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1. you will see a thin black row with some buttons We ll use the Dyna mite plug in as example but the same goes Me for all plug ins Enable About Box Opens the About Box with When the Enable switch is set to on I the plug version info in is active and will process audio When set to OFF 0 it will be bypassed and not process any audio It Value Display Displays the knob value when will take considerably less CPU when it is bypassed the mouse is hovering over a control About Box Value Display Enable Setup Lol Softube Hormal Volume 4 5 TE SUS I UIV OUP TV DE TED z ki m E un x Setup In the Setup window you can change settings that will affect all instances of that particular plug in If you for example de select the Show Value Display option in the Bass Amp Room plug in the value display will be off for all Bass Amp Rooms on your system until you select that option again The different options vary between Windows and Mac and also different formats and plug ins Ihe most common options are SHOW VALUE DISPLAY Enables the parameter and value display in the bottom row of the plug in REVERSE MOUSE WHEEL DIRECTION Mac OS Only Changes if the a knob is turned up or down when the mouse wheel is turned up or down Mac OS Only You need to restart your host software DAW before the changes to fully take effect If you messed something up and manually ne
2. 00A plug in can operate in both stereo and mono modes In stereo mode the plug in will work as the real unit in stereo link mode This means that both channels will get the same amount of gain reduction which will pre serve your stereo image How the different modes stereo mono and mono to stereo are selected depends on your host software Credits Oscar Oberg modeling Niklas Odelholm extra features and testing Torsten Gatu framework programming and Arvid Ros n framework pro gramming Ulf Ekel f 3D rendering Softube
3. ON Attack Gain Output volume Reduction Qutput Gain Reduction Release Meter Meter Select Upper Panel Attack A three position switch with FAST MEDIUM and sLow settings which corresponds to the time it takes the compressor to respond to the input signal Release Controls the time it takes the compressor to return to unity again A three position switch with FAST MEDIUM and sLow settings Ihe release time is also effected by the program material Ihe slower the release time setting the more the program material determines the release time Meter Select Allows monitoring the output level OUTPUT or the amount of gain reduction taking place REDUCTION Gain Output volume Unity gain is at 25 The value display in the lower menu bar will show 0 0 dB Gain Reduction Sets the amount of gain reduction and the operating point where gain reduction begins The higher the gain reduction the higher the ratio becomes Works almost like a threshold control Lower Panel Low Cut Adds a low cut filter on either the detector or the input From oFF to 600 Hz oFF disables the low cut functionality Low Cut Selector Select if the low cut filter should affect the input like a normal low cut filter placed before the TLA 100A or just the detector so that low frequencies doesn t trigger the compressor Saturation Sets the amount of headroom in the unit If you need more distortion turn up this knob Distortion can sometimes be very use
4. ave the possibility to choose whether you want to put the low cut on the entire signal just as if you would have had a Low Cut inserted before the TLA 100 plug in or put on just the detector part of the compressor a k a sidechain filtering Parallel Inject Parallel Compression Parallel compression ie mixing a compressed signal together with the original signal is a standard prac tice today So instead of using several mix buses to achieve this we added a knob Saturation Headroom Mix Level Adjust It s always difficult to choose what level the virtual O VU should correspond to in the digital world Some people use drum loops that peak at 0 dBES while others use material recorded at 24 dBFS That s why we added the Saturation control With that control you can tune the headroom and the amount of saturation from the tube output stage in the compressor Without it you would have to use the Gain control to set the desired amount of dis tortion and compensate for that loss or increase in volume with a separate volume control The Satura tion does all that In one knob User Interface Ihe user interface consists of two panels the upper panel containting the original TLA 100A knobs and switches and the lower panel that offers extra functionality ATTACK FAST SLOW RELEASE FAST SLOW 2 TUBE LEVELING AMPLIFIER METER F TLA 1004 fo Sema Audio Inc er zoo A a o GAIN REDUCTI
5. ed to set these options you ll find them in text format in the following locations MAC OS Library Application Support Softube WINDOWS username AppLication Data Key Commands All numbers and labels in the plug in are clickable This allows you to easy select a setting by clicking on the wanted value Hovering above a label will turn the mouse pointer into a pointing hand Mouse Up Down or Mouse Wheel Change a parameter such as a knob or a switch Keyboard Fine Adjust 3 Mac or crrL Win while changing the parameter value Reset to Default ALT while clicking on the knob or fader Plug In Specific Key Commands In many plug ins you can sHIFT click on a knob or a switch to get some extra functionality Metal Amp Room SHIFT click and drag a mic will move both mics simultaneously All Amp Rooms SHIFT click in the cabinet background will change cabinet or amp without any animations Summit Audio TLA 100A Compressor More Than a TLA 100A THIS SUMMIT COMPRESSOR IS A CLASSIC but we felt that there are a couple of features that could really bring this unit into the 21st century So we decided to add an extra panel below the unit If you dont care about fancy features just disregard that panel and the TLA 100A will work just as the original unit Low Cut It is always handy to have the ability to filter out the lowest frequencies so that the compressor doesnt react on them Here you also h
6. ful together with slower attack times when you get loud transients Use the Saturation knob to limit the transients Saturation LED Indicates distortion at the output You will get the best result if the saturation is used sparingly on percussive sounds like a drum bus Let it take care of occasional peaks and do not run it too hot Parallel Inject Adds the un affected dry signal to the compressed wET signal If you are using the compressor to shape the sound instead of compressing the volume a rather normal use case these days it is often useful to blend some of the original signal with the compressed track An overcompressed drum track has few transients which will make it sound dull and without energy but if you blend some of the original transients into that track you ll get the energy back while maintaining the overcompressed sound Low Cut Low Cut Saturation Parallel Inject Frequency Selector Saturation LED Input Parallel Inject Output Saturation Gain Attack Release Gain Reduction Block Diagram The drawing above illustrates the functionality of the plug in Green lines illustrate the main signal path and red labels the parameters The Low Cut parameters switch between either the detector low cut filter or the input filter Only one of the low cut filters is active at a time or both bypassed by setting the Low Cut frequency parameter to OFF Mono and Stereo Operation The Summit Audio TLA 1
7. hat we have made mistakes and we hope that you understand that we are only humans Please let us know about the mistake and we ll fix it in the mix or in the next version of this manual Support On the Softube website www softube com you will find answers to common questions FAQ and other topics that might interest you Support questions can be posted at http www softube com where we will help you as fast as we can Web www softube com E mail info softube com Phone 46 13 21 1623 9 am 5 pm CET Contents User Interface MONUMOW 5 56 25 2 2 2 ses eo ee ooo Key Commands bo hie ee a r Summit Audio TLA 100A Compressor More Than a TLA 100A User Interface Mono and Stereo Operation CU sedia User Interface SOFTUBE PLUG INS ARE what you see is what you get products You should be able to intuitively learn Enable Enable Activate the plug in the products within minutes so that you can work Set to OFF for bypass fast and efficient with them There are a couple of things that remain the same for all of our plug ins such as the menu row These will be explained in this chapter For detailed information of a particular plug in please see its chapter Setup Changes global options for all instances of that plug in nie 5 oftube Mode Active A Menu Row mi ur 5 oftube Mode Bypa m 1 SETUP LAS In the bottom of the plug in interface
8. w Softube User Manual Summit Audio TLA 100A Tube Leveling Amplifier Rev Aug 10 2014 Softube User Manual 2007 2014 Amp Room is a registered trademark of Softube AB Sweden Softube is a registered trade mark of Softube AB Sweden All visual and aural references to the Valley People Dyna mite Tonelux and Tilt are trademarks being made with written permission from PMI Audio The Tonelux and Tilt logo the Valley People Dyna mite and associated logos are trademarks of PMI Audio Group used under license Summit Audio Inc is a trademark by Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics LLC used under license All specifications subject to change without notice All Rights Reserved Other company and product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies Men tion of third party products is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation Softube assumes no responsibility with regard to the performance or use of these products Softube products are protected by patents SE526523 and SE525332 and related patents patent ap plications including WO06054943 US11 667360 US20040258250 EP1492081 EP1815459 and JP2004183976 Your rights to the software are governed by the accompanying software license agreement End User Li cense Agreement Disclaimer Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate However there are a chance t

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