DUY MagicEQ 1.0
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1. DUY MagicEQ1 0 USER S MANUAL UNG ah deee T a s AYA ots eee page 2 Inserting DUY MagicEQ in an audio or AUX track nn page 3 QUICK ISSO S ante hea taceaitiateats cazneM aa alerts rigatabo Maras page 5 What is MagicEQ eee eee ae ae ae page 6 The technology behind DUY MagicEQ 5 1 OFIR technology 5 2 ASM technology 5 3 HAS technology 6 Why MagicEQ is not a conventional equalizer 7 Using DUY MagicEQ 7 1 Learn your audio 7 2 Adjusting to taste 7 2 1 Using the factory presets hae ae ee ee 7 2 2 Modifying the EQ by colours or Spectral Atmospheres 7 2 3 Modifying the EQ by bands 8 Product description 8 1 Edition bar 8 1 1 Patch Manager button 8 1 2 Edit Buttons 8 1 3 Memory buttons 8 1 4 Help 8 2 Learn Clear amp LCD Display 8 3 Input Section 8 4 Spectral Atmospheres section 8 5 Bands section 8 6 Output section 9 The knobs o page 22 DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 1 1 Quick start Please read DUY MagicEQ s installation guide to install the software You will find it included both in the Downloaded version or in the CD you purchased according to the version you chose when you purchased the software If you have purchased DUY MagicEQ as an online download make sure that the software has been downloaded correctly Once you uncompressed the downloaded file it should look like this MagicEQ TDM Install If your installer doesn t appear as in the image above please contact DUY Custom2. as a result a theoretic flat response so each one of these bands overlaps with the 2 contiguous bands with the exception of the SubL and UltraHi bands which have the limits of the audible spectrum on one of their sides The ASM and HAS technologies turn DUY MagicEQ into a totally different audio processor in comparison to any other in the market At the same time the spectral bands and colours produced by MagicEQ can t be found in any other existing audio processing device The result of the 3 described technologies allows us to implement a totally exclusive system DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 8 6 Why MagicEQ is not a conventional equalizer Normally an EQ is blindfolded when it gets to processing It doesn t listen to what it s equalizing A traditional EQ lowers or enhances the level of a certain frequency without knowing what signal it s processing and obviously without knowing the final result We can use a normal equalizer to increase the level at 1 2 KHz with a certain bandwidth of a Q 6 for example It will be the engineer s responsibility to know if that particular band will allow us to obtain for example more punch The engineer will also have to experimentally check if he obtained the desired result With DUY s technology you can tell MagicEQ how you would like your music to sound and the software will take care of all the rest When you press the LEARN button a detailed analysis of the sound to pro
3. human hearing fatigue If a mix is already very good MagicEQ will make it sound even better But if the mix has any deficiencies MagicEQ will thin them out and will correct them automatically DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 6 5 The technology behind DUY MagicEQ Until today it hasn t been commercialy profitable to create automatic mastering tools because the cost of the technology was too high DUY has made this possible thanks to the simultaneous use of 3 technologies as a result of 4 years of intense investigation 1 OFIR Optimal Frequency Impulse Renderer Technology DUY s new OFIR Optimal Frequency Impulse Renderer technology to render audio with zero latency allows the processing of amazingly complex equalizations The great advantage of the OFIR technology is its great resolution and definition preserving a virtually zero delay 2 Adaptative Spectral Matching ASM technology This technology statistically analyses the input signal in realtime By combining this analysis with the OFIR technology we can achieve an adaptative spectral match Therefore we can make the overall mix of a certain piece of musical audio sound like that of another one But these two technologies would be close to useless if we didn t know what mix we want to use as references for our mixes This is the target of our third amazing technology 3 Historical Audio Statistics HAS Technology MagicEQ includes the HAS system Historical
4. the process of using DUY MagicEQ s capabilities We advise you to click the LEARN button only while the audio is playing with the highest possible frequential content Sections such as bridges mutes fades or fill ins should not be used for the LEARN process Therefore chorus are generally the most appropriate parts of songs that should be used lf at any time we re not happy with the accumulated information that has been provided to DUY MagicEQ while the Learn button was active simply click the Clear button to delete all the information processed by MagicEQ until that moment for that particular audio The LCD display shows the status of the progress in learning and the messages or important suggestions instructions that the system may need to give you Once the Learn process is over the Learning system will be automatically stopped and you will be able to start adjusting the sound with the provided knobs However you can still continue giving information to the system by clicking the Learn button again The more information you enter in the system the more accurate the prediction of the EQ curve will be DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 18 8 3 Input Section The input section is formed by an Input slider control a level display and a Mastering button Mastering It s important to check the system s internal overflow process state For this reason MagicEQ has a clipping led at the output If the led lights up it s advisab
5. vary depending on the type of audio you apply it on because the final result depends both on the preset and the statistical information that results from the Learn process It may also be interesting for you to try combinations such as applying a response like 2000 s Rock to an acoustic song The result may be valid depending on the type of sound you re after DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 11 7 2 2 Modifying the EQ by colours or Spectral Atmospheres There are 4 knobs that define colours or spectral atmospheres Ouhm Boog Haxx amp Sizz Each one of them spans a wide spectral region where there are many complex frequencies These colours are the result of the complex and detailed statistical analysis of the colours or spectral atmospheres that can be found in the most successful music pieces throughout the history of recorded music Each knob represents by itself a certain ambience in an additive way since colours are always desired and there would be no point in removing them from a recording The Ouhm Boog Haxx and Sizz bands represent extremely complex bands and they can t be described or categorized in any specific way to make their meaning more understandable However their names give you a slight idea of what they sound like The best you can do is experiment with them and you ll be amazed at what you can achieve All these spectral atmospheres controls produce an increase in the p
6. Audio Statistics This technology developed by DUY has allowed us to make a complete statistical analysis of the spectral contents of the best and most successful productions in the history of recorded Music The result of this study has allowed us to define objectively which are the colours or Spectral Atmospheres that can be found in all the successful music pieces of a certain style throughout history It has also allowed us to analyse the way how mixes have evolved and even better we can analyse where this evolution is leading to These statistical analysis are implemented within MagicEQ in the way of colours or spectral atmospheres which we have specifically implemented in the control knobs tagged as Ouhm Boog Haxx and Sizz We have named these Spectral Atmospheres with totally new onomatopoeia because these controls don t correspond to any similar existing colour They are totally new colours and therefore they have totally new names DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 7 Regarding the SubL Low Mid High amp UltraHi controls these don t correspond to any Spectral Atmosphere but to standard frequential bands The main difference between the frequential bands and the spectral atmospheres is that the bands have a minimum colouring because they have no resonant peaks The other difference is that the bands are complementary between them if you set all their controls to zero you ll have
7. Page 20 8 6 Output Section The output section is formed by the Amount control the Clip indicator and the output level value The Clip indicator will show us if there has been an internal calculation overflow If it goes alight you should move the input slider down The light can be switched off by clicking on it The Amount knob controls the amount of effect that should be applied to the input signal When at 0 the signal is a bypass ignoring the change of level caused by the Gain slider As you increase the value of the Amount control the effect of MagicEQ will increase too DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 21 9 The knobs MagicEQ s knobs can be used in a circular or graphically linear way By default they are set to be linear functioning If you would like to change this click on the dial while holding the Opt amp Cmd keys This change will be remembered within your computer s or user s settings Circular tracking Linear tracking In Circular mode simply touch the dial s handle and move it rotate it in a circular way as you would do with any hardware knob In Linear mode click on the knob and move it upwards or downwards or horizontally to change its value Apart from the tracking modes you can fine adjust by holding the Cmd key as you move the knob by clicking on it To recall the default knob s values click on the dial while holding the Opt key DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 22
8. Page 5 4 What is DUY MagicEQ MagicEQ is a mastering tool based on a new equalization concept that can be resumed in 4 words Statistically adaptative automatic equalization With a previously unknown precision and processing complexity DUY MagicEQ must not be mistaken with a standard EQ and it must not be used as such To understand why you should know that MagicEQ will not equalize in the same way any musical piece of audio Or in other words depending on the music we re processing the type of equalization calculated by MagicEQ will vary completely This is one of the main features though not the only one as explained further on that makes DUY MagicEQ so different from classic EQs The engineer simply has to decide how he would like MagicEQ to finish the equalization of his mix MagicEQ will do the rest Of course MagicEQ will not make decisions in the name of the engineer but it will certainly do the dirty job of having to move thousands of faders up and down Therefore the engineer DECIDES This on the other hand is not an easy job either since MagicEQ offers vast possibilities unimaginable until now MagicEQ lets the engineer s mind free from the usual troubles in traditional mixing and mastering such as lack of precision and errors in the mixes due to inconsistencies or monitoring and room non linearities acoustic resonances certain equipment s undesired effects differences in the sound levels or simply due to
9. This guide is copyrighted 2005 by DUY Research a division of Iris Multimedia S L hereafter DUY with all rights reserved Following copyright laws this installation guide may not be duplicated in whole or in part without the written consent of DUY All trademarks are the property of their respective owners Features and specifications may be subject to change without notice DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 23
10. another The Undo and Redo buttons allow you to return to the previous or next state after your last edition A history of the last 10 editions is stored Therefore you have 10 levels of Undo or Redo If you would like to clean the history or stored states click on the Copy button while holding the Opt key DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 16 8 1 3 Memory Buttons The A B C D E F buttons are temporary memories which can be used in many cases For example if you would like to compare several settings To save a screen state to one of these memories simply click on the memory button A B C D E or F If the memory is empty the button will be highlighted in gray Once you click on the button and save the content of the screen the lettering will turn black If you want to empty a memory click on the button while holding the Opt key If you would like to load all the memories in a circular way click on the Rotate button If you only have memories A and B full the sequence in rotation from one memory to another will be A B A B 8 1 4 Help MagicEQ has Help Balloons and also Spoken Help you will need the Speech Manager in your system for Spoken Help to function To use any of these two click the respective icons DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 17 8 2 Learn Clear amp LCD Display Click the LEARN button to start and end the analysis of your audio This is the most important function in
11. cess will begin The result is immediately passed onto the OFIR technology with zero latency These details are equal to thousands of equalization bands which will start adapting themselves without the engineer having to do anything at all In the meantime you can visualize on the lower display if your bands are pushed up or down with precision as the musical analysis is in process If you wanted to do this with standard methods it would take hours or maybe days and the result would never be comparable to the precision achieved with DUY MagicEQ Once the LEARN analysis is over we can polish the result either by selecting any of the many provided responses or by modifying them at our choice with the spectral band controls the Spectral Atmospheres and the amount of effect MagicEQ can forecast the engineer s desires without him having to take part in the process and with a unique precision This can be done thanks to intermediate processes within the analysis The design of MagicEQ removes all complexity in the equalizing process by reducing the procedure to moving a few knobs making it very easy to use MagicEQ functions creating the FINAL response curve The user is to determine what this curve should be like MagicEQ also allows to accentuate the result by bands or also by colours spectral atmospheres by using one dial for each colour These colours can also be combined to have an optimal result with an unprec
12. edented control in known audio hardware and software devices DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 9 7 Using MagicEQ The equalizing process of MagicEQ can be separated in two parts Learn and Adjust 7 1 Learn your audio MagicEQ must have information on the audio to process In order to let MagicEQ capture all this data you must press the LEARN button To stop teaching MagicEQ what your original audio mix sounds like click the LEARN button again and it will stop processing the information We advise you to listen to your audio before starting the LEARN process in order to make sure you are aware of the sections in your audio with the greatest frequential content In pop music it s usually in the chorus that you ll find the full instrumentation with rhytmic instruments and voices It s advisable that while you re in the Learn process you play these sections multiple times even in loop mode if necessary so that the full power of the statistics can be applied with greater precision In orchestral music we advise you to use the tutti parts of the audio with low and high percussion timpani and cymbals and the different sections strings winds etc When the Progress bar has completed you can still go on learning As a matter of fact we advise you to perform additional auditions and repeating the Learn process in order to have more complete and detailed statistics about your audio As well a
13. er Service at cservice duy com in order to get access to the download again To install the software double click on the Install icon Read the License Agreement very carefully and click on the Agree button only if you agree to accept the terms and conditions of the provided license agreement You will be asked to enter your serial number Please enter it Make sure the serial number is inserted in capital letters with no spaces and looking similar to this XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX where X can be a capital letter or a number The serial number will be provided at the top of your registration card if you have purchased a boxed CD or in the email we provided if you have purchased the software as an online download You must also install DUY MagicEQ s settings included in a separate installer using the same procedure as detailed above DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 2 2 Inserting DUY MagicEQ in an audio or Aux track DUY MagicEQ is presented as a Mono to Mono equalization effect Depending on your version of ProTools or other DAE aware application the process of inserting the plug in is done in one way or another Look for DUY MagicEQ either in the list of Mono to Mono plug ins or if they re arranged by categories families you will find it in the EQ section e080 Mastering with Magic _ h ide i TDM plug in RTAS plug in 1 Band EQ II mono 4 Band EQ II mono Pitch Shift Reverb Delay Dither Instrumen
14. erceived auditive power higher than the real energy increase delivering as a result a psychoacoustic increase of the power This is especially noticeable in the Haxx and Sizz controls both in the higher side of the spectrum This setup of 4 carefully calculated bands allows you to mix spectral atmospheres to create a vast range of spectral combinations We advise you to combine this technique with modifying the bands explained in section 7 2 3 7 2 3 Modifying the EQ by bands The third way to achieve the sound you re after is to modify the bands directly Sub Low Low Mid High Ultra High These controls don t correspond exactly to colours or atmospheres but to frequential bands These 5 bands are contiguous Therefore if they are all set to zero the response is theoretically flat Each one of these bands overlaps with the adjacent bands with the exception of the SubL and UltraHi bands limited by the sides of the audible spectrum DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 12 These bands produce smooth responses understanding it in such a way that they don t affect the response with any abrupt changes They adapt to the spectrum gently By modifying these bands we are also achieving an additional adjustment because we can accentuate or reduce the frequential contents due to the previously changed effects For example if we have used the Boog knob and added too much effect we can use the Mid adjustment to diminish the ef
15. f this manual DUY MagicEQ in depth To process audio with DUY MagicEQ insert it in a track and press Play on your host system Click on the LEARN button within DUY MagicEQ Your audio will be analysed You can stop the analysis at any time by clicking on the same LEARN button We advise you to process your audio track through those parts where the instrumentation is at its richest stage and therefore the frequency content is the greatest Once you have started the LEARNING process you will be able to modify any parameter and also select any of the available settings When the PROCESS bar is complete this will mean that DUY MagicEQ has already enough information to make the appropriate spectral adjustments to your audio In order to achieve these manual adjustments we advise you to use the dials related to the complex Spectral Atmospheres Ouhm Boog Haxx amp Sizz After this you can still adjust the specific bands SubL Low Mid High UltraHi The AMOUNT adjustment is very important If the amount value is 0 then the output signal will be the original audio there have been no changes made to the signal whereas for a 100 value the transformation curve is applied fully to the original signal Normally the best choice is to have the amount value set to 0 and once the LEARN process is complete gradually increase the Amount value slowly to choose exactly how much effect you want to add DUY MagicEQ User s Manual
16. fect in this band achieving a more appropriate spectral balance All 5 bands can be used to enhance or diminish remember that the atmospheres colours could only be enhanced The bands are Sub Low allows a very selective adjustment of the lowest frequencies around 40 Hz These frequencies can only be heard on monitoring systems that have a certain quality and in sub woofer systems Low corresponds to the lower frequencies excluding the sub low frequencies Mid spans a wide mid frequency band between the Low and High controls This control isn t a standard Mid control It corresponds to a much wider spectrum than usual High controls the high frequencies excluding the very high ones Ultra High corresponds to the range of extremely high frequencies DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 13 8 Product description audio a Magog _bypass_ fs lt factory default compare auto safe W Edit Bar LCD Display Clip Spectral Atmospheres Dials Amount Band Dials Spectrogram Input Section 8 1 The Edition Bar The Edition Bar allows to access rapidly the fast edition functions and the edition organization and search of settings presets 8 1 1 Patch Manager Button The Patch Manager arranges the presets settings documents During the installation process the presets will be placed in a folder named MagicEQ patches in the Preferences directory Note that with all DUY p
17. he On allows you to activate the loading of all the presets in memory so that the system doesn t have to read from disk each time a setting is used This is helpful to reduce the time of reading to disk Cache Patches When the cache on is active if you select this option all the presets will be loaded when you use MagicEQ for the first time Cache Patches when needed If you select this option only the Mea that are called or used during a session will be saved in the cache Select Root Folder allows you to choose the folder that contains the structure of subfolders that holds the presets You can have an infinite presets folders in your hard disk but only one can be active at a time So if you prefer to change the name of the folder or where it is stored in your hard drive you can manually move it and then select the position where it s located by using this option Once you have done this click on the Re build Patches List when you click OK if you would like the list of presets to be refreshed 8 1 2 Edit Buttons These buttons allow you to copy paste undo or redo If it s not possible to use a certain function the button will be tagged in lighter grey This will occur for example if there is nothing to Paste which would mean you haven t clicked Copy first Copy will copy the state of a whole screen This information can then be pasted using the Paste button in this instance of MagicEQ or in
18. le that you reduce the input level to avoid having unwanted distortion The Mastering button active unless you click on it determines that you re looking for the ideal frequency response for Mastering If you re working on a live project we advise you to switch this option off so that a phase optimization algorithm comes into place sacrificing a 20 27 Hz range which is hardly ever audible This may result in having an added noise when the knobs are being tweakened DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 19 8 4 Spectral Atmospheres Section The colours or Spectral Atmospheres knobs are the Ouhm Boog Haxx and Sizz controls explained earlier in this manual The dials knobs can be combined in any proportion creating a unique spectral combination By using the Cmd key while clicking on the knobs to adjust you are able to perform a fine tuning of the value We remind you that you should not use these controls without having gone through the Learn process first Please read all the information in this manual about the meaning of these Colours controls 8 5 Bands Section These knobs allow you to adjust the overall EQ curve by increasing or decreasing the levels in 5 bands SubLow Low Mid High and Ultra High The transitions between the bands are totally smooth These controls can be used in combination with the Colours controls in order to adjust the unique and exclusive curve that you desire DUY MagicEQ User s Manual
19. roducts we also name presets as patches or settings DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 14 Save as Save in Patch Manager as Load Preferences Classical Dance Electronic Instruments enhancers Jazz Mastering Modern Orchestral Works R amp B RAP Restoring Rock Vinyl Processors Voices vvvvvvvvvvVvVY This folder contains a series of subfolders that contain the presets themselves The subfolders correspond to the categories of presets within the main Settings folder The first part of the menu above a separation line includes the managing options such as saving presets Below the separation line you ll see the list of presets grouped in families Classical Dance The functions you can use are a Save as saves the active setting A window will appear allowing you to change the name you would like to give the preset and where you would like to store it on your drive b Save in Patch Manager as Does exactly the same as the standard save as function but the setting is saved directly into the main folder where the current settings are stored c Load allows you to select a settings document and open it to apply it d Preferences Shows the options you have within the patch manager Patches Preferences vi Cache On F _ Cache Patches fe Cache Patches when needed Select Root Folder J Re Build Patch list DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 15 Cac
20. s seeing the progress bar move forward towards its completion you can also visualize the result of the analysis in the response curve that appears in the lower part of the display window This curve shows us a summary of the bands we have obtained after the analysis It s the corrective curve that includes the differences between the sound of the unprocessed mix and the desired sound The colour intensity of this curve indicates the level of learning of the input music Therefore a curve in black and white indicates that the proper EQ has not yet been learnt A totally coloured curve means that the learning process has been fully completed DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 10 7 2 Adjusting to your taste Once the learning process is over and the Progress bar is complete MagicEQ will have calculated milions of frequential micro bands to obtain a unique statistical response of your audio and then be able to make MAGIC In order to adjust the optimal curve you can change the result to your taste using these three methods 7 2 1 Using the factory presets By selecting a preset the selected preset s EQ curve will be applied The presets included with DUY MagicEQ are classified according to the music style and also by age 60s 70s 80s which makes it very simple to select the desired preset It s convenient to modify the Amount knob to enhance or reduce the effect of each setting You must consider that the effect of the EQ will
21. t Other gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt If you want to use DUY MagicEQ as a Stereo or Multichannel process you must insert the plug in as Multi Mono e808 Mastering with Magic no insert multi channel TDM plug in multi channel RTAS plug in 1 Band EQ II mono Dynamics 4 Band EQ II mono Pitch Shift Reverb Delay Dither Instrument Other vvvvvv vid DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 3 In this last case make sure that the Link edition button is active This is MagicEQ s edition window 3 aioi a Magico _ bypass S E O MagicEQ is formed by e An LCD Display section that provides information and instructions on the operations of the plug in and its basic use e A Input Gain control with a level visualizer e The upper central part has 4 knobs to accentuate complex frequential spectrums or Spectral Atmospheres Ouhm Boog Haxx amp Sizz You also have 5 knobs to control the level of specific bands SubL Low Mid High UltraHi e The lower central part shows a dynamic spectrogram that will show the information relative to the current state of the spectral analysis e At the right hand side of the plug in s interface you will find the Amount knob to control the amount of effect you want to add and an output level visualization with a Clip indicator DUY MagicEQ User s Manual Page 4 3 Quick use guide We sincerely recommend reading Chapter 7 o
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