HydraTone - TriTone Digital
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1. 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 8 www tritonedigital com Tip 2 Keep your serial number somewhere safe You may need it again if you decide for example to re format your hard drive or to perform a clean reinstall of your OS TTD HydraTone Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 9 www tritonedigital com Hydra Tone Features GAIN 2k5 1kS 4k2 CE E 7 kis Fk o ra KU Si E no 10k N 466 14k rreo DRG Ere 3397 Bass Lo Mid Mid Hi Mid and Treble Bands Mid bands are parametric except for the 550 model which is fixed Q Bass and Treble bands are peaking Adjusts the gain between 12 dB and 12 dB Displays the numeric value for the current position of the associated control Adjusts the center frequency of the given band as follows Bass 25 Hz 1 15 kHz Lo Mid 50 Hz 2 5 kHz Mid 110 Hz 10 kHz Hi Mid 466 Hz 14 kHz Treble 830 Hz 22 kHz Adjusts the center roll off or roll up frequency of the Bass Filter section from 14 Hz 1 1 kHz Moves the filter between Cut and Expansion curves TTD_HydraTone_Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 10 www tritonedigital com Filter bypass switch indicator Blue is active grey is bypassed Selects the model for the given band Band bypass switch indicator Bl2. ability to perform frequency specific phase manipulation similar to that of hardware boxes popular for aligning multi signal pairs Finally HydraTone allows the user to select a completely separate signal path model for final output coloration TTD_HydraTone_Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 2 www tritonedigital com Hydra Tone System Requirements HydraTone requires the following minimum system configuration Mac OSX 10 3 9 or later Windows XP SP2 G5 2 GHz Pentium 3 GHz or faster recommended Up to 32 bit 96 kHz operation VST RTAS and AU support via free Pluggo extensions see the Installation Instructions section of this manual Requires ProTools 7 or higher for RTAS use Pluggo 3 6 1 or higher for Mac use IMPORTANT PLUGGO amp MAX MSP OWNERS Please email us at support tritonedigital com with your configuration to ensure compatibility TTD HydraTone Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 3 www tritonedigital com Installation Instructions O IMPORTANT Before installing our products you must first download and install Pluggo Runtime a free download Pluggo Runtime is a free set of extensions that allows our plugins to work with VST RTAS and AU capable audio programs To obtain the correct version of Pluggo Runtime for use with HydraTone please us
3. the features and capabilities of your new plugin On a more personal note we warmly invite you to join our user forum There we provide additional support take suggestions for enhancements to our products and provide our users with sneak peaks and beta testing opportunities The forum can be found at www tritonedigital com forum index php We hope you will enjoy your new plugin and as always please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or just to say hello Warmest regards Damon 8 Salvator Co Founders TriTone Digital TTD HydraTone Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 1 www tritonedigital com Hydra Tone Overview HydraTone is a mix oriented parametric EQ that utilizes state of the art modeling to provide analog EQ flavor with digital precision HydraTone allows for band by band selection of individual EQ algorithms modeled from world class analog EQs HydraTone features four classic EQ models This unique TriTone Digital concept allows you to use for example the color and charm of a 550 on the top and the strength and heft of an Am 98 on the bottom HydraTone s output stage provides several additional algorithms The first is a unique signal warming and mild compression algorithm called Fire This can be further enhances using the Blast switch which throws some series crunch onto your signal The second is the
4. D TRITONE DIGITAL BASS LO MID HI MID TREBLE LU f 0 0 f i O O i 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 g I can 3 3 f can GAIN can 3 3 can 160 2k5 4k1 100 23 so E 2k fiks ETO 2k6 7H EDUEN o Hi Bi 2 466 14k ES 21k FREQ Frea Maa Bata 3397 PEE 13289 2 2kO 70 12 220 3 H bo 10 8 ine Exp ricrer CIEN Ca anos G HydraTone User s Manual TTD HydraTone Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 www tritonedigital com Table of Contents Welcome to the Land of TONG la AANGAL BAG AAAAAAAA 1 HydraTone UTONG AA AA a Hydra lone System NEN UIPETEN IN aa ANAN 3 Installation INATUCHONS aa NA AA NA TANA AA INA ANA KANA NAAN 4 Mac installation VST RTAS amp AU sumnanansan NANANA NANANA KAKAG 5 Windows installation VST amp IBA ANGAS 6 Authorizing Your PICI senner E EE EEEE E Kaiba Nha 8 HydraTone Foat res La NANANA NANG ANA ANAKAN KAIN 10 Hydra ome Version MIStOly saa AA AA NAA AA BSA 13 BUDPPOND sands BIN NASETINN INT ANAN NANINDIGAN NUNG and 15 TTD Hydra Tone Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 www tritonedigital com Welcome to the Land of Tone Congratulations on your purchase or free download of a great new TriTone Digital plugin This document contains all the information you need to get up and running and for you to understand
5. aTone Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 11 www tritonedigital com additional creative coloring This process is dependent on the setting of the Fire knob At a Fire setting of O there is no additional color added bypass At a Fire setting of 1 the main output color is added in its natural state without additional Fire coloration At Fire settings above 1 the main output color is modified by increasing amounts of Fire processing Frequency specific phase rotation and correction like popular hardware boxes that correct the phase between signal pairs This knob provides the ability to blend the phase corrected material with the original source audio for more EQ like manipulations Napag _ 0 is totally dry 100 is totally wet Adjusts the center point for the frequency area to be phase rotated Range is 50 Hz to 16 kHz Adjusts the Q of the frequency area to be phase rotated TTD_HydraTone_Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 12 www tritonedigital com Hydra Tone Version History TTD HydraTone Manual Version 1 4 Last Modified February 5 2008 Intel based Mac CPU optimizations Fixed Logic 8 authorization issues Added serial number authorization Pluggo 3 6 1 required MacIntel Universal Binary compatible Modifications to the Windows versi
6. anual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 14 www tritonedigital com Support If you have any issues with your new plugin please first re read this manual paying particular attention to the sections on System Requirements Installation Instructions and Features Please also note any sections of the document indicated by these symbols D Tips O Warnings Also consider visiting our user forum at www tritonedigital com forum index ph We often interact directly with our users on this forum to solve their issues By searching the forum you may find your issue has already been solved If these tips do not solve your issues then please don t hesitate to contact us at support tritonedigital com TTD HydraTone Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 15 www tritonedigital com
7. can application located inside your Applications folder Installation is now complete O Tip Whenever you add remove a Pluggo Tip If your system cannot find our plugins you may need to manually refresh your audio application s plugin cache the list of plugins your audio application is aware of either through your software or by deleting the plugin cache yourself Please see your audio applications manual for instructions on how to do this TTD_HydraTone_Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 5 www tritonedigital com Windows installation VST amp RTAS Install Pluggo Runtime by launching the Pluggo 3 6 x Runtime Installer msi executable file that came with your Pluggo Runtime download Follow the on screen instructions The installer will ask for the location of your VST plugins folder Most often this path is C Program Files Steinberg VstPlugins Please select this path unless you ONLY run ProTools with NO VST hosts present on your system If you ONLY run ProTools and DO NOT USE ANY VST HOSTS then select your ProTools plugins folder most often found here C Program Files Common Files Digidesign DAE Plug Ins Confirm the appropriate path and finish the Pluggo installation After a proper install of Pluggo Runtime your folder structure will look something like this C Program Files Steinberg VstPlugins Pluggo Runt
8. e the links below Mac http www cycling74 com download pluggoruntime361 dm PC http www synthesisters com download pluggoruntime361 zi Please install Pluggo Runtime before installing our plugins O IMPORTANT PLUGGO amp MAX MSP OWNERS Please email us at support tritonedigital com with your configuration to ensure compatibility TTD HydraTone Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 4 www tritonedigital com Mac installation VST RTAS amp AU Once Pluggo Runtime is installed the following steps will install your new TriTone Digital plugin on your system Launch the TriTone Digital plugin installer Enter your Mac OSX Admin Password Authenticate IN TTD ANGELTONE Installer requires that You type your password Name osxusername Password sesssssssse bp Details Cn OK Follow the on screen instructions click Continue read and agree to the License Agreement and then click Install At the end of the installation process a pop up window will appear 1 Would you like to launch the installed product Click Launch to continue or click Cancel to stop the launch Click Launch This will launch the Pluggo AudioUnit Scan application This brief application scans for new Pluggo based plugins like ours and updates the list in the Pluggo AU plugin plugin re run the Pluggo AudioUnit S
9. ime Or like this if you only use ProTools C Program Files Common Files Digidesign DAE Plug Ins Pluggo Runtime Pluggo Runtime plugins like ours go in this newly created Pluggo Runtime folder Tip ProTools will look for plugins placed in this 0 Pluggo Runtime folder regardless of its location So if you plan to use both VST and RTAS versions of our plugins you need to select your VST folder during step 2 Launch the TriTone Digital plugin installer Follow the on screen instructions click Continue locate the Pluggo Runtime folder created in Step 2 read and agree to the License Agreement and click Install TTD HydraTone Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1 4 All Rights Reserved Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 6 www tritonedigital com bog Installation is now complete Tip If your system cannot find our plugins you may need to 0 manually refresh your audio application s plugin cache the list of plugins your audio application is aware of either through your software or by deleting the plugin cache yourself Please see your audio applications manual for instructions on how to do this TTD_HydraTone_Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital All Rights Reserved Version 1 4 Last Modified February 5 2008 Page 7 www tritonedigital com Authorizing Your Plugin After installing your plugin it s time to authorize it so you can get to work Our plugi
10. ns are protected by an embedded proprietary authorization system designed by TriTone Digital which links your installer and instance of your plugin directly to your purchase amp account information Please keep your serial number private and safe With this system it s easy to authorize your plugins Just follow the steps below Launch your favorite audio application Insert your new TriTone Digital Plugin on a track From the plugin interface click on the button labeled Enter Serial A pop up window will appear allowing you to enter the serial number you were given by email after your purchase Type in your serial number If you have issues typing in the serial number or if the entry box does not appear a known issue in some applications under Windows such as WaveLab and ProTools HD you can alternately follow Steps 7 9 below Type your serial number into a text document using your favorite text editing program ex TextEdit on Mac Save this as a txt text file Files MUST be plain text not rich text From the plugin interface click on the button labeled Load Serial File A file dialog box will appear Select the text file you created in Step 7 Restart your audio application and you are now authorized Tip 1 If the Enter Serial and Load Serial File buttons do not automatically appear try clicking on the TriTone Digital logo TTD HydraTone Manual Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital Version 1
11. on of our challenge response system for greater stability Better support for Pluggo 3 5 3 Implementation of our proprietary challenge response copy protection system for Windows Windows SSE CPU optimizations Improved frequency knob movement removed numeric box drag style entry see version 1 2 0 Improved Q knob movement removed numeric box drag style entry see version 1 2 0 Improved filter knob movement removed numeric box drag style entry see version 1 2 0 Heavy optimizing of most scheduler events Clicking on the TriTone Digital logo displays the authorization fields Better support for Pluggo 3 5 2 Implementation of a proprietary challenge response copy protection system Newly designed frequency graph with user adjustable EQ handles Improved number boxes that allow the user to click and drag to adjust the value i e to fine tune gain value NOTE This works for frequency as well but you have to drag further as this is a stepped control Plugin initialization scheme redesigned Various code trimming amp optimizations Graphic improvements Fixed audio clicks at the beginning of the first crossed region for hosts that use dynamic CPU management Improved recall of the filter fader Various bug fixes Addition of two more EQ models Implemented improved filter bypass Various bug fixes Copyright 2005 2008 TriTone Digital All Rights Reserved Page 13 www tritonedigital com TTD HydraTone M
12. ue is active grey is bypassed Adjusts the Q of the given band NOTE Q is disabled when using the 550 model as this EQ features a fixed Q for all bands Adjusts the center roll off or roll up frequency of the Treble Filter section from 1 7 kHz 20 kHz Displays the current frequency curve Additionally the frequency graph is interactive Yellow semi transparent columns indicate bands Grab a band and pull up down to adjust gain or left right to adjust center frequency Clicking shows hides the authorization panel A unique and complex algorithm that utilizes the color from the main output color blended with special warm tube circuit model Fire is interdependent with the current state of your frequency curve and with your selected main output color see below Turns your FIRE into a blazing inferno with compression for aggressive punch Allows manual control over the number of active channels to conserve CPU This is only necessary on platforms that do not automatically lower the CPU usage when used on mono tracks Controls the main output level Enter Serial amp Load Serial File buttons Please see the Authorizing Your Plugin section of this manual for more details NOTE This section disappears once the plugin is authorized NOTE This section disappears once the plugin is authorized The version number for your copy of the plugin A separate output signal path model allowing for TTD Hydr
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