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1. TDM plugin in the UltraTools family The SPEED plugin that is authorized by the iLok will run without restriction whereas other Wave Mechanics plug ins not autho rized will run in Demo Mode for a limited period of time Install SPEED Macintosh Exit from Pro Tools and any other applications that use the Digidesign DAE Insert the WaveM echanics Plug ins CD ROM into your com puter and double click the Wave Mechanics installer applica tion Click on the Continue button with the mouse when the initial splash screen appears Read the license agreement If you agree to these terms click the Accept button If you don t agree click Decline and the installation will be terminated Read the Read Me file for last minute updates and important information Click on the Continue button In the installer dialog box select either the UltraTools product non authorized plugins will run in demo mode or use the Custom Install option and select the SPEED product and any other plug ins you wish to install In the installer dialog box select the drive on which to install SPEED Select the same drive on which Pro Tools is installed In the installer dialogue box click on the Install button When authorizing any or all of the component plug ins of the UltraTools bundle the iLok USB key is used the older key disks are no longer used for authorization All Digidesign HD and current Mix and 001 systems ship with the iLo
2. a red lock icon When in the locked state selecting a new piece of audio within Pro Tools will no longer change the value of the modified length field Instead the percentage change field will change to reflect the relative length difference between the new original length field and the locked modified field value To unlock the modified field value simply click on the lock icon and it will turn white indicating that it is no longer locked Pitch Calculator Key Mode The pitch calculator Key mode is used to transpose music between specific keys To use this feature you must know the original key of your music and the key that you would like it to be Enter the original key in the original key field and the desired key in the modified key field The required amount of pitch change amount in cents will be displayed in the pitch changed field You may enter also new value into the pitch change field which will result in a new value for the modified key field SPEED will always compute the least amount of pitch change required to transpose to the new key which will always be within a half octave of pitch change 599 cents to 600 cents To change pitch by more than a half octave you must type in the desired amount of change into the change field Press preview to audition the key change and press process to write the change to disk Tuning Mode The Tuning mode is useful for converting a piece of music tuned to
3. one mono channel at a time If Mono Left Mode is selected and multiple audio channels have been selected each channel will be processed independently If Stereo Mode is selected then SPEED will process the channels pair wise maintaining stereo phase alignment between each channel pair to preserve stereo imaging Preview You can preview the effect of SPEED s processing of your audio selection without saving the change to disk With a sufficiently fast computer the preview will be in real time and will be identical to the processed result If your computer lacks sufficient horsepower you may hear short gaps in the audio upon preview This is normal and will not affect the quality of the audio when it is ultimately processed Higher settings of the tempo and pitch change parameters require more processing power and may affect the ability to perform real time previews Process Hitting the process button will cause SPEED to process the selec tion of audio and replace the selection with the processed audio This operation is non destructive and may be undone within Pro Tools by selecting undo from the edit menu Simple Control Panel Mock Select Control Selected Mock Display Select between Tempo and Dsplays at a glance what effect Length modes for the Speed the control knob will change Control knob Speed Control Pitch Control Tempo Aui gt Adjust tempo or length of e e Adjust pitch of the the selection of au
4. PEED can process polyphonic audio or even complete mixes without introducing glitches warbles flams and other distortions commonly produced by time compression and pitch change devices Because SPEED is designed to change the length of a selection of audio similarly to a sample rate conversion utility it can not be a real time process However for any modern computer CPU such as a G3 or G4 SPEED can time compress or time expand audio in preview mode without any wait giving it the utility and feel of a real time plug in System Requirements To use SPEED you must have a Digidesign Pro Tools system version 5 0 or later or other recording system that supports the Digidesign AudioSuite plug in standard running on a Macintosh computer with OS 9 1 or later Unlike earlier Wave Mechanics Pro Tools plug ins SPEED does not require TDM hardware This manual assumes that you are familiar with the Digidesign Pro Tools environment and AudioSuite plug ins If you are uncertain about how AudioSuite plug ins work within the Pro Tools environ ment please read the Digidesign documentation and spend some time getting comfortable with the basic Pro Tools system and the AudioSuite plug ins that come with it before using this package Installation The SPEED software comes on a UltraTools CD ROM and uses an iLok USB hardware key device for software authorization The UltraTools CD ROM contains software for every current Wave Mechanics Pro Tools
5. User Guide SPEED Audiosuite Version 1 2 Precision Tempo and Pitch Modification Created by Ken Bogdanowicz Robert Bristow J ohnson and Bob Belcher License Agreement By purchasing this package you are hereby granted the right to use this copy of this softw are subject to the following restrictions You may not copy or distribute any copies of this software or documentation with the exception of copies made for back up purposes We still retain all rights to this software meaning that by purchasing this soft ware you can use it but we still own the code algorithms designs copyrights patents and anything e se related to this software You agree not to reverse engineer this product You understand that this softw are may not be free of bugs or errors We ve done our best to make sure that the software is bug free but sometimes bugs happen We are not liable for any damage caused by this softw are whether it s trashed files or trashed recording sessions We don t expect this to happen but you can t be too careful Back up your data regularly IN ANY CASE OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT THAT YOU PAID FOR THIS SOFTWARE That said we want you to be happy with this software If you have a problem with this product tell us and we will try to correct the problem If we can t correct the problem and you choose to retum the product we will refund your money without giving you a hassle This manual and SPEED soft
6. clicking on their triangle control n Changing the mode does not change the amount of speed or pitch change but simply changes how the value is displayed The purpose of the calculators is to conveniently convert the speed tempo or length or pitch of a selection from one known speed or pitch to a new speed or pitch The calculators compute the required amount of speed and pitch change and if the pre view or process buttons are pressed applies that change to the selected audio It is also possible to type in the amount of change and view the result in the modified speed or modified pitch fields Speed Calculator Tempo M ode This mode calculates and converts the tempo measured in beats per minute or BPM of the selected audio The original BPM is read from Pro Tools MIDI tempo that is defined at the beginning of the selection This may be changed by entering a new value into this field If the selected audio has no tempo data defined None will be displayed Type in the modified BPM followed by return and the required percentage change is displayed Hit the preview or process buttons and this change will be applied to the audio NOTE If the MIDI tempo changes somewhere in the middle of the selection this change is not visible to SPEED To save confusion you might want to make sure the MIDI tempo is a constant BPM throughout the selection Also remember that SPEED cannot update the modified BPM values to the MIDI tempo data in Pro T
7. dio i selection of audio in units of cents semitones or as a percent 18335221535 X 0 costs Displayed Control Value Displays current amount of tempo modification Also allows direct entry from keyboard of a precise control amount The simple control panel has two knobs The knob on the left controls speed without affecting pitch and the knob on the right controls pitch without affecting speed Both controls have differ ent modes that can be changed by clicking on the small triangle control mn Changing the mode does not change the amount of speed or pitch change but simply changes how the value is displayed For example when the mode is changed from a Tempo of 80 to Length the knob and control display will change to 12596 producing the same effect on the audio In addition for setting precise amounts of tempo or pitch change the value can be entered directly by clicking on the displayed value and entering in a new value The control knob will move to the correct position to reflect this changed control value Speed Control Knob The speed knob has two modes Tempo and Length When the knob is in Tempo mode it controls the final tempo relative to the original audio Length mode is used to adjust the Length of processed audio relative to the original length In Tempo mode a setting of 100 percent will have no effect on the audio Increasing the tempo setting from 100 percent will produce a corresponding increase
8. f pitch change as 1 semitone In Percent mode the adjustment is given as a frequency ratio in percent where 100 percent produces no pitch change This is similar to the pitch ratio control of older hardware pitch change devices and can be useful for compensating for the pitch change produced by sample rate conversion or tape varispeed A fre quency ratio of 105 95 percent is equal to 1 semitone Graphical Control Panel Background Display of Selected Audio Aids in aligning speed and pitch graphs with visible features of the selected audio Preview at least once to obtain this background display Speed Graph white Displays change of speed varying in time applied to audio displayed in background r Currently Selected Graph Foint red The displayed speed or pitch and time values apply to the location of this point Pitch Graph blue Time Location of Currently Selected Point Displays pitch change varying in time applied to audio displayed in background Pitch Change at Currently Selected Point The Graphical Control Panel is a unique and powerful feature of SPEED allowing a time varying speed and pitch change to be produced The most obvious use of this is to add musical accelerando and decelerando effects to existing music tracks Beyond this simple use is a wide range of sound design and special effect possibilities There are two graphs to independently control speed white in color and pitch blue in color T
9. hallenge code A response that permanently authorizes your plug ins will be promptly returned f you have an iLok and the iLok license card for the plug ins you wish to authorize simply start up Pro Tools or the autho rizer application for that product Displayed is a window with two button options Authorize or Quit Click on the Authorize button to authorize Confirm that Use license card is checked and click on Next If the license card is not inserted into the iLok you will be prompted to insert a valid license card for the plug in purchased then click on Next and your plug in is authorized If the installation completed successfully SPEED should now appear in the AudioSuite menu next time you start Pro Tools The installation should have installed the following on your computer A Wave Mechanics folder located in the drive or folder you specified during installation containing a readme file and the user manual Acopy of the SPEED plug in located in your Plug Ins folder located within your DAEFolder which is located in your System Folder f you are upgrading the previous version of SPEED will be moved to the Removed Items folder within the Wave Mechanics folder Please take a moment to fill out the enclosed registration card Chapter 2 Using SPEED Basics Within Pro Tools to process a track with SPEED select the audio to be processed pull down the AudioSuite menu and select the SPEED plug
10. he speed and pitch graphs are overlaid against a background display of the selected audio waveform To view the background waveform you must preview the audio at least once from the Speed plug in This behavior is due to limitations of the AudioSuite plug in format There are multiple display modes accessible by clicking the small triangle controls 3 that affect how the speed or pitch values in the graphs are displayed Changing the display mode e g changing Tempo to Length will not change the effect but will change how the effect is displayed Both graphs are initially set to have no effect on speed or pitch Editing the graphs works very much like editing automation data in Pro Tools Clicking on an existing point shown as a tiny square will allow you to drag that point to a new location Clicking on a graph where there is no point will create a new point which can be dragged to a different location Option clicking on an existing point will delete that point unless it is either the left or right endpoints If one graph lies on top of the other at any point obscuring it from view and mouse clicks control clicking at that location is equivalent to clicking on the obscured graph possibly creating a point and moving that graph to the top view Shift clicking or cmd clicking points will limit the range of movement for the point to either vertical or horizontal respectively As a point is selected or moved around the speed or
11. in from the menu amp File Edit COOLA MIDI Movie Operations 1 Band EQ Il Shuffle Spot 4 Band EQ II Normalize gt Gain Reverse DC Offset Removal SPEED by Wave Mechanics p Time Compression Expansion Pitch Shift The SPEED Control Panels There are three control panels in SPEED Simple Graphical and Calculator Only one control panel is visible at a time and one can easily switch between control panels by clicking on the title of the desired panel The active control panel will have its title highlighted In addition to the selected control panel SPEED displays the standard AudioSuite control buttons and selectors some of which are described below in the context of this particular plug in Pro Tools AudioSuite Controls Standard controls for Stereo vs Mono processing preset selection and other options See Pro Tools documentation for more info Precision Tempa end Pitch ILLE Control Panel Select Choose between different methods of Tempo Piah r adjusting speed or pitch J g sp p Pitch Control Speed Control 1 Adjust pitch of the Adjust tempo or length of selection of audio in the selection of audio 03 3334343 Brewis units of cents SESSEPEPESSSIUEC RES pado semitones or as a percent Preview Button Listen to real time Process selected audio preview of the current and save results to disk Speed and pitch settings Mono Left Mode vs Stereo Mode SPEED can process more than
12. in tempo and decreasing the setting will reduce the tempo A Tempo setting of 200 percent Hint will twice as fast as the original and a setting of 50 percent will If the Speed control is be half as fast in the Tempo mode and When the mode is set to Length the effect will be just the the Pitch control is in opposite with higher settings increasing the length of the selec the percent mode and tion resulting in a slower tempo Smaller settings of Length will shorten the selection and will result in a faster tempo Like the Tempo mode a setting of 100 percent will produce no effect on the audio A setting of 200 percent will produce a segment twice is identical to that of as long as the original and a setting of 50 percent will produce varispeed a segment half as long The Tempo and Length modes are exact inverses of the other This means that a Tempo adjustment of 50 percent is identical to a Length adjustment of 200 percent and a Tempo adjustment of 200 percent is equal to a Length adjustment of 50 percent both are set to iden tical values the effect Pitch Control Knob The pitch knob has three modes Cents Semitones and pitch change or more precisely frequency ratio in Percent The semitone mode will shift pitch by musical scale steps 12 semitones per octave which is useful for changing the musical key of an audio region In cents mode a finer pitch adjustment is possible with 100 cents producing the same amount o
13. k key If you have purchased an upgrade to UltraTools or any of its component plug ins a license card is included in the package and you can proceed to authorize your component plug ins If you purchased UltraTools or any of its component plug ins for the first time you must contact Wave Mechanics to register your product and receive the authorization appropriate to your platform Any of the plug ins can run fully functionally for 30 days until your authorization is completed If you have a Mac with the USB the iLok is the means of authorization If your Digidesign system does not already have an iLok key one can be purchase from Wave Mechanics at a nominal cost When you register your purchase with Wave M echanics an iLok license card will be promptly sent to you to permanently authorize your plug ins Be sure to carefully remove the small license card 15mm x 25mm from the larger plastic card If you have an older pre USB Mac then the challenge and response codes are the appropriate means of authorization To obtain the challenge code while starting up Pro Tools or the authorizer application the challenge code will be displayed The challenge code can be copied and sent to Wave Mechanics by email supporto wavemechanics com if your purchase is already registered with Wave M echanics or along with your registration Be sure to include the product name and serial number as listed on your product registration card along with the c
14. length as the first region S hortening a Commercial Spot Ckay so you have the proverbial 35 second spot that you must squeeze into 30 seconds of air time Select your 35 second spot and select SPEED from the AudioSuite menu Click on the Calculator control panel and select the speed calculator mode Length in Seconds Both the original and modified length will show 35 seconds Click on the modified length value type in 30 and hit return Now it says 30 seconds Done Not quite Hit Preview to see how it sounds or hit Process to just write the change to disk Now reward yourself with a cup of coffee for all of your hard work 17 Chapter 4 Technical Support Wave M echanics offers free technical support for all registered users We love to hear from our users but if you are having problems first try to look in the manual for an answer Also check our web site for technical notes and product updates If you are still stumped please e mail us with the following info keep in mind that we won t be able to help you with questions about Pro Tools Apple Windows hardware or software or any other non Wave M echanics stuff The product version and serial number The version number of your Pro Tools system and type of hardware e g HD Mix classic PO or NuBus Your computer type and operating system version number e g System 9 1 etc A detailed description of the problem The e mail address for sup
15. one standard reference pitch such as A435 to another such as A440 This mode is identical to the Key mode and requires that you know the original tuning reference and a desired tuning reference Enter the original tuning reference into the original field and the desired tuning reference into the modified field The required amount of pitch change in cents is displayed in the change field Press preview to audition the tuning change and press process to write the change to disk Chapter 3 Doing Real Stuff with SPEED Matching Region Lengths This is useful for drum loops or similar to get the length of one region or selection of audio to match the length of another without changing pitch Assuming that the SPEED plug in is displayed first select the region that has the desired length Then go to the Calculator Control Panel and select one of the Length modes in the speed calculator Hit the Copy arrow to copy the original length into the modified length M ake sure that the modified length is locked with a red lock icon displayed Then select the target region that you want to change the length you may have to move the floating SPEED plug in window out of your way but don t close it Return to the SPEED plug in and note that the original length now shows the length of the currently selected region but the locked modified length remains the same as before Hit the Process button and the target region will have the same
16. ools You will need to manually do this within Pro Tools Length M ode There are actually two Length modes Length in Samples and Length in Seconds Both work identically except for the units of time displayed which is related by the Sample Rate parameter in the Pro Tools Hardware Setup dialog The original length field will always display the size of the currently selected piece of audio and cannot be changed without reselecting a new piece of audio in Pro Tools The modified length field will display the length of the audio after processing with the current length percentage setting To stretch or squeeze the selected audio to a specific length simply enter a new value into the modified length field be sure to type return The required percentage change will be displayed in the change field Hit the preview button to audition the processing or click the process button to write the change to disk The Copy Arrow Hint This Copy and Lock featureis useful for gt Length modifying thelength of original several audio regions FISAN amp lm so that they are all 6 1774197 E chamgs thesamelength This is useful when working The two Length modes have an additional feature called ia Treen cops ae length Copy shown as a curved arrow Clicking on the Copy hapter3 arrow will transfer the original length value to the modified length field and will put the modified length into the locked state indicated by
17. pitch change value of that currently selected point in terms of the selected mode is displayed below Also the time location in either seconds or samples of the currently selected point is displayed below at right The currently selected point is displayed as a red square dot To enter a precise pitch or speed value for the currently selected point click in the pitch or speed field and enter a new value using the keyboard Speed Graph white Tempo Mode The value displayed is the relative tempo of the modified audio in the area of the graph point It is an inverted version of the Length Mode graph BPM Mode The value displayed is the modified beats per minute relative to the MIDI tempo in BPM at the beginning of the selection or the original tempo entered in the calculator control panel This is also an inverted version of the Length Mode graph Note If the MIDI tempo changes somewhere in the middle of the selection this change is not visible to SPEED To save confusion you might want to make sure the MIDI tempo is a constant BPM throughout the selection Also remem ber that SPEED cannot update the modified BPM values to the MIDI tempo data in Pro Tools Length Mode The value displayed is the relative length of the modified audio in the area of the graph point It is an inverted version of the Tempo M ode graph Pitch Graph blue Cents Mode The value displayed is the change of pitch measured in cents o
18. port is support o wavemechanics com If you don t have access to e mail please fax the same info to fax 802 951 9799 If you don t have e mail or a fax you can call us at phone 802 951 9700 Finally if you are completely un wired you can write to us at Wave M echanics Inc P O Box 528 Burlington VT 05401 Notes Notes
19. r hundredths of a semitone of the modified audio in the area of the graph point Semitone Mode The value displayed is the change of pitch measured in semi tones In the semitone mode the pitch change amounts are quantized to the nearest semitone making it easy to create musical pitch alterations Percent Mode The value displayed is the frequency ratio of modified to original audio expressed as a percent As with the Simple Control Panel if the speed graph is set to Tempo M ode and the pitch graph is set to Percent Mode and the graphs lie exactly on top of one another the effect on the audio will be equivalent to varispeed Calculator Control Panel Mode Select Control Selected Mode Display Select between Tempo and Displays at a glance what effect Length modes for the Speed the calculator will change Calculator Speed Calculator Tempo Kay Adjust tempo or length of ELLE T Pitch Calculator the selection of audio EDot FA Adjust pitch of the fe selection of audio in 105 555555 x ana terms of key change or as percent change of reference pitch Displayed Calculated Change Displays current amount of tempo modification Similar to the Simple Control Panel the Calculator Panel has two calculators The calculator on the left controls speed without affecting pitch and the calculator on the right controls pitch without affecting speed Both calculators have different modes that can be changed by
20. w are opyright 2000 2002 W ave Mechanics Inc W ave Mechanics the Wave Mechanics logo and SPEED are trademarks of Wave Mechanics Inc Pro Tools is a registered trademark of Digidesign Inc W ave Mechanics Inc PO Box 528 Burlington VT 05402 ww w wavemechanics com e mail support w avemechanics com fax 802 951 9799 phone 802 951 9700 US toll free 877 COOL EFX Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started System Requirements iru b eier Installati n ss euere ede T SAPE dad edo Chapter 2 Using SPEED Simple Control Panel eris od 35x33 b Rex ERR RET verted Speed Control MD ues cus Vues HERR a ra t etes hs Pitch Control NOD ce mes ae EE ERE ERES Graphical Control Panel cc cece eee eee ens Speed Graph cesses dk abere bd er ee shes DERE Mer ERR eo 2 sions weds o Calculator Control Panel as uu erred ses er ies Speed Glaulator 2 2 2 Ra E EROR an Pitch CO EUlAEOF 205204 isbtveendsta nt Rb ee Chapter 3 Doing Real Stuff with SPEED Matching Region Lengths 12545 ei aeu E ER ERIS deed Ene d Shortening a Commercial Spot 0 cece eese Chapter 4 Technical Support sssaaa anaana aaa Chapter 1 Getting Started Intro SPEED is a software plug in for changing the tempo of music and other audio without changing its pitch Likewise SPEED can change pitch without changing the length of the audio or change both pitch and tempo independently Unlike conventional pitch shifters and time scalers S

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