabled filters. If you move one of the filter bands in the selection, all of the bands in the selection will move. Filter selection operations only apply to movements of the filter icons. Adjustments of the frequency, gain or bandwidth slider will only affect the current filter, regardless of whether it is a member of the filter selection or not. Filter selections are really useful for situations where you may have several musical boosts in an EQ, but a couple of deep dips or other surgical type cuts that you don't want to move. The example above is from a session where the kick drum had an annoying resonance at around 130 Hz but needed reinforcing down around 50 Hz and up around 3 kHz. By making a deep cut with very low bandwidth at 130 Hz we are able to remove the resonance. The boosts are less surgical and more for musical effect; they have a broader bandwidth for a softer effect on the sound. By linking these 2 musical boosts we can then sweep them around to best fit them `in tune' with the rest of the track, without changing the other filters. Note: Holding the shift key when clicking on a filter in the selection will limit movements of the filters in the selection to either vertical movements only (gain changes) or horizontal movements only (frequency changes). Note: Holding the shift and command keys (shift and control keys in Windows) when clicking on a filter in the selection and moving the mouse horizontally will adjust the bandwidth of all filters in the selection. 7 The Parametric EQ Interface Band Filter Options The band filter options let you enable or disable, and change the type of each of the 10 bands. Each band also has a corresponding overload LED, and an icon representing the filter type, similar to the ones in the band filters' panel. [. . . ] Limits movements of a filter to either vertical movements only (gain changes) or horizontal movements only (frequency changes). If the filter is a member of the selection then the adjustments will be applied to all filters in the selection. Adjusts both gains simultaneously, allowing you to adjust the gain structure (for example to avoid internal clipping) while keeping the same overall gain. Shift-dragging the input or output gain Option-clicking a slider or knob Command-dragging a slider or knob Pressing tab or shift-tab Alt-clicking a slider or knob Control-dragging a slider or knob Resets the control to its default value. Moves the control in `fine' increments. [. . . ]