Tone2 Rayblaster Manuale utente
RAYBLASTER
Reference MANUAL
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TABLE O CONTENTS
1 Introduction........................................................................................................
1.1 Welcome to Rayblaster ….........................................................................
1.2 What is Impulse Modeling Synthesis (IMS)...............................................
2 Installation and Authorization..........................................................................
2.1 Automatic installation for Mac & PC..........................................................
2.2 Manual installation for PC...........................................................................
2.3 Manual installation for Mac.........................................................................
3 Rayblaster Interface controls...........................................................................
4 The Rayblaster User Interface..........................................................................
4.1 The patch browser....................................................................................
4.2 Oscillator section......................................................................................
4.3 Envelopes................................................................................................
4.4 LFOs........................................................................................................
4.5 The Modulation Matrix.............................................................................
4.6 Arpeggiator & Gate.................................................................................
4.7 Effects sections & Boost..........................................................................
5 Modulation Matrix: value modifiers................................................................
6 Rayblaster CPU usage .....................................................................................
7 Creating your own custom Rayblaster filter impulse responses ................
8 How to extract & use waveforms in Rayblaster ............................................
9 Tone2 Audiosoftware Catalog .........................................................................
1. Introduction
1.1 Welcome to Rayblaster.
Thank you for buying Rayblaster synthesizer. Rayblaster uses Tone2's latest synthesis
technology called Impulse Modeling Synthesis.
Impulse Modeling Synthesis (IMS) goes beyond conventional synthesis, offering a
completely new world of sounds for you to explore and unlimited creative potential for
any style of music.
Whether you're a professional producer, synthesizer enthusiast or playing live, with the
new cutting edge IMS engine, psychoacoustic processing and carefully designed signal
processing, unique high quality sounds are just a key press away.
1.2 What is Impulse Modeling Synthesis (IMS)
Conventional synthesizers use a looped waveform as their oscillator source, which is then
filtered to create your sound, this is known as substractive synthesis.
RayBlaster uses a completely new approach to sound generation, creating its sound from
many short bursts of energy and combining these bursts to form its characterful sound.
This innovative and unique approach to synthesis is very close to what happens within
the human inner ear, sounds more authentic and gives you access to a whole new range
of sounds.
Rayblaster can take two cross blend-able samples, loops, waveforms or even an impulse
response of any filter, to use as source for its IMS oscillators.
The oscillators play back these short samples in rhythmic or chaotic order to create an
audible sound. Pitch, formant frequency, impulse order, mix, pulse width and the
harmonics of oscillators can be adjusted independently, which allows for a very large
amount of possibilities to morph your sound in real time.
The oscillators have an very wide pitch range, ranging from lower than 0.5 Hz up to 22kHz
and are capable of playing at extremely low frequency rates where rhythmical and tonal
parts of a sound start to smear.
For rhythmical sounds, Rayblaster can be synchronized to the host's BPM tempo which for
example allows you to beat-slice a drum loop accurately. Very low oscillator pitch rates
also allow the creation of granular sounds and loops where playback speed and pitch can
be controlled independently.
Where's my filter?
IMS works in a way that does not need a separate filter section, its oscillators can
authentically mimic the filter sound of other synthesizers, using one of the factory impulse
presets or by simply importing one of your own impulses.
Not only is RayBlaster capable of modeling the sound of existing filters – it's also possible
to create completely new artificial 'fantasy' filters exclusive to Rayblaster, making its filter
capabilities virtually unlimited. Your own custom Rayblaster filter impulse responses can
be created very easily, you'll find a step-by-step description in “Chapter 7 - Create your
own custom Rayblaster filter impulse response' of this manual.
2. Installation & authorization procedure
Together with the download links from Share-it you have received attached to the product
delivery email a keyfile called 'Rayblaster.t2k', this file contains your personal serial
number & your name and is used to unlock the full version.
Please note:we recommend for installations on Windows7 & Vista to be done with admin.
rights using 'Run as Administrator' for both the Rayblaster installer and host program.
2.1 Automatic Installation (recommended) for PC & Mac
1. Close your host (Logic, Live, Cubase, etc.)
2. Install the full version of the plugin. Note: the demo version can not be unlocked
3. Open your host program
4. o a plugin rescan in the host if it does not list Rayblaster as plugin. etailed
instructions on how to perform a rescan can be found in your host's manual
5. Open Rayblaster
6. Click on the registration box in the middle
7. Select your keyfile 'Rayblaster.t2k' to activate the full version
8. Restart the plugin. Note that some hosts programs (Live, Logic,..) may require a
complete restart.
Click inside the activation screen to browse – select your Rayblaster keyfile (Rayblaster.t2k)
2.2 Manual installation for PC
1. Close your host (Cubase, Sonar, Samplitude, Live, etc.)
2. Install the full version of the plugin. Note: the demo version can not be unlocked.
3. Copy 'Rayblaster.t2k' to the VST directory. Steinberg hosts often use C:\Program
files\Steinberg\VSTplugins as the default plugin path. You can also take a look at
your host's folder configuration.Note that the 'Rayblaster .t2k' keyfile should be
inside the same folder the Rayblaster.dll is.
4. Open your host program.
5. o a plugin rescan in the host if it does not list Rayblaster as plugin. etailed
instructions on how to do a plugin rescan are found in your host's manual.
6. Open Rayblaster. Now the normal user interface appears. If this is not the case
close your host and go back to step 3 as most likely you did not copy the keyfile to
the right place.
2.3 Manual installation for Mac
1. Close your host (Logic, igital Performer, Live, Cubase, etc.)
2. Install the full version of the plugin. Note: the demo version can not be unlocked.
3. Copy 'Rayblaster.t2k' to 'Library/Audio/Plug-ins'. The correct path for the file is:
'/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Rayblaster.t2k'.
4. Open the host.
5. o a plugin rescan in the host if it does not list Rayblaster as plugin. etailed
instructions on how to do a plugin rescans are found in your host's manual.
6. Open Rayblaster. Now the normal user interface appears. If this is not the case
close your host and go back to step 3 as most likely you did not copy the keyfile to
the right place.
3. Rayblaster Interface controls
Buttons
There are two types of toggle buttons in Rayblaster,
one where clicking a button cycles between all options
available, a good example of this are the LFO waveform
selectors where clicking on the Wave button will cycle
through the available LFO wavetypes.
The other type is the toggle on/off buttons, clicking on
these will either enable or disable the feature.
Examples of these are the BPM, rift and Sync buttons
in the Oscillator section.
Rotary Knobs
The rotary knob control increments a parameter value
linearly from a minimum threshold value to a maximum
threshold value.
To increase a knob’s setting value, turn it clockwise:
click-and-hold the knob with your mouse and then move
it up and/or to the right. To decrease, move down and/or
to the left, or anti-clockwise.
If you press the Shift key on your keyboard and then click-and-hold the left mouse button
on a knob, you will have fine control.
There are two type of value ranges for the rotary knobs, depending on the parameter the
knob is controlling. There is the unipolar knob – that goes from zero to a positive value or
the bipolar knob – that goes from a minus value to through zero and then to a positive
amount.
Bipolar values are useful for setting modulation amounts (which can be positive or
negative) or pan where zero is the center.
Context Menus
The small LC -style screens contain some parameters that are actually context menus.
Click on a parameter to show a context menu of options. Click on the desired setting to
select and close the menu. The display changes to show the current value.
In the example pictured above clicking on 'Load Wave1' will open the Waveform menu,
from here you can choose either a factory Wave to open, or load an external Wave from
disk.
Previous/Next
In Rayblaster, the left and right arrows in it’s patch browser (the orange section in the
middle) are used to select the previous and next patches (program) or category (bank)
Click the program back arrow (<) to select the previous patch in the current category, click
the program forward (>) arrow to select the next patch in the current category. The browser
display changes to shows the newly selected patch.
Click the bank back arrow (<) to select the previous patch category, click the bank forward
(>) arrow to select the next patch category. The browser display changes to show the
current selected patch category.
4. The Rayblaster User Interface
The Rayblaster GUI is split up in to various sections, these include:
1: Oscillator Section.
This is the area where you can select the waveform and adjust it's various parameters.
There are two oscillators to choose from.
2: Oscillator Controls.
These are the various controls (Formant, Tune, Sync,...) that can be used to manipulate
the oscillators.
3: Main Amplifier, Glide, rive, + Unison Controls.
Here you will find the main amp envelope for Rayblaster, along with the unison & spread,
pan, glide (Portamento) and drive controls.
4: Main Preset Window & Options.
Here you can find the various options for loading banks and presets for Rayblaster. Also,
you can save presets and export waveforms, copy oscillators, initialize Rayblaster, the
matrix or the arpeggiator/gate.
The help option brings up this manual, and you also have the option to visit the Tone2
website to purchase additional sounds for Rayblaster.
5: Arp/Gate, Effects, Setup and Modulation Matrix
Here you have access to the arpeggiator and trance gate for Rayblaster. The second tab
takes you into Rayblaster's powerful effects section. The next three tabs access any one
of the three Modulation Matrices available.
6: LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) Section
This section contains the controls for both of Rayblaster's LFOs. In here you set the
waveform type used for the LFO, the frequency the LFO runs at, synchronize it to the
host's tempo and adjust it's phase. The LFOs can be assigned from the mod. matrix.
7: Envelope Section.
Rayblaster comes complete with two additional A SR (Attack, ecay, Sustain, Release)
envelopes. Their structure and shape can be altered in this section, and they can be
assigned from the mod matrix.
8: Pitch Wheel & Mod Wheel.
Here you see a graphical representation of the Pitch and Mod Wheels you normally find on
a hardware synthesizer or MI I controller. They can be manipulated with your mouse.
Just click & hold to move them up and down, their parameters can be set in the mod.
matrix.
9 : Keyboard
This part of the interface has the keyboard display, which fully playable using a mouse.
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