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1. track and use a Widget Send to bring the second channel over There two controls for the onoizer Widget Scaling 20 0 dB Aswith the Stereo Split the onoizer allows any gain reduction or none A setting of 0 dB combines both channels with zero attenuation NOTE It isimportant to remember that combining summing two channels may lead to distortion unless some amount of attenuation isapplied While 6 02 dB is needed to absolutely guarantee the re sulting signal will not result in an over applying that much gain reduction will decrease apparent level of thetwo sources In most circumstances an equal power or equal gain setting between 2 5 and 3 5 dB will maintain the apparent level of the individual sources and reduce the likelihood of introducing digital distortion Second Input popup This popup will display all of the audio tracks which currently have a Widget send inserted and are therefore available to the onoizer and other Widgets If you do not see your desired second source in this popup insert a Widget send on that track and return to the M onoizer You should now seethe desired track listed in the popup 14 Channel Sw ap The Channel Swap widget allows you to swap the left and right input channels It s useful for a quick soundscape reversal or to changethedrum mix from an audi ence perspective to the drummer s Thereis only one control for the Channel Swap Widget2. Routing Normal L R Swap Simply click on the routing you would like crossed or normal You may also click on the large routing display on the left side of the plug in to switch back and forth between the routings 15 A B Switch Widget TheA B Switch Widget allows you to select between two input channels Use it to audition takes share effects among several tracks or do some listening tests There are two controls for the A B Switch Widget Routing Normal L R Swap Simply click on the routing you would like normal A or second input B You may also click on the large routing display on the left side of the plug in to switch back and forth between the routings Second Input popup This popup will display all of the audio tracks which currently have a Widget send inserted and are therefore available to the A B Switch and other Widgets If you do not see your desired second sourcein this popup insert a Widget send on that track and return to the A B Switch You should now see the desired track listed in the popup 16 Stereo Fix Widget The Stereo Fix Widget is probably the most useful of the Widget collection It allows you to combine two mono sources into a stereo track without creating a Stereo Aux Return and using up two Pro Tools sends to get them over there Using the Stereo Fix Widget can reduce your mixer size to one third of its normal unwieldy width as well as saving TDM timeslots and avoiding
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4. by email within a few days If you do not have an email address please enter your complete postal address and please remember we do not know what country you live in so please enter that into the postal address also 11 CHAPTER 2 USING WIDGETS SinceWidgets area collection rather than asingle plug in each onehasuniqueabili ties and features There is a common design philosophy and shared architecture however Some Widgets make use of special features to reroute audio around the Pro Tools mixer In order to make audio available to these Widgets it is necessary to insert a Widget Send This send is different from the Pro Tools send sidechain archi tecture and does not consume mixer DSP resources Common Controls The controls in Widgets are simple and all Widgets share a common design The following guidelines apply to all controls Routings are bright when active dimmed when inactive All text which is contained in a box is either a pop up menu or if it isa numeric value editable text The sliders are as expected grab the knob of a slider and move it in the track to adjust the value As per the established behaviors in the Pro Tools environment option clicking a control resets the control to its default command clicking puts thecontrol in a fineadjustment mode For editabletext values it isalso possibleto use the up down arrow keys to nudge the value up or down by very small increments All c
5. CHAPTER 3 WIDGETS APPLICATIONS 20 FIXING a StEreO Pall 20 Future 21 An Introduction to Widgets Welcome to Widgets a Plug In for making your life easier TDM capable audio workstations The Pro Tools mixer is excellent at what it does but sometimes we all wish it were just a little more flexible The routing options it affords are limited at best and bussing to Auxes can eat up valuable TDM time slots and add delay to your signal path Widgets is a collection of several small but very useful tools for adding back in that flexibility enabling amoreintelligent way of handling stereo source mixes and toss ingin afew other perks along the way All this for one hundred twenty dollars with no copy protection nightmares and compatibility across the board from PT M ix all the way back to 68k NuBus W hy Widgets Cool Stuff Labs has been making plug ins for a long time Frank Filipanits the founder and big kahuna has authored more TDM plug ins than any other single author In the past we ve written then for other folks Dolby Aphex and Aureal to few But we kept running into situations where there was something miss ing Our first product Generator X filled the need for a signal generator the Pro Tools environment Now Widgets fills another need During the years we ve bee
6. If you have a purchasing department you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people You might want to highlight the linethat mentions that they must include copy of the form with their payment Kagi cannot invoice your company you need to act on our behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end Please do not fax or email payment formsthat indicate Cash Check or Invoiceas the payment method As far as we know thereis still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email and without the payment the form cannot be processed Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi and then up to 10 days for processing Again if you include a correct email address you will hear from Kagi when the form is processed M aking those annoying dialogs go away At Cool Stuff Labs we don t believe copy protection but we do believe even good people occasionally need reminders do the right thing When we receive payment for Widgets we will tell you how to indicate to Widgets that you have paid the registration fee so it can stop pestering you to regis ter In order to provide you with that code we must be able to contact you Email is preferred method and if you have specified a valid email address during your payment process you will receive a registration code
7. WIDGETS Softw are User s Guide Version 1 0 815 SWEENEY AVENUE SUITEA REDWOOD CITY CA 94063 WWW COOLSTUFFLABS COM Product development and engineering Frank Filipanits Jr M arketing and documentation design Frank Filipanits Jr and Paula M urray Artefact D esign Cool Stuff Labs w ould like to thank Steve Cronen M ikail Graham Colin McDowell of Signal Processing LLC The contributors to the DAW MAC and MUSIC DSP mailing lists 2000 Cool Stuff Labs Incorporated All Rights Reserved Pro Tools Pro Tools PCI Pro Tools 24 Pro Tools MIX and Digidesign are trademarks or registered trademarks of Digidesign or Avid Technology Inc All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners N T E N T 5 INTRODUCTION 4 Introduction to 7 0 0770 2 2 4 Why Widgets dee gee eed ed vets 4 System Requirements 200 6 A word about protection 4 222 2 4 2 7 CHAPTER 1 INSTALLATION 8 Running the installer 8 Purchasing the 1 9 On Line
8. censes you desire for each program you wish to purchase or Site licenses Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi More specifics on the Register program follow If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual you can email or fax the data to Their email address is sales kagi com and their fax number is 1 510 652 6589 You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message There is no need to compress the data file it s already pretty small If you have a fax modem just Print the data to the Kagi fax number Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days You will receive an email acknowledgment when itis processed Paymentssent via fax takeup to 10 daysand if you provide correct internet email address you will receive email acknowledgment If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form which is Kagi 1442 A Walnut Street 392 QLM Berkeley California 94709 1405 USA You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check it must bea check drawn in US Dollars Kagi cannot accept checks in other currencies the conversion rate for non USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical
9. h your favorite audio app ie Pro Tools and have fun Honestly it s that easy Do pay attention to the licensing agreement in the installer it delineates what your responsibilities are and points out thisis NOT public domain software If you useit beyond the first 14 days you must purchase it or removeit from your system The installer will look for a Plug Ins folder Folder in your currently active system folder and install the executable there All other files pertaining to theWidgets User anual LicenseAgreenent README and the Register application will be placed a separate folder at the location speci fied during the installation process defaulting to the current boot drive Purchasing the softw are Okay you say I want to buy it just don t know how Well either read the file called README or follow the instructions below Paying for Widgets is fairly simple You may either pay on lineor via mail or fax All our payments are processed through service called On Line Payment Go to http www coolstufflabs com and follow the links under the products page You will be linked to a page at Kagi where form for purchasing Cool Stuff Labs productsrunsthrough a secure server SSL for handling on line credit card payment Off Line Payment Open the Register program that accompanies Widgets Enter your name your email address and the number of single user li
10. in backward compatibility for 68k machines Pro Tools software version 4 0 or higher is recommended for optimal results A word about copy protection We don t believe in it Even the best intentioned implementation interferes with legitimate users trying to get work done It costs money and time to implement update and support and there s evidenceit is effective if anything the rapid availability of cracks on the internet indicates just the opposite So wedid something different Our software is cheap So cheap it s petty cash not a capital expense We re counting on you the user to do the right thing It s simple really If you use Widgets and find it useful pay us for it That will allow us to continue developing other cheap useful plug ins Pretty soon you ll have arsenal of plug ins that cost you in total less than ONE conventional plug in And you ll never have to worry about being left in a lurch by copy protection that takes out your ability to work at 3am on a Saturday Believe me the other plug in companies are watching They think nuts If you re tired of fighting with their copy protection and paying their prices the most effective thing you can do is prove that our way cheap plug ins and no copy protection works If you use it pay for it It s so cheap you have no excuse not to CHAPTER 1 INSTALLATION Running the installer Step 1 Run the installer Step 2 Launc
11. n authoring plug ins we ve cometo know theindustry bit And there s a perception that 1 Themarket isso small plug ins haveto be expensiveto recoup thedevelopment effort 2 There s only one way to sell software through a distribution channel which then Sells it to retail stores which then sell it to the consumer 3 Musicians are a bunch of thieves therefore hard core copy protection is must We ve also found that 1 Customers are tired of paying 1k plus for plug ins 2 Copy protection is frustrating and occasionally damaging for legitimate users 3 There s got to be a better way one that doesn t foster such an antagonistic rela tionship between the software manufacturers and the users That s why we decided to break with the pack and offer this software at a fair price which we do because we re also abandoning the traditional distribution model the only place the software is available is from our web site http w w w coolstufflabs com And there s NO COPY PROTECTION HASSLE Your time is valuable So is ours Why waste it with copy protection System Requirements Widgets requires a M acintosh platform which isTDM capable Widgets requires any of the following Pro Tools TDM hardware in a functioning configuration NuBusDSP Farm PCI classic DSP Farm e PT MIX coreor PT MIX farm A PowerPC system is NOT required for TDM operation as Widgets has been spe cifically engineered to mainta
12. ontrols are automatable and when controls are under control from either the automation system or an external control surface the control name will be under lined in the appropriate color Stereo Split Widget The Stereo Split widget performs one of the simplest functions possible it takes a mono signal and splits it equally to stereo outputs Oneuse for this is sending a full level copy to both outputs without losing 2 5 dB in thestock Pro Tools panner It can also be desireableto split a mono signal to stereo in order to use stereo effects that do not already support a mono stereo type Thereis only control for the Stereo Split Widget Scaling 20 0 dB While the Digi mixer can output a mono track to stereo outputs by panning it center itisimpossibleto do so without losing 2 5dB from going through thepanne Stereo Split allows any gain reduction or none A setting of 0 dB sends a perfect copy of the input to both outputs settings from 2 5 to 3 5 dB may be used to mimic the pan loss of various analog and digital consoles 09 onoizer Widget The Monoizer widget performs another very simple function it takes two signals and collapses them down to amono output This can be useful for anumber of things including checking mono compatibility SincePro Tools does not currently support the ability for a plug in to go from stereo inputs to a mono output it will be necessary for us to insert the M onoizer Widget on a
13. time alignment is sues which plauge the useof TDM mixer buses There are two controls for the A B Switch Widget Routing Normal L R Swap Simply click on therouting you would like Sideto R or Sideto L The mono input of the plug in will be routed to the other side If you inserting the Stereo Fix on theLeft side of an audio pair choose Sideto R If you areinserting the Stereo Fix the Right side of an audio pair choose Side to L You may also click on the large routing display on the left side of the plug in to switch back and forth between the routings Second Input popup This popup will display all of the audio tracks which currently have a Widget send inserted and are therefore available to the Stereo Fix and other Widgets If you do not see your desired second source in this popup insert a Widget send on that track and return to the Stereo Fix You should now see the desired track listed in the popup 17 Widget Sends Several of the toolsin the Widget kit require the ability to route audio from one area of the mixer to another Rather than relying thelimitations and drawbacks of the TDM mixer send and sidechain facilities Widgets works off of its own internal send structure To make audio availableto the Widgets bundle insert aWidget Send plug in on that audio strack Each type of Widget Send has anormal a ute variant Inserting the M ono Send Widget will make the audio available to Widgets
14. while also passing the audio down through the rest of the channel Inserting the mute variant M ono M ute Send will make the audio available to Widgets while muting the output of the send plug in The use of Mute sends can reduce the number of steps necessary to acheive some tasks For instance when combining L and R audio track using the Stereo Fix Widget on the Left track the Right track must be muted or it will appear both in the now stereo channel as well asthe original Using Mute send removes the need for muting the channel itself Note that the sends are automatically named according to the convention lt track name gt e lt insert gt This be observed in the examples above where Kick is thename of thetrack the plug in is inserted in the first plug in slot and the resulting Widget Send name is Kickel CHAPTER 3 WIDGETS APPLICATIONS Fixing a stereo pair To be completed 20 Future Widgets If you have developed a unique application for Widgets you would like to share or have an idea for anew Widget please send it to us at idgets coolstufflabs com We ll try to add it to our next release with kudos to the contributors a
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