Rough Rider Pro User’s Guide Audio Damage, Inc. Release 1.
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Introduction Thank you for purchasing Rough Rider Pro, Audio Damage's multi-band compressor plug-in. Rough Rider Pro is a three-band compressor built from three of our successful (and free) compressor, Rough Rider. Although Rough Rider Pro has precise controls that permit subtle control of signals, it excels at extreme effects. Its three-band crossover can be used like a DJ’s 3-band EQ for drastic tonal control.
System Requirements Rough Rider Pro is provided as both a VST and an AudioUnit plug-in for Windows and MacOS X. The MacOS X versions are Universal Binary, compatible with both Intel- and Motorola-based Macs. To use Rough Rider Pro, you'll need a Steinberg VST-compatible host application which conforms to the VST 2.0 specifications, and a computer capable of running it.
Operation Rough Rider Pro can be used in either a stereo or mono context in your host DAW software. If you use a stereo input, the left and right channel separation of the input signal is preserved in the output signal. Rough Rider Pro is meant to be used as an insert effect but there’s no reason you can’t use it as a send/return effect if doing so suits you. Rough Rider Pro’s knobs respond to vertical mouse-pointer movements; that is, click on a knob and drag upwards and downwards to rotate the knob.
Isolator The Isolator section of Rough Rider Pro is a DJ-style 3-band equalizer. It splits the incoming signal into three frequency ranges: high (treble), middle, and low (bass). The frequency sliders control the operating frequencies of the filters in the crossover network which divide the incoming signal into separate frequency ranges. The HIGH FREQ slider sets the dividing point between the high and middle frequencies.
for the three separate frequency bands, since the three outputs of the isolator are sent individually to the three engines. If you kill a band altogether with its switch, you’ll see the corresponding engine’s meter stay at zero. In SERIES mode, generally speaking, all three meters will be active since the signal passes through all three compressors. The GR meter shows how much the signal is being compressed, i.e. how much the compressor is affecting the signal.
RELEASE: Somewhat similar to the ATTACK knob, the RELEASE knob determines how quickly the compressor stops altering the signal when the signal’s level falls below the compression threshold. The release time should be adjusted by ear to suit the material. If the release time is too short, you’ll hear audible “pumping” as the signal level is brought up and down by the compressor. On the other hand, audible pumping is exactly why compressors are used in certain musical styles.
The INPUT and OUTPUT meters show the level of the input and output signals after they are affected by the corresponding knobs. If the OUTPUT meters blink red, you probably want to turn down the plug-in’s output level with the OUTPUT knob. The ACTIVE switch is a “soft” bypass control. When the ACTIVE switch is set to OFF, the isolator, compressors, and level controls are bypassed altogether. Use the active switch to compare Rough Rider Pro’s effect with the unaltered signal.
To cancel MIDI Learn mode without assigning a controller, hold down the SHIFT and CTRL keys (SHIFT and CMD keys on a Mac) and click in any empty area in Rough Rider Pro’s window (i.e., don’t click on another control). The white box will disappear. To remove a MIDI controller assignment from a control, SHIFT and CTRL keys, (SHIFT and CMD keys on a Mac) click on the control once so that the white box appears, then click again on the same control.
