Fate Compressor Manual
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1. COMPRESSOR 4 ACUSTICA AUDIO AE J FRA KANE TDAH sq Saba Fate Compressor User Manual 1 Introduction Welcome and thank you for purchasing one of the most innovative libraries available for Nebula The Fate Compressor We hope our software will help to make your mixes sound more pleasant unique and analog If you have any trouble with our software please do not hesitate to contact us support analoginthebox com We will be glad to help 2 System requirements In order to use our software you need at least An Intel or AMD CPU based PC An Intel CPU based Mac 70MB free disk space Up to 80MB free Ram per instance Nebula3Pro with installed commercial license We highly recommend using a Dual Core or better CPU so that you will be able to run a lot of Fate Compressor instances simultaneously Our impressive sounding compressor is intended for modern powerful DAWs and has a relatively high system usage If you require the Fate Compressor to cause less CPU usage please contact our customer support Certain settings could reduce the system usage Fate Compressor User Manual 3a Installation PC The installation is fairly straightforward Start the installer and read the End User License Agreement EULA carefully before you agree and proceed You need to choose 2 different paths The first one is your nebulatemprepository directory where your programs and vectors will2. and click the authorize button for Fate Compressor Upload your challenge file and wait until your authorization file has been created Close the window click on the download AUT button and download your authorization file FATECOMP AUT Copy the file to your nebulatemprepository folder where the challenge file is located You have successfully authorized Fate Compressor The nebulatemprepository folder location can vary for PC users For Mac users it is usually Library Audio Presets AcusticaAudio Nebula3 PC users can download and use a license installer instead of copying the authorization file manually Fate Compressor User Manual 5 About Fate Compressor Our Fate Compressor is inspired by one of the world s most famous compressor The Neve 2254 Designed in the late 1960s this unit is still highly sought after Once you experienced its unique sonic characteristics you cannot get it out of your mind We are proud to make this classic fat and round tone now available in your DAW Enjoy the sound of the 1272 class A circuit as used in 1970s Neve consoles as well and let it thicken up your track 6 The sampling process In accordance with the analoginthebox com philosophy we used only top notch equipment to create this Nebula library Prism Sound AD DA converters and Vovox cables are just the tip of the iceberg Each recorded test tone and the final samples as well hav
3. be copied to The second is the directory where this manual and the uninstaller will be saved Our installer will automatically detect the correct path of your nebulatemprepository as well as your standard Program Files directory If for any reason this does not happen please be sure that you manually select the correct folders In the next step Start Menu shortcuts will be created If you wish to skip this step just check the Do not create shortcuts button in the lower left corner Finally click on the Install button and the installer will do the rest Please be patient as this process could take a few minutes 3b Installation Mac Open mount the disk image Run the included installer package Please read the End User License Agreement EULA carefully before you agree and proceed Enter your administrator password when asked for and start the installation Optional Copy the manual to your hard disk Fate Compressor User Manual 4 Authorization Before you can start using Fate Compressor you will need to authorize the library in a few simple steps Open Nebula in your DAW Load a preset that is included in the Fate Compressor library Loading this program will fail Nebula will load its internal init program instead and create a challenge file FATECOMP SER in your nebulatemprepository folder Log in to the analoginthebox com website navigate to My Account
4. e been deeply analyzed and processed until we were sure to provide you a Nebula library that sets new standards in software compression But regardless of how accurate a Nebula sampling session can be Fate Compressor is not intended as a perfect emulation of the original hardware It is a compressor in and of itself providing the famous sonic flavour of the original hardware which makes it sound so huge Fate Compressor User Manual 7 Program list Fate Compressor consists of 16 programs FateLimit 44 FateLimit 96 coming soon FatePre Cmp 44 FatePre Cmp 96 coming soon FatePre NoCmp 44 FatePre NoCmp 96 coming soon FateCmp 1 5 1 44 FateCmp 1 5 1 96 coming soon FateCmp 2 1 44 FateCmp 2 1 96 coming soon FateCmp 3 1 44 FateCmp 3 1 96 coming soon FateCmp 4 1 44 FateCmp 4 1 96 coming soon FateCmp 6 1 44 FateCmp 6 1 96 coming soon The programs are fully organized and for easiest use in Nebula Click on COM compressors on the Nebula LIST page and then on FAT to see all programs 8 Program description FatePre Cmp 44 96 Limiter bypassed Compressor engaged Attack Not available Release Not available 5 kernels H2 H5 reserved for harmonic distortion This program is less intended to emulate the 2254 s original compression behaviour but to provide you a stunningly smooth and beautiful sounding tone shaper Remember Different from later compressors the 2254 is a 1272 line summing amp w
5. ith two sidechains controlling a diode bridge VCA You can expect that big Neve sound here It sounds best if you use the input control of Nebula to dial a very small amount of compression Going deeper into compression could sound interesting but will be far from the hardware 96KHz version scheduled for the first update Fate Compressor User Manual FatePre NoCmp 44 96 Same as above but no compression 96KHz version scheduled for the first update FateLimit 44 96 Limiter engaged Compressor bypassed Attack Fixed at 5ms Release 100ms 200ms 800ms Ratio 100 1 Gain reduction Up to 13 dB 4 kernels H2 H4 reserved for harmonic distortion 96KHz version scheduled for the first update FateCmp 1 5 1 44 96 Limiter bypassed Compressor engaged Attack Fixed at 5ms Release 400ms 800ms 1 5s Ratio 1 5 1 Gain reduction Up to 12 dB 4 kernels H2 H4 reserved for harmonic distortion 96KHz version scheduled for the first update FateCmp 2 1 44 96 Limiter bypassed Compressor engaged Attack Fixed at 5ms Release 400ms 800ms 1 5s Ratio 2 1 Gain reduction Up to 14 5 dB 4 kernels H2 H4 reserved for harmonic distortion 96KHz version scheduled for the first update FateCmp 3 1 44 96 Limiter bypassed Compressor engaged Attack Fixed at 5ms Release 400ms 800ms 1 5s Ratio 3 1 Gain reduction Up to 17 7 dB 4 kernels H2 H4 reserved for harmonic distortion 96KH
6. le but it needs some improvements in the Nebula engine Fate Compressor User Manual 10 Closing words Do we have a perfect emulation of an analog compressor now The answer is Yes and no No because as far as time constants are concerned Fate Compressor could be different to the real hardware for certain sources settings Yes because finally a software compressor arrived that sounds like real analog hardware Fat and 3D not harsh flat and 2D No fake harmonics noise or other useless analog emulations to reproduce the lovely flavour of the good old 2254 Please have in mind that this is an initial release Fate Compressor will be improved step by step but continuously Please do not share this library and if you like it Recommend it to others Thank you very much for your support
7. z version scheduled for the first update Fate Compressor User Manual FateCmp 4 1 44 96 Limiter bypassed Compressor engaged Attack Fixed at 5ms Release 400ms 800ms 1 5s Ratio 4 1 Gain reduction Up to 20 dB 4 kernels H2 H4 reserved for harmonic distortion 96KHz version scheduled for the first update FateCmp 6 1 44 96 Limiter bypassed Compressor engaged Attack Fixed at 5ms Release 400ms 800ms 1 5s Ratio 6 1 Gain reduction Up to 23 dB 4 kernels H2 H4 reserved for harmonic distortion 96KHz version scheduled for the first update 9 Known issues At the current state of Nebula s compressor support we have to compromise on some issues that will be solved in scheduled updates The release control is not set to switchmode This opens up the possibility to select times that are not available on the original hardware We recommend using only 400ms 800ms 1 5s for the compressor and 100ms 200ms 800ms for the limiter You might get interesting results from other values but they are not officially supported As a consequence of how compression is implemented in Nebula you cannot achieve an infinite amount gain reduction Read chapter 7 for maximum values Once you exceed that limit you will not receive any compression but a simple gain reduction The only officially supported sample rate is 44 1 KHz We will provide an update including native 96 KHz versions as soon as possib
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