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1. Transfer Pitch Scale After the Pitch Mode controls have set the desired voltage re sponse the two Scale controls set how this maps to an output level from the hardware Note that these controls are not used when the Pitch Mode is set to Calibrated Manual Scale Mode V Scale The Scale Mode drop down has three options Manual ES 4 and ESX 4CV If the Scale Mode is Manual then the V Scale knob is used to tell the plug in the full scale output voltage of the hardware The default value of 10 0 is approximately correct for the Expert Sleepers ES 3 module In ES 4 or ESX 4CV mode the plug in uses a scaling appropriate to the module in question so you can for example feed the output of the Follower directly into an ESX 4CV Combiner and get a correctly calibrated pitch CV from an ESX 4CV module OV The final two knobs in this section set what pitch is considered to be at zero volts The coarse knob sets this in MIDI note num bers so a change of 1 means a change of one semitone the fine knob sets this in cents The two are simply added 48 0 0 OV Coarse OV Fine In Calibrated Pitch Mode these controls are effectively a transpose control Outputs Each output left and right has a group of con trols which define how the pitch and envelope CVs are finally output by the plug in The Pitch and Env knobs are simple mixer controls defining ho
2. s control in a plug in UI Each path has a copy button to its right clicking which will copy the path into the system clipboard This makes it very straightforward to set up controller templates if the controlling app has an editor which runs on the same computer simply click the knob you want to control with OSC copy its path from the Learner and paste it into the editor Activating OSC OSC is enabled by setting the Port control in the Learner to something other than Off The actual port on which the Learner listens is defined by the sum of the Port setting in the UI and the Port Offset as set in the Prefs E g if the Offset is set izi 1 http hexler net software touchosc 2 http liine net en products lemur 3 http vimeo com 46715640 to 7000 the default and the Port is set to 1 then the plug in listens on port 7001 Setting up the controlling device The device application sending OSC to the Learner needs to know the computer s IP ad dress and the port as defined above How you enter that information depends on the sender For example this page describes the setup in TouchOSC on iPhone On Mac OS X only Silent Way Learner supports Bonjour aka ZeroConf When OSC is activated it advertises itself on the network so that apps can browse for it and set up the connection with a single click This is the preferred setup method with TouchOSC Setting up controllers The c
3. the list and click OK Name IAC Driver IAC Bus 1 IAC Driver IAC Bus 2 UltraLite mk3 MIDI Port FastLane USB Port A Farel awn LICN Nars D O MIDI Browser The Clear button clears out the target field so the plug in no longer sends MIDI to the selected target Clear Using the VST MIDI output The VST version of the plug in passes its MIDI outputs directly to the host application If the host supports this MIDI can be routed directly to e g the inputs of other plug ins without using an inter application bus see below Using inter application busses If you want the plug in to control other software on your computer rather than controlling external devices you will need to route its MIDI output to a software bus On OS X you can use the system s built in IAC Driver To set this up open the Audio MIDI Setup utility show its MIDI Window and double click on the IAC Driver item that you see there On Windows you will have to use 3rd party software for example Hubert Winkler s Hubi s Loopback Device or Jamie O Connell s MIDI Yoke both freeware Using the connection to Silent Way Learner Enabling the Learner button causes the plug in to send its output directly to Silent Way Learner This provides a very convenient means to e g control any parameter of any Silent Way plug in with an incoming CV Preparing input CVs The CVs as output by for example Silent Way LFO are very clean an
4. The knob assumes its default position o Option Mac OS X Control Windows The knob assumes integer values only Double click The knob returns to its default value Command Alt double click The knob assumes the value zero Dropdown menus Clicking on the menu displays the list of options Move the mouse over the desired option and release the mouse to select it Mode Value edit boxes These boxes below each knob and slider let you enter parameter values directly Clicking on the value highlights it in green you can then type the desired value using the key board Press enter to finish and accept the new value While you re typing the value the box goes red to indicate that the value you see has not yet been accepted While the box is highlighted green using the cursor keys on your keyboard up down left right will change the value by the smallest increment Name value display As you move the mouse around the interface the name and current value of the control currently Trigger Length 2 5 msecs under the mouse is displayed in the top right of the window This area also provides tool tips for buttons 1 The Command key is also known as the Apple key the one next to the spacebar 2 The Option alt key is the one between the Control ctrl key and the Command cmd key Getting Started Tutorial Videos There are a number of tutorial videos on the Expert Sleep
5. also sometimes called Glide is when pitch changes smoothly between notes rather than suddenly jumping i i There are various portamento modes available 0 000 Mode Time Shape e Off no portamento is applied e Auto the pitch always glides between notes e Fingered the pitch glides between notes when played legato and jumps otherwise e CT Auto as Auto but the glide always takes a fixed time no matter how close or far apart the two notes are CT stands for constant time e CT Fingered as Fingered but the glide always takes a fixed time no matter how close or far apart the two notes are The Time control sets how long the glide takes For the CT modes this is a value in sec onds otherwise it s just a number where larger values mean a slower glide The Shape control is only effective when using one of the CT modes It controls the shape of the pitch curve where zero is linear and one is more like an exponential curve Trigger The Length control sets the length of the trigger pulse that is emitted whenever a new note begins in milliseconds Hardware Modes The Voice Controller of fers direct compatibility PSs V nv 3 Outputs H W with the Expert Sleepers ES 4 SPDIF CV Interface module ESX 4CV CV Expander module and ESX 8CV CV Ex pander module The controls for these modes are shown by pressing the H W button Hardware The Hardware menu selects which de
6. cycle mode 1 7 0 24 11 11 e Added the Silent Way Sync plug in e Fixed various issues with parameter automation and GUI updates 1 6 14 31 10 11 e Added Trigger Length control to Silent Way Voice Controller and Silent Way Trigger e Fixed a bug in the behaviour of Newest note priority mode in Silent Way Voice Con troller 1 6 11 5 10 11 e The AU Generator variants of the Silent Way DC Silent Way CV Input Silent Way LFO and Silent Way Step LFO plug ins have been replaced by AU Instrument vari ants so as to be compatible with AU validation under OS X Lion e Added Reset By Note option to Silent Way LFO e Added visual feedback of the LFO s position in its cycle to Silent Way LFO e Added a Create ES 4 Calibration button to Silent Way Quantizer 1 6 10 19 9 11 e Added Transpose and ES 4 mode options to Silent Way Voice Controller 1 6 7 21 4 11 e Added the Output arrangement option to the VST versions of the Silent Way Voice Controller plug in 1 6 6 30 3 11 e Fixed the Windows version of the Silent Way CV Input plug in for compatibility with the Expert Sleepers ES 2 2 module 1 6 5 4 2 2011 e Added the Silent Way SMUX plug in 1 6 4 22 11 2010 e Added support for the Expert Sleepers ES 2 2 module to the Silent Way CV Input plug in e VST only Added a 6 channel variant of the Silent Way AC Encoder plug in 1 6 3 30 8 2010 e Windows only Fixed a problem where only one plug i
7. for the LFO plug in Please refer to the documentation of that plug in above before reading on The Multiplier knob is very much like one of the mix controls in the LFO plug in it sim ply scales the whole waveform up amp down and can invert it too The Sync control has two extra modes as compared to the LFO plug in Trig Free and Trig Tempo In these modes the base speed of the Step LFO is as per the similarly named mode Free or Tempo but the LFO pauses at the end of each step until a trigger is received see the Inputs section below for information on triggers UI Groups A row of buttons above the main control area switches the user inter Main Inputs Random Big face between a number of groups of controls Main selects the primary controls for setting the LFO speed etc Inputs shows controls relevant to the plug in s in put signals and their effect Random shows the random generator Big hides all the other controls and simply maximises the step editor which might be useful when a high number of steps is being used or to aid visibility in a live performance situation Speed Mode The Speed Mode dropdown menu sets how the LFO speed as set by the various speed sync controls is interpreted for the Step LFO The options are Cycle and Step speed Mode When set to Cycle the speed means the same as for the basic LFO plug in i e it defines the time taken for one
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9. 1 Step1L 1 exsl1 multil SWStepLFO 1 Step1L 2 etc The Learner takes the number at the end and adds it less one to the parameter id So in this case the multifader will control Step1L Step2L Step3L etc Silent Way LFO O SW LFO 2 Audio expert sleepers silent way 2 0 0 Swing R 50 0 Reset Triplet 0 870 0 970 Divisor Sine Triangle Saw SquareRandom Noise Sync 0 089 0 0108 19 09 50 05 Off 50 00 16 W Add Multiplier Phase Offset Asym PW Smooth Swing Swing Input Mode 0 0008 0 4008 0 4204 0 49090 000 Sine Triangle Saw SquareRandom Noise Sync __ 0 089 0 0008 44 0 50 05 Off 50 08 16 Add Multiplier PI Offset Asym PW Smooth Swing Swing Input Mode Introduction Silent Way LFO as its name suggests is intended as a low frequency oscillator performing the same functions as LFOs in any other synth e g vibrato filter cut off modulation auto pan effects etc It operates as a stereo or mono plug in In stereo mode the two channels are independent except in Quadrature mode see below and have identical controls In mono mode the Right Channel controls are not used Any input signal to the plug in is combined into its outputs according to the setting of the Input Mode control see below It is therefore easy for example to apply an LFO to the pitch CV output of the Voice Controller plug in by simply inserting the LFO plug in on the same channel as and after the Voice Controller
10. CC1 6 Silent Way Learner Chi CC1 1 Each line shows the plug in that re S77 Way Learner Chi CC1 0 ceived the message the MIDI channel the type of message e g CC and fur ther type specific information e g the CC number and value OSC Control Silent Way defines a unique and consistently formed OSC path for every parameter in every plug in loaded in your setup This makes it straightforward to create templates for control of Silent Way in popular OSC sending apps such as TouchOSC and Lemur There is a demo video of Silent Way Learner s OSC capabilities here Parameter Paths exsl SWVoiceController 1 GateOpenVoltage exsl SWVoiceController 1 1 exsl 7 1 Each parameter s path can be written in three different ways e Long exsl lt plug in name gt lt LUID gt lt parameter name gt e Compact exsl lt plug in name gt lt LUID gt lt parameter id gt e Short exsl lt GUID gt lt parameter id gt Which you use is very much up to you The advantage of using LUIDs is that the TouchOSC or whatever templates you make are likely to be more re usable a template set up to address SWVoiceController 1 will always be useful for the first Voice Control ler in any setup whereas using its GUID 7 in the screenshot above is likely to target an entirely different plug in in a different song The Learner shows all three forms of the path for a parameter whenever you click on the parameter
11. LFO as a complex and looping envelope generator instead of a traditional free running LFO The Phase button sets the point in the waveform that the LFO jumps to when reset by a MIDI note Silent Way Logic Project Inst 2 o View Show Channel Strip Show insert Bypass gt silent way 2 2 0 Prefs Match these controls to your Logic project settings eee Pan Law Apply Compensation and Apply Compensation is on you also need to set a 3dB gain on your track fader SW Logic Project If your Pan Law is 3dB Introduction Silent Way Logic Project is a utility plug in that is only useful when used with Apple Logic Pro It allows Silent Way to adapt to certain Logic project settings that affect Silent Way s behaviour Usage Logic has project settings for Pan Law and Apply Pan Law Compensation to Stereo Bal ancers Pan Law 3 dB compensated v Apply Pan Law Compensation to Stereo Balancers If Apply is on Silent Way needs to know about these settings so it can adjust its output accordingly in plug ins that control ES 4s amp ES 5s Hence the need for Silent Way Logic Project This plug in is an AU Generator and so needs to be loaded on a software instru ment track in Logic The pan law settings from Logic should be replicated in the SW Logic Project plug in s GUI Silent Way Logic Project itself outputs no signal and so its track needs no particular rout ing In
12. Off messages are sent to the MIDI output if in use Interface Category The Interface Category drop down menu allows you to inform the plug in of what kind of audio interface will be outputting the plug in s sig CatA nal Please refer to http expert sleepers co uk siwacategories html for more details the specifics are likely to be more fluid than should be put here in the Category user manual Silent Way ES 5 Controller SW ES 5 Controller 6 SW ES 5 Controller MIDI Out Output Gates 1 1 Don t Panic irl ggers A 5 6 8 1 Chan 1 Base 2Chan 2 Base 3Chan 3 Base 4Chan 4Base 5Chan 5 Base 6Chan 6 Base Category Off Channel Om O8 O8 O8 Oog O Off Gates 1 1 16 W 50 0 0 0 Off 1 2 3 4 5 x 6 Channelise Output Swing Swing Offset Poly re lt OCK Introduction The Silent Way ES 5 Controller plug in is a special element of the Silent Way plug in suite dedicated to controlling the Expert Sleepers ES 5 module Unlike most of the rest of the Silent Way plug ins the ES 5 Controller does not time out allowing unrestricted use with out a Silent Way licence In Use All the controls of the ES 5 Controller work in exactly the same way as the similarly named controls in the ES 4 Controller except that where the ES 4 has 5 channels the ES 5 has 6 So there are 6 Output knobs 6 pairs of knobs in the Gates section and the controls which specify a gate output go up to 6 8 instead of 5 8 Plea
13. a four quadrant multiplier VCA These are sometimes known as polarizing VCAs or ring modulators though the latter is really a misnomer See e g the Doepfer A 133 Dual Voltage Controlled Polarizer or the Cwejman VCO 2RM NB if the device in question is described as a ring modulator it should be described as DC coupled if it s to work with Silent Way CV Input If you re using a four quadrant multiplier switch the Decoder plug in to Bipolar mode i e press the button marked Bipolar Note that on some systems the output of the plug in in Bipolar mode may be inverted from what you expect if this is the case use the Scale control to invert the output signal Controls The Generator Decoder drop down menu separates the controls for each channel into two parts those to the left and right of the menu re spectively Mode To the left of the menu is the one knob that applies in Generator mode the Level knob This simply sets the level of the generated signal As mentioned above it defaults to zero and must be turned up for anything useful to happen To the right of the menu are the controls that apply in Decoder mode The Bipolar button puts the Decoder into Bipolar mode as discussed above The Scale knob is a simple multiplier on the CV It can take nega 1 000 _ 0 500 tive values in order to invert the signal Scale ES 2 Offset Smooth The ES 2 Offset control is used only in ES
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15. be reflected in the Learner display under Active Parameter Now click the Learn Active button in the Learner The Learner is now listening for MIDI messages Any Silent Way plug in in your setup can receive MIDI including the Learner itself When it finds a message it can use the Learner automatically maps it to the active parameter and the parameter is now controlled by that MIDI message Remember to turn off Learn Active when you re done or you ll find yourself setting up all kind of MIDI mappings unintentionally Any MIDI mapping on the active parameter is displayed in the T Spe U Bo E i Sl ee Learner after the parameter name followed by a lt an arrow To remove a MIDI mapping activate the parameter and click the Remove button in the Learner There is also a Remove Remove All All button which clears out all MIDI mappings currently set up by the Learner use with care s7 Y 7 MReTIIOVeE Supported MIDI Messages Currently MIDI continuous controller CC and polyphonic pressure PP messages are supported by the Learner It is anticipated that this will be expanded on in a future update MIDI Message History The Learner shows the last five MIDI messages received in its GUI most recent at the bottom Note that it only Silent Way Learner Chi CC1 16 shows messages that are supported M CHAUT AE Chi CC1 11 for MIDI mapping Silent Way Learner Chi
16. choose from the available input channels or set the connection to Off Thru The Thru input connection is designed to allow multiple ES 4 Controllers to be stacked their outputs being combined in a logical manner By default the Thru connection is taken from the first stereo pair of inputs which is what will be connected if you simply insert a sequence of ES 4 Controller plug ins on the same track in your DAW This is how you would for example use multiple ES 4 Controllers to generate multiple streams of output MIDI using the MIDI Out section above This is also useful when you want to use the two MIDI CV outputs on separate MIDI channels and the DAW doesn t provide a way to send two MIDI channels to one ES 4 Con troller Stack two instances of the plug in use MIDI CV 1 on one instance and MIDI CV 2 on the other and then send your two MIDI streams to the two plug ins 1 5 Note the use of inputs 1 5 requires a full Silent Way licence Without a licence the inputs will work for 15 minutes and then time out These inputs simply route audio or CVs from the selected plug in input to the relevant ES 4 output This is how you would for example use the Silent Way LFO plug in to send LFO signals out of the ES 4 Input Modes These menus work in con junction with the input 1 5 options above and define Unipolar Unipolar 5 1 2 3 how the incoming audio CV stream is mapped onto the ES 4 s o
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18. feel RWW Ravin of a triplet pattern Of course the LFO is not dealing in discrete notes so in the LFO s case the effect is more that the time within pairs of six teenth or eighth notes is warped But the effect is the same There s a video on the Expert Sleepers YouTube channel which might make this clearer A particularly important application of swing is when the LFO is actually generating a clock signal for example to sync an external sequencer to the computer Then applying swing in the LFO can give you the swing effect on your externally sequenced pattern which is not something that s usually otherwise possible Again check the Expert Sleepers website for an example of this being applied to a TB 303 bassline Swing has two controls The knob sets the amount of swing in percent 50 means no swing the middle sixteenth note is 50 of the way between the neighbouring notes as normal Higher values of swing make the middle note later lower values make it earlier At 100 the middle note is right on top of the following note The dropdown menu to the right of the knob chooses between sixteenth and eighth note swing NB The swing effect only applies when the host s transport is playing Reset By Note The Reset button when enabled causes the LFO to retrigger i e start from the beginning of its waveform whenever the plug in receives a MIDI note on message This is useful when you effectively want to use the
19. incoming signal has to exceed to trigger the plug in Note that this is strictly a DC level not an amplitude If you want to trigger the plug in with an audio signal precede it with an instance of Silent Way Follower Voltages The two knobs set the minimum and maximum voltages gener ated by the plug in Both range from 1 0 to 1 0 and it s fine for the Min to actually be higher than the Max if for example you want an inverted envelope Min Max Overrides Exactly the same as the Overrides in the Voice Controller except that this plug in has no Pitch output Trigger The Length control sets the length of the trigger pulse that is emitted in Trigger mode in milliseconds Length Envelope 0 100 RS 0 100 Ry 0 100 Time Al Time A2 Time A3 Time R1i Time R2 0 000 Velocity 1 000 0 500 Level Al Level A2 Sustain Level R1 a oe Shape Al Shape A2 Shape A3 Shape R1l Shape R2 Mult The envelope controls are exactly the same as those of the Voice Controller s envelopes though the full controls are always displayed In terms of the Voice Controller s simple controls A Time A2 D Time A3 S Sustain R Time R1 Silent Way Voice Controller expert sleepers silent way 2 0 0 Start calibration routine Simple Env 1 Env 2 Env 3 Outputs H W Silaa Mabul b 0 215 Cal l Env 1 A Env 1 D Env 15 Env 1 R Vell Mult 1 Calibrate V oct RIZ Gate Clsd Trig Off Vel Min 0 500 L
20. is used to load a calibration data file saved from the Voice Controller as described below The same data is used for both Left Kel le and Right Channels of the Quantizer plug in uaa The name of the last loaded calibration file is shown for reference across the middle of the UI Please note that the calibration data itself is saved as part of the plug in preset not just a reference to the external file In other words once you ve loaded the cali bration into the plug in you can delete the calibration file and the plug in will continue to use the data Also note that if you replace the calibration file on disk the new content of the file is not reloaded by the plug in The only time that the plug in s calibration data changes is when you explicitly load a file via the plug in s UI In Use A video demonstrating the various plug in parameters is available on the Expert Sleepers YouTube channel here As in the video using an oscilloscope can help in visualising the effect of the controls The Enable button enables quantisation on the channel in question if the channel is not enabled CVs pass through un Enable Calibrated Mode changed The Mode drop down menu selects between Manual and Calibrated modes as described below Manual Mode In manual mode the full incoming CV range from 1 to 1 is divided into a number of equal steps _0 000 0 00 0 00 The Steps control sets
21. of maintaining a DC voltage at its outputs Many interfaces include high pass filters on the outputs which makes this impossible Re fer to the Expert Sleepers website for up to date information on compatible devices and cabling recommendations Also please see Silent Way AC Encoder below for information on how Silent Way may be used with almost any audio interface even if not DC coupled Some Silent Way plug ins provide specific support for Expert Sleepers hardware Please visit the website for the range of hardware available most of which is designed to provide superior connectivity options as compared to simply using the analogue outputs of an audio interface There are currently twenty plug ins in the Silent Way suite Silent Way AC Encoder Silent Way CV Input Silent Way CV To MIDI Silent Way CV To OSC Silent Way DC Silent Way ES 4 Controller Silent Way ES 5 Controller Silent Way ESX 4CV Combiner Silent Way ESX 8CV Combiner Silent Way Follower Silent Way Function Silent Way Learner Silent Way LFO Silent Way Quantizer Silent Way SMUX Silent Way Soundplane Silent Way Step LFO Silent Way Sync Silent Way Trigger and Silent Way Voice Controller These are described in more detail below Installation Mac OS X Audio Unit AU The plug in file is named ExS1SilentWay component Simply copy the file to the folder Library Audio Plug Ins Components Mac OS X VST The plug in file is named ExS1SilentWay vst Simpl
22. or whether it continues from its current value when retriggered Modes The Modes section presents various options concerning how notes and envelopes are triggered in response to incoming MIDI notes Note Priority Since the Voice Controller is essentially a monophonic synth a scheme is required to determine which note sounds when mul tiple keys are held at the same time The options are e Newest the most recently pressed key sounds e Lowest the lowest note sounds e Highest the highest note sounds Retrigger Mode This settings controls whether the envelopes retrigger when playing legato The options are e Retrig On the envelopes retrigger whenever a new note is triggered e Retrig Off the envelopes only retrigger when all keys are released and a new note is played Note that these settings only affect the Voice Controller s internal envelopes When using external envelope generators you have the following options e If you just use the Gate output you will end up with the same result as described for Retrig Off above e If your envelope generator has a retrigger input as well as a gate input for example the Analogue Systems RS 60 you can connect the plug in s Trigger output to the retrigger input to achieve the Retrig On behaviour e Alternatively you can use the output matrix to mix in a negative amount of the Trig ger signal into the Gate output The has the effect of moment
23. step useful when you have a large number of steps on screen and you want to be sure you re only adjusting one of them Setting the pattern length The length of the pattern is set by a combi Start Length nation of the Length Mode dropdown Soi menu and the three knobs labelled Start hs Length and End The Start knob always sets the start position of the pattern the end of the pattern is set by the Length knob if the Length Mode menu is set to Start Length and by the End knob if the Length Mode menu is set to Start End Range mode The Range dropdown menu lets you select between Unipolar and Bi polar operation Unipolar signals would commonly be used for gates or for general CVs in systems that only use positive voltages e g Buchla Range Interpolation mode The Interpolation dropdown menu lets you select between Step and Linear interpolation When set to Step the same value is held constant throughout a step when set to Linear the values change in linear ramps MOSSE between steps Note that the Smooth control offers other options for how the value changes between steps that can be combined with either setting of the Interpolation menu Gate The Gate control sets the amount of each step that takes the step value outside of this time the step value is zero By default the control is set to 100 reduc ing this introduces gaps in the waveform Thi
24. 000 Min Out Max Out 0 000 ay 1 000 Min Out Max Out Introduction Silent Way AC Encoder removes the need for a DC coupled audio interface see above and lets you use Silent Way with almost any audio interface For this to work you must either e make some special cables or e use a hardware module specifically designed to work with Silent Way AC Encoder for example the Expert Sleepers ES 1 module The cables are a very simple job well within the scope of anyone with basic soldering skills Because the details are currently quite fluid as we gather more and more information about what works best we do not describe them here For up to date information please refer to the page on our website http www expert sleepers co uk siwaacencoder html Note that without additional circuitry or processing the CVs recovered from the AC En coder system will be positive voltages only In practice this is often not a problem and if it is there are a number of modules on the market that will provide a DC offset e g Doepfer A 183 2 or A 138 In Use To use Silent Way AC Encoder simply insert an instance of the plug in on each track that is generating CVs after all the other plug ins The AC Encoder receives the CVs as inputs and uses them to modulate a very high frequency audio signal which is then output from the audio interface Each channel has a small number of controls as follows Enable This button simply ena
25. 13 e Added Silent Way Logic Project e Added controls for Interface Categories e Silent Way Step LFO can now be reset and or triggered by MIDI notes and or in coming CVs e Added Gate Length control to Silent Way Step LFO e Added Random feature to Silent Way Step LFO e Silent Way CV To MIDI VST version can now output MIDI direct to the host e Silent Way CV To MIDI can now output MIDI directly to Silent Way Learner e Silent Way Learner now supports MIDI polyphonic pressure messages e Added SMUX Proof mode for Silent Way ESX 4CV Combiner e Fixed Silent Way Learner VST and AU versions to correctly output silence 2 1 0 24 1 13 e Added Silent Way Function e Added Calibrated mode to Silent Way Follower e Added Transport2 sync mode to Silent Way LFO e Added Transfer button to Silent Way Soundplane and Silent Way Follower e Added support for the Expert Sleepers ES 5 module to Silent Way Sync e Added sustain pedal support to Silent Way Voice Controller e Fixed a bug that would cause Silent Way Follower to lock up the host application 2 0 3 20 12 12 First AAX release Mac OS X e Fixed two issues with MIDI CC control via Silent Way Learner bipolar parameters e g those with a value range of 1 now take the value zero at a CC value of 64 the various divisor parameters e g in Silent Way Sync now behave correctly 2 0 2 2 10 12 e Fixed blank UI problem in Cubase on
26. 2 Decoder mode see below The Smooth control has the same effect as that in the DC plug in see below Setup with ES 2 In contrast to the usage with a VCA described above using the CV Input plug in with an ES 2 module does not require an instance of the plug in in Generator mode Both channels of the plug in should be placed in ES 2 Decoder mode Hardware setup is also much simpler The CV of interest is connected to one of the ES 2 s inputs and the corresponding output of the ES 2 is connected to an input of your com puter s audio interface That audio input should then be routed directly into the CV Input plug in The only required setup is to adjust the ES 2 Offset control This should be adjusted so that a zero CV entering the ES 2 generates a zero CV on the output of the plug in Note that a zero CV is not the same as simply leaving the ES 2 s input unconnected you actu ally need to patch the input to a source of OV e g a mixer with all the inputs turned down or a gate signal in the off state In this mode the Bipolar button has no effect the ES 2 module always handles bipolar signals The Scale knob still applies a simple scaling of the outgoing CV and the Smooth knob works as usual Silent Way CV To MIDI SW CV To MIDI 5 Audio silent way 2 2 0 Note On Mode L Continuous T TE Channel Normal Note Off 48 00 Note Off Gate Close Centre Channel am
27. AW s transport is running Clock generation always begins at the start of a bar if the host transport is started in the middle of a bar the plug in waits for the next bar before starting the clocks Type e Off disables clock generation 24ppqn generates a 24 pulses per quarter note signal the standard used by many Roland products e 48ppqn generates a 48 pulses per quarter note signal the standard used by some Korg products e Custom uses the PPQN control to allow the user to specify the number of pulses per quarter note Divisor However the number of pulses per quarter note is specified the Divisor control allows the rate to be halved quartered etc Divisor Multiplier The reverse of Divisor the Multiplier knob multiples the period of the clock pulses This is particularly useful for very slow clocks for example if you require a clock pulse every 16 bars to reset a sequence 1st Delay Multiplier If enabled causes the first clock pulse after transport start to be delayed slightly This is required for accurate sync with certain drum machines PHASAEN which require the first clock to arrive slightly after the run signal goes high so it can be reliably detected and is recommended to always be turned on when the plug in is being used to generate actual DIN sync rather than general purpose clocks Outputs Each output clock run has three controls The first sets
28. Expert Sleepers Silent Way v2 3 0 User Manual Copyright 2009 2013 Expert Sleepers All rights reserved This manual as well as the software described in it is furnished under licence and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such licence The content of this man ual is furnished for informational use only is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by Expert Sleepers Expert Sleepers assumes no respon sibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this document THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EX PRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGE MENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE Contents Introduction Installation Mac OS X Audio Unit AU Mac OS X VST Mac OS X AAX Windows VST System Requirements Mac OS X Windows Hardware Cabling Requirements Registration Upgrading from v1 x The Silent Way GUI Using the controls Knobs Dropdown menus Value edit boxes Name value display Getting Started Tutorial Videos Other Demo Videos Join the forum Which plug in to try first Plug in
29. However an input signal is not required and the LFO will quite happily do its job without any input connection NB in Logic if you re not passing a signal through the plug in you need to load it on an instrument channel via the AU Generators menu Speed Controls Two controls set the basic frequency of the LFO the _ large Speed knob on the left and the Multiplier Triplet drop down beside it Divisor The Speed knob sets the LFO frequency in Hz cycles per second The Multiplier drop down lets you choose Sync a number by which the frequency is multiplied The options are 0 1 1 10 and 100 So for example if the Speed knobs is set to 5Hz and the Multiplier is set to Multiplier 100 the actual frequency of the LFO will be 500Hz Sync Controls The other large knob labelled Beats and the controls above the Multiplier drop down together provide an Triplet other way to specify the LFO frequency based on the 1 4 tempo of the song as specified by the plug in s host Divisor application Free Sy nec There are five options for the Sync drop down __ 4 0 e Free The frequency is set by the Speed knob as Multiplier Beats previously described e Tempo The frequency is set by the Beats knob the Divisor drop down and the Triplet button e Transport As Tempo but additionally the phase of the LFO is locked to the host transport so e g the start of the LF
30. O cycle is locked to the start of the bar The Phase knob lets you set a constant offset for the LFO cycle as against the transport cycle that it s locked to e Quadrature The LFO is locked to the other LFO but with a phase offset determined by the Phase knob For possible applications of this mode see for example the Doepfer A 143 9 module here Note that the effect of the Phase knob is not reflected in the graphical waveform display see below e Start Stop In this mode the LFO is no longer really an LFO Its output is controlled by whether the host s transport is playing or stopped The actual levels generated are set as if the start stop signal were a very slow square wave i e you should set a non zero value for the Square mix control see below e Transport2 As Transport but the LFO stops when the host transport stops In Tempo and Transport modes the Divisor sets the base unit for the sync calculation e g 1 4 indicates quarter notes If the Triplet button is pressed the Divisor is converted to its triplet equivalent The Beats setting then multiplies the length of the note set by the divi sor So for example if the Divisor is 1 8 and the Beats is 3 0 the cycle length of the LFO will be three eighth notes If the Divisor is 1 1 and the Beats is 4 0 the cycle length will be four bars Note that while the Beats control only takes integer values when adjusted with the knob it is perfect
31. Overview Silent Way AC Encoder Silent Way CV Input Silent Way CV To MIDI 15 16 16 16 16 16 17 17 17 18 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 20 21 21 21 21 21 22 22 22 22 Silent Way CV To OSC Silent Way DC Silent Way ES 4 Controller Silent Way ES 5 Controller Silent Way ESX 4CV Combiner Silent Way ESX 8CV Combiner Silent Way Follower Silent Way Function Silent Way Learner Silent Way LFO Silent Way Logic Project Silent Way Quantizer Silent Way SMUX Silent Way Soundplane Silent Way Step LFO Silent Way Sync Silent Way Trigger Silent Way Voice Controller Silent Way AC Encoder Introduction In Use Enable Input Polarity Min Out Max Out 6 channel VST Silent Way CV Input Introduction Setup with VCA Unipolar Bipolar Operation Controls Setup with ES 2 Silent Way CV To MIDI Introduction 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 24 24 25 25 25 29 25 26 26 26 27 27 28 29 29 Setup Selecting the Target Using the VST MIDI output Using inter application busses Using the connection to Silent Way Learner Preparing input CVs Other Controls Enable Channel Sending MIDI CC messages Sending MIDI note messages Silent Way CV To OSC Introduction Setup Target Browsing for Targets OS X only OSC Paths Other Controls Enable Threshold Max Rate Silent Way DC Introduction Left Right Channel O
32. Path Target Uss iPnone 4S local 9000 Introduction Silent Way CV To OSC translates CV signals such as those produced by Silent Way CV Input for example into OSC messages These can in turn be used to control all sorts of software and hardware devices See the Expert Sleepers YouTube channel for some ideas If you re unfamiliar with OSC start by visiting opensoundcontrol org Silent Way CV To OSC operates as a stereo or mono plug in In stereo mode the two channels are independent and have identical controls In mono mode the Right Channel controls are not used Setup Once you have your CVs entering the plug in a simple matter of audio routing there are two things you will need to set up the Target and the OSC Paths Target ral 9000 The field along the bottom of the plug in GUI shows its Target address a combination of machine name and port number that identifies the device or software on the network to which the OSC messages will be sent You can use either a numeric IP address e g 127 0 0 1 or a hostname e g localhost to identify the host This should be followed by a colon and then the port number Browsing for Targets OS X only To the right of the Target field is a button labelled Browse Clicking this brings up a dia log which lists all the OSC services on the network that are advertising themselves via A OSC Browser Select an OSC target Target Description O
33. Way CV To OSC Converts CVs from e g CV Input or the LFO to OSC Silent Way DC Generates a simple constant CV Also provides simple CV scaling offsets Silent Way ES 4 Controller Supports the Expert Sleepers ES 4 hardware module Silent Way ES 5 Controller Supports the Expert Sleepers ES 5 hardware module Silent Way ESX 4CV Combiner Supports the Expert Sleepers ESX 4CV hardware module Silent Way ESX 8CV Combiner Supports the Expert Sleepers ESX 8CV hardware module Silent Way Follower Provides pitch and envelope tracking Silent Way Function Applies simple mathematical operations to CVs Silent Way Learner Handles MIDI and OSC remote control of all Silent Way plug ins Silent Way LFO A versatile low frequency oscillator Silent Way Logic Project Stores project settings specific to Apple Logic Pro Silent Way Quantizer Quantizes CVs e g to a musical scale Silent Way SMUX Allows use of all 8 outputs from an ES 3 module when running at 88 1 96kHz Silent Way Soundplane Supports the Madrona Labs Soundplane instrument Silent Way Step LFO An LFO most often useful as a step sequencer Silent Way Sync Generates clock pulses including DINsync Silent Way Trigger Generates a gate trigger or envelope Silent Way Voice Controller A MIDI CV Interface in a plug in including oscillator pitch calibration Silent Way AC Encoder O SW AC Encoder 2 Audio silent way 2 0 0 Input Polarity L Bipolar Shii 1
34. Windows 2 0 1 7 9 12 e Fixed a problem that prevented use of the plug in status bar mute presets etc in Cubase Mac OS X 32 bit e Added the ability to skin the colours of the various graph elements in the UIs e g envelope displays 2 0 0 28 8 12 e Added Silent Way ES 5 Controller Silent Way ESX 4CV Combiner Silent Way Fol lower Silent Way Learner and Silent Way Soundplane e Silent Way ES 4 Controller is now part of the main Silent Way suite All plug ins are now installed in a single bundle OS X dll Windows e 64bit support OS X and Windows e New GUI look e Added skinning e Added MIDI learn e Added new OSC control features e Double click to reset knobs to default e Cursor keys now increment decrement value boxes e Silent Way LFO can be reset by incoming MIDI notes e Added Silent Way ES 4 Controller Input To Gates feature e Fuller MIDI support for ES 4 5 Controller MIDI output including SysEx e Added Silent Way Sync Mute Clock amp Multiplier controls and added the possibil ity to invert Gate Expander outputs e Added CV Trigger and Multiplier to Silent Way Trigger e Numerous other small fixes and enhancements 1 7 3 23 7 12 e Added a workaround to the Silent Way Sync plug in for a Logic Pro bug which could cause erratic clock output 1 7 1 25 11 11 e Fixed the behaviour of the Silent Way Sync plug in when the host s transport was in
35. ader on the ES 4 40 5 the expander is connected to Default Calibrations Create ES 4 Calibration overwrites the cur rent calibration if any with a perfect 1V octave curve assuming the ES 4 s hardware Create ES 4 Calibration factory calibration The OV point is set to MIDI note 48 C below middle C you may like to use the Voice Controller s Transpose Create ESX xCV Calibration setting if this is not suitable for your needs You would almost certainly want to create a calibration in this way if using ES 4 Mode above You could also use it when not in ES 4 Mode if the output of the Voice Controller will be sent to the input of an ES 4 Controller plug in Create ESX xCV Calibration overwrites the current calibration if any with a perfect 1V octave curve assuming the ESX 4CV or ESX 8CV s hardware factory calibration Use this when routing the Voice Controller s output to the ESX 4CV Combiner or ESX 8CV Com biner plug in or when in ESX 4CV or ESX 8CV mode see above Interface Category The Interface Category drop down menu allows you to inform the plug in of what kind of audio interface will be outputting the plug in s sig nal Please refer to http expert sleepers co uk siwacategories html for more details the specifics are likely to be more fluid than should be put here in the user manual Preferences Pressing the Prefs button brings up a dialog where various preference
36. ages are sent e Normal a note off message is sent for the preceding note immediately before any new note on message e Legato a note off message is sent for the preceding note immediately after any new note on message The Gate Close menu selects what message is sent when the gate signal goes from open to closed The options are None the closing gate does note cause any message to be sent e Note Off the closing gate causes a note off message to be sent for the preceding note The Length control allows you to set a maximum length in milliseconds for any note When this is set to a value other than Off a note off message will be generated for the preceding note on message after the specified time if one has not already been generated e g by the closing gate The Centre and Slope controls relate the incoming CVs to the generated MIDI note numbers Centre sets the note number when the incoming CV is zero Slope controls the rate of change of note number with CV So for example with the default setting of Centre 48 amp Slope 48 a CV of 1 gives note number 0 a CV of 0 gives note number 48 and a CV of 1 gives note number 96 If we set Centre 60 amp Slope 40 then CVs of 1 0 and 1 gives notes numbers of 20 60 amp 100 respectively Silent Way CV To OSC O SW CV To OSC 5 Audio silent way 2 0 0 Threshold L 0 100 1 faderl OSC Path Enable 2 knobi1 OSC
37. arily closing the gate as seen by the synth which should be enough to retrigger its envelopes Polyphonic Mode The Voice Controller supports a polyphonic mode of operation i e one where multiple notes sound at once This is achieved using multiple instances of the plug in one per voice plus one additional instance to act as the master or controller The master plug in should have its Poly Mode menu set to Master The adjacent Ply Vox short for Polyphony Voice knob controls the maximum polyphony i e the number of simultaneous voices that will sound This should be set to the number of additional Voice Controller plug ins that you re going to set up The voice plug ins should have their Poly Mode menu set to Voice Each plug in should have its Ply Vox knob set to a different value this is telling the plug in which of the polyphonic voices it represents So for example if in the master plug in you set the po lyphony to 4 you need 4 more voice plug ins with their voice set to 1 2 3 amp 4 respec tively Route the voice plug in outputs to your synth hardware as normal bearing in mind that each voice will need separate outputs Unless you have a monster audio interface it s un likely that you ll need all 6 outputs from each plug in The input from your synth that would normally go into each Voice Controller should be connected only to the input of the master plug in The master d
38. bles the AC Encoder s processing It is provided only so that the plug in doesn t start emitting a potentially very loud audio signal as soon as it s loaded it will always be turned on in normal use Input Polarity Each channel can operate in either bipolar or unipolar mode These modes define the range of input signals that the plug in can handle and that will be mapped onto the range of output voltages which in the absence of further processing are only positive as noted above In bipolar mode input values in the range 1 0 to 1 0 are mapped across the output volt age range In unipolar mode input values in the range 0 0 to 1 0 are mapped across the output voltage range In both cases input values outside of those ranges are clamped Min Out Max Out These two controls set the minimum and maximum voltages that the AC Encoder will at tempt to output from the interface In an ideal world these would be left at 0 0 and 1 0 re spectively to maximise the possible range of voltages However sometimes this is not the best solution in practice For example the simple rectifier circuit as described on the web site usually suffers from a dead zone at low voltages In this case you would want to raise the Min Out setting so that the plug in would only output voltages above the dead zone Similarly some systems exhibit nonlinearities at higher voltages in which case you would bring down the Max Out setting to avoid these effect
39. by a value and offset addition subtraction of a value before and after the function chosen The input scale and offset knobs are to the left of the graph the output scale and offset knobs are to the right Graph The display in the centre of the plug in UI shows the chosen function as a graph The input is on the x horizontal axis and the output on the y verti cal axis A small moving indicator on the graph shows the current input and output values The output scale and offset knobs modify the graph to show their effect The input scale and offset knobs do not modify the appearance of the graph but you can see their effect on the movement of the indicator Silent Way Learner O SW Learner 7 SW Learner expert sleepers silent way 2 0 0 Target Silent Way Learner 1 6 Chi CC1 16 exsl SWVoiceController 1 1 float32 0 491758 Silent Way Learner 1 6 Chi CCi 11 exsl SWVoiceController 1 1 float32 0 516484 Silent Way Learner 1 6 Chi CC1 6 exsl SWVoiceController 1 1 float32 0 532967 Silent Way Learner 1 6 Chi CCi 1 exsl SWVoiceController 1 1 float32 0 541209 Silent Way Learner 1 6 Chi CC1 0 exsl SWVoiceController 1 1 float32 0 543956 Silent Way Voice Controller 1 7 Gate Open Voltage lt Silent Way Learner 1 6 Chi CC1 exsl SWVoiceController 1 GateOpenVoltage exsl SWVoiceController 1 1 exsl 7 1 Introduction Silent Way Learner is the hub for controlling the Silent Way
40. can be sent down the ADAT connection is reduced from the usual 8 down to 4 The 4 double speed channels are multiplexed onto the 8 ADAT channels this system is usually referred to as S MUX or sample multiplexing The Silent Way SMUX plug in gets around this reduction in channel count by providing a complementary multiplexing scheme which takes 4 channels of CVs and combines them onto 2 channels of the double speed audio stream When the ADAT output is then de coded by a normal speed interface such as the ES 3 mentioned above the channels are demultiplexed and so you get your 4 channels of CV back again In Use The plug in provides 4 inputs 2 stereo busses and 2 outputs 1 stereo bus Simply load the plug in on a stereo channel in your DAW and route the 4 CVs to be multiplexed into the plug ins inputs Quite how you do this depends on your DAW For example in Able ton Live this can be accomplished by setting the output of a CV generating track to point to the plug ins inputs In Logic you would use a side chain The plug in only has two controls Flip L and Flip R These flip the order of multiplex ing of the channels onto the output stream Unfortunately it is quite random in what order the channels will go out the plug in does not have enough information from the host to know in what order to multiplex the samples You have to load the plug in and flip the channels if they re in the wrong order Fortunately th
41. cessary easy to edit This opens up all sorts of possibilities for manually created or adjusted calibration data Calibration files can also be used with Silent Way Quantizer A typical calibration file might look like this Silent Way Calibration Data version 1 0 98087925 1 96048236 2 0 94008547 3 0 91968852 4 89929163 and so on this example is truncated The first two lines are an identifying header and a version number The remaining lines are simple pairs of numbers the first number is a MIDI note number and the second is the output CV value that corresponds to that note Note that only notes that successfully calibrated are stored in the file so you may find that the note numbers start at a value higher than 0 and end at a value less than 127 Output Matrix Offset Pitch Gate Envi Env2 Env3 Trig Vel Smth 0 008 1 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 Off rm 0 008 0 008 1 00 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 Off ee 0 008 0 008 0 008 1 00 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 Off 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 1 0098 0 008 0 008 0 008 Off 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 1 009 0 008 0 008 Off 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 0 008 1 008 0 008 Off The Output Matrix section lets you select which of the plug in s output signals appear on which of the six plug in outputs Each row in the matrix corresponds to an output Each has eight knobs which mix together the eight possible output signals The knobs go down to 1 0 so y
42. cts the Gate Expander output that will carry the MIDI signal Clock If enabled causes the plug in to send MIDI timing clock messages synced to the DAW s transport When Clock is enabled MIDI clock is generated when the host DAW s transport is run ning The MIDI clock generation always begins at the start of a bar if the host transport is started in the middle of a bar the plug in waits for the next bar before starting the MIDI clock Swing These controls allow you to add shuffle or swing timing to the clock output Swing has two controls The knob sets the amount of swing in percent 50 means no swing the middle sixteenth note is 50 of the way between the neighbouring notes as normal Higher values of swing make the middle note later lower values make it earlier At 100 the middle note is right on top of the following note The dropdown menu chooses between sixteenth and eighth note swing Offset The Offset control applies a small delay or advance in the timing of the MIDI clock rela tive to the host s transport This can be used to compensate for any difference in the re sponse time of the hardware being synced Poly When set to something other than Off the Poly control enables the plug in s polyphonic MIDI splitting mode Normally the plug in simply echoes all the MIDI it receives to the chosen expander out put In polyphonic mode the plug in interprets MIDI note on off messages a
43. d a Smooth A Source ighpa 3 Env Gain Attack elease Env Gate 0 013V 0 013 00 657 7Hz E 5 4 1 000 Pitch Mode V Octave ZIN Sc V Scale OV Coarse OV Fine Transfer Calibration loaded from Load Introduction Silent Way Follower tracks the pitch and envelope of incoming audio and outputs pitch and envelope CVs accordingly Follower The Follower section defines some basic parameters of the pitch and envelope detection processes Source The Source drop down sets whether the plug in operates on its left in put its right input or a sum of the two L R Input Filters The Highpass and Lowpass knobs control two simple fil ters that are applied to the audio before the detection takes place Typically you would adjust these to filter out any signal outside of the base pitch you re trying to detect to avoid the pitch detector locking onto any overtones or noise elements E g if you know you re trying to track a bass part in the octave from 200 400Hz adjusting the filters to 200Hz and 400Hz or thereabouts might help the detection process Env Gain The Env Gain knob is a simple gain control on the signal provided as a convenience to get the envelope CV into a healthy range 12 00 Env Gain Env Attack and Release The Env Attack and Env Release knobs define time con stants for the maximum rate of change of the envelope CV Env Attack Env Releas
44. d will drive Silent Way CV To MIDI without any unpleasant artefacts If on the other hand you are using CVs from Silent Way CV Input you may find that the CVs are rather noisy and can pro duce unexpected results The easiest solution is to apply a small amount of negative smoothing in the CV Input plug in Other Controls Enable Channel The Enable button simply enables or disables MIDI output from the left or right channel of the plug in Enable The Channel knob selects which MIDI channel messages are sent on 1 16 Channel Sending MIDI CC messages Press the CC button to enable sending of MIDI CC messages A new message will be sent whenever the incoming CV changes ae 1 0000 1 000 CC CC Min CC Max enough to select a different CC value The CC control selects the CC number that will be sent 0 127 Some CC numbers corre spond to specific controllers by convention e g CC 1 is usually sent by a keyboard s modulation wheel but you are free to use whatever CC numbers you like The CC Min and CC Max controls set the range of incoming CVs that correspond to the full range of MIDI CC values 0 127 By default the min is set to 1 and the max to 1 meaning that a CV value of 1 will generate a CC value of 0 and a CV value of 1 will generate a CC value of 127 If for example you change the CC Min to 0 then a CV value of 0 will generate a CC value of 0 and a CV value o
45. e Env Gate The Env Gate knob sets a threshold on the envelope level below which the envelope CV goes to zero This can be useful if the input signal is a little noisy to cut off the envelope between notes Pitch The Pitch section controls how the detected pitch is transformed into a CV Pitch Mode This drop down sets whether the plug in generates a Volt Octave linear pitch CV or a Hertz Volt exponential pitch CV or whether it uses a calibra tion profile from the Voice Controller V Octave Pitch Mode V Octave Hz V The knobs to the right of the Pitch Mode control define the selected response If V Octave is selected as the Pitch Mode then the V Octave knob defines the num ber of Volts Per Octave usually 1 0 but e g the Buchla standard is 1 2 If Hz V is selected as the Pitch Mode then the Hz V knob defines the number of Hertz Per Volt there s no real standard in this case If Calibrated is selected as the Pitch Mode neither of these two knobs is used Instead a calibration profile generated by the Voice Con troller plug in is used to determine the relation Load ship between tracked frequency and output volt age The Load button is used to load a calibra tion file saved from the Voice Controller The Transfer button transfers the calibration directly from the last calibrated Voice Controller without the need to save the calibration file to disk
46. e Asymmetry The Asyn short for asymmetry control effectively moves the centre point of the waveform forwards and backwards in time It is somewhat like applying a pulse width variation to a square wave but applies equally to all the wave forms Its effect is easy to understand if you turn the knob and watch the waveform in the graphical display Input Mode The Input Mode drop down controls how the plug in s inputs are com bined with the LFO signal The options are Add Input Mode e Add the LFO signal is added to the input signal A typical use for this would be to modulate an incoming pitch CV e Multiply the LFO signal is multiplied with the input signal If for example the input signal is an envelope CV this gives the effect of the LFO depth being modulated by the envelope A common use for this would be to achieve a vibrato that fades up after the start of each note e Combine effectively the first two options added together In the example of the in put signal being an envelope this gives you the basic envelope shape plus LFO modulation but the LFO is only heard when the envelope is non zero Swing The Swing controls adjust the timing of the LFO in a manner similar to the swing options found in many sequencer applications Essentially every other sixteenth or eighth note is pushed back slightly f 50 0 changing the feel of a straight pattern to the dum de dum de dum
47. e ES 4 s 5 outputs or one of the 40 possible Gate Expander outputs Setting this to Off disables the gate signal Vel Specifies the ES 4 output to use for the velocity signal a CV reflecting the velocity of the MIDI note being played You can choose any of the ES 4 s 5 outputs Setting this to Off disables the velocity signal Priority Sets the note priority mode Since the ES 4 Controller behaves as a monophonic synth a scheme is required to determine which note sounds when multiple keys are held at the same time The options are e Newest the most recently pressed key sounds e Lowest the lowest note sounds e Highest the highest note sounds Outputs These controls let you directly set the out put levels of the ES 4 s 5 outputs The val ues range from 0 to 255 an 8 bit value These can be particularly useful when com bined with MIDI controller mapping in your DAW to say map a synth mod wheel to a CV output for filter cutoff Via OSC or MIDI you have the possibility to control the ES 4 and or the Gate Expanders down to the individual bit i e gate Gates This section offers MIDI note on off control over the 40 gate outputs from the ES 4 Gate Expanders Of 485 Off 8480 of 48 OT 648 OOF 48 1Chan 1 Base 2 Chan 2 Base 3Chan 3 Base 4Chan 4 Base 5Chan 5 Bas There is a pair of controls for each of the ES 4 s 5 channels i e the 5 possible Gate Expand ers Channel sets t
48. ection sets the actual output levels that are generated for the Gate Trigger and Ve locity outputs Gate Clsd Open _1 000 Gate Open Trig On Vel Max Sets the voltages generated for the Gate signal when the gate is closed and open respectively Trig Off On Gate Cisd Trig Off Vel Min Sets the voltages generated for the Trigger signal Vel Min Max Sets the voltage range generated for the Velocity signal Overrides The Overrides section lets you override the pitch and gate outputs so they re no longer controlled by the incoming MIDI notes This is intended for use with parameter automation so you can create patterns less easily obtainable by programming notes e g pitch ramps Note that you can also automate the enable Pitch buttons themselves so you can switch between note control and direct control within a sequenced pattern Pitch The Pitch button enables the pitch override the knob sets the overridden pitch The pitch knob is calibrated in MIDI note numbers i e 1 increment per semitone Gate The Gate button enables the gate override the knob sets the overridden gate signal Detune The Detune section lets you modify the pitch CV out put from its 2 000 0 000 0 0 0 00 o o 5 000 true value i e Bend Rng Transpose Detune Random LFO Dpth LFO Spd the value that would produce the pitch according to the input MIDI note Bend Rng Sets the range in semitones of the pitch bend applied by
49. en over the existing step value conversely when you disable the random generator the random pattern remains in the step editor for possible manual tweaking Set Next This control sets whether the random value replaces the step value that the LFO just stepped to or the following step value This makes more sense when the Interpolation mode is Linear Mode There are two modes Rotate Right and Rotate Left which are fairly self explanatory they simply control in which direction the bits rotate Because the right most bit is always the least significant bit of the DAC different rotation directions tend to produce different sounding patterns Length The Length knob sets the number of bits in the shift register from 1 to 48 DAC Bits The DAC Bits knobs sets the number of bits that are the input to the DAC This sets the number of possible different values that the random output can take e g an 8 bit DAC can output 256 different values a 1 bit DAC can output 2 values just on or off Randomness This is the setting that is often CV controlled in a hardware implementation as it controls the tendency of the random pattern to evolve At a setting of 0 0 the chance of a bit being inverted is exactly 50 This is maximum ran domness At settings higher than 0 0 the chance of a bit being inverted gets gradually less meaning the pattern tends to change less often At a value of 1 0 the chance of a bit being in
50. ere are only two possibilities Silent Way Soundplane O SW Soundplane 4 SW Soundplane silent way 2 1 0 Voice ID 1 Calibration loaded from J Sers T pa T mt r T fim ou ms D A gt felted fel tel tel per BOROROROROsO BOROROROROgO 3o fofofogofo BORORORORORO BOO RORORORO 0 0 00 4 4 T 0 00 4 0 00 4 0 00 0 00 Introduction Silent Way Soundplane is a plug in dedicated to working with the Soundplane instrument by Madrona Labs There is a video demo of the Soundplane being used with Silent Way to control a modular synth here Madrona Labs provide a client application which talks to the Soundplane itself via USB The client then transmits MIDI and or OSC It is the OSC which is picked up and used by Silent Way Setup Use Silent Way Learner above to receive the OSC messages from the Soundplane client By default the client transmits to port 3123 If you use a different port in the Learner use the Soundplane client s Bonjour implementation to find and connect to that port 1 http madronalabs com 2 http vimeo com 48005694 Any Silent Way Soundplane plug in loaded now talks to the Learner behind the scenes to receive the OSC information You need one plug in per voice or per touch as the Sound plane client refers to it Set the touches control in the client to the desired number of voices and then add the same number of Silent Way S
51. erosity Below are reproduced the various copyright notices and disclaimers that accompany these software projects in accordance with their terms of use Lua Copyright C 1994 2008 Lua org PUC Rio software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to per mit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following con ditions Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABIL ITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CON NECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE oscpack oscpack Open Sound Control packet manipulation library http www audiomulch com rossb code oscpack Copyright c 2004 Ross Bencina lt rossb audiomulch com gt Permission is hereby granted free of cha
52. ers website here These mostly cover the basic setup of the Voice Controller plug in in various DAWs since this is the first thing most people want to do with Silent Way Other Demo Videos There are many more videos that demo specific features or techniques on our Vimeo chan nel here Or if you prefer YouTube here Join the forum Silent Way has a very active community of users participating in the forum here This is a great place to ask questions and to get inspiration from how other people are using the software Which plug in to try first Unless you re using one of the Expert Sleepers hardware modules which require a specific plug in e g the ES 4 the ES 4 Controller plug in you probably want to start with the Silent Way Voice Controller or possibly the Silent Way LFO If you find you re struggling to get things to work as expected Silent Way DC is the absolute simplest plug in which is very useful for checking your basic connections in software and in hardware 1 http expert sleepers co uk siwatutorials html 2 http vimeo com channels 126094 3 http www youtube com user expertsleepers 4 http www muffwiggler com forum viewforum php f 35 Plug in Overview Silent Way AC Encoder Allows the use of non DC coupled audio interfaces Silent Way CV Input A means of getting CVs back into the computer Silent Way CV To MIDI Converts CVs from e g CV Input or the LFO to MIDI Silent
53. expert sleepers silent way 2 0 0 Simple Env Env 2 Env 3 Outputs H W Reset E4 f f f 1 4 Left Channel 0 2409 0 0008 0 0008 0 00090 000 0 000 1 000 1000 1 000 gt D i RTZ Sine Triangle Saw SquareRandom Noise Gate Open TrigOn Vel Max 0 100 TOO 0 100 0 500 0 100 100 M 0 000 eae f f f f f l a Env 1A EnviD EnmviS EnviR Vell Mult 1 Calibrate t n m RTZ 0 J 0 000 0 000 0 000 50 00 OFF 50 00 AO A AN C i j i Speed Multiplier e Phase Offset Asym PW Smooth Swing Swing Calibrate Hz V tt u ad _ am 0 100 0 100 10 500 0 100 0 000 Env2A Env2D Env2S Env2R Vel2 Mult 2 Gate Clsd_ Trig Off Vel Min oad Ee Save f f Ed f p Pitch AN C C b cy RIZ gt P tc C 1 J 0 0008 0 000 0 000 0 000 0 000 0 000 0 100 0 100 0 500 0 100 0 000 Env 3A nv 3R j Divisor i ri ri i Gate ja Sine Triangle Saw SquareRandom Noise Pitch Gate Env3D Env3S E Vel3 Mult 3 CCE Modes 0 000 0 000 0 000 50 009 _ Orri 50 00 coe pa Pha peta On AD se Offset Asym PW Smooth Swing Swing u LI ya p af L J P i v Vou a a Poly Off _ 12 000 0 0005 0 000 RN 0 000 NNN 0 000 ay 5 000 10 200 Ply Vox Bend Rng Transpose Detune Random LFODpth LFO Spd Mode Time Shape Length Speed Multiplier Preamble From Silent Way v2 0 0 onwards it is possible to completely redefine the plug ins GUIs Possible changes range from simple colour scheme changes through to a complete redes ign and rea
54. f 1 will generate a CC value of 127 CV values below 0 will be clamped and generate CC values of 0 Sending MIDI note messages Continuous Note On ie 0 010 Note Off Gate Close Centre Slope Threshold Length Press the Note button to enable sending of MIDI note messages Both note on and note off messages can be generated The three drop down menus select the behaviour of the plug in in terms of when messages are sent Where a gate signal is referred to below this is taken from the CV entering the opposite plug in channel So for example if you re using the plug in s left channel to generate MIDI note messages its gate signal is taken from the CV input to the right channel and vice versa The gate signal is described as being either open or closed It is open when its value ex ceeds the value set by the Threshold knob The Note On menu selects between the following options for sending note on messages e Continuous a new note on message is sent whenever the incoming CV changes enough to select a new note number this is analogous to how CC messages are gen erated as described above e Gate Only a new note message is sent when the gate signal changes from closed to open e Gated notes are sent as in Continuous mode but only when the gate signal is open The Note Off menu selects between the following options for sending note off messages None no note off mess
55. fact the track and even the plug in can be safely deactivated it just needs to be present in the project Further relevant information can be found on this web page http expert sleepers co uk siwacategories html Silent Way Quantizer O SW Quantizer 2 Audio expert sleepers silent way 2 0 0 Scale L Major Enable Scale aa Calibrated 96 0 0 00 0 00 0 00 OR oi at Mode Steps Fine Offset Transpose Scale Key Offset Smooth g Load Calibration loaded from i Manual Fine Offset Transpose Introduction Silent Way Quantizer is a CV processing plug in that constrains the incoming continuous CVs to a number of discrete values For example it can constrain a pitch CV to exact semi tone values This is especially useful when combined with the Step LFO plug in in order to accurately sequence musical notes but it can also be used with e g the regular LFO plug in or with the Voice Controller plug in to turn portamentos into discrete glissandos The Quantizer plug in is capable of loading the calibration data from the Voice Controller plug in in order to output accurately calibrated pitches It can also restrict the output notes to those in musical scales e g major minor pentatonic It operates as a stereo or mono plug in In stereo mode the two channels are independent and have identical controls In mono mode the Right Channel controls are not used Loading Calibration Data The Load button
56. full cycle of the pattern When set to Step the speed defines the time taken for one step of the pattern Which you use will largely depend on how you want the plug in to react when you change the pattern length see below If the Speed Mode is set to Cycle changing the number of steps will result in a different number of steps looping round in the same time If the Speed Mode is set to Step changing the number of steps will result in the pattern taking a longer or shorter time to loop while the time taken on each step remains constant Typically you would select Cycle when using the plug in as an LFO and Step when using it as a step sequencer but the choice is entirely yours Editing the Steps Waveform Waveform display The right hand side of the GUI is where you set up the wave form that the LFO will out put It is divided horizontally into a number of steps each one of which can be set to a value of your choosing Note that every fourth and every third dividing line is coloured differently to aid in setting up pat terns in standard time signatures Simply click and drag the mouse to set values You can set a number of steps in a single gesture As with knobs holding shift while dragging allows for much finer control over the value set also holding Command Mac OS X Alt Windows resets the value to zero Holding Option Mac OS X Control Windows prevents horizontal mouse movement from moving onto another
57. ge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documenta tion files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Soft ware THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUD ING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL BRIAN PAUL BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE Copyright c 2007 The Khronos Group Inc Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and or associated docu mentation files the Materials to deal in the Materials without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Materials and to permit persons to whom the Materials are furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice
58. ging the mouse in creases the resolution of the changes Env 3R Full Env Controls This alternate view exposes the full range of controls for each envelope gen erator There are three attack sections and two release sections plus the sustain section The shape of the curve in each section can be independently controlled In terms of the simple view A maps to Time A2 D maps to Time A3 and R maps to Time RT If Level Al remains at zero Time A1 is essentially a delay before the enve lope starts which can be useful for auto rhythmic effects Env Misc The Env Misc group contains three more controls per envelope The Vel 1 2 3 knobs control how much Envelope 1 2 3 respec tively are affected by the velocity of MIDI notes At the default setting of 0 0 the envelope is not affected by velocity at all At a setting of 1 0 the scale of the envelope is completely determined V Mult 1 by the velocity so a note with velocity zero will produce a con RTZ stant zero envelope At a setting of 1 0 the envelope depth is in versely related to the note velocity The Mult 1 2 3 dropdown menus allow you to apply a multiplier to the envelope times E g when the multiplier is set to 10 all the envelope stages will take 10 times longer than the value displayed on the envelope knobs Mult 3 The RTZ Reset To Zero buttons control whether each envelope always starts from zero
59. he MIDI channel to respond to or Off Base sets the base note to respond to which will control the Gate Expander s output 1 The remaining 7 outputs will be controlled by the 7 MIDI notes above the base note e g if the base note is 48 outputs 1 to 8 on the Gate Expander will be controlled by notes 48 to 55 There is a demo video of this heret Triggers Accents The Triggers button exposes 2 new sections of controls Inggers Triggers The Triggers controls allow each of the 40 possible gate outputs above to be used as a trigger instead i e a short pulse is emitted at each MIDI note on and note offs are ignored im Off Off Of Each trigger length control sets the trigger time in milliseconds or Off to allow normal gate functionality Accents The Accents controls allow each even numbered gate output to be used as a velocity switched accent output for the gate output immediately below it This is typically useful with drum synths which have both a trigger input and an accent input e g the Tip Top Audio 808 range of modules There is a demo video of this here When a gate output is enabled as an accent it will be activated by the note for the gate be low when the note s velocity is at or above 64 mid range Note that it retains it s own separate Trigger control above and can still be activated by its own MIDI note As a concrete example in the image above Acce
60. incoming MIDI pitch bend mes sages Transpose Applies a constant detune in semitones to the output pitch Detune Applies a constant detune in cents i e hundredths of a semitone to the output pitch Random Applies a random detune whenever a new note is triggered Use this if you feel the tuning of your synth is too tight when using Silent Way and you hanker for the sloppy tuning of analogue synths back in the good old days LFO Depth Speed Applies a low frequency modulation to the output pitch This is intended as a convenient means to achieve a simple vibrato effect for more complex pitch modulation you can of course process the pitch CV in hardware in your modular system Envelopes The Voice Controller includes three identical multi stage envelope generators The shapes of the envelopes are shown graphically down the centre of the plug in GUI There are two views on the envelope generator con trols a simple view which presents a traditional ADSR view on all three envelopes at once and a complex view which of fers all the possible con SUS sa env 2 Env 3 Outputs trols on each envelope Select the view by pressing one of the four buttons above the envelope controls Simple Env Controls Using the simple controls lets you set up a traditional ADSR Attack Decay Sustain Release envelope shape The times are calibrated in seconds For very fast times remember that holding Shift while drag
61. io expert sleepers silent way 2 3 0 Target Hardware ES 4 Prefs ES 4 i 1 2 E 3 E 4 E 5 E 6 E 7 E 8 E 9 E 10 Hardware Channel Thru 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 riiter Filter Filter Filter Filter Filter Filter Filter Category SMUX Proof 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Adaptive Mode Introduction The Silent Way ESX 8CV Combiner plug in is a special element of the Silent Way plug in suite dedicated to controlling the Expert Sleepers ESX 8CV module Unlike most of the rest of the Silent Way plug ins the ESX 8CV Combiner does not time out allowing unre stricted use without a Silent Way licence In Use The ESX 8CV Combiner is a 10 in 2 out plug in Typically 8 of those inputs will carry sig nals to be sent to the ESX 8CV s four outputs and 2 inputs will be a Thru connection carrying signals for the other channels of the ES 4 or ES 5 to which the ESX 8CV is con nected Target The Target section is where you let the plug in know how the ESX 8CV is physically connected to your system The Hardware drop down lets you select between ES 4 and ES 5 The Channel drop down sets the channel on the ES 4 5 to which the ESX 8CV is connected Inputs 12 E 3 E 4 E 5 E 6 E 7 E 5 E 9 E 10 Thru l 2 3 4 Filter riiter Filter riiter Filter Fitter Filter riiter The Inputs section sets up the routing from the plug in inputs to the hardware outputs Each control may be set to Off which disables that inp
62. ion with a VCA of some kind which includes some ring modulator devices An instance of the plug in is loaded in the host and one of its channels switched to Gen erator mode as in the image above The output of this channel should be routed out of the computer and into the signal input of the VCA The CV that you want to get into the computer should be connected to the CV input of the VCA The output of the VCA should then be routed back to the computer and fed into an in stance of the CV Input plug in this could be the other half of the Generator plug in or a new instance which is put in Decoder mode The output of this plug in is the desired CV Note that the Generator level see below defaults to zero so you need to turn it up before anything will happen The reason for this is to avoid situations where you might acciden tally feed the generated signal out to your speakers and cause damage to your equipment hearing sanity Unipolar Bipolar Operation CVs can be unipolar i e they take positive values only e g OV 10V or they can be bipolar i e they can take both positive and negative values Most VCA designs can only handle unipolar CVs If you want to use Silent Way CV Input to process bipolar CVs you have two options e use hardware modules to scale and bias your CV into a unipolar range see e g the Doepfer A 183 2 Offset Generator Attenuator Polarizer module e use
63. istributes this signal to the voice plug ins as necessary The final step is to connect the master plug in to the voice plug ins Exactly how you achieve this depends on your host application but in general the idea is to route the mas ter s output 1 to the input of all the voice plug ins in the most direct way possible Sugges tions for various popular hosts are as follows Set the master s output to Sends Only effectively disabling it and set each voice to receive input from the output of the master s track Set the master to output to a bus and use this bus as the side chain input for the voices NB remember to prevent the bus from directly outputting to an audio output Digital Performer Set the master to output to a bus and use this bus as the side chain input for the voices NB the voice inputs need to be mono or DP won t let you load the plug in so use a stereo bundle e g Bus 1 2 for the master output and a mono bundle e g Bus 1 for the voice inputs When in polyphonic master mode the Voice Controller continues to output envelopes etc via its outputs 3 6 as usual as set up via the output matrix However the envelopes are now held in the sustain stage for as long as any note is held down You can use this to rec reate the playing styles of some vintage string synths which were polyphonic but only had a single envelope shared between all the voices aka paraphonic Portamento Portamento
64. its with the mouse 77 77 17 7 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 79 79 80 80 80 81 81 81 81 82 82 82 83 83 83 84 84 84 85 85 85 85 85 Silent Way Sync Introduction In Use Type Divisor Multiplier 1st Delay Outputs Mute Clocks owing Offset Trigger ES Hardware Mode Signal Routing Interface Category Silent Way Trigger Introduction Setup CV Trigger Voltages Overrides Trigger Envelope Silent Way Voice Controller Introduction Loading the plug in VST Output Arrangement Don t Panic Calibration 86 86 86 86 87 87 87 87 87 88 88 88 88 88 88 90 90 90 91 91 91 91 92 93 93 93 94 95 95 Saving and Loading Calibration Data Output Matrix Offset Pitch Gate Env 1 2 3 Trigger Velocity Smooth Voltages Gate Clsd Open Trig Off On Vel Min Max Overrides Pitch Gate Detune Bend Rng Transpose Detune Random LFO Depth Speed Envelopes Simple Env Controls Full Env Controls Env Misc Modes Note Priority Retrigger Mode Polyphonic Mode Portamento Trigger Hardware Modes Hardware 95 96 97 97 97 97 97 97 97 98 98 98 98 98 98 98 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 100 100 101 101 101 101 102 103 104 104 104 In ESX 8CV mode outputs 1 to 6 of the Voice Controller are combined into a stereo signal suitable for sending to the ES 4 ES 40 or ES 5 in order to d
65. jumps to the start of step 1 at the end of the current step I e it waits for the current step to complete and then resets e If Sync is a triggered mode the LFO jumps to the start of step 1 on the next trig ger Otherwise the same as On e Instant If Sync is Transport the LFO jumps to the start of step 1 immediately but plays step 1 for a reduced time so that the transition to step 2 is still in time e Otherwise the same as On e Closest If Sync is Transport the LFO chooses the behaviour of either Delayed or Instant according to how far through the current step the LFO is This is probably the mode to use if you re aiming to manually reset the LFO by e g hitting a key on a MIDI keyboard e Otherwise the same as On Input Mode The Input Mode control is exactly the same as that described for the LFO plug in MIDI Inputs The reset and trigger functions can also be accessed via MIDI specifically by sending MIDI Note On messages to the plug in The range of notes that will control each function is set by the Min Max controls E g if Trigger Min is set to 48 and Trigger Max is set to 60 then MIDI notes C3 to C4 inclusive will trigger the LFO but notes outside of that range will not Random Pressing the Random button shows con trols for the Step LFO s random step gen erator This is a software take on the popular shift l m B Enable register based method of random CV gen Length eration found in a
66. king after 15 minutes every time you use it To stop this happening you need to buy a registration You can buy a registration key online using a credit card or PayPal from the Expert Sleep ers Licence Manager application See here for more information Note that you need at least version 1 0 18 of the Licence Manager The e commerce side of things is handled by eSellerate If you have any security concerns have a look at their website which is pretty informative Your registration key allows you to install Silent Way on up to 3 different computers use ful if for example you have a desktop computer in the studio and a laptop for live use You need an internet connection to activate the software though not necessarily on the computer on which you want to use it Upgrading from v1 x Using the Expert Sleepers Licence Manager 1 0 18 or higher you can purchase an up grade to v2 for less than the full cost of v2 if the Licence Manager shows v1 as activated Customers who purchased Silent Way v1 in 2012 are eligible for a discounted upgrade Please contact Expert Sleepers for details including your serial number or order number for Silent Way v1 The Silent Way GUI Using the controls Knobs Basic use of the knobs is to click on them and drag the mouse up and down However you can obtain different results by holding keys as follows e Shift Values change more slowly as you move the mouse Command Mac OS X Alt Windows
67. l the pitch as shown in the Quantizer is an octave above the OV pitch so C4 60 in this example You can now set up the LFO s sequence however you would normally and all its output notes will be quantised to a semitone value in a two octave range by the Quantizer Using the Quantizer with the Expert Sleepers ES 4 The ES 4 button replaces the loaded calibration if any with one perfectly tuned for the Expert Sleepers ES 4 module assuming the ES 4 s factory ES 4 calibration The output of the Quantizer can then be passed to the ES 4 Controller plug in to be routed in turn to the ES 4 s channel 1 or 2 And with the Expert Sleepers ESX 4CV The ESX 4CV button replaces the loaded calibration if any with one per fectly tuned for the Expert Sleepers ESX 4CV module assuming the ESX ESX 4CV 4CV s factory calibration The output of the Quantizer can then be passed to the ESX 4CV Combiner plug in Silent Way SMUX O SW SMUX 3 Audio silent way 2 0 0 Flip L Off Prefs Off Off Flip L Introduction Silent Way SMUX provides a hack to workaround the reduction in channel count over ADAT connections when running the audio system at 88 1 96kHz When using an audio interface to produce your CVs that is connected via ADAT for ex ample the Expert Sleepers ES 3 Lightpipe CV Interface and when the audio system is being run at a double speed rate typically 96kHz the number of audio channels that
68. lator that you a Calibrate Hz V want to control e Connect the oscillator s output to the Voice Controller s input Ideally this would be a direct connection not through any filter or other processing e Set the oscillator to generate a fairly simple waveform Any basic square triangle sine etc waveform will do e Press one of the Calibrate buttons The plug in will then generate a series of voltages and analyse the pitch it gets back from the oscillator The calibration dis play the left most graph at the top of the plug in GUI will update during this process See the Expert Sleepers website for notes on calibrating spe cific oscillator audio interface combinations and for host application specific tutorials For most synthesizers modules you ll use the Calibrate V oct button Synths that use the less common Hz V standard include the Yamaha CS 30 and the Korg MS 20 Saving and Loading Calibration Data The plug in s calibration data can be saved to and loaded from disk independently of the normal plug in preset save load oad Save mechanism This is accomplished with the two buttons below the calibration buttons Pressing Save brings up a standard file browse dialog allowing you to name the file and choose where it is saved pressing Load brings up a standard file browser dialog allowing you to choose the file to load The data is saved in a simple text file which is easy to read and if ne
69. ld be put here in the user manual Silent Way Trigger O SW Trigger 7 SW Trigger expert sleepers silent way 2 0 0 Trigger Note 60 0 Note Smooth Threshold Velocity Introduction Silent Way Trigger is a simple plug in for generating a gate or envelope in response to an incoming MIDI note or CV trigger A typical application would be for triggering drum sounds where you might have a number of different sounds mapped to different notes The plug in has a single output If you want more than one output per note e g a gate and and envelope simply use multiple copies of the plug in set to respond to the same note In many respects the Trigger plug in is a cut down version of the Voice Controller and many of the same ideas apply Setup The Mode menu selects on of the possible output signals for the plug in The options are Gate Trigger Envelope and Velocity which all correspond to the similarly named signals in the Voice Controller below axa Mode The Note control sets which MIDI note will trigger Note Smooth the plug in The Smooth control has the same effect as that in the DC plug in see above CV Trigger If the plug in is configured to receive an input signal you can optionally have it triggered by the incoming signal as well as or instead of by MIDI Enable Pressing the Enable button enables this feature Threshold The Threshold knob sets the level the
70. liseconds and to have a much larger range e From here on all Mac OS X versions require Mac OS X 10 4 or higher 1 4 4 15 10 2009 e Added the Silent Way CV To OSC plug in 1 4 3 5 10 2009 e Added the Silent Way CV Input plug in e Fixed an issue with the AU Generator versions of Silent Way DC amp LFO when loaded as mono plug ins 1 4 2 1 10 2009 e Mac OSX VST only addressed an issue where the GUIs would appear in slightly the wrong place in Cubase 1 4 1 28 9 2009 e Added AU Generator variants of Silent Way DC amp LFO 1 4 0 25 9 2009 e Added Silent Way Trigger plug in e Added smoothing option on all outputs of all plug ins e Added swing feature to Silent Way LFO e Added portamento feature to the Voice Controller e Fixed a bug that would very occasionally cause the GUIs to be corrupted 1 3 0 4 9 2009 e Added polyphonic support for the Voice Controller plug in e Added envelope Reset To Zero controls e Updated all plug ins for OS X 10 6 compatibility 1 2 0 26 8 2009 e Added the Silent Way LFO plug in 1 1 0 29 7 2009 e The Voice Controller AU now has an effect variant so it will work in Digital Per former Added new OSC commands registerOSCPathForParameter and registerOSCPath ForParameterNormalized added primarily for compatibility with TouchOSC e Output configuration changed from a set of drop down menus to a full matrix of knobs e Envelope scale parameters removed since the
71. ly happy to be set to arbitrary non integer values e g by typing in a value in the text field or by setting a value via parameter automation MIDI OSC Mix Controls The top row of smaller knobs controls the amount of various waveforms that are combined to create the out put LFO signal Note that the effec tive output waveform is displayed Sine Triangle Saw SquareRandom Noise graphically in the area to the right of the knobs Sine Triangle Saw and Square are common waveforms and behave as you d expect The pulse width of the Square waveform is controllable via the PW control The Random knob introduces random variations into the output signal A new random level is generated once per LFO cycle This behaviour is typical of hardware sample hold circuits in combination with a noise input The Noise knob introduces white noise into the output The Offset control applies a constant offset to the output waveform In terms of the graphical waveform display you ll see that this knob simply moves the whole waveform up and down A typical use for this would be if you wanted to generate a clock signal rather than an LFO signal per se and the connected equipment expected the clock signal to range from OV to a maximum voltage rather than varying between negative and positive voltages as is typical for a regular LFO The Smooth control has the same effect as that in the DC plug in see abov
72. n s UI would work when multiple Silent Way plug ins were opened in the same host 1 6 2 9 8 2010 e Added the envelope multiplier controls 1 6 1 2 8 2010 e Increased the maximum range of the Silent Way Voice Controller s pitch bend func tion 1 6 0 28 6 2010 e Added support for musical scales to Silent Way Quantizer e Changed all the plug in names that appear in host UIs from Silent Way to SW so that more of the actual name is visible when space is limited e Fixed GUI issue in Reaper on Windows 1 5 5 28 4 2010 Extended the range of Silent Way LFO s Beat Divisor parameter down to 1 128th notes in order to address a problem with setting up the VST versions of the plug in to output DIN Sync 1 5 4 20 4 2010 e Fixed a bug in the Silent Way Quantizer plug in that could cause the quantized note name to be displayed incorrectly when in Calibrated mode 1 5 3 29 3 2010 e Added the VSTi version of the Silent Way Voice Controller plug in 1 5 2 16 3 2010 e Added the Silent Way AC Encoder plug in 1 5 1 12 1 2010 e Added the Silent Way Quantizer plug in e Added the Silent Way CV To MIDI plug in e Added Random Tuning feature to Silent Way Voice Controller e Added ability to save and load calibration data to Silent Way Voice Controller 1 5 0 12 11 2009 e Added the Silent Way Step LFO plug in e Changed the Smooth control on all plug ins to be calibrated in mil
73. n Extra channels are available via bundles NB be sure the track that the plug in is to be loaded into is configured with a mono input and a stereo output else the plug in will not appear in the list of available plug ins Cubase VST Use effect version for calibration and VSTi ver sion thereafter VST Output Arrangement The VST versions of the plug in allow you to choose whether you want the host to con sider the outputs as a single 6 channel usually interpreted as 5 1 bus three stereo busses or six mono busses This setting is made in the Preferences dialog see below for general informa Output arrangement Stereo x3 B tion about the Preferences dialog via a drop down menu as shown Note that the setting is global it applies to all instances of the Voice Controller plug in and takes effect when the plug in is next loaded To take advantage of this in Cubase D you can load the plug in via the VST Instruments VST Instruments window Then click on the outputs icon to activate the additional output busses 1 Stereo 3 Stereo 5 Stereo Don t Panic The button labelled Don t Panic causes any currently sounding note to end the gate closes and the envelopes all Don t Panic go back to zero Calibration The calibration process is quite simple e Connect the Voice Controller s pitch output by default Calibrate V oct output 1 to the pitch CV input of the oscil
74. n UIDs MIDI Mapping Supported MIDI Messages MIDI Message History OSC Control Parameter Paths Activating OSC Setting up the controlling device Setting up controllers OSC Message History Sending OSC Advanced Usage Wildcards Multiple parameters per message Multi element controls Silent Way LFO Introduction Speed Controls 56 56 gt 57 58 58 58 58 399 59 59 59 60 60 61 61 61 62 62 62 62 63 63 63 63 64 64 65 Sync Controls Mix Controls Asymmetry Input Mode Swing Reset By Note Silent Way Logic Project Introduction Usage Silent Way Quantizer Introduction Loading Calibration Data In Use Manual Mode Calibrated Mode Using Scales Smooth Using the Quantizer with the Step LFO Using the Quantizer with the Expert Sleepers ES 4 And with the Expert Sleepers ESX 4CV Silent Way SMUX Introduction In Use Silent Way Soundplane Introduction Setup 65 66 66 67 67 68 69 69 69 71 71 71 72 72 72 73 73 73 74 74 75 75 75 76 76 76 Voice ID Gate Z Calibration Output Matrix Offset Note Gate X Y Z Smooth Silent Way Step LFO Introduction In Use UI Groups Speed Mode Editing the Steps Waveform Waveform display Setting the pattern length Range mode Interpolation mode Gate Inputs Reset Mode Input Mode MIDI Inputs Random Enable Set Next Mode Length DAC Bits Randomness Editing the b
75. nd distrib utes them amongst the chosen number of expander outputs The outputs used are the one chosen by the Output knob and those that follow it sequentially So for example if Output is set to Gates 2 1 and Poly is set to 3 then the outputs used are expander 2 outputs 1 2 and 3 This allows you to connect a number of monophonic synthesizers and play them as a single polysynth Non note data e g pitch bend CCs are echoed to all the poly outputs In particular MIDI clock is output to all the poly outputs which makes for a handy way to send MIDI clock to a number of MIDI devices from a single plug in even if you don t actually want to play them as a polysynth Output Indicators The row of numbers just above the Triggers button show the values currently being output on the 5 ES 4 output 64 0 0 0 OD channels Inputs This section controls the routing of other signals into the plug in and on to the ES 4 The plug in has 8 inputs organised as 4 stereo pairs Quite how this is handled by the DAW will vary considerably from DAW to DAW Some DAWS are very flexible e g Ableton Live while some make it very hard to route audio into such a plug in e g Logic Pro If your DAW of choice is lack ing in this regard we recommend the use of Plogue Bidule which provides a very flexible and modular plug in environment and can itself be used as a plug in within the DAW Each menu in this section lets you
76. nt 1 4 is enabled meaning gate output 4 on channel 1 This makes output 4 an accent output for output 3 When output 3 is acti vated by a MIDI note if the note s velocity is 64 or more then output 4 will be activated simultaneously 1 http vimeo com 30015330 2 http www tiptopaudio com 3 http vimeo com 38096483 MIDI Out This section allows a Gate Expander out put to be used as a Off Clock MIDI output Be Channel v ence tha Aoo eE 16 W 50 0 _ __ Off puts are derived hann ry Swing Swing Offset Poly from an audio sig nal the MIDI mes sages sent from an ES 4 are free from the timing problems often associated with regular e g USB MIDI interfaces Note The MIDI out feature is fully supported when the input sample rate is 48kHz or above In particular it may not work reliably at 44 1kHz though users have reported that most hardware does actually work fine when receiving MIDI generated by an ES 4 run ning at 44 1kHz Channel Specifies the MIDI channel to receive on All MIDI messages from this channel are echoed out to the ES 4 s output Off disables this feature but not the MIDI clock output if en abled Omni receives messages on all MIDI channels Channelise If set to Off MIDI messages are sent out on the same channel on which they are re ceived If set to a channel number 1 16 the incoming MIDI messages are sent out on the specified channel Output Sele
77. number of hardware Cot Nart synth modules Google for random shift register cv and you should get the idea Rotate Right 8 0 000 The basic idea is that you have a number of Mode DAC Bits Randomness binary bits often 8 or 16 in a hardware implementation which rotate around a reg ister essentially a very small element of computer memory As each bit leaves the end of the register it may or may not be inverted before it re enters the register at the other end The random element controls whether the bit gets inverted or not The beauty of this scheme is that by controlling the randomness of that change to make the inversion more or less likely you can control whether the sequence is completely random slowly chang ing or completely static To turn the register full of bits into a random signal in the hardware world a DAC digital to analogue converter is used The bits are simply interpreted as a binary representation of a number 0 to 255 for an 8 bit DAC and that is the value of the output signal takes at that time This being a software implementation it can of course do things that would be hard or ex pensive in hardware The bits in the shift register are visualised in a display just above the main step editor Enable The Enable button turns the random generator on When it s running the shift register is advanced synchronously with each step of the Step LFO itself The random value is writ t
78. oad Save 2 2D 2 S Vel2 Mult 2 i i Env 3A Env 3D S Mult 3 Calibrate Hz V Don t Panic 2 000 0 000 0 00 o oo ooms ooo orr ff o 10f0 000 Bend Rng Transpose Detune Random LFO Dpth LFO Spd Mode Time Shape Length Introduction Silent Way Voice Controller is a virtual instrument plug in designed to directly control an analogue synthesiser by generating the appropriate CV and gate signals via an appropri ate audio interface By listening to the synthesiser s output signal the plug in is able to calibrate itself to gen erate the appropriate pitch CV for the incoming MIDI notes As well as the basic pitch and gate signals the plug in can generate three envelope CVs which you can feed to VCAs VCFs etc in your synth Loading the plug in The Voice Controller is a 1 in 6 out plug in It exists in both effect and instrument configu rations depending on your host and platform How you load it into your host depends on the host but take into account that the plug in needs to receive both audio and MIDI and ideally expose more than just a stereo pair as outputs Suggestions for various popular hosts are as follows AU VST Effect and instrument variants work equally well Logic AU Use instrument version Load as a multi output plug in 3x stereo Use side chain input to get audio in Create aux channels in the mixer to ac cess extra channels as you would for e g Ultra beat Digital Performer AU Use effect versio
79. on Silent Way Function applies simple mathematical operations to incoming CVs It is intended to be primarily useful for processing CVs entering the computer via Silent Way CV Input or directly from an Expert Sleepers ES 6 or ES 7 module in ways that are hard to implement in hardware making the computer itself a useful utility module in a modular system However you can ab use it however you wish you can feed audio through it if you like extreme waveshaping effects It operates as a stereo or mono plug in In stereo mode the two channels are independent and have identical controls In mono mode the Right Channel controls are not used Enable The Enable button activates processing on the relevant channel If the chan nel is not enabled signals pass through it unmodified Enable Function The Function drop down menu allows you to choose the function that will be applied to the incoming signal The options are Exponential Function e Linear a simple linear function If no scale and offset are applied see below this doesn t modify the signal at all e Logarithm the output is 1 0 plus the logarithm to base 2 of the input The output is zero for negative inputs e Exponential the output is the exponential to base 2 of the input minus 1 0 e Absolute the output is the absolute value of the input Scale and Offset The Scale and Offset knobs apply scale multiplication
80. ontrolling app should be set up to send the parameter paths as defined above fol lowed by a single floating point number which is the value to which to set the parameter OSC Message History The Learner shows the last 5 ah i ers E five OSC messages re cor ceived in its GUI most PAASA cig eee mils re eel recent at the bottom All RASS SV UA elles elalace cig eee ani lelslee Pelee eRe tele messages received are MESIA cig eee miler elle ere ore shown even those not RRAepec ee Al fe ecl elsiacell cig mee EEA S PA recognised by the Learner IRSSSC7A AN fe ocl elalage TE EE Pea 0 heel E though note that t3d messages for the Sound plane are not shown Each line shows the OSC path followed by the list of parameters in the OSC message Each parameter is preceded by its type e g float32 Sending OSC Silent Way Learner can also send OSC whenever parameters are changed allowing for bidirectional communication with a remote device Send To enable this set the Send drop down to something other than Off The options are Long Compact and Short choose the one that corresponds to the form of the OSC path you want to send Note that for bidirectional control this should correspond to the form of the path that the remote device is sending to the Learner 1 http hexler net docs touchosc configuration connections osc You also need to tell the Learner the IP address and por
81. ou can add in a negated contribution from a signal By default outputs 1 to 6 correspond to Pitch Gate Env 1 Env 2 Env 3 and Trigger Initially the output ma trix is hidden reveal it Syn S 2 Sa ee ee a ee te Sa ra by pressing the Out puts button The eight output signals are as follows Offset This is simply a constant offset You might use it for example to set the centre frequency of a filter around which the envelopes modulate Pitch The Pitch output derives from the current MIDI note that is sounding or the pitch over ride signal see below Gate The gate output takes one of two levels depending on whether a MIDI note is currently active or not You would typically route this to the gate input of a hardware envelope gen erator Env 1 2 3 The envelope signals are generated by the internal multi stage envelope generators There are three independent envelopes See below for more details Trigger The trigger signal is a very short pulse emitted whenever a new note sounds You might typically route this to the retrigger input of a hardware envelope generator Velocity The velocity output generates a voltage according to the velocity of the note being played NB you can also use the note velocity to scale the envelopes see below The is one additional knob per row smooth The Smooth control has the same effect as that in the DC plug in see above Voltages The Voltages s
82. oundplane plug ins to your setup Voice ID Each plug in is told which voice it represents with it s ID control Normally you would set these to 1 2 3 etc up to the number of voices in use Gate Z The other control in this section is a button labelled Gate Z If this is active the z pressure value will be forced to zero when the voice touch is not active Otherwise the pres sure output holds its last value as the touch ends Calibration To output a pitch CV from the Soundplane client s note information the Silent Way Soundplane plug in uses a calibration profile exactly as created and used by the Silent Way Voice Controller below Refer to the Voice Controller documentation for details on the calibration process The Soundplane plug in also has buttons for creating preset ES 4 or ESX 4CV calibrations again just like those in the Voice Controller There is also a EIEEE Transfer button which directly transfers the calibration from the last calibrated Voice Controller without the need to save and load the calibra tion to from disk Output Matrix Silent Way Soundplane s Output Matrix will also be familiar to users of the Saad bani Voice Controller It defines what appears at the plug im 0 00 0 00 0 008 0 00 0 00f Off in s six outputs by mixing together the various possi ble output signals The seven controls per row are as follows Offset This is
83. ous blocks of the plug in let you choose which MIDI chan nel they respond to However not all DAWs pass MIDI to plug ins on multiple MIDI channels Ableton Live for example always passes MIDI to plug ins on channel 1 no matter what the MIDI chan nel of the messages arriving into Live itself The exact implications of this will vary from DAW to DAW but it s worth bearing in mind if things don t appear to be working as you expect Gate Expander outputs A number of the plug in s controls let you choose ES 4 Gate Expander aka ESX 8GT out puts These are listed as a pair of numbers e g 1 6 is gate 6 on the Gate Expander con nected to the ES 4 s channel 1 5 2 is gate 2 on the Gate Expander connected to the ES 4 s channel 5 MIDI CV 1 2 These two groups of controls provide functionality similar Newest to that of a tradi Priority tional standalone 48 Off MIDI CV converter Channel Min Max Gate Vel for each of the ES 4 s pitch CV outputs outputs 1 amp 2 Channel Specifies the MIDI channel that the converter responds to or Off to disable the converter completely Min amp Max Specify the range of MIDI notes that the converter responds to This lets you set up a key board split using the two converters on the same MIDI channel Gate Specifies the ES 4 output to use for the gate signal an on off CV signal reflecting whether a note is held or not You can choose any of th
84. p CC Min Continuous Note On Target Introduction Silent Way CV To MIDI translates CV signals such as those produced by Silent Way CV Input for example into MIDI messages These can in turn be used to control all sorts of software and hardware devices Used in conjunction with say Silent Way LFO the CV To MIDI plug in provides a standa lone means of generating MIDI LFOs giving Silent Way an application to musicians who have no analogue gear at all Silent Way CV To MIDI operates as a stereo or mono plug in In stereo mode the two channels are independent and have identical controls In mono mode the Right Channel controls are not used Setup Once you have your CVs entering the plug in a simple matter of audio routing you will also need to set up the MIDI target i e the destination to which the plug in sends MIDI This will either be a hardware MIDI port attached to your computer or a virtual bus used to route MIDI to other software within the computer Selecting the Target LAC Driver LAC Bus 1 Browse The field along the bottom of the plug in GUI shows its MIDI target It is possible to type a value directly into this field but it s usually much simpler to browse for the target using the Browse button to the right of the field Clicking this brings up a dialog which lists all the MIDI destinations that are available Simply click on Select a MIDI target the service you want from
85. plug ins from the outside world specifically via MIDI and via OSC MIDI is passed to the plug ins by the host application DAW Using the Learner MIDI can be sent to any or all plug ins and used to control the receiving plug in or any other greatly simplifying the task of getting MIDI from your MIDI controller to the plug in you want to control OSC Open Sound Control is received by the Learner directly from another application on the same computer or over the network e g from your iPhone If you ve not come across OSC before you could start by visiting opensoundcontrol org UIDs Since the Learner centrally controls all the plug ins running in a host it needs a way of re ferring to them It does this with UIDs Unique IDentifiers which are just numbers Each plug in has two a GUID Global UID and a LUID Local UID A plug in s GUI is unique amongst all the Silent Way plug ins loaded its LUID is unique only amongst plug ins of the same type e g all the Voice Controllers The UIDs are displayed in the bar at the top of each plug in GUI but only if the Learner is loaded The first number is the LUID the sec ond number in brackets is the GUID MIDI Mapping Silent Way Learner implements a MIDI learn system for setting up associations between incoming MIDI and the parameters to be controlled First click the pa rameter you want to control in the A ETA E 9 18k el ieee l plug in UI This will
86. re ignored by Silent Way Image requirements Images used in skins should be in PNG format and must be power of two sized in both width and height e g 32x32 128x16 64x256 More details to follow In the meantime do please ask Notes on the AAX versions There are a small number of differences limitations in the AAX versions as compared to the Audio Unit or VST versions e The keyboard modifier for reset to default is option for the AAX version to be con sistent with other Pro Tools plug ins e Plug ins with multiple inputs e g Silent Way ES 4 Controller are limited to the main stereo input 1 2 plus one extra mono input this is a limitation of Pro Tools s sidechain implementation e All plug ins are listed under Multichannel Instruments and require a stereo track except Silent Way Voice Controller amp Silent Way Trigger which take a mono input Version History 2 3 0 20 12 13 e Added Silent Way ESX 8CV Combiner e Added polyphonic MIDI splitting to Silent Way ES 4 Controller and Silent Way ES 5 Controller e Added ESX 8CV mode to Silent Way Voice Controller e Fixed a bug which was causing glitches in the paraphonic envelope outputs of Silent Way Voice Controller in poly master mode 2 2 3 15 10 13 First 64 bit AAX release on Windows 2 2 2 2 9 13 e Fixed an issue with some 64 bit hosts notably Presonus Studio One 2 2 1 20 8 13 First 64 bit AAX release for Mac OS X 2 2 0 10 4
87. rge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documenta tion files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Soft ware Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that they can be incorporated into the canonical version THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUD ING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHER WISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE glew The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library Copyright C 2002 2007 Milan Ikits lt milan ikits ieee org gt Copyright C 2002 2007 Marcelo E Magallon lt mmagallo debian org gt Copyright C 2002 Lev Povalahev All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms
88. rive 6 of the out puts of an ESX 8CV module Outputs 7 amp 8 of the module are unused This signal emerges from outputs 1 amp 2 of the Voice Controller outputs 3 6 carry their usual sig nals from the Output Matrix Default Calibrations Interface Category Preferences Skin OSC Base Port Eye candy Constant redraw Floating tooltip VC output arrangement Skinning Preamble Learn by example Anatomy of a Skin Skin location Bundle structure Image requirements More details to follow Notes on the AAX versions Version History Contact Acknowledgements Lua oscpack glew FreeType 104 105 105 106 106 106 106 107 107 107 108 108 108 109 109 109 109 109 110 111 117 118 118 118 119 120 FTGL 120 libpng 120 Zlib 120 Introduction Silent Way is a suite of plug ins designed for use with analogue synthesisers and espe cially as part of a modular analogue synthesiser system The plug ins produce no sound themselves nor do they process sound rather they generate signals to be used as control voltages CVs which can be patched into the control inputs of oscillators filters VCAs etc of an analogue system Also with the addition of the CV Input plug in it is possible to bring CVs from the synth into the computer for recording or processing For the Silent Way plug ins to work via the outputs of a computer audio interface the in terface needs to be DC coupled i e capable
89. rrangement of the controls The skin GUIs are defined by script files and by any graphical resources the scripts use e g images for the buttons and knobs The default GUI is defined in exactly the same way so you can copy the default scripts and images and use those as a starting point for your customisations Also the scripts have been designed so that it s possible to override many settings colours images etc without having to redefine the whole UI script as well It s possible to globally change the look of all the Silent Way plug ins equally a skin can alter just one plug in or set each plug in to a different colour scheme The language used for the GUI scripts is Lua You will find a complete description of the language and some useful tutorials at the Lua website www lua org All the standard language features of Lua are available in the GUI scripts plus some extra functions specific to the Expert Sleepers GUI system Learn by example The best way to learn about scripting the GUI is to look at the existing examples particu larly the default GUI scripts that ship with the plug in Just open up the plug in bundle and find the gui lua files within Windows users should download the Mac OS X version of the plug in and get the scripts from there since in the Windows version the scripts are munged into the plug in as a Windows resource Visit the forum if you have questions or skins to share Anatomy of a Skin Skin
90. s 6 channel VST A second version of the plug in which processes six channels at once is provided for the conven ience of Cubase users so that the plug in can be 0 000 1 000 Min Out Max Out npu Min Out Max Out inserted on the output of a Silent Way Voice Con troller plug in 0 0009 1 000 Min Out Max Out npu Min Out Max Out S 0 0000 1 000 i 0 000 1 000 Input Min Out Max Out Input Min Out Max Out Silent Way CV Input O SW CV Input 3 SW CV Input silent way 2 0 0 Mode L Generator raise R ofla sities 0 500N Off Level Mode Scale ES 2 Offset Smooth Siisielrcis alot Off Level Mode 5 S 2 0 Smooth Introduction Silent Way CV Input provides a means of getting control voltages from an analogue synth into the computer which is not normally possible since the DC voltages of CVs are blocked by the inputs of all current audio interfaces Once inside the computer CVs can be recorded or processed as any other signal before being output back to the synth It operates as a stereo or mono plug in In stereo mode the two channels are independent and have identical controls In mono mode the Right Channel controls are not used There are two main usages for the plug in with an off the shelf VCA and with the Expert Sleepers ES 2 module a hardware device specially designed to work with the Silent Way CV Input plug in Setup with VCA In this mode the Silent Way CV Input plug in is used in conjunct
91. s Out 1 gt 1 Sets the output level between minus one and one This is useful for generating the full range of negative and positive voltages for controlling e g oscillator pitch If both Out 0 gt 1 and Out 1 gt 1 are used the output is simply the sum of the two set tings Multiplier Scales the values set by the two Out knobs This can be useful if you ve set up a pattern you like automating the Out knobs and you just want to scale the overall output level Input Add Sets the level of the input to the plug in that is added in to the output signal Input Mult Sets the amount by which the input signal is used to multiply the output signal At a set ting of zero the output is unaffected by the input At a setting of one the output is exactly the normal output multiplied by the input signal Smooth Applies one of two forms of smoothing to the output signal This can be useful when the very sudden changes in level that are possible in the digital domain cause clicks and pops in your analogue gear Positive values apply slew rate limiting i e a limit is placed on how fast the output signal can change Signals changing slower than this rate are unaffected Negative values apply a simple low pass filter to the signal This has some affect on all signals whether they re changing slowly or not In both cases the values are given in milliseconds ms The time set is the time taken for a full range vol
92. s are set These settings are shared by all instances of Silent Way and are not stored with presets Prefs B00 Silent Way Prefs Expert Sleepers Visit www expert sleepers co uk Silent Way Version 2 0 0 To purchase a licence or to enter a previously purchased serial number please use the Expert Sleepers Licence Manager application Launch Licence Manager Skin Default 34 y Open skin folder OSC Base Port v Eye candy v Constant redraw _ Floating tooltip VC output arrangement Mono x6 The top section shows the product version The central section will show your serial num ber once you ve bought a registration Skin Allows you to choose a skin for the plug in GUI See below OSC Base Port Sets the base port number for OSC See the documentation for Silent Way Learner Eye candy Enables the pretty graphics Turn off if you don t like them or if your computer has com patibility issues with drawing such things Constant redraw Is on by default If turned off the GUI is only redrawn when a control changes Use this if you re concerned that the GUI is wasting your CPU resources Floating tooltip Causes the parameter name and value display usually in the top right of the GUI to be displayed above the mouse pointer VC output arrangement See the description in the Voice Controller section above O SW LFO 4 Audio O SW Voice Controller 3 SW Voice Controller
93. s is especially useful when using one side of the Step LFO to control the gate of a voice usually fed into the gate input of a hardware envelope generator since it means that each step can trig ger a new envelope cycle rather than having to introduce zero values steps every other step Inputs Pressing the Inputs button shows the controls that affect the lug in s behaviour with respect sacle P Off OO to its inputs x o EER Reset Reset Mode 0 There are three possible destina Reset Min tions for input signals Reset Signa Input Mode Signal and Trigger Reset causes the Step LFO _Off o 0 to return to step 1 when the Trigger Trigger Min Trigger Max signal rises above a thresh old e Signal is the input to the plug in to be combined with its output in exactly the same way as happens in the LFO plug in e Trigger causes the Step LFO to advance one step if the Sync setting see above is one of the Trigger modes when the signal rises above a threshold Each signal can be Off or driven from one of the plug in s six inputs Note that some DAWSs might make it hard or impossible to access more than two or four of these The in put choice is set via the drop down menus Reset Mode There are four different modes of operation for the reset function in addition to the self explanatory Off e On the LFO jumps to the start of step 1 immediately e Delayed If Sync is Transport the LFO
94. s use the standard Mac OS X bundle system Since this is essentially just a folder hier archy with a special structure this works just fine on Windows as well Skin location Skins must be stored in a particular location Clicking the Open skin folder button in the Preferences window will open up a Finder OS X Explorer Windows window showing where skins need to be installed Bundle structure Inside the bundle s folder there is a Contents folder and L Skins inside that a Resources folder oo E aiia mm O The Resources folder contains any script and or image files Name used by the skin GreenKnobs The Contents folder may also eakas contain an Info plist file This E Resources is a convention for Mac OS X buttons png bundles but is not required by buttons svg the skin system Ai red The image to the right shows a E Contents Finder window as opened by __ Resources the Open skin folder button gui lua The folder is called Skins It contains two skins Green Knobs and red which are the skins illustrated at the top of this section The Green Knobs skin includes an image file buttons png a replacement for the standard UI but tons The red skin includes a script file Note that the skin bundles may safely contain other files too GreenKnobs includes the SVG file from which the PNG image was generated and these a
95. same functionality is now offered by the output matrix e Added new velocity output e Added velocity based scaling of envelopes e Added Hz V calibration mode e Areas of the full MIDI note range note covered during calibration are now filled with wrapped around values from octaves that are covered e Added note priority modes last low high and retrigger modes on off e Added panic button e Fixed some incorrect envelope triggering behaviours e The trigger output is now slightly longer than before it was previously a single audio sample NB v1 1 0 is not preset compatible with earlier versions 1 0 2 3 7 2009 e The Voice Controller VST plug ins are no longer virtual instruments they are effects This allows Cubase to handle them properly 1 0 1 30 6 2009 The Voice Controller AU now defines 3 stereo busses rather than 1 6 channel bus which allows Logic to handle it properly 1 0 0 29 6 2009 e First release Contact The Expert Sleepers website is here http www expert sleepers co uk Or you can email info expertsleepers co uk Or you can use the Expert Sleepers forum which is here http www kvraudio com forum viewforum php f 85 http www muffwigegler com forum viewforum php f 35 Acknowledgements The software described in this manual makes use of the following open source projects The author is greatly indebted to them for their efforts and gen
96. se refer to the ES 4 Con troller documentation above for a detailed description of each function The outputs on the ES 5 module itself are on channel 1 i e gates 1 1 to 1 8 Silent Way ESX 4CV Combiner SW ESX 4CV Combiner 5 Audio expert sleepers silent way 2 2 0 Target Hardware ES 4 Ha a 5 Channel Thru 1 2 4 ter Filter ter Filter l 2 3 4 Introduction The Silent Way ESX 4CV Combiner plug in is a special element of the Silent Way plug in suite dedicated to controlling the Expert Sleepers ESX 4CV module Unlike most of the rest of the Silent Way plug ins the ESX 4CV Combiner does not time out allowing unre stricted use without a Silent Way licence In Use The ESX 4CV Combiner is a 6 in 2 out plug in Typically 4 of those inputs will carry sig nals to be sent to the ESX 4CV s four outputs and 2 inputs will be a Thru connection carrying signals for the other channels of the ES 4 or ES 5 to which the ESX 4CV is con nected Target The Target section is where you let the plug in know T R how the ESX 4CV is physically connected to your system ES 4 The Hardware drop down lets you select between ES 4 Hardware Channel and ES 5 The Channel drop down sets the channel on the ES 4 5 to which the ESX 4CV is connected Inputs The Inputs section sets up the routing from the plug in inputs to the hardware outputs Each control may be set to Off which disables
97. simply a constant offset You might use it for example to set the centre frequency of a filter around which the other signals modulate Note The Note output derives from the current pitch that is sounding via the calibration profile Gate The gate output is simply on or off depending on whether the voice touch is active You might use this to drive a hardware envelope generator X The raw x position left to right of the touch Y The raw y position bottom to top of the touch Z The raw z position pressure of the touch Smooth The Smth control has the same effect as that in the DC plug in see above Silent Way Step LFO 60 0 SW Step LFO 4 Audio expert sleepers silent way 2 2 0 Swing L 50 0 Inputs Random Big Triplet 1 16 id EAE 16 Beats Transport Bipolar Offset Scale Start Length End Sync Range Speed Mode Interpolation 5 000 1 50 0 0 08 0 08 Off Speed Multiplier Swing Type Swing Gate Phase Asym Smooth Main Inputs Random Big Triplet z didda ee oe ra Beats Transport Unipolar Offset Scale Start Length End Sync Range e b Speed Mode Interpolation 5 000 ot 0 16 SS 50 05 100 08 0 0f 0 0 off Speed Multiplier Swing Type Swing Gate Phase Asym Smooth Introduction Silent Way Step LFO is a combination step sequencer and LFO generator It shares many of the features of the LFO plug in but rather than generating waveforms based on simple sine triangle e
98. ss MacBook Pro local Oss MacBook Pro local 8000 OSCulator Oss iPhone local Os s iPhone TouchOSC Oss MacBook Pro local Augustus Loop 2 1 2 on Os s MacBook Pro Cancel OK Bonjour Simply click on the service you want from the list and click OK this will set up the target name and port for you OSC Paths OSC messages begin with a path which is simply a short section of text that gives meaning to the message as understood by the target The format of the path is arbitrary The path in the example image 1 fader1 is in the format used by the popular iPhone application TouchOSC and addresses the first fader on the first page of controls in that app The full message as sent by Silent Way CV To OSC is the path followed by a floating point number the number representing the CV voltage To set the path click the box A dialog will appear into which you can type your desired path Enter OSC Path Cancel OK Enter Property Other Controls The two channels have a small number of other con trols in addition to the OSC Path Enable Enable 0 100 Threshold The Enable button simply enables that channel for producing OSC messages By default it is off so you ll want to turn it on to see anything happen Threshold The Threshold control sets a limit below which a change in CV will not emit a new OSC message Think of it like a noise gate in the audio
99. t of the remote device app This is done in the same way as in the CV To OSC plug in above Again Bonjour is supported on Mac OS X only Advanced Usage There are some special OSC paths that you can form beyond the basic single parameter control already described Wildcards MAKI In the Long and Compact path forms the LUID can be an asterisk instead of a num ber in which case the message controls the parameter on all plug ins of the same type Multiple parameters per message This is useful when you have a multidimensional controller e g TouchOSC s x y pad To form a path suitable for this control you can simply concatenate the paths of the two parameters omitting the second exsl So for example exsl1 SWDC 1 0 SWDC 1 5 controls parameters 0 and 5 Output Positive L and Output Positive R on Silent Way DC LUID 1 This path would then be followed by 2 floating point numbers Multi element controls A special form of path is supported for controls which have multiple sub elements for ex ample TouchOSC s multifader Such controls append a number to the end of the OSC path to specify which sub element is being controlled The path in this case for use with Silent Way Learner is e g exsl1 multil SWStepLFO 1 Step1L that is the regular path for the parameter with the modifier multil inserted The actual paths sent by TouchOSC in this case will be e g exsl1 multil SWStepLFO
100. tage swing from 1 0 to 1 0 Silent Way ES 4 Controller B00 SW ES 4 Controller 6 SW ES 4 Controller expert sleepers silent way 2 3 0 Ch 1 MIDI Channel 1 eg ogee een one la eee ra sorrel arc E Teo Channel A Channelise Output Ning Swing Offset Don t Panic Introduction The Silent Way ES 4 Controller plug in is a special element of the Silent Way plug in suite dedicated to controlling the Expert Sleepers ES 4 and ES 40 modules Unlike most of the rest of the Silent Way plug ins the ES 4 Controller does not time out allowing unrestricted use without a Silent Way licence However some advanced features of the ES 4 Controller are only available to owners of a active licence The ES 4 Controller offers e Two MIDI CV channels offering the features of a standard MIDI CV converter driving the ES 4 s two pitch outputs 1 amp 2 e Controls that directly set the exact output signal of the ES 4 s five channels e MIDI note on off control over the 40 possible gate outputs e A MIDI out generator allowing an ES 4 Gate Expander output to be used as a MIDI output transmitting all the usual MIDI messages including MIDI clock e Inputs for routing generic CV sources e g other Silent Way plug ins or audio to the ES 4 s outputs requires a Silent Way licence A note on MIDI channels The ES 4 Controller packs a lot of functionality into one plug in and to address all of that functionality via MIDI the vari
101. tc waves it generates a waveform that the user draws in the GUI When the waveform is interpreted as a series of discrete values rather than as a continuous wave form then the output is that of a traditional analogue step sequencer The Quantizer plug in can be used to constrain the output values to musical notes It operates as a stereo or mono plug in In stereo mode the two channels are independent except in Quadrature mode see above and have identical controls In mono mode the Right Channel controls are not used Any input signal to the plug in is combined into its outputs according to the setting of the Input Mode control see below It is therefore easy for example to apply an LFO to the pitch CV output of the Voice Controller plug in by simply inserting the Step LFO plug in on the same channel as and after the Voice Controller However an input signal is not re quired and the Step LFO will quite happily do its job without any input connection In coming signals can also be used as CVs to trigger the advance and reset of the Step LFO as can incoming MIDI NB in Logic if you re not passing a signal through the plug in you need to load it on an instrument channel via the AU Generators menu Silent Way Step LFO also includes a controllable randomness generator for creating evolv ing semi random patterns In Use The Speed Sync Swing Asymmetry Phase Offset and Smooth controls are all the same as
102. that input The Thru input chooses a stereo pair of inputs which will receive a signal from another Silent Way plug in which is outputting a signal for the ES 4 5 e g from the ES 4 Control ler from Silent Way Sync in ES 4 mode or from the Voice Controller in ES 4 mode Use this input to stack plug ins on a single track to address multiple ES 4 5 expanders at the same time The drop downs labelled 1 to 4 choose a plug in input that will be routed to the corre sponding output of the ESX 4CV Offset The Offsets controls let you dial in a voltage offset on each ESX 4CV output The values on the controls are in Volts 1 2 3 4 SMUX Proof The SMUX Proof button modifies the output of the plug in to be compatible with the Silent Way SMUX plug in It should be acti SMUX Proof vated whenever the SW ESX 4CV Combiner s output is being passed through the SW SMUxX plug in typically when running at double sample rates 88 2 96kHz with an Expert Sleepers ES 3 module Interface Category The Interface Category drop down menu allows you to inform the plug in of what kind of audio interface will be outputting the plug in s sig CatA nal Please refer to http expert sleepers co uk siwacategories html for more details the specifics are likely to be more fluid than should be put here in the Category user manual Silent Way ESX 8CV Combiner 60 0 SW ESX 8CV Combiner 5 Aud
103. the number of steps that Fine Offset Transpose the 1 to 1 range is divided into The Fine control is added to the Steps control to allow finer adjustments The Offset control sets where within a step the zero line sits refer to the video as men tioned above for clarification The Transpose control shifts the chosen step up or down by a number of steps Calibrated Mode Be sure to load calibration data as described above before trying to use Calibrated mode In Calibrated mode the output CV exactly adopts one of the values from the calibration file If the file was generated from a successful calibration in a the Voice Controller then this results in the Quantizer plug in generating CVs that exactly correspond to semitone values As noted above this is very useful in conjunction with the Step LFO plug in A graphical display ap pears in the GUI showing the current output as a musical note and MIDI note number C3 48 In this mode the Transpose control shifts the output CV up or down a number of steps or semitones if using suitable calibration data Using Scales When in Calibrated mode you can also activate the Scale button to restrict the notes produced to musical scales The Key and Key Offset controls to gether determine the root note of the scale They are simply added the idea being to make it easier to automate variations around a root key The Scale men
104. the output updates to be predictable in which case you may prefer non adaptive mode As an example assume that the system is running at a sample rate of 48kHz In non adaptive mode each output is continuously updated in turn and each update takes three samples So 24 samples are required to update all eight outputs and so each output effec tively runs at 2kHz In adaptive mode the update rate depends on the number of channels that are changing Note unchanging here means exactly that an input does not need to be set to Off to be unchanging The output from Silent Way LFO in square wave mode for example only changes twice per LFO cycle and the rest of the time is unchanging for the purposes of the ESX 8CV s adaptive mode Each output update again takes 3 cycles so if only one output of the ESX 8CV is changing its update rate will be 16kHz If two outputs are changing they will be updated at 8kHz and so on down to 2kHz as in non adaptive mode for eight outputs all changing all the time Interface Category The Interface Category drop down menu allows you to inform the plug in of what kind of audio interface will be outputting the plug in s sig nal Please refer to http expert sleepers co uk siwacategories html for more details the specifics are likely to be more fluid than should be put here in the Category user manual Silent Way Follower BO0 SW Follower follow Pitch Mode Calibrate
105. u determines the nature of the scale used e g Major Minor Pentatonic Note that in Scale mode the Transpose control actually transposes up and down within the scale so for a normal major scale a Transpose value of 7 will transpose up by an oc tave If you want to chromatically transpose the result of the Scale quantization use an other instance of Silent Way Quantizer applied after the first Smooth The Smooth control has the same effect as that in the DC plug in see above Using the Quantizer with the Step LFO As already mentioned the Quantizer in Calibrated mode is particularly useful in conjunc tion with the Step LFO This involves a small amount of setup an example is given below Say we want to use the Step LFO to sequence notes over a two octave range First load up the Step LFO plug in and immediately follow it with a Quantizer plug in Load calibra tion data into the Quantizer and set it to Calibrated mode Start the host transport run ning The LFO will be outputting its default zero value The Quantizer should be quantising this to a note Make a note of the quantised note number for this example say it s C3 48 which is what my Analogue Systems R595 outputs for OV Now set the LFO sequence length to 1 and drag up the step in the plug in GUI to its maximum value of 1 The pitch will most likely go very high and the Quantizer s range exceeded Now adjust the LFO s Multiplier control down unti
106. udio interface Silent Way CV To OSC which in general only han dles signals within the computer itself and Silent Way AC Encoder which is specifically designed to remove the need for DC coupled interfaces In most cases special cables are recommended when using a DC coupled audio interface as a source of CVs Most audio interfaces have balanced outputs on TRS stereo jacks or XLRs while synth CV inputs are unbalanced usually on TS mono jacks or minijacks If you use a regular stereo or mono jack lead you ll be shorting out one of the balanced output signals usually the R ring to the S shield While this probably wouldn t be a problem for normal audio use when outputting the sustained voltages that are useful as CVs you risk damaging the interface hardware The usual recommendation is to make up special cables with a TRS jack at one end and a TS jack at the other connecting T gt T tip to tip and S gt S shield to shield while leaving the R ring floating i e unconnected Such cables can be purchased ready made from Expert Sleepers An alternative is to wire a TRS jack to two TS jacks connecting one T gt T S gt S and the other R gt T S gt S This then gives you two copies of the output CV one of them inverted which is particularly useful from LFOs Note that this cable configuration is identical to that of a regular Y audio insert lead Registration The downloadable version of Silent Way stops wor
107. ut The Thru input chooses a stereo pair of inputs which will receive a signal from another Silent Way plug in which is outputting a signal for the ES 4 5 e g from the ES 4 Control ler from Silent Way Sync in ES 4 mode or from the Voice Controller in ES 4 mode Use this input to stack plug ins on a single track to address multiple ES 4 5 expanders at the same time The drop downs labelled 1 to 8 choose a plug in input that will be routed to the corre sponding output of the ESX 8CV Offset l 2 3 6 8 The Offsets controls let you dial in a voltage offset on each ESX 8CV output The values on the controls are in Volts assuming the ESX 8CV s jumper is not fitted and the calibra tion trimmer is at the factory default setting SMUX Proof The SMUX Proof button modifies the output of the plug in to be compatible with the Silent Way SMUX plug in It should be acti SMUX Proof vated whenever the SW ESX 8CV Combiner s output is being passed through the SW SMUxX plug in typically when running at double sample rates 88 2 96kHz with an Expert Sleepers ES 3 module Adaptive Mode The Adaptive Mode button controls whether the plug in will up date all eight of the hardware outputs continuously non adaptive Adaptive Mode mode or only those outputs that are changing adaptive mode In general the best performance will be in adaptive mode unless you want the precise timing of
108. ut 0 gt 1 Out 1 gt 1 Multiplier Input Add Input Mult Smooth Silent Way ES 4 Controller Introduction A note on MIDI channels Gate Expander outputs 30 30 30 30 31 31 31 31 31 32 34 34 34 34 35 35 36 36 36 36 37 37 37 37 37 38 38 38 38 39 39 40 40 MIDI CV 1 2 Channel Min amp Max Gate Vel Priority Outputs Gates Triggers Accents Triggers Accents MIDI Out Channel Channelise Output Clock Swing Offset Poly Output Indicators Inputs Thru 1 5 Input Modes Input To Gates Panic Button Interface Category Silent Way ES 5 Controller Introduction In Use Silent Way ESX 4CV Combiner 40 40 40 40 41 41 41 41 42 42 42 43 43 43 43 43 43 44 44 44 44 45 45 45 46 46 46 47 47 47 48 Introduction In Use Target Inputs Offset SMUX Proof Interface Category Silent Way ESX 8CV Combiner Introduction In Use Target Inputs Offset SMUX Proof Adaptive Mode Interface Category Silent Way Follower Introduction Follower Source Input Filters Env Gain Env Attack and Release Env Gate Pitch Pitch Mode Pitch Scale OV 48 48 48 48 49 49 49 50 50 50 50 51 51 51 52 52 gt 23 53 53 53 53 54 54 54 54 54 55 55 Outputs Graphical Displays Silent Way Function Introduction Enable Function Scale and Offset Graph Silent Way Learner Introductio
109. utput range Unipolar means that positive inputs from 0 0 to 1 0 will be mapped to the ES 4 s output range 0 to 255 Negative inputs will be clamped at zero Bipolar means that inputs from 1 0 to 1 0 will be mapped to the ES 4 s output range with 0 0 being mapped to a mid scale output on the ES 4 128 To some extent these settings will want to match the ES 4 s jumper settings but this is by no means a necessity For sending audio to the ES 4 it is recommended to use an input set to Bipolar and with an ES 4 channel with the jumper in the bipolar 5V setting For CVs use whatever works well for you Input To Gates The controls in the Input To Gates section allow you to route signals at the ES 4 Control ler s inputs to Gate Expander outputs This is useful when using e g the Step LFO as a step sequencer and one of its channels is being used as a simple gate to trigger notes i 2 3 5 6 8 Each of the plug in s eight inputs has a knob allowing you to choose a destination gate output or Off to disable the function on that input The gate will be turned on whenever the input signal is above zero Panic Button The button marked Don t Panic has the same effect as if the plug in received a MIDI All Sound Off message on every MIDI channel That is Don t Panic e notes stop sounding on any active MIDI CV channels e all gates close on active gate channels e All Sound
110. verted is zero and the pattern is fixed At settings lower than 0 0 then chance of a bit being inverted gets gradually more which again means that the pattern tends to change less often At a value of 1 0 the bit is always inverted which means that the pattern is fixed and twice as long as the register length the pattern plays alternately inverted and non inverted Editing the bits with the mouse You can directly edit the bits in the shift register by clicking with the mouse Clicking and dragging the mouse in the shift register has the same effect as clicking in each bit position that you drag over A simple click will invert the bit under the mouse Shift click sets the bit i e turns it on Option OS X Control Windows click resets the bit i e turns it off Silent Way Sync SW Sync 3 Audio aot s SWIN Q J UU SESE Output 1 1 000 Divisor PPON Multiplier Cick Output Click Low Cick High ist Delay 16 50 000 0 000R Off Output 2 60 000 1 0000 mm Off Swing Swing Offset Trigger Run Output Run Low Run High Mode Introduction Silent Way Sync generates regular clock pulses or triggers and in particular can generate a DINsync signal suitable for synchronising certain old drum machines and synths to the DAW The plug in has two outputs both of which are optional a clock output and a run stop output In Use When the Type is set to something other than Off clocks are generated when the host D
111. vice the plug in is driving The options are None for normal operation ES 4 ESX 4CV and ESX 8CV Y None In ES 4 mode outputs 1 to 5 of the Voice Controller are combined into a Mode stereo signal suitable for sending to the ES 4 This signal emerges from outputs 1 amp 2 of the Voice Controller outputs 3 6 carry their usual signals from the Output Matrix The three Bipolar buttons should be set to reflect the ES 4 s jumper settings Bipolar 3 Bipolar4 Bipolar 5 In ESX 4CV mode outputs 1 to 4 of the Voice Controller are combined into a stereo signal suitable for sending to the ES 4 ES 40 or ES 5 in order to drive the 4 outputs of an ESX 4CV module This signal emerges from outputs 1 amp 2 of the Voice Controller outputs 3 6 carry their usual signals from the Output Matrix In ESX 8CV mode outputs 1 to 6 of the Voice Controller are combined into a stereo signal suitable for sending to the ES 4 ES 40 or ES 5 in order to drive 6 of the outputs of an ESX 8CV module Outputs 7 amp 8 of the module are unused This signal emerges from outputs 1 amp 2 of the Voice Controller outputs 3 6 carry their usual signals from the Output Matrix In ESX 4CV and ESX 8CV mode the ESX xCV Target settings tell the plug in to which expansion header the module in question is connected The Hardware menu se lects whether the expander is connected to an ES 4 or ES 40 or ES 5 The Channel menu selects which expansion he
112. w much of each signal Pitch Env Smooth leaves by the output in question The Smooth knob is the same as in many other Silent Way plug ins described above Graphical Displays At the right side of the plug in GUI are two graphs showing how the detected pitch and envelope are changing over time Note that the graphs show the pitch and envelope sig nals not the left and right outputs of the plug in though by default these are equivalent The top graph shows the pitch the bottom graph shows the envelope For the envelope the green line shows the detected envelope and the blue filled in graph behind shows the output envelope CV after the Attack and Release settings have been taken into account Below the graphs is a numeric readout This only appears when an envelope above zero is detected else it would show garbage RIERA A thsi since pitch detection can t operate without a signal It is col ROS eis ra Shs Ser oured red when the detection fails which usually means that the input has descended into noise or has dropped below the minimum tracking frequency The numbers are e in the top row the desired voltage and the normalized 0 1 plug in output level e inthe bottom row the detected pitch in Hz and as a musical note plus detune in cents Silent Way Function O SW Function 3 Audio silent way 2 1 0 Enable L On me 2 Scale f Exponential 0 000 Function Offset enable Introducti
113. which plug in output will carry the signal in question or Off if that signal is not required Unless in ES 4 or ES 5 Mode see be Kengem matna low the valid settings are Output 1 or Out put 2 for the left and right channels of the plug in s stereo output respectively In ES 4 Mode any of the ES 4 s outputs or any gate output of attached ESX 8GT expanders can be selected Likewise in ES 5 Mode any of the ES 5 s own gate outputs or that of any attached expander can be selected The other two output controls set the output levels used for low and high logic states If using the plug in to generate DIN sync from an Expert Sleepers ES 3 setting the High controls to 0 5 will generate approximately 5V which is the nominal level of a DIN sync clock or run stop signal Similarly if using outputs 3 4 or 5 of an ES 4 if those outputs are in their default unipolar configuration When using an ES 5 or ESX 8GT output the signal may be inverted by setting the low value higher than the high value Mute Clocks The Mute button forces the clock output to its low value Swing These controls allow you to add shuffle or swing timing to the clock output Swing has two controls The knob sets the amount of swing in 50 0 percent 50 means no swing the middle sixteenth note is 50 of Swing Swing the way between the neighbouring notes as normal Higher val ues of s
114. wing make the middle note later lower values make it ear lier At 100 the middle note is right on top of the following note The dropdown menu chooses between sixteenth and eighth note swing Offset The Offset control applies a small delay or advance in the timing of the clocks relative to the host s transport This can be used to compensate for any differ ence in the response time of the hardware being synced Trigger Offset If set to Off the clock pulses are a 50 duty cycle square wave Otherwise the clock pulses are fixed length trigger pulses and this control sets the trig ger length in milliseconds ES Hardware Mode Trigger Changing this from Off to ES 4 or ES 5 encodes the plug in s outputs into a signal suitable for the relevant Expert Sleepers module Mode Signal Routing Silent Way Sync combines any signals at the plug in s inputs with its outputs When ES Hardware Mode is Off this simply means the signals are added together In ES 4 or ES 5 Mode the signals are combined logically to allow a stack of Sync plug ins to generate clocks from multiple outputs of an ES 4 ES 5 ESX 8GT Interface Category The Interface Category drop down menu allows you to inform the plug in of what kind of audio interface will be outputting the plug in s sig nal Please refer to http expert sleepers co uk siwacategories html for more details the specifics are likely to be more fluid than shou
115. world Max Rate The Max Rate control sets an upper limit on how frequently OSC messages can be emit ted by the plug in Depending on your application you may find that quite low settings are perfectly adequate Lowering the Max Rate may reduce the load on your computer the network and the target device Silent Way DC O SW DC 2 Audio silent way 2 0 0 Output Positive L 0 000 0 0005 0 000 1 000 0 000 0 000 Off Out 0 gt 1 Out 1 gt 1 Multiplier Input Add Input Mult smooth 0 000 0 000 p 1 000 0 000 0 000 Off Out 0 gt 1 Out 1 gt 1 Multiplier Input Add Input Mult smooth Introduction Silent Way DC is a simple plug in that generates constant output signals It is intended to be used in conjunction with parameter automation via MIDI or directly by the host appli cation to generate varying signals For example you could use it as an LFO where you draw out the LFO waveform in your host s parameter automation GUI It operates as a stereo or mono plug in In stereo mode the two channels are independent and have identical controls In mono mode the Right Channel controls are not used NB in Logic if you re not passing a signal through the plug in you need to load it on an instrument channel via the AU Generators menu Left Right Channel There are six knobs per channel Out 0 gt 1 Sets the output level between zero and one This is most useful for generating positive only voltages for e g gate
116. y copy the file to the folder Library Audio Plug Ins VST Mac OS X AAX The plug in file is named ExS1SilentWay aaxplugin Simply copy the file to the folder Library Application Support Avid Audio Plug Ins Windows VST The plug in files are named silentway d1l 32 silentway x64 d11 64 bit version Simply copy the files to your VST plug ins folder bit version and System Requirements Mac OS X Silent Way requires at least Mac OS X version 10 6 8 The plug in is Intel only and built for both 32 and 64 bit The Audio Unit version will work in any Audio Unit host The VST version requires a VST 2 4 compatible host The AAX version requires Pro Tools 10 10 3 2 or above recommended Windows Silent Way has been developed and tested with Windows XP SP2 and Windows 7 It may work with other versions of Windows Vista included but this is by no means guaranteed The plug in requires a VST 2 4 compatible host 1 VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Hardware Cabling Requirements For most of the Silent Way plug ins to work the audio interface between the computer and the synth needs to be DC coupled i e capable of maintaining a DC voltage at its outputs Refer to this page on the Expert Sleepers website for up to date information on compatible devices The exceptions to this are Silent Way CV Input which has no special requirements and should work with any a

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