Steinberg Cubase 4 Plug In Reference Manual

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Effects (EFX) page
This page features three separate effect units: Distortion, 
Delay and Modulation (Phaser/Flanger/Chorus). The Ef-
fect page is opened by clicking the EFX button at the top 
of the lower half of the control panel.
The Effects page.
Each separate effect section is laid out with a row of 
buttons that determine the effect type or characteristic 
and a row of sliders for making parameter settings.
To activate an effect, click the “Active” button so that a...

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 If button “F” is active, the selected Part’s program will play 
back with the sample rate set in the host application.
 If button “1/2” is active, the selected Part’s program will play 
back with half the original sample rate.
 If button “1/4” is active, the selected Part’s program will play 
back with a quarter of the original sample rate.
A bonus effect of using lower sample rates is that it re-
duces the load on the computer CPU, allowing more si-
multaneous voices to...

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Oscillator pop-up
This pop-up menu is opened by clicking on the text below 
the centrally placed section (which illustrates the currently 
selected oscillator configuration). 
Click here to open the Oscillator pop-up.
The pop-up has the following oscillator configurations to 
choose between:
Detune
Detunes the oscillators (in all oscillator modes except 
“1Osc”). Low values will give gentle chorus-like detuning; 
raising the control will detune the oscillators by several...

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If you want to random calculate a spectrum filter curve, 
you can choose the Randomize function from the Preset 
pop-up.
Each time you choose this function, a new randomized spectrum will 
appear.
Cut I and II
These work much like cutoff frequency controls on a con-
ventional filter: With the Cut controls at the maximum set-
ting, the full frequency range will be used for the spectrum 
filter; lowering the Cut controls will gradually move the en-
tire contour down in...

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About the sync modes
The Sync modes determine how the LFO cycle affects the 
notes you play:
About the waveforms
Most standard LFO waveforms are available for LFO mod-
ulation. You use Sine and Triangle waveforms for smooth 
modulation cycles, Square and Ramp up/down for differ-
ent types of stepped modulation cycles and Random or 
Sample for random modulation. The Sample waveform is 
different:
In this mode, the LFO actually makes use of the other 
LFO as well. 
For...

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Assigning LFO velocity destinations
You can also assign LFO modulation that is velocity con-
trolled (i.e. governed by how hard or soft you strike a key). 
This is done as follows:
1.Click in the “Vel Dest” box for one of the LFOs.
A pop-up appears with all possible velocity destinations are shown. 
2.Select a destination. 
The selected velocity destination is now shown in the list. Beside the 
destination, a default value (50) has been set. The value represents the...

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The Envelope parameters are as follows:
Attack
The attack phase is the time it takes from zero to the max-
imum value. How long this should take, depends on the 
Attack setting. If the Attack is set to “0”, the maximum 
value is reached instantly. If this value is raised, it will take 
time before the maximum value is reached. Range is from 
0.0 milliseconds to 91.1 seconds.
Decay
After the maximum value has been reached, the value 
starts to drop. How long this should...

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To remove a modulation destination click on its name in 
the list and select “Off” from the pop-up.
Envelope modulation velocity control – an example:
If you follow the steps above and select the Cut parameter 
as a Velocity destination, the following happens:
The harder you strike the key, the more the parameter 
will be modulated by the Envelope.
If you should enter a negative value for the velocity mod-
ulation amount, the opposite happens; the harder you 
play, the...

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Delay
You can select between 3 basic delay characteristics:
 Stereo Delay has two separate delay lines panned left and 
right.
 In Mono Delay the two delay lines are connected in series for 
monophonic dual tap delay effects.
 In Cross delay the delayed sound bounces between the ste-
reo channels.
The parameters are as follows:
Modulation
You can select between 3 modulation characteristics:
 The Phaser uses an 8-pole allpass filter to produce the classic 
phasing effect....

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Mystic (Cubase only)
The synthesis method used by Mystic is based on three 
parallel comb filters with feedback. A comb filter is a filter 
with a number of “notches” in its frequency response, with 
the notch frequencies harmonically related to the fre-
quency of the fundamental (lowest) notch. 
A typical example of comb filtering occurs if you are using 
a flanger effect or a delay effect with very short delay time. 
As you probably know, raising the feedback (the amount...