User manual TASCAM GIGAPULSE VST

[. . . ] GigaPulseTM User Guide Contents Quick Start-Loading & Adjusting GigaPulse GigaPulse Interface: 19 GigaPulse Pro (GigaStudio 3. 0) Interface 19 GigaPulse VST Interface File Menu: 49 19 10 GigaPulse Configuration Window: 74 GigaPulse Pro Signal Flow 89 GigaPulse VST Signal Flow 89 GigaPulse SP 110 GigaPulse Banks 112 126 128 156 GigaPulse File Formats Impulse Builder-Main Window Mic Placement Position/Orientation: Source Placement Editor 165 Source and Mic Placement-Advanced Options Impulse Attributes Editor 190 183 1 GigaPulseTM User Guide GigaPulse Quickstart 2 GigaPulse Quick Start Quick Start-Loading & Adjusting GigaPulse Load GigaPulse: There are two ways to load gigapulse. For GigaPulse VST, consult your DAW software documentation on how to use VST plugins. (Some host applications allow you to insert VST FX on a mixer channel strips) Once GigaPulse VST is up and running, it works nearly identical to GigaPulse Pro. (The GigaStudio 3. 0 built in version) For GigaPulse Pro, assign an instrument to a MIDI channel. Then route that channel to a pair of inputs on the DSP Station mixer. [. . . ] Large halls are better for music, and small rooms are better for voice. Play the instrument and see how the GigaPulse sounds on it. The default arrangement is as shown, with the Front Left Microphone sending it's signal to Output 1, the Front Left to Output 2, and so on, but all seven microphones can be assigned to any output desired. Notice how numbers from left to right go from 1-7. The mic positions on the left will be routed directly to the mixer channel they are assigned. You can also route multiple mics to the same channel. 89 GigaPulseTM User Guide GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow 90 GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow Here are some mic routing possibilities. 90 GigaPulseTM User Guide GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow 91 GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow Go back to the default setting for now. Enable the surround microphones. Now close or move the GigaPulse out of the way and watch the mixer channels as you play the instrument. 91 GigaPulseTM User Guide GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow 92 GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow As you play, you will notice that the levels on mixer channels 5, 6 are now lighting up. This is because we enabled the surround microphones and assigned them to mixer channels 5 & 6 in the Mic to Mixer Routing. The outputs to which they are assigned are the ones that will be used in the mixer. Try assigning the surround microphones to channels 3 & 4 instead. Now the levels on 3, 4 are lighting up instead. 92 GigaPulseTM User Guide GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow 93 GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow Next try enabling all of the microphone positions. Now the meters in channels 1-8 light up. 1, 2 is the Front L & Front R Mics 3, 4 is the Wide L & Wide R Mics 5, 6 is the Surr L & Surr R Mics 7 is the Center Channel Mic (Left side) You can even label the mixer channels as we have in this example. At this point it is not recommended to assign any audio through channels 3-8 since they are occupied with audio routing. Be sure to experiment with enabling & disabling various mics and test out various Mic to Mixer Routing settings and check the results in the mixer meters. 93 GigaPulseTM User Guide GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow 94 GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow The last step in routing the audio is to assign the mixer channels to audio outputs. At the bottom of each mixer channel is an output assignment dropdown menu. From that dropdown menu, you can assign the mixer channel to a mixer group or directly to the audio card outputs. In this case, assign each channel to a different audio output. Channel 1, 2 to Outputs 1, 2 Channel 3, 4 to Outputs 3, 4 Channel 5, 6 to Outputs 5, 6 Channel 7, 8 to Outputs 7, 8 Now the audio will be routed to the physical outputs of the sound card. 94 GigaPulseTM User Guide GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow 95 GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow 7-Channel Audio: To get a full 7-channel surround environment in the studio you would need 7 speakers arranged similar to the mic positions to reproduce the GigaPulse Halls & Rooms. The Wide mics could be in between the front and center mics for a wide screen array for example. (Like 7. 1 theater cinema setups) If we were connecting the GigaStudio audio card directly to the speakers, this is how the audio outputs would get assigned. Outputs 1, 2 to the Front Left & Right Speakers Outputs 3, 4 to the Wide Left & Right Speakers Outputs 5, 6 to the Surround Left & Right Speakers Outputs 7 to the Center Speaker. The same concept applies if you are using a mixer, rewire or an external sequencer. Eventually, these channels would be routed to these particular speakers. 5-Channel Audio If you don't have a full 7. 1 channel system but instead have a 5. 1 system, you could do a couple of things. Disable the Wide Left & Right Mic positions and just not use them. Or you could keep them enabled and assign them to the same channels as the Front Left & Right Mic channels. 95 GigaPulseTM User Guide GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow 96 GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow 2-Channel (Stereo) Audio If you are dealing with a stereo monitoring environment (only two speakers) then set the Mic to Mixer Routing to "True Stereo" This automatically collapses all the mic positions down to two channels. 96 GigaPulseTM User Guide GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow 97 GigaPulse-Pro Signal Flow GigaPulse Mic to Mixer routing-Aux Busses Once you are familiar with how the routing works, you can then more easily move on to using the Auxiliary Sends & Returns. This allows several mixer channels to share a single instance of the GigaPulse or any other effect plug-in. In this case, go to the DSP Station and select the Aux Returns tab at the bottom. [. . . ] Any variance is noted when this dialog is launched (as well as when the impulse is specified in the source placement editor pane). Description: This 15-character field allows a description of the impulse set's impulses. This description is not displayed in GigaPulse interface. 184 GigaPulseTM User Guide Impulse Builder-Attributes 185 Impulse Builder-Attributes Tail Extension: GigaPulse can tail extend impulse of 65536 samples or longer. (Roughly 3 seconds) All items in this group are disabled unless your impulse set size is at least this size or larger. If your sample size is less than this, you can select 65536 and GigaPulse will automatically extend and zero fill your impulse to accommodate it. [. . . ]