Groove analogizer VST effect, "Audio Triggered Drums"

User Manual version 1.0

copyright 2005 NUSofting


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Table of Contents:

 

Introduction

 

Groove Analogizer is an "audio controlled drum synthesizer", it means that like a vintage electronic drum tone generator (e.g. Simmons) the percussion sound is triggered by an audio input, not by a MIDI message. This also means that you must not load, in the host, Groove Analogizer as a VST instrument, it loads as a VST effect, usually in an insert slot.

But it's really a synth: the sound of three oscillators is triggered and shaped by the audio input in many ways.

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Features:

Sound Controls: for each generator

  • Release time :amplitude and pitch envelope time
  • Bending: positive or negative pitch envelope amount
  • Offset : pitch base
  • Timbre: from pure tone to noise, with FM option + overtone mode

Output Controls: for each generator

  • Effect : send to internal stereo delay
  • Pan: stereo image
  • Volume: output level

Master Controls:

  • FM: global amount
  • Smooth: slope time for all envelopes
  • Delay effect controls
  • Dry: output of the trigger (source audio)
  • Master : output level of all three generators

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System Requirements

Minimal: 200 MHz MMX™ CPU with Windows® 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP 64 MB RAM and high-quality sound card.
Screen settings: 800x600, high colors (16 bit), 30 MB of free hard disk space.

Suggested: 1000 MHz MMX™and SSE™ CPU with Windows® XP, 256 MB RAM,
Screen settings: 1024x768, true colors (32 bit),
An ASIO soundcard is recommended for low latency real-time play.



Optimized for Pentium® with any of the following: MMX, SSE, SSE2.
Optimized for any 32 Bits Processor compatible with IBM-PC

To use Groove Analogizer you need a VST2 Host such as Cubase™, Logic™ Audio or any other sequencer compatible with VST™ instruments.

 

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Installation

Copy the Groove_Analogizer.dll in your VstPlugIns folder, that's all you need.

At first launch you need to enter the serial numer to activate your copy.

 

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Learning and Using Groove Analogizer

How triggering works in Groove Analogizer: a trigger can be any kind of percussive* sound, both mono or stereo, it can be a wav file ot another VST instrument. (*percussive means: with fast attack time and fast or moderate decay/release time)

For each of the three generators you can choose left, right or left+right input, input can be both mono or stereo,
then a band pass filter allows you to select (coarse and fine) which frequency range of the audio source will be used for triggering, this way you can separate hi, mid and low tones in the audio input, allowing you to isolate different trigger patterns from the same complex audio source (e.g. you can input a full drums loop and select snare for trigger 1, bass drum for trigger 2 and hihat for trigger 3). Groove Analogizer also features Pre-Listening (PL button), so that you can monitor which part of the source is selected as trigger.

Another control at the input named Sensivity allows to fine select the loudest triggers filtered by the band pass. So that you may include ghost notes or avoid them.

Also note that the trigger can be both an audio track or a VST instrument playing in realtime.
Using a VST instrument as trigger (E.G. a drum synth) allows you more shaping on the trigger wave
and thus on the Groove Analogizer sound.

MIDI CC

Right click on any control and choose MIDI Learn, move your MIDI controller ( Mod Wheel, Pedals, etc..) and you have assigned to the GUI control.

To cancel the assignment you can do that either individually (right click again on the GUI control)
or globally (click on GUI logo and choose MidiForget: Selecting this option will cause the Groove Analogizer to forget all learned midi cc’s for the current session. You will be asked if you are sure you would like to erase them, just to be safe.)

Lastly, learned MIDI CC’s are NOT saved with presets. They are saved in your Windows Registry.

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