User manual ANTARES TUBE

[. . . ] Antares Audio Technologies 231 Technology Circle Scotts Valley, California 95066 USA voice: (831) 461 7800 fax: (831) 461 7801 service: (831) 461 7801 web: www. antarestech. com Printed in USA Rev 1. 0 12/2002 PN 40202-M01 The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo The Antares Tube software and this User's Manual are protected by copyright law. Making copies, adaptations, or derivative works without the prior written authorization of Antares Audio Technologies, is prohibited by law and constitutes a punishable violation of the law. Antares Audio Technologies retains all ownership rights to the Tube software and its documentation. Please carefully read all the terms and conditions of this license agreement. [. . . ] To receive the appropriate Response you will need to provide us with both the Challenge string and the registration code that was included on the yellow card in your software package (if you bought a retail package) or supplied with your download. 2 · To obtain your Response, have your registration code and Challenge string at hand. (If you will be accessing the web from the same computer that will be running your software, you can press "Copy Challenge" at the Challenge screen and then simply paste the Challenge into the appropriate field on the web page below. ) · Point your web browser to: https://transactions. antarestech. com/ and simply follow the directions. (Be extremely careful to enter the registration code and Challenge string accurately. ) If, for some reason, you do not have access to the web but do have email, copy and paste your Challenge string and registration code into an email along with your name and the product name (e. g. , Tube for MAS), and send it to: register@antarestech. com You will receive your Response string by return email. If you do not have access to the web or email, fax your Challenge string along with your registration code to us at (831) 461-7801. NOTE: You may optimize (defragment) the hard disk containing the Challenge/Response authorization, or even reinstall your system, without losing the authorization. However, if you reformat the hard drive or if it fails, contact Antares for the re-authorization procedure (you are a registered user, right?). TECHNICAL SUPPORT In the unlikely event that you experience a problem using Tube, try the following: 1. You may have stumbled onto some feature that you didn't notice the first time through. Check our web page for tips, techniques, or any late-breaking information: http://www. antarestech. com 3. Email our tech support department by pointing your web browser to: http://www. antarestech. com/support/etech. shtml and filling in the form there. Call us at (831) 461-7814 Monday through Friday between 9am and 5pm USA Pacific Standard Time. For options 3, 4, or 5, please be prepared to provide the Registration Code of your copy of Tube. 3 4 Chapter 2: Introducing Tube W SOME BACKGROUND When Antares introduced the ground-breaking Microphone Modeler plugin in 1999, we included a function designed to model the distortion that is typical of a high-quality tube pre-amp. Mic Modeler was an immediate success and went on to win Mix Magazine's prestigious TEC Award for Software Signal Processing. Along the way, virtually every reviewer commented on how great the tube model sounded. We've even heard from users who didn't feel they needed microphone modeling, but bought Mic Modeler just to have the tube function. In the intervening years we've had a lot of requests for a plug-in that would offer the great sound of the Mic Mod tube model in an affordable, easy to use plug-in. Tube is a multiformat plug-in that accurately models the sonic effects of recording audio through a high quality analog tube preamplifier. It offers the choice of two different tube models as well as a unique OmniTube function that allows the application of the tube effect to the entire signal (as opposed to only the transients, as is typically the case with a tube preamp). Use this model to add warmth to vocals, acoustic guitar, horns, strings, synth pads, in fact pretty much anything. The fiery orange tube models the deep, warm distortion of an overdriven tube amplifier. Use it in moderation to impart a subtle (or not-so-subtle) effect to almost any track. The button will glow blue and the selected tube will rotate into position. [. . . ] With OmniTube on, all regions of the input signal are subject to tube distortion. To accomplish this, when you engage OmniTube a compressor is inserted into the signal path after the Input Gain control and before the tube model. The compressor is set to compress the signal and then apply sufficient makeup gain to ensure that the Drive control can drive the entire signal above the clipping level. After the tube effect is applied to the entire signal, an inverse gain function restores the signal's original dynamics. [. . . ]