SPL Analog Code™ Plug-in Manual Transient Designer™
Manual Transient Designer The Analog Code plug-in Native Version (RTAS, AU and VST): Order # 2880 TDM Version (includes RTAS, VST and AU): Order # 2881 Manual Version 1.1 – 1 /2009 This user‘s guide contains a description of the product. It in no way represents a guarantee of particular characteristics or results of use.
Contents Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAC Installation, Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Analog Code, Transient Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5 Control Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Installation MAC & WIN Installation Thank you for your purchase of the Transient Designer plug-in. The native version includes licenses for systems supporting RTAS (Digidesign ProTools), VST (i. e. Cubase, Nuendo, WaveLab, ...), and AU (Apple Logic). The ProTools TDM version includes licenses for systems supporting TDM, RTAS, VST and AU plug-ins. Therefore, the native formats can be installed additionally to the TDM version with the same license, for example to support other audio softwares, too.
Introduction The Analog Code For more than two decades, SPL of Germany is well-known as manufacturer of handmade analog hardware processors. Innovations like the Transient Designer are accompanied by a complete analog range from frontend to backend and culminate in the Mastering Series with exemplary specs thanks to SPL’s proprietary 120 V rails technology.
Introduction The technical foundation for processes inside of the analog paragon is SPL‘s Differential Envelope Technology (DET). DET allows level-independent dynamic processing by calculating differences in generated envelopes. DET represents a radically different approach to dynamics processing, both from the technical and creative way of signal processing: thanks to the level-independent processing the setting of a threshold is not necessary.
Control Elements On With the ON button you can turn the Transient Designer on or off. The ON button is illuminated when the plug-in is activated. You can also click on the Power-LED to activate or bypass the plug-in. Link The LINK mode can not be activated when a mono track is processed. Thus the LINK mode can only be activated when a stereo track is processed. In that case the louder of the two stereo tracks determines the control signals (according to ATTACK and SUSTAIN settings).
Control Elements Output Gain The OUTPUT GAIN control allows you to reduce the output signal by up to -22dB or boost it by up to +6dB. This ensures that following devices receive an optimized level. The center position at 12-o‘clock equals 0 dB output. If the OVL-LEDs keeps flashing reduce the Output Level to avoid internal clipping. Power LED With a click on the POWER LED you can turn the Transient Designer™ on or off. The POWER LED is illuminated when the plug-in is activated.
Control Elements Settings A, B, C, D The settings feature allows to store four different sets of adjustments (A, B, C, D). Much faster than with the usual save and recall preset dialogs, the respective current setting is stored automatically when you switch to another setting – to recall previous settings by just one click. For example, leaving setting A (by calling another setting) stores the current parameter setting under A, calling B restores the last adjustment made under B.
Applications Overview The Transient Designer™ RTAS/AU/VST plug-in can be used with any host application that supports VST (i. e. Cubase, Nuendo, WaveLab, ...), AU (Apple Logic), or RTAS (Digidesign ProTools). You can manipulate the attack and sustain characteristics of a signal regardless of level in the most intuitive and simple way. Usually equalizers are used to separate instruments in a mix – the tonal aspect of the signal is considered, but not the temporal aspect.
Applications Drums & Percussions The processing of drum and percussion sounds is probably the Transient Designer’s most typical application. • Emphasize the attack of a kick drum or a loop to increase the power and presence in the mix. • Shorten the sustain period of a snare or a reverb-flag in a very musical way to obtain more transparency in the mix. • Shorten toms or overheads without physically damping them.
Applications Drums: Ambience If your drums happen to sound as if the room mics have been placed in a shoe closet, the Transient Designer can immediately turn that sound into the ambience of an empty warehouse. Just send the room mics stereo channels through the Transient Designer and crank the ATTACK control to emphasize the first wave. Now slowly increase SUSTAIN values to bring up a “all-buttonsin-1176-sound“ room tone—but without pumping cymbals.
Applications Bass: Staccato vs. Legato Speaking of bass: Imagine a too sluggishly played bass track ... you may not have to re-record it: Reduce the SUSTAIN until you can hear clear gaps between the downbeats—the legato will turn into a nice staccato, driving the rhythm-section forward.
Applications Backings A common problem especially with tracks that are recorded and mixed in different studios: Backings lack of ambience, and finding a reverb that “matches” takes time ... so simply emphasize the original ambience by turning up the Transient Designer™’s SUSTAIN control. And the opposite problem, too much ambience, is similarly simply solved with the opposite processing—just reduce SUSTAIN. Keyboards & Sampler Sounds in keyboards and samples usually show a lot of compression.
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Transient Designer™ The Analog Code™ Plug-in Manual SPL – Sound Performance Lab Sohlweg 80, 41372 Niederkrüchten, Germany Fon: +49 (0) 21 63 9 83 40 Fax: +49 (0) 21 63 98 34 20 E-Mail: software@spl.info, Website: spl.
