D16 Group PunchBOX Manuale utente
User Manual
23 June 2016,
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OVERVIEW
Overview
Punchbox is an advanced monophonic Kick generang instrument that ulizes overlaying sound sources to produce nal kick tone;
4 generators that can play samples or synthesized sounds. In addion, it oers a number of eects for further processing. The instrument
is supplied with a substanal factory sample and preset content developed exclusively by Sounds of Revoluon and CFA Sound labels.
When the plug-in is running you can see its interface:
Puchbox User Interface
The following funconal secons are available:
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OVERVIEW CONTROL PANEL
Control Panel
Punchbox control panel
Used to manage Master Presets (presets of the enre device) namely their loading and saving. It also manages presets import / export to
exchange them between the users. It controls the default plug-in conguraon, exporng current seng to a wave le and the parameter
randomizaon.
Generators Secon
Generators secon
Controls the secon that produces the sound in Punchbox.
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OVERVIEWEFFECTS SECTION
Eects Secon
Including the Master/Limiter block, which processes the signal produced by generators before it’s sent to the plug-in’s output.
FX secon
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DESCRIPTION OF OPERATION GENERATORS SECTION
Descripon of operaon
4 generators that produce the Kick tone components are the heart of the instrument. Their outputs are mixed and sent to the eect
cascade (series), and then to the plug-in audio output. The instrument is monophonic and may respond to the pitch and/or velocity
of the MIDI tones depending on the sengs.
Generators Secon
The generators secon consists of 4 independent modules (generators) which when mixed constute the Kick instrument. Each generator
has a specic funcon in the process:
• Click – Generates the bass drum’s accents; inial, short clicks.
• Tops – Responsible for the delivery of the accent’s sustain (slightly longer tones present typically in the higher frequencies).
• Tools – Addional rumbles, background sounds etc. that accompany the primary tone.
• Kick – Basic/primary tone that is the body of the bass drum.
Click, Tops and Tools generate the auxiliary components of the nal tone. They are based only on the samples. Each of them has
a substanal factory sample bank.
Kick generates the primary tone (body) component. It may serve as a Sampler or Synthesizer (with a few available alternave generator
engines that may be selected). Similarly to the other generators, Kick is also provided with substanal factory content (samples and presets).
The open architecture of the instrument allows you to import the external samples as the user resources.
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DESCRIPTION OF OPERATIONGENERATORS SECTION
Click, Tops and Tools Generators
Clicks, Tops and Tools generate the auxiliary/side components of the Kick tone. Each generator has almost indencal interface;
Click, Tops and Tools generators
And it is controlled with the following set of parameters:
• Acve/Solo – A LED operang in the toggle mode to acvate the specic generator or other (expect for the specic one) generators
if used with CTRL *
• Volume – The generator’s output volume from -inf [dB] up to +12 [dB].
• Smp. Start – (only for Tools, Tops) species the starng point (oset) from which the sample is played. This parameter can be set from
0% up to 100%, where 0% means that the sample is played from the beginning with the value range referring to the sample duraon.
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DESCRIPTION OF OPERATION GENERATORS SECTION
• St. Spread – Wider or narrower stereo image of the played sample. The central posion (Normal) is a neutral seng that plays
the sample without processing.
• Panning – (Stereo) panning.
• High Cut - Low-pass lter cut-o frequency. The parameter operates from 2 [Hz] up to 22 [kHz].
• Low Cut - Hi-pass lter cut-o frequency. The parameter operates from 2 [Hz] up to 22 [kHz].
• Decay – Decay me relave to the overall sample duraon. Max means that the decay me is the same as the sample duraon.
• Tune – Relave sample tuning from -6 up to +6 semitones.
• Send (Click send, Top send, Tools send) – Controlling the proporon between the signal sent to the eect cascade and directly
to Master / Limiter (with the eect cascade bypassed). For the minimum value (0%) the whole signal is sent only to Master / Limiter
(Eects). For the medium value (50%) the generator output is sent in half to the eect cascade and in half to Master / Limiter with
the eect cascade bypassed. For 100% the signal is sent only to the eect cascade.
Each generator provides an addional Sample Management subsecon to browse and load the samples from the Factory or User content,
import the user samples and reset the generator sengs.
Generator’s Sample Management secon
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DESCRIPTION OF OPERATIONGENERATORS SECTION
The subsecon contains the following controls:
• Sample Name – A display with the name of the currently loaded sample, “---“ – if no sample is currently loaded.
• Prev / Next - Used to navigate through the generator sample bank, load the next or previous sample from the bank.
• Browser – Opens the Sample Browser window to browse the available sample bank more precisely e.x. by ltering the results etc.
(the funcon is described in details in the Preset Management chapter).
• Init (Prev + CTRL *) – Restoring the inial generator sengs and deleng a sample from the generator’s memory.
• Reload (Next + CTRL) – Restoring the most recently loaded master sengs (Master Preset) for the generator secon, with the origi-
nal sample loaded if it diers from the current sample.
Kick Generator
Generates the Kick tone body/base and oers a few generator engines that may be selected:
• Sample - A sampler where you can load samples from the substanal factory content and import your own samples.
• 909 – A percussion synthesizer based on kick model available in the TR-909 drum machine
• 808 – A percussion synthesizer based on kick model available in the TR-808 drum machine
• 606 – A percussion synthesizer based on kick model available in the TR-606 drum machine
• Sine - A percussion synthesizer based on the sine waveform with amplitude and frequency modulaon
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DESCRIPTION OF OPERATION GENERATORS SECTION
A Kick generator with “Sample”, a selected generator engine
Mode allows you to select the generator engine:
Mode parameter
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DESCRIPTION OF OPERATIONGENERATORS SECTION
Below Mode you can nd the Preset/Sample Management secon
Preset / Sample Management secon of the Kick generator
Used to browse the Factory / User content (samples or presets) for the currently selected generator engine. This secon contains
the following controls:
• Prev / Next – Used to navigate through the sample or preset bank (depending on the selected generator engine) by moving
to the next or previous item.
• Browse – Opens the Sample/Preset browser – for more informaon on the Browser operaon please refer
to the Preset Management chapter.
• Init (Prev + CTRL) – Restoring the inial generator sengs and deleng a sample from the memory if the Sampler is used
as a generator engine.
• Reload (Next + CTRL) – Restoring the most recently loaded master sengs (Master Preset) for the acve generator engine
and loading the sample used in the master preset if the Sampler is used as the generator engine .
• Save (Browse + CTRL) – A funcon available only when the generator engine is one of the synthesizers and used to save the
current engine sengs as a user’s preset.
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