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1. Additionally Osc 2 can be offset from Osc l in terms of overtones and Osc l can modulate the phase of Osc r Osc Separation controls the amount that the two signals are mixed before going through the effects This coupling decoupling can make a large difference when the Divide effect is used It can also be thought of as a pre effectS panning control When set to QO stereo processing of the synthesizer section is disabled at 514 the oscillators are panned hard left and right though they can be un panned with the global Stereo control The Alias slider is really a control for the base frequency of the oscillators The integer steps correspond to the harmonic series Detune gives you finer control but pitches the oscillators in opposite directions Inertia smooths out changes in the Alias slider and also in MIDI Pitch Bend and the Downsampler Rate The available waveforms range from standard RampUp RampDown Square Triangle Sine to interesting Mr Alias 2 has b voice polyphony with an optional Mono mode ENVELOPES There are three levels of curvature for the envelopes determined by the state of the P button When ons the curves have a more exponential shape Shift clicking the button gives you P mode Shift dragging the Decay or Release sliders makes an automatic percussive envelope Decay Release Attack amp Sustain QO and P curvature Shift click without dragging just sets Decay equal to Re2. IDI Learn o Clear CC Mapping clears the CC assignment for this control only o Set Min use the control s current value as the low value when the CC is at D o Set Max use the control s current value as the high value when the CC is at l1e o Reverse swaps the Min and Max values A check mark here Indicates that Min is higher than Max o Apply to Bank sets the CC Mapping for this control the same for all patches in the bank o Clear from Bank clears any CC Mapping for this control from all patches in the bank There are also some global CC Mapping options o Use CC Mapping just turns on or off CC Mappings without resetting the values When this is off the CC Map won t be saved in patch bank files o Clear All CC Mapping resets CC Map for the current patch o Apply All to Bank applies current CC Map to every patch o Save CC Map to File saves the CC Map to a MrAliasCCMap XML file CC mappings can be saved with the bank patch or separately as a MrAliasCCMap XML file Load by drag amp drop or from the Load button Pitch Bend Range when set to Oxa it is actually a very small pitch change 1 10 of a semitone PATCHES rf BANKS The default bank is loaded from the file Default MrAliasBank in the same directory as the plugin or if that does not exist it will look for MrAliase fxb Otherwise you get a bank of blank presets The patch bank formats are XML and can be edited in a text editor b
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4. ity will be expanded in future versions That s why the rest of this page is blank SIGNAL FLOW Synthesis Per Voice max 6 ct a All Voices ey PF Pp be gt j gt j gt l Audio Input CREDITS Includes patches by Felix Petrescu The limiter and a few other lines are from the MDA VST plugins copyright Paul Kellett JUCE is copyright Raw Material Software ltd Special thanks to all secret beta testers Waka X SOURCE CODE Mr Alias 2 is written in C using the JUCE framework The full source code is available at the Mr Alias 2 web site www thepiz org mraliase Mr Alias 2 is Copyright and Copywrong 2007 Insert Piz Here gt
5. lease When set to UO Attack Decay and Release are very fast and can cause clicks Resetting double clicking the sliders sets them to l for this reason The envelope is determined at the start of a note so changes won t affect notes that are already playing The only way to stop a note in the release phase is to send CC 123 All Notes Off MIDI Panic Release at 100 is extremely long about 45 seconds so watch out EFFECTS Downsampler Rate Reduces the effective sample rate by sample amp hold Lower values correspond to a lower sample rate Disabled when Downsampler Mix is set to D Divide Turns the signal into a square wave at a lower pitch Disabled when set to OD The Div Threshold is shared by the per voice divider and the post divider Pre Divider Env Amount applies the amplitude envelope to the signal going into the Divide effect Post Divide is applied to all voices at once and has a separate effects chain which can all be disabled by setting Post Divide to D M Factor Another method of turning the signal into a pulse square wave Disabled when set to D Sine Effect Uses the audio amplitude to control the pitch of a sine wave Sine Resolution determines how often the pitch is updated while Sine Frequency sets the overall range of possible pitches Disabled when Sine Mix is D Filter Choose from a steep lowpass with weird high resonance Low24 the lowpass bandpass notch highpass modes of a boring sta
6. t Ctrl click the Piz Logo to hide show the numbers O O O Reset button sets all controls to default values Clicking the Randomize button randomizes all controls The randomization amount is less on the lefts and more on the right of the button Ctrl click for a very small randomization Note that random settings will almost certainly sound terrible The Clip Indicator under the Main Volume knob lights up when the output is outside the 1 0 to 11 0 range The signal is not actually clipped within the plugin Mio CONTROL By default Mr Alias 2 responds on all MIDI channels You can change this with the little number above the Mono button While a MIDI note is being played the MIDI Indicator LED lights up Mr Alias 2 responds to Notes with velocity Sustain Pedal CC b4 All Notes Off CC 123 Pitch Benda and optionally Program Change Additionally any parameter can be controlled by any CC A single CC can control any number of parameters i within any range Right click on a control for the settings o The text box allows you to set the CC number directly Velocity Channel Pressure and Polyphonic Aftertouch can also be selected here 124 129 130 Set to l Unset to disable o MIDI Learn activates MIDI Learn for this control The next CC received will be used For sliders there will be a yellow highlight while it s waiting Any number of controls can be learned at once Middle click also activates M
7. te variable filter a formant filter or no filter The Cutoff knob sets the maximum which can then be scaled by the key follower filter envelope and MIDI velocity For the formant filter Cutoff controls the vowel U 0O A E I low to high Ring Modulation This is part of the filter in that the filtered Signal is modulated by the unfiltered signal Disabled when set to D or when the filter itself is disabled Clipper Mixes the original signal with a hard clipped signal Disabled when set to D Stereo Sets the overall amount of stereo separation At QO the left and right channels are mixed to mono Harshness Sets the cutoff frequency of a one pole low pass filter Disabled when set to 99 At QO you get decidedly pleasant non harsh Silence AUDIO INPUT Some hosts may have problems sending audio through an instrument plugin For VST only To force Mr Alias 2 to load as an effect put fx somewhere in the filename To completely disable the audio inputs put nofx in the filename When external audio is being processed the Audio Input LED lights up Running external audio through Mr Alias 2 will invariably make it sound like garbage For best results i set Input Gain to D Audio Input processing is completely disabled when no input is connected or when Input Gain is set to DO When Wet Dry is fully dry 99 no effects are processed but the input is passed directly to the output The Audio Input functional
8. ut remember that the parameter ranges are from 0 O L O0 rather than the values displayed on the GUI Drag amp drop or use the Load button to load a banks patch or CC map in the internal XML format MrAliasBank MrAliasPatch MrAliasCCMap as well as fxb fxp format Turn on Use ProgCh to have Mr Alias 2 respond to MIDI Program Change SNAPSHOTS MORPHING Two parameter snapshots called A and B can be saved This lets you experiment wildly with CC control for example and then instantly go back to certain good settings or to morph between two patches see below The Morph slider fades between the two snapshots note if you assign a CC to this slider that CC won t be able to control anything else Click S to save and R to recall either snapshot By default Snapshot A is always set to the last loaded patch This is signified by the highlighting of the S button This behavior can be toggled for either snapshot by shift or ctrl clicking the S button The snapshots and Morph position are saved with the bank In the right click menu of each control o Apply Value to A amp B set the control as constant between the two Snapshots using its current value OSCILLATORS There are two oscillators The second can be disabled to relieve CPU power by setting Osc Mix to 99 The octave of each oscillator can be independently set to extreme values or shift drag either octave control to change both by the same amount
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