audio poison stagger 1.0 user manual
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1. STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL WHAT IS STAGGER Stagger is a multi effect that includes different orders and structures for all of the common filter types LP HP BP and BS As well some of them have been fused together with various distortions and modulation techniques to truly bring out the monster in your track With the filter modulation hybrids you can even make your sounds talk or you can take it a step further by adding one of several of Stagger s uniquely designed formant filters and or additional distortions to really bring out the beast With the filters set a side you also get several delay based effects that we have deemed appropriate for modulation which go hand in hand with some of the military style modulation techniques taken from World War Il TABLE OF CONTENTS i FEATURES il GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE LAYOUT ili EFFECT SETTINGS 1 CONTINUOUS LFO 2 ROUTING DESTINATION 3 ENVELOPE DESTINATION 4 DYNAMIC PARAMETERS iv ENVELOPE SETTINGS v LOW FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS WAVEFORM SELECTION FREQUENCY SNAPPING PHASE FREQUENCY l DUTY CYCLE vi STEP SEQUENCER 1 PROGRAMMING 2 COPYING PASTING PATTERNS AND LAYERS vii LIST OF FILTER EFFECT WITH DESCRIPTIONS viii AUTHORIZATION ix SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS x CONTACT INFORMATION xi LEGAL INFORMATION 1 THIRD PARTY LICENSES TRADEMARKS COPYRIGHT NOTICES 2 END USER AGREEMENT 3 COPYRIGHT NOTICE STAGGER FEATURES 1 Filters All Have Multiple Design Types and Orders Low2. 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 9 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL BOOST C LIBRARY Boost Software License Version 1 0 August 17th 2003 Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person or organization obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by this license the Software to use reproduce display distribute execute and transmit the Software and to prepare derivative works of the Software and to permit third parties to whom the Software is furnished to do so all subject to the following The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement including the above license grant this restriction and the following disclaimer must be included in all copies of the Software in whole or in part and all derivative works of the Software unless such copies or derivative works are solely in the form of machine executable object code generated by a source language processor THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS ORIMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE TITLE AND NON INFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENTSHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLEFOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHERDEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE Eigen C Library Eigen is license
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4. up automatically into a web browser or you can enter the URL into your browser manually http www audiopoison com challenge Copyright 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 7 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL Step 3 After submitting the form presented at the above URL you will be provided with a response code in which you can either copy and paste directly from the website or download as a file and import into plugin The response code can be pasted into the plugin via the text box located right next to where you retrieved the challenge code from The response code will appear as follows Your response code is SRdw92YzNuzByDDacziHuddic4qe 1 TwiINREZsY zSN goN9ZCAa5 WgELIS7bGA8AEKROP3fuCX Wt5T heeScF F18DL XSKbpVyWcWth5 5SnjJhokmhisyYJ2e 53s2N1 boB2bG4xhhyKiDXD7kF SRqbAVCKEB2 C3YZ5FTHrG4 Copy and paste the above code into the product s authorization box Additionally there will be a Save As File button located right underneath the above response code text box which will allow you to save the response code as a file which you will be able to import via the plugin s graphical user interface from the same area that you created the challenge code from This can make it easier if you are authorizing the plugin on an offline computer If you are unsure what your serial number is or experience any kind of technical issue please do not hesitate to create a support ticket Copyright 2011 2013 Audio Poison All
5. ILITY TO DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES THIS DISCLAIMER SHALL BE EFFECTIVE TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED AP CANNOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR DAMAGE TO ANY PERSON S THAT SUFFER FROM Copyright 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 12 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL EPILEPTIC SEIZURES PSYCHOLOGICAL ABNORMALITIES OR ANY KIND OF PSYCHIATRIC CONDITION WHERE SYMPTOMS MAY BE TRIGGERED THROUGH AUDIO STIMULI AND OR ANY OTHER KIND OF PERCEPTUAL MEDIUM PROVIDED BY AP THROUGH PRODUCT AND OR SERVICE LIMITATION OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES Your remedy for a breach of this Agreement or of any warranty included in this Agreement is the correction or replacement of the Software Product Selection of whether to correct or replace shall be solely at the discretion of AP AP reserves the right to substitute a functionally equivalent copy of the Software Product as a replacement If AP is unable to provide a replacement or substitute Software Product or corrections to the Software Product your sole alternate remedy shall be a refund of the purchase price for the Software Product exclusive of any costs for shipping and handling Any claim must be made within the applicable warranty period All warranties cover only defects arising under normal use and do not include malfunctions or failure resulting from misuse abuse neglect alteration problems with electrical power acts of nature unusual temperatures or humidity improper installation or damage dete
6. Pass High Pass Band Pass Notch and Formant Filter Type s 2 RF style modulation which includes FM PM AM AM DSB and AM SSB as well as wave shaping algorithms for several different kinds of distortion ORO Copyright 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 1 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL 3 Various Filter Distortion Filter Modulator Filter Delay Combination s 4 Intelligent Routing Parallel Series Pairs That Can Be Grouped 5 Automatic Mixing w Perceptual Weighting to prevent layer based attenuation standard summation averaging 6 Step Sequencer Designed Entirely With Usability in Mind 7 16 Patterns and 4 Layers Pattern 8 Variable Pattern Speeds 1 2 1 24T 1 4 1 44T 1 8 9 Copy Paste Functionality For Layer lt gt Pattern Configurations 10 Additional Effects Tremolo Stereo Pan Vibrato Doubler Flanger Slapback Echo Echo etc EFFECT SETTINGS HPF AMIES 7 Q e Fee Kat ae A Layering Parallel Envelope Freq Stagger contains over 50 filters and effects which can be configured for each kernel CONTINUOUS LFO Enabling the continuous LFO check box will prevent the LFO position from resetting upon transitioning to a new effect kernel from within the step sequencer By default the LFO resets the phase position to zero causing it to start over each time it is triggered EFFECT ROUTING Stagger supports both series and parallel effect routing In addition the
7. Rights Reserved Page 8 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL Finally if you are not sure what your serial number is you can retrieve any information and or downloads relating to your purchase by either emailing support at audiopoison com or by logging into your account http www audiopoison com account SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS WINDOWS PC VST 32 bit and soon to be 64 bit support 64 bit should be ready for RTM MAC OSX VST AU 32 bit and 64 bit support RTAS AAX versions will be released soon after the RTM version of Stagger TDM and HDX versions will be available at a time TBA due several minor set backs to the development of Stagger this past year CONTACT INFORMATION E mail support audiopoison com Web http Awww audiopoison com contact End User Licensing Agreement http www audiopoison com legal eula html Privacy Statement http www audiopoison com legal privacy html Audio Poison Support Portal http support audiopoison com KVR Audio Hosted Forum http www kvraudio com forum viewforum php f 220 THIRD PARTY LICENSES TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHT NOTICES VST Plugin Interface Technology by Steinberg VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH This program is compatible with Pro Tools an Avid product pro Tools and Avid are registered trademarks of Avid a division of Avid Technology Inc The Audio Units logo is a trademark of Apple Inc registered in the U S and other countries Copyright
8. clear the current pattern of the current layer if you need to start over for whatever reason The copy button will present you with a drop down list allowing you to either copy the active layer currently being displayed for the current pattern or all layers in the current pattern After the layer s have been copied the Copy button will be replaced with a Paste button where you can paste the copied layer s onto any of the 16 patterns available to you Copyright 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 5 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL LIST OF FILTERS AND EFFECTS TREMELO Modulatable velocity STEREO PAN Modulatable stereo panning LPF 12dB 2nd order low pass filter with a 12dB octave roll off LPF 24dB 4th order low pass filter with a 24dB octave roll off LPF SVF State variable low pass filter with a 12dB octave roll off LPF FUZZ 2nd order low pass filter with a fuzz style distortion LPF GRUNGE 2nd order low pass filter with wave shaping distortion LPF DOUBLER 2nd order low pass filter with modulating delay line LPF SLAPBACK 2nd order low pass filter with a kind of slapback echo LPF COMB 2nd order low pass filter combined with a modulating comb delay LPF COLOR 2nd order high pass with post comb filtering all pass diffusion for colorization HPF 12dB 2nd order high pass filter with a 12dB octave roll off HPF 24dB 4th order high pass filter with a 24dB octave roll off HPF SVF State variable high pass f
9. d Square waves In addition Stagger is also equipped with 8 custom waveforms which can be useful for further shaping of your overall sound try using them in combination with their respective Envelopes FREQUENCY PHASE AND DUTY CYCLE CONTROLS Each low frequency oscillator has a bandwidth of 20 Hz starting at nil You can control the phase for each of these oscillations with a selectivity of 360 degrees Likewise increasing the phase will cause the waveform in the preview box to move to the left as the angle increases for time at Os Additionally decreasing the phase will cause the waveform to move in the opposite direction Several of the wave types allow you to control the duty cycle These include both the saw waves the square wave and the custom wave A 50 duty cycle will mean that the square wave is high for half of the entire 360 degrees of the wave cycle Analogically speaking if you were to cut the waveform in half at the 180 degree phase angle then increasing and decreasing the duty cycle above and below 50 will cause the angle originally at the 180 degree phase position to move forward and back while stretching the two half cycles in which you made from cutting the waveform in half analogically FREQUENCY SNAPPING You have the ability to control the interval of the frequency control by enabling the check box next to the Snap Freq label As for the intervals you can control the frequency interval Copyrig
10. d primarily under the MPL2 license Stagger only incorporates the MPL2 licensed section s http Awww mozilla org MPL 2 0 http www mozilla org MPL 2 0 FAQ html STAGGER END USER LICENSING AGREEMENT Any AUDIO POISON title the Software Product and accompanying documentation is licensed and not sold This Software Product is protected by copyright laws and treaties as well as laws and treaties related to other forms of intellectual property AUDIO POISON or its subsidiaries affiliates and suppliers collectively AP own intellectual property rights in the Software Product The Licensee s you or your license to download use copy or change the Software Product is subject to these rights and to all the terms and conditions of this End User License Agreement Agreement Copyright 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 10 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL ACCEPTANCE YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT BY SELECTING THE ACCEPT OPTION AND DOWNLOADING THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT OR BY INSTALLING USING OR COPYING THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT YOU MUST AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT BEFORE YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT YOU MUST SELECT DECLINE AND YOU MUST NOT INSTALL USE OR COPY THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT LICENSE GRANT This Agreement entitles you to install and use one copy of the Software Product In ad
11. dition you may make one archival copy of the Software Product The archival copy must be on a storage medium other than a hard drive and may only be used for the reinstallation of the Software Product This Agreement does not permit the installation or use of multiple copies of the Software Product or the installation of the Software Product on more than one computer at any given time on a system that allows shared used of applications on a multi user network or on any configuration or system of computers that allows multiple users Multiple copy use or installation is only allowed if you obtain an appropriate licensing agreement for each user and each copy of the Software Product RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER Without first obtaining the express written consent of AP you may not assign your rights and obligations under this Agreement or redistribute encumber sell rent lease sublicense or otherwise transfer your rights to the Software Product RESTRICTIONS ON USE You may not use copy or install the Software Product on any system with more than one computer or permit the use copying or installation of the Software Product by more than one user or on more than one computer If you hold multiple validly licensed copies you may not use copy or install the Software Product on any system with more than the number of computers permitted by license or permit the use copying or installation by more users or on more computers than the nu
12. e in parallel with input VIBRATO Simple pitch modulation controlled by a modulating delay line ECHO Modulatable SLAPBACK Slapback echo RING MOD Ring modulation FM MOD Frequency Modulation PM MOD Phase Modulation AM DSB Amplitude Double Side Band Modulation AM SSB Amplitude Single Side Band Modulation Copyright 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 6 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL AM MOD Amplitude Modulation RESAMPLE Sample rate reduction DISTORT1 Wave Shaping DISTORT2 Wave Shaping DISTORT3 Wave Shaping AUTHORIZATION Step 1 This can be accomplished by entering your serial number for the respective product into the authorization form located in either the Global Settings and or About sections of the plugin s graphical user interface It will appear as follows Serial Number Copy amp Paste this into the Challenge Response web form Once you have entered your serial number clicking Get Challenge will produce a code unique to your computer which will be displayed in the box located directly underneath of the text box in which you entered the serial number into Step 2 The next step is to navigate to the Audio Poison s challenge response web form in order to retrieve a response code that matches the unique challenge code generated by your computer You can either click the link located underneath the text box where your challenge code is displayed to have the link open
13. ht 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 4 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL derived from 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 6 and 1 8 notes Basically if your project tempo is 140 and you wanted the interval to be equivalent to 1 3 half note triplets the frequency control would snap to the following frequencies 0 0 77767 1 5553 2 3330 3 1107 3 8883 4 6660 5 4437 6 2214 which is simply n tempo notes 60 where n is an integer describing the current frequency control position and notes would be half note triplets in the fore mentioned example Finally this is automatically adjusted when you load a preset made in a project with either a different tempo and or if you were to change the the tempo of the current project STEP SEQUENCER Current Pattern 1 TIP Right clicking a sequencer button will repeat the last configuration until the next time you use your left mouse button again PROGRAMMING THE SEQUENCER To program the step sequencer simply clicking on any of the step buttons while the Draw button is impressed will allow you to select any of the given effect kernels for that particular step Similarly right clicking will allow you to re use the last effect kernel configured for any of the 16 steps On the contrary deleting a step can be done in the same manner with the Delete button impressed rather than the Draw button some people do sniff glue RESETTING COPY PASTING PATTERNS AND LAYERS The Reset button will
14. ilter with a 12dB octave roll off HPF FUZZ 2nd order high pass filter with a fuzz style distortion HPF GRUNGE 2nd order high pass filter with wave shaping HPF AMDSSB 2nd order high pass filter with double side band amplitude modulation HPF AMSSB 2nd order high pass filter with single side band amplitude modulation HPF COMB 2nd order high pass filter combined with a modulating comb delay HPF COLOR 2nd order high pass with post comb filtering all pass diffusion for colorization HPF AMSSB HP filter combined with amplitude single sideband modulation HPF AMDSB HP filter combined with amplitude double sideband modulation FORMANT Formant filter with three formant resonators and a band pass filter FORMANT DSB Formant double side band amplitude modulation FORMANT SSB Formant single side band amplitude modulation NOTCH 2nd order notch filter PEAK 2nd order peak filter PEAK SVF State variable peak filter BPF1 State Variable Band pass Filter with 12dB octave roll off BPF AMSSB BP filter combined with amplitude single sideband modulation BPF AMDSB BP filter combined with amplitude double sideband modulation BPF EXCITED Band pass filter combined with distortion BPF GRUNGE Banca pass filter combined with distortion BPF THIN Two 2nd order HP and LP filters with a 12dB octave roll off on each side RESONATOR Another 2nd order peak filter DELAY MOD Modulatable comb filter FLANGER Slow modulating delay lin
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16. partitioned three point bezier curves as opposed to your traditional more limited ADSR style of envelope which was originally invented with major design constraints in mind due to the state of technology half a century ago As a result you get a whole new dimension of controllability Bezier curves were chosen in order to ascertain the most natural feeling transitions with controllable comfort As for routing the VCO product of the envelope you can attach it to any of the available settings mentioned in the previous section This includes effect gain stereo pan as well as which ever parameter each of the dynamically assignable parameters are configured with Enabling and disabling each of the envelopes is achieved simply by checking or unchecking the box located next to the Enable Envelope label Note In future versions of Stagger there will be multiple envelope types For example several experimental coordinate systems extrapolated from say constellation diagrams or a swarm sensitive drawing board as well as more basic polynomial fitting based controlled by dragging your mouse etc Copyright 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 3 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL LOW PREQUENGY OSCILLATORS ih 7 tE Inverse Saw F paR i WAVEFORM SELECTION The low frequency oscillators are stored and read from wave tables Stagger includes all of the basic wave types including Sine Triangle Saw Inverse Saw an
17. rmined by AP to have been caused by you All limited warranties on the Software Product are granted only to you and are non transferable You agree to indemnify and hold AP harmless from all claims judgments liabilities expenses or costs arising from your breach of this Agreement and or acts or omissions GOVERNING LAW JURISDICTION AND COSTS This Agreement is governed by the laws of Canada SEVERABILITY If any provision of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable the remainder of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect To the extent any express or implied restrictions are not permitted by applicable laws these express or implied restrictions shall remain in force and effect to the maximum extent permitted by such applicable laws COPYRIGHT NOTICE Copyright C 2011 2013 Audio Poison All rights are reserved Stagger is protected internationally as literary work as described by the WIPO Berne Convention in addition to literary work under Canada s Copyright Law Copyright 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 13
18. routing goes beyond your regular super position for mixing everything together and uses perceptually weighted mixing coefficients to ensure no matter how many combinations routed in any order the perceived gain will remain maximumly constant unless you are doing some serious wave shaping purposely in which that would be an exception For the series routing you get 3 assignable groups For example you could route EFFECT1 in parallel with EFFECT2 which can be routed in series with EFFECT4 while EFFECT3 could be in series with EFFECTS and both EFFECT3 and EFFECTS in parallel with EFFECT2 EFFECT4 and EFFECT1 before being automatically and perceptually weighted mixed together Copyright 2011 2013 Audio Poison All Rights Reserved Page 2 STAGGER 1 0 user MANUAL DYNAMIC PARAMETERS With 60 filters and effects the attributed parameters for each of them are not always the same For this reason we have created dynamically assignable parameter knobs that can be re assigned by clicking on the label Note When configuring the envelope re assigning any of parameters will determine the routing of the Param1 Param2 Param3 and Param4 options for the envelope destination in respect to ordering of the Parameters as they are shown ENVELOPE SETTINGS Setting Effect Envelope STEPS 1 4 STEPS 5 8 STEPS 9 12 STEPS 13 16 OR l ae k 9 9 e Ms 9 st e e j e 8 Freg Enable Envelope The envelope is built up with four
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