Enigma User Manual
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1. effect or eliminated completely by stopping the modulation or reducing Notches to zero width and use only the reflection reverb section for ringing feedback such as the Spring Reverb factory preset There are many idiosyncracies about this processr that can only be covered by describing each control which we do later in this manual and then for you to take time to explore each of them About the processors Although originally developed during research for flanging and phasing type devices the Enigma processor combined several unique smaller processing sections that gave fresh sounds most of which were previously unheard of By using a special network that produced notches somewhat similar to phasers or flangers and a low fi reverb reflection feedback loop plus a modulator on the network some sounds were produced that were very reminiscent of complex feedback loops using reverbs very short delays and filter banks used in a classic electronic music studio Such studios had come from composers developments in the 1950 s and were literally patched together for every sound An excellent book on the subject is Joel Chadabe s Electric Sound The Past and Promise of Electronic Music see www emforg Such classic electronic music setups were extremely flexible but could also be a little dangerous in feedback and other ways And so it is also true with the Enigma and that s why we advise you to take time an2. how did they do that power rer Firstly all Waves processors have a central set of controls and functions called the WaveSystem This gives you real power use advantages not found in any other processors in the world whether hardware or software If you re not familiar with WaveSystem refer to the manual of WaveSystem so that you can take advantage of these amazing user interface features Once you learn them they are available in every Waves software processor E E Enigma can create notches in the signal somewhat as flangers and phasers do but with some added twists there is a reverb type processor a feedback loop an LFO filters in various places and some hard to describe interac tive controls sometimes they work very differently depending on the setup That s why we gave it the name Enigma You can think of it as a very complex phaser flanger with a reverb feedback network with complex filtering plus some modulation All of these are optional and of course this is what gives you so much flexibility New feature gt For many native platforms the Enigma can now be used with 88 2 96kHz sessions This is dependent on your platform application you are using and your hardware sound card Enigma Manual BPM 6 0 i HF tor on off Min freq Maxtreq ea 21357 Decay hime Delay P l Sits N S on off Fre sior a Ai cad a0 Enigma Enigma interface There are 2 parts o
3. on the Feedback to get gentle ringing For more decrease the Depth value for more ringing be cautious To change flavors alter the Notches controls Flangeverb 1 The name says it all A gentle effect for guitars but great for flutes and solo instruments as an alternative flanger delay device For a centered effect set Stereo to 50 and increase the Mix value Flangeverb 2 A cousin of the above Small stone 1 Good for guitars Set the Depth control to low values for much more intense effect Smallstone 2 Another interpretation of this classic effect Mootron A related emulation of the Biphase hardware with the characteristic whistling edge Increase the Mix control for that sound You can t get the inverse phasing of the Biphase use the MetaFlanger preset for that but you can get things that neither the Biphase nor the MetaFlanger will do in this arena of effect Increase the Decay time to maximum for even more of that sound Dub o matic Cheezy delay effect that works on anything even full mixes Guitarish British Named for an unnamed guitarist from the UK or at least from the UK record industry this is a bit of an old school classic rock sound or at least our memory of it Increase the Mix control for more edge but Pause the modulation for the best vintage effect If you set Stereo to zero there is a mostly unwanted cancellation effect that can be remedied by setting the Pre Delay
4. that s true even with a volume control Therefore if you don t hear any sound check carefully before turning up your monitors a lot This is sage advice Try this first The basic default setting for the Enigma allows a lot of experimentation It has feedback modulated notches nearly anything you click will make a difference in the sound so it s a good place to start If you play with Width you get either more feedback so you might then play with the feedback window or you get more sweeping so you might play with the notches It has a great little ambient sound plus a very nice stereoization effect on any sound whether high or low sustained instruments voices or percussion Working with the default setting same as Enigma 1 preset in the Load menu Adjust the Width control for more or less Feedback and less or more Notches Adjust the Modulation variables to process the range and speed you wish Set the Decay time and Delay to change the ringing character Adjust the filter settings in the Feedback section to shape the EQ of the ringing Carefully and slowly adjust the Depth and Stereo for stereoization effects Try the Wet button for stronger cancellation effects mono or mono phase The number of notches and their phase will change the basic flavor of the setup SuickTi Bea little careful with the Depth and Decay Time controls Enigma can produce extreme effects and there is a gre
5. Ei Enigma Manual Gain Output level plus peak reading meters Mix Wet dry control of balance between the processed and input signals Pre delay Delays the wet signal before mixing with the dry Wet Offers 3 modes Stereo Mono and Mono PhaseReverse e Stereo is the standard stereo output of the wet signal although some settings will not produce a stereo effect e Mono is simply summing the left and right wet signals e Mono PhaseReverse takes the left channel and reverses the phase then sums it with the right producting stronger notching and effects The Mono PhaseReverse mode will also eliminate any of the remaining original signal s M components from the wet signal Enigma Manual 9 Preset Descriptions and examples of use These presets are included in the Load menu For more information about the Load Save system see the WaveSystem manual Sometimes it is hard to know what control to adjust Therefore in this section each factory preset has some descriptions and many have bulleted suggestions of what to adjust to find new sounds within that preset To give a standard and separate Examples of Use chapter is not very practical for this type of processor so it has been assumed that you are wanting to experiment with strange sounds and will patch the Enigma into places we d never think of Therefore the examples are included in some of the preset descriptions Of course you can put it on any solo instr
6. Enigma Enigma Manual Chapter wicisciccs cnsctisscsces cndesecans scedecevases Quick Start 2 Chapter 2 0000000000000000000000 General Introduction 5 Chapter 3 0000000000000000000000 Controls and Interface 6 Chapter 4 Tempo Sync in V5 0 17 Enigma Manual 1 Chapter 1 Quick Start Well how can you have a quickstart guide to a mystery We ll try This entirely new idea processor really deserves some deeper study to fully explore the amazing sounds and outside the box processes it can provide If you want a quickstart then we have one quickwarning to give you be careful with the DEPTH control because under some circumstances if you make sudden changes in the value by dragging fast or typing in numbers can cause very loud signals It s not a bug but instead is a function of the very complex filter in the Enigma process ing network To make it stop doing this would be like deciding that a ball shouldn t be round because it keeps rolling away Just treat it like your main monitor volume carefully and slowly Just like any powerful tool you ll soon learn which controls you can move quickly on and which to be a little careful with What is the Enigma for Vocal or instrumental leads re mixing and extensive re processing sound design subtle ghosting of effects treatment of reverb sends and more but certainly not for purist audio This is a processor that will give you some
7. alue is excellent to use on a Reverb send of a lead guitar If it s too sparkly in the high end reduce the Feedback High Frequency xFactor control to a very low value below 0 50 to reduce the edginess Pause the modulator to emulate ringing PA systems Swirly vocodies Like singing thru multiple rubber hoses that keep changing their lengths This has a rather low level due to the extreme filtering and notching taking place you see that Depth is set to a high value Set the Wet switch back to stereo and it is like singing thru multiple rubber hoses that keep changing their lengths all while swinging them slowly around your head Even better if you set Stereo down to about 50 This is a good example where setting Stereo to less than the maximum value actually gives you a stronger stereo effect Set Stereo to 0 set Feedback phase to On and the level goes down even more but with even stronger effect Just watch your levels as you have to boost this quite a bit don t hit bypass with these very low level outputs Always rising A relative of Swirly vocodies but with stronger effect due to the Modulation range being smaller and the Modulation rate being higher For many inputs it has an effect of being continually rising up Very intense if you lower Width all the way to zero This will significantly increase level Enigma Manual 11 Flangelizer A basic flanger type setting without feedback For fun turn
8. at range of creative areas to explore But as with any processor that has complex feedback loops making slow adjustments is the best way to avoid sudden loud sounds Work from the factory presets to explore new corners Save new discoveries quickly because they may be very hard to find again Experiment with just the feedback loop Reverb and filters by stopping the modulation You can stop the Modulation in 2 ways the Pause button at the top right corner and also trapping the range by making the Minfreq and Maxfreq settings in the Modulation section have the same value Don t forget the mono and phase buttons They are excellent for stereo sources where you want a mono effect to be centered or want a stronger effect Give a bit of time to reading the remainder of this manual so we can share with you what we ve found out so far about this rather unique processor Enigma Manual Chapter 2 General introduction mix wet dry out oo o ad wet L gl predelay wet L phase mono J k Dy enigma aE processor RE Decay time 5 Enigma signal flow simplified You might notice that several controls are missing They are inside the enigma processor block which we cant show you as it is a secret However the upper window filter the LFO modulator Rotation Width and Notch controls are all contained there The enigma processor could be lessened in
9. ay gives a nice slap but the amount of repeating delays will be controlled by the Decay value Has some modulation which can be eliminated by moving Depth to 0 Freeze the modulation with a certain sound by using the Modulator pause button Play with the stereo and notch controls for different modulation flavors Guitarslapper 2 Another version but suggestive of a Van Halen esque scene Wahwahwah Not quite like a pedal but sometimes can sound very similar Note the low number of notches This emulates a 4 pole filter sound rather well and is most definitely a type of moving passband filter Try the sawtooth down waveforms on guitars Play with the Minfreq and Maxfreq for more vintage sounds Enigma Manual Glass echoes Note there is no modulation on this preset and the Minfreq and Maxfreq controls are close together giving a fixed resonance or formant type effect Adjust the Delay time and the pre delay to control timing of the reflections to taste Metal Ringer perc Really best used with percussion sources especially electronic drums or loops Play with the Decay time from 2 to 25 To tune the ring change the Decay time in small values and also change the Width in small steps with values too high the ring doesn t sustain very long For a cool stereo detune move the Stereo value to 1 or 2 Bells perc Start with percussion sources but it s better with non percussion inputs imho such as r
10. d slowly adjust the controls Enigma Manual Chapter 3 Controls and Interface There are 4 major processing control blocks Notch the enigma processor with filtering option Modulator which modulates only the notch processor Feedback with filtering option Global Gain Mix Wet Predelay onioff Fre s Factor on off 0 Gs kea olf Notch section Notches Choose from 2 to 12 1 to 6 pairs of notches frequency sweeps Plus half 1 2 button What it does is add half a pair of notches at the high end Easier to see on the graph than to explain Simply adds another zig at the end of the zigzags and of course changes the flavor Depth Controls the Depth of the notches in the Enigma processor When set to zero the Feedback section is the main area of control although not entirely The Phase button reverses the polarity up down orientation of the notches Stereo Controls both stereo and tonal aspects of the processor Under some conditions full value of 100 will not have the biggest stereo image for reasons too complex to explain Sometimes a value of 50 will give the widest stereo imaging Easy to check if you put Mix to 100 for full wet output Gi Enigma Manual __Modulation section Modulation n waveform Modulation section On off Convenient way to 1 stop that annoying modulation 2 freeze the notches at a certain color 3 automate the mo
11. dulator Note that at present there is no way to start the modulation at the same point every time the plugin is used and this may be revised in a future version Waveform Select from the waveforms for the modulator Includes sawtooth up sawtooth down triangle sine square 50 pulse Rate BPM Control modulation in seconds or beats per minute MinFreq MaxFreq Sets the boundaries of the frequency range to be swept Enigma Manual PFeedback e Decay tinme Delay Density E N rs a etn onvotf req xfactor on off freq xfactor Feedback section Decay time It may be easier to think of this as a feedback control more than a decay time although under certain settings it does sound more like decay time of a reverb With longer delay values it is clearly more of a feedback control causing repeating delays In combination with the Density control the spacing and left right orientation of the delays will change Feedback on off and phase button Well you can turn it on and off and you can reverse the phase It wont make espresso quite yet but we keep hoping No mystery here Density As ina reverb processor controls the density and stereo spread of the individual delays When Density is greater than zero the delay times for the Left and Right channels will be different when zero they will be the same therefore mono ___Global section Bain DUT BUT bali Pre Delay wer Global section
12. f the Enigma separated into the upper and lower window sections On top is the Notch section and the lower part is the the Feedback section In the Notch section you ll see the moving notch line which is modulated by the little control section in the right top corner On the left edge are controls for the notches themselves the previously mentioned Depth control adjust slowly which affects the depth of the notches and the Stereo control The Notch section also includes a filtering function which operates very much like the filter options in the lower window described in the next paragraph After the notch section the signal goes to the Feedback section lower part of the window which is not a traditional delay line or reverb but more of an echo reflection generator It intentionally has a rough edged sound so that you may get individual echos and the like as opposed to a smooth reverb structure The controls are in the lower left corner including Delay Decay Time Phase and Density Within the Feedback block is another independent filter window on the bottom which sends signal back to the input of the notch section again Enigma Manual In the bottom right corner are output controls with Gain Mix and Wet Predelay controls plus a simple and flexible button for making the wet signal 1 stereo 2 mono or 3 mono with reversed phase on one channel It is possible to have no output at all with some settings of these buttons but
13. ially perform as it did in V4 with all of its parameters controlled internally In addition to the newly added Sync button a new multiplier control has also been added just above the Rate and BPM controls This new control acts as a multiplier to the modulation rate value in the Rate control It represents the number of cycles per beat This is true whether Rate is set internally or controlled externally by the host s tempo The actual rate of the modulation is the value of Rate multiplied by the value set in the multiplier control Rate of Modulation Rate x Multiplier Please note that when the Sync button is in Auto mode the Rate and BPM controls are disabled and their values are locked to the tempo of the host application For instance if the host s tempo is 120 BPM then Enigma s BPM control will show the value of 120 and Rate will be 2 00 2 beats per second In sync mode changing the tempo value in the host application will cause the same change in the plug in s BPM parameter What makes this plug in sound so good is truly a mystery wrapped in an enigma Enjoy the new Waves Enigma V5 0
14. ngly detuned effect increase the Stereo value in very small increments try the range from 2 to 15 For fixed pitch set the Minfreq and Maxfreq to the same values Lower but equal values will give nice bass ringing with the buzz Higher values will give sustained buzz and no lows Enigma Manual Modu chimes perc Very low level output but it CAN have a huge output so the Gain setting is intentionally very low Be cautious Makes very spacey and ethereal sounds With slow moving melody inputs this produces pure ringing with slight pitch shifting that is similar to bowed chimes being lowered and raised into buckets of water N harmonic swept rezonance perc Pure effect Mix is 100 wet The very low values don t look like much in the modulation section but that s where a lot of sounds are yet to be discovered in the corners of this processor Produces ringing harmonics that aren t related very much to the input source but instead to the tuned circuit that the Enigma is itself Very interesting on single pitch sources such as trumpets The only thing similar to it in recollection were funky spring reverbs with feedback loops and classic faux flangers and Eqs inserted into the loop Increase Density for a stereo effect Wobbly dirt One of the more obscuring distortion effects that still leaves the source recognizable Set the Decay time to zero for a sound that resembles the worst flutter effect imaginable plu
15. ock guitars This gives very strange scraping metal sounds similar to parts of Xenakis early tape pieces or as the name implies some type of Bells Pure effect Play with Density Stereo and Notches to get different pitches Set Stereo and Density to very low values near zero for best light detuned bell effects Freeze the pitches by using the Pause button or set the Minfreq and Maxfreq buttons to the same value Wind chimes perc Cousin to Bells Different inputs cause startlingly different outputs Same advice as above bullet points for Bells but with one more interesting aspect The square wave modulator controls whether the Minfreq or Maxfreq is control of the lower pitched main bell sound Therefore use the Pause control to stick the square wave so that the Minfreq is controlling the tuning the Maxfreq will not change the sound Much easier to tune The more you play with this the more likely anyone in the room or building is likely to leave Panning trails perc Best with percussion inputs especially hiphop electronic sources This one may clip with high level inputs or pure tones near the resonance points of the setting High level of Decay Feedback and very slight pitch shifting produces intense ringing The very slight offsets in Stereo and Width produce the complex layering of panning For more ringing set Depth to 0 or 1 higher values of Depth have more pitch change and less ringing For increasi
16. s something else you didn t imagine Use on drums or vocals to mix into the background or as a reverb send or for double compression mix it with the original effect Mushroom therapy Mushroom soup can be great for recovering from very bad trade shows or extremely loud concerts This preset emulates both the trade shows and the concerts plus food poisoning at the same time Try with Mix set to a higher value but on the reverb send HallucinoSpread Cream of mushroom therapy soup Very smooth and blended This one is excellent for keyboards especially with lower Mix settings Enigma Manual Enigma Tempo Sync in V5 0 In version 5 0 there s a new element to the sonic mystery wrapped inside Enigma sync to host tempo This new functionality enables Enigma to lock to the host application s tempo and tie the relevant controls to that externally controlled tempo Modulation Syne Modulation Sync Lu gt Auto Pn gt Mans vavetorm waveform ese ama 7 ars Dat L pp Rate 1 BPM Rate 1 BPM Minfreg Jax treg Minfreg Maxtreq A new control labeled Sync has been added at the right top of the modulation section and it has two modes Auto and Manual In Auto mode Enigma will be synced to the host s tempo and any changes made to the host s tempo will affect the plug in s modulation rate in real time In Manual mode the plug in will not be in sync with the host s tempo and will essent
17. to 15ms the same as the Decay time Then it really rocks Somehow this setting makes tracks sound like they are at loud volumes even when they are not which is a good thing Enigma Manual Spring Reverb mono The only thing this spring reverb doesn t do is make a huge barking noise if you kick your computer If you are not a guitarist with a spring reverb or never had a Kustom PA system you might not know what is being discussed here so believe us when we say you re lucky True to the original that it is imitating there s not many varations built into this preset However if you want to get some sweeping action you ll need to move the Minfreq and Maxfreq controls to different values since they are equal then the Modulator is jammed at a certain resonance and edge Spring Reverb stereo The same as the mono preset but with twice the classic edgy i e irritating nature of spring reverbs Not really very uncorrelated stereo reverb either You can really push this more by turning the Feedback filters off Another Cheap Reverb These days you can really never have enough cheap reverbs Ideal for making your clean drum loops dirty or for the masters of remix who need something different Includes shifting and sweeping that the Spring Reverb settings do not LR echo Another dub type effect but with a stereoization bonus Play with the Density control for differing textures Guitarslapper 1 Long predel
18. uments but the adventurous will use it on subgroups resampling elements and maybe even contact microphones hooked to diesel engines etc Open Preset File Factory Presets Enigma 1 reset Raspberry sparkle Swirly vocodies Always rising Spring Reverb mono Spring Reverb stereo Mushroom therapy HallucinoSpread Panning trails Nonharmonic swept resonances Modu chimes Flangeverb 1 Flangeverb 2 Smallstone slow Another Cheap Reverb Mootron Dub o matic Guitarish British LR echo Metal Ringer Wobbly dirt Bells Wind chimes Enigma factory preset list in Load menu 10 Enigma Manual Enigma Factory presets and suggested uses tweaks Enigma 1 This one has everything easily available for your experimenting touch Stereoization modulation some delays and some notch sweeping all at once For more Feedback reduce Depth for more Sweeping increase Depth Turn off the Feedback section completely for very distinctive phaselizer actions that have some unique properties Stereo is set to 50 and this gives a unique phasing that disappears if you listen in mono but it s definitely there in stereo or if you monitor only one of the channels Turn off the Low Freq filter in the Notch section for stronger effect and put Width up to a high value above 100 Raspberry sparkle Certainly a weird edge suitable for lead instruments Great for bass with a lower Mix value and with a high Mix v
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