TC electronic SDN BHD DVR2 User's Manual
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1. 96 0 kHz 90 DSP Load and 73 DSP Load and 79 Memory of 1 DSP 19 Memory of 1 DSP All values subject to change Enjoy The TC Electronic Team DVR2 5 GLOBAL PLUG IN CONTROLS KEYBOARD COMMANDS In most host applications the DVR2 Reverb supports keyboard commands for certain functions The following key commands are available for all plug in parameters Key Commands in Mac OS X Fine Adjust Apple key mouse movement Reset To Default Alt key mouse click Key Commands in Windows Fine Adjust Alt mouse movement Reset To Default Shift Control mouse click User Assignable Key Commands Depending on your host application you have the ability to add your own keyboard shortcuts to certain buttons The supported buttons in DVR2 are Mem A B the pre vious next preset buttons and the Vintage Reset button Assign keyboard shortcut Unassign current shortcut RTI A right mouse click on the button will open a pop up menu Here you can select to assign a new keyboard shortcut or to remove a previously assigned shortcut Note The ability to use the assignable key commands highly depends on the host application Some applications do not pass key commands on to the plug in SCROLL WHEEL SUPPORT If you are using a host application that supports this feature all of the DVR2 knobs and faders support scrolling on both Windows XP and Mac OS X Simply roll your mouse over a knob or slid2. BUILT FOR POWERCORE EMT 250 Nice Vocal Reverb Vintage Input 8 0 kHz VERB _ TAGE REV maL VIN Co PYRE oie DVR2 DIGITAL VINTAGE REVERB FROM THE LEGENDARY SYSTEM 6000 MANUAL ULTIMATE SOUND MACHINES SUPPORT INTERACTIVE The TC Support Interactive website www tcsupport tc is designed as an online support and information center At the site you can find answers to specific questions regard ing TC software and hardware All known issues are stored in a database searchable by product category keywords or phrases Under the section My Stuff you can login to check the status of your questions download materials such as product manuals software updates and new presets This site has been specifically designed to meet the needs of our users We constantly update the database and you will find the site to be a huge resource of information Browse through Q amp A s and discover new aspects of your TC product If you can t find an answer online you have the option of submitting a question to our technical support staff who will then reply to you by e mail The TC Support Team is on constant alert to help you in any way they can Contact Details Alternatively you may contact the TC Electronic distributor in your area or write to TC ELECTRONIC A S Customer Support Sindalsvej 34 Risskov DK 8240 Denmark USA TC Electronic Inc 5706 Corsa Avenue Suite 107 W
3. is done via the File button PRESET FILE MENU Pressing the File button will open the plug in s file menu The following options are available from the file menu Loading a Preset By selecting Load you can navigate to any folder on the system that you have read access to including any shared folder By default these will be loaded from the default location for DVR2 presets Only presets located in the default file location will appear in the DVR2 pop up preset menu Naming a Preset Double click on the name field e in the new name e Press Enter DVR2 11 Saving a Preset By selecting Save you can save your preset to any folder on the system that you have write access to including any shared folder By default presets are saved to the default location for the DVR2 presets DEFAULT PRESET LOCATIONS The following locations will describe where you can find the DVR2 presets The pre sets are stored in a folder that is unique to each plug in Mac OS X Files are stored in your user folder Library Application Support POWERCORE TC Electronic Presets DVR2 Refers to your user folder Users Your Name Windows Files are stored on the Windows OS hard drive TCWorks POWERCORE TC Electronic Presets DVR2 Refers to the path for your System Hard Drive Program Files e To delete a file simply move it to the Trash or Recycle bin e T
4. to lower the input level if sig nals close to full scale are fed to the plug in Reduce the input level in case you expe rience overloads O L Wet Level Range Off Adjusts the reverb wet level of the output channels Dry Level Range Off to OdB Adjusts the dry signal level of the output channels For a typical send return configu ration leave dry level off 10 DVR2 PRESET MANAGEMENT TC s comprehensive file based preset architecture makes archiving presets a simple process This allows you to organize your presets the way you find most comfortable for your workflow and to exchange presets with other users no matter the platform or application Presets are saved as discrete files on your hard drive Once a preset is saved into the default location it will automatically appear in the File menu every time you use the plug in The files can then be organized into subfolders where you can delete rearrange or create your own sub folders to accommodate your needs Note A folder will appear in the Preset File Menu if it contains at least one preset NEXT PREVIOUS PRESETS From the plug in s Main page you can directly jump from one preset to the next or previous by clicking on the up down arrows right from preset name EMT 250 Large Hall All presets available at the default plug in preset location will be considered so you could in theory reach every preset this way Direct access to specific presets
5. er and use the Scroll Wheel to increment decrement the associated parameter USER INTERFACE DISABLED Should your PowerCore be fully loaded and there is not enough free processing on your DSPs the plug in will come up in a disabled state Should this occur it is advised to remove the plug in from the mix Note In case any PowerCore plug in gets disabled either while loading a session or during your work e g you forgot to switch on PowerCore prior to loading a session 6 DVR2 you can always save your session without losing any of the plug in settings The last setting of the plug in will always be saved even when it is in disabled state This also applies to saving presets FOCUS FIELDS You can place your own set of parameters in the 6 focus fields at the bottom of the plug in Making use of the focus fields can give you a better workflow since you will not have to switch pages all the time to find the parameters that you work with You can assign any parameter to the focus fields and the focus fields are stored with the session as well as when you save your presets Input Level Dry Level Wet Level Decay Pre Delay Hi Cut 0 0 dB Off 0 0 dB 42s 125 ms 13 0 kHz Assign change the assignment e Press the Assign button The Assign button as well as of the Focus Fields will be highlighted e Select the Focus Field you wish to link a parameter to by clicking on that field e Click on the parameter y
6. estlake Village CA 91362 www tcelectronic com BY TC ELECTRONIC A S 2005 ALL PRODUCT AND COMPANY NAMES ARE TRADEMARKS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS VST IS A TRADEMARK OF STEINBERG AG AUDIO UNITS IS A TRADEMARK OF APPLE COMPUTER INC ALL SPECIFICATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TC Electronic is a TC Group company TABLE OF CONTENTS Contact amp Support 2 Table Of COntentS eee eee ee alae eee Pewee eee eee eee 3 DVR2 Digital Vintage Reverb 4 Global Plug In 5 6 The Plug In Parameters 8 Preset Management 11 Converting DVR2 Presets from System 6000 and Reverb 4000 13 Compare settings with 14 Locking Parameter values using the Parameter Lock 15 DVR2 3 DVR2 DIGITAL VINTAGE REVERB Congratulations with the purchase of your new Vintage Reverb plug in for PowerCore DVR2 offers a pristine Generic Reverb with true vintage flavor Generic Reverb is com plementary to Source Reverb and both types are at disposal as optional plug ins for PowerCore The term Generic Reverb is used to describe a flattering sustain effect which can be added to many
7. ms Pre delay is the amount of time from an input is received until reverb starts building up at the output VINTAGE Modulation Range 0 200 default 100 Sets the Depth of the modulation Normal set to 100 Increase if you like a more liquid chorus like sound Hi Cut Range 8kHz 13kHz default 11kHz This is DVR2 s HiCut and can be used to limit or extend the overall frequency spec trum Q Scale Range 0 3 1 4 default 1 2 Corresponds the small potmeters inside older reverbs used to equalize sound differ ences caused by electric component tolerances Use the Q scale in combination with the HiCut Frequency to shape the treble to your personal flavor Input Trans Range on off default off Emulates the sound of Input transformers typically used in vintage Reverbs Use it to create a warm vintage like sound Especially good for short Decay times Trim Lo Freq Range on off default on A subtle damping of selected frequencies in the lower end Lo Res Range on off default on Switches the DVR2 to a lower bit resolution This adds an older and more grainy sound and also noise giving a simulation of various vintage reverbs Vintage Reset Clicking on this button will reset the controls in the Vintage section back to the val ues as they are found on the vintage original DVR2 9 LEVELS Input Level Range Off to OdB Sets the Input level for the plug in It may be necessary
8. n you start working with your preset the A B button is grayed out This state indi cates that the settings in both memory locations A and are identical so there is actually nothing to compare As soon as you touch one of the parameters the memory location A will get active and the A part of the A B button will light up All parameter changes will be applied to memory location A If you switch to memory location B you get back to your starting point and all further changes will now be applied to memory location B Every time you press the A B button you will toggle between these two memory loca tions Note The A B memory locations are temporary settings only Saving a preset e g via the File button or with your session will only save the currently selected memory loca tion The setting of the other hidden memory location will not be saved The Mem button will reset the A B memory locations to the current setting 14 DVR2 LOCKING PARAMETER VALUES USING THE PARAMETER LOCK The parameter lock function allows you to lock the parameters In Level Out Level Dry Level Wet Level and the assignment of the Focus fields from changing when you change preset By using the parameter lock you can easily browse through the extensive set of pre sets that comes with the DVR2 without having to change back the locked parameter with each preset change To lock a parameter simply click on the
9. o create new subfolder that appears in the plug in menu simply create new folder in the plug in folder that resides in the PRESETS folder of the DVR2 default preset location Note A folder will not appear in the Preset File Menu unless it has at least one preset inside 12 DVR2 CONVERTING DVR2 PRESETS FROM SYSTEM 6000 AND REVERB 4000 In case you are the happy owner of the DVR2 algorithm for System 6000 or the Reverb 4000 here is something to get you in an even better mood The DVR2 plug in is able to read your System 6000 Reverb 4000 presets In order to convert presets from System 6000 Reverb 4000 to DVR2 you need to store the System 6000 Reverb 4000 presets in a preset file The file extension has to be either syx for example MyPresets syx or mid for a MIDI file The easiest way to export System 6000 Reverb 4000 presets is to use the export to file function from the Icon Editor for Mac Windows requires version 3 5 or higher Alternatively you can save a bank to a floppy disk System 6000 only or do a SysEx Dump to a MIDI file in your sequencer Note For details regarding the export of presets from System 6000 or Reverb 4000 please refer to your System 6000 Reverb 4000 and Icon Editor documentation The generated SysEx MIDI preset file needs to be placed in the default DVR2 Preset folder at the root level subfolders are not considered The file needs to have either the extension syx for exam
10. ou wish to link to the selected Focus Field To get an unassigned empty Focus Field click again on the selected parameter e Once you have finished the assignments click again on the Assign button to leave the assign mode OVERLOAD INDICATION O L Int _ S y Ss The O L LED in the metering section on the left side of the input meters will light up in case internal DSP overloads are detected You should lower the input level to avoid these overloads To reset the indication click on the O L LED DVR2 7 THE PLUG IN PARAMETERS MAIN PAGE On the DVR2 Main page you can find all controls of DVR2 as well as the plug in s preset handling More about the preset handling can be found in the section Preset Handling later in this manual Name EMT 250 Large Hall Pre Delay Decay Lo Decay Hi Decay 125 ms 42s x 1 0 max Modulation P or 30 a Hi Cut 13 0 kHz Q Seale Input Level Wet Level Dry Level 1 4 _ electronic Decay Range 0 4 4 55 Adjusts the Master Decay time xLo Range 0 5 to 2 0 Decay multiplier for low frequencies For a x1 0 setting low frequency decay will equal the Decay setting xHi Range 0 25 to Max Decay multiplier for hi frequencies For a x1 0 setting high frequency decay will equal the Decay setting 8 DVR2 Pre Delay Range 0 500 Vintage values 20 40 and 60
11. ple MyPresets syx or mid for a MIDI file Note case you are running the Icon Editor on the same computer as the DVR2 plug in the DVR2 will automatically search for preset files in the default locations for Reverb 4000 and System 6000 files You do not need to copy the files Once your preset file has been placed in the default DVR2 Preset folder it will show up the next time you click the File button At the top of the pop up list you ll find a section called Convert and the name of your preset file will be listed here To convert your preset file to DVR2 presets simply select the name of the preset file The conversion will only take a few seconds and only needs to be done once When the conversion is done all presets from your preset file will be available in a subfolder that has the same name as the preset file had The presets will show up in the same bank structure as on the System 6000 and presets that are not based on the DVR2 algorithm will not be converted The preset file will disappear from the Convert section of the file menu Note As the plug in implementation of the DVR2 is stereo only the surround settings from the System 6000 version will be ignored during preset conversion DVR2 13 COMPARE SETTINGS WITH MEM With the A B compare function you can easily compare different parameter settings when you work with your music You have two buttons the Mem and the A B but ton Whe
12. small lock in the parameter field To unlock it click again The parameter lock only affects parameter changes made with the mouse The param eter lock does not affect automation data or preset changes initialized from the host application These changes will always pass An example You have inserted the DVR2 on a channel When you use the DVR2 as an insert effect you would probably like the dry part of the signal to go trough the DVR2 and therefore you d probably turn up the Dry Level Dry Level 4 2 dB Now if you browse through a couple of presets using the up and down arrows on the right side of the preset name you will see that most of the presets have the Dry Level set to Off In other words the Dry Level goes to Off all the time which can become quite annoying Dry Level Off And here comes the Parameter Lock Press the small lock in the Dry Level parameter field and the Dry Level will stay at the value that you ve set it on no matter what is saved with the preset you choose Dry Level Off Once you touch the parameter or send automation data the lock will automatically unlock DVR2 15 16 DVR2
13. sources of a mix It produces little character but also does no harm because the effect is blurred or washed out Instead it adds a good sense of spacious ness and more or less pronounced modulation Recreation of a Classic The development of DVR2 has been a process extending several years with the goal of recreating the most shining Generic Reverb of all times the EMT250 A particularly well sounding machine was refurbished and in the making of DVR2 many design dis ciplines were involved Hardware technical What was the precision of converters and how where they imple mented in the eighties with emphasis block scaling linearity filters etc How much processing and RAM was available what was the sample rate etc Software technical Which kind of processing was done in discrete circuitry what type of truncation and noise floor artifacts would result how could the low sample rate be mimicked precisely and how could all of this be transferred to a modern DSP plat form Perceptual Making sure the qualities of the original processor was preserved Sweet modulation spectral characteristics spaciousness distortion saturation etc Hundreds of hours spent listening and measuring User The four basic parameters of the EMT250 were carefully laid out offering a remarkably simple user interface with complex yet optimized interactions under the hood DVR2 is a resemblance of that including range and coarseness of parameters Bet
14. ter than the Classic While DVR2 in Normal mode is very close to the sound of a perfectly aligned 250 having used much DSP power to mimic artifacts of old hardware the algorithm can also be put in a High Resolution mode Using this function the noise floor is much lower but use your own ears to determine if this is actually a plus for a specific situ ation Please note Many of the constraints and criteria listed above produce non linear audio behavior making it impossible to obtain more than a static and crude result if trying to sample an original processor A minute emulation does more justice to the original from an audio point of view and can also still be adjusted 4 DVR2 The DVR2 plug in runs on all available PowerCore at the common sample rates from 32 kHz to 96 kHz The plug in can be inserted in any VST Audio Unit and even RTAS via the optional VST to RTAS wrapper from FXpansion compatible host application as Stereo to Stereo Effect or as Mono To Stereo Effect depending on the host application and the individ ual track settings The DVR2 Digital Vintage Reverb algorithm occupies Sample Rate PowerCore PCI Element PowerCore Compact FireWire MKII 44 1 kHz 54 DSP Load and 43 DSP Load and 79 Memory of 1 DSP 19 Memory of 1 DSP 48 0 kHz 59 DSP Load and 46 DSP Load and 79 Memory of 1 DSP 19 Memory of 1 DSP 88 2 kHz 82 DSP Load and 67 DSP Load and 79 Memory of 1 DSP 19 Memory of 1 DSP
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