User Manual - The Interruptor
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1. 13 72 4 LPOTAILTER Panel 15 7 2 5 EQUALIZER Panek a 17 7 2 0 18 S Program FISCO 19 19 NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 3 1 Introduction Night Flight is a VSTi plug in for the Windows platform emulating a class of keyboards popular in the mid seventies to early eighties which were known as string machines or string ensembles 1 1 What 1 an analogue string ensemble Many moons before the widespread arrival of polyphonic synthesizers in 1981 nifty engineers at Eminent Orgelbouw B V in the Netherlands discovered that their Orbitone system an electronic circuitry built to affordably mimic the sound of a Leslie cabinet for home organists could be easily modified to create a stunning new sound yet unheard from an organ They introduced it as a feature to their 1972 model Eminent 310 unique under the name string ensemble Honestly speaking it s sound hardly resembles anything like a real string ensemble which however does not take away anything from the qualities these unique synthetic timbres have in their own right The sound had great appeal with musicians particularly after Eminent included a modification of the concept into a portable keyboard named the Solina string ensemble which was later re branded as Arp String Ensemble for the US market At the same time other companies like Crum2. NIGHT FLIGHT analogue string ensemble VSTi for Windows CA ACPO LE MAIN VOLUME 84 id r J Leu MID P 10 00 ATTACK RELEASE STERE WITH PHASER DELAY Version 1 0 by The Interruptor http www interruptornch all rights reserved Dedicated to my daughter Table of Contents E TACO GU CH davon 4 1 1 What is an analogue String 4 FeaT 5 2 REGUIFEIMENUS 6 3 LICSW 6 6 5 6 6 General gt 7 6 1 7 5 2 Or ValUeS 7 6 3 Fine Adjustment of 7 MO Cari 7 6 5 Sigal FIOW Diag 8 CONT OL 9 Tal 9 SUD 10 CPanel 10 Tut 12 7 2 3 ENSEMBLE
3. knob slider the parameter value is displayed as a number Instead of moving the control with the mouse you can manually enter the value via your PC keyboard by clicking on the number writing the value and then pressing the ENTER key 6 3 Fine Adjustment of a Control e Press the CTRL key while moving any control with the mouse if you need to make fine adjustments 6 4 Midi Learn e Each control can be automated via MIDI controllers e To assign a new different MIDI controller right click on a control then choose Learn from the pop up menu and tweak the hardware controller you want to assign Alternatively choose or Edit to assign a controller from a list 6 5 Signal Flow Diagram NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 7 OSC BASS FILTER EQUALIZER ENSEMBLE B DELAY ENSEMBLE L OUT R OUT NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 7 Control Reference 7 1 Main Panel MAIN 4 4 F i 10 00 ATTACK RELEASE BTERE WITH 8797 OSCILLATORS e enable disable each oscillator e set the volume of each oscillator VCA e set the main volume e adjust the attack and release phase of the volume envelope ENSEMBLE enable disable the ensemble effect set stereo width of the ensemble effect LFO e RATE speed of the Low Frequency Oscillator e VIBRATO sets the amount of pitch modulation e DELAY provide
4. the dual concentric pot you can set the center frequency e Use the outer ring of the dual concentric pot to set the bandwidth MODULATION By moving the inner knob of the dual concentric pot you can define the amount of LFO modulation applied to the center frequency e GAIN Use the outer ring of the dual concentric pot to set the amount of LFO modulation applied to the filter gain NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 17 7 2 6 PHASER DELAY Panel VINTAGE 0 0000 PHASER RATE Sets the modulation rate of the phaser s sweeping LFO Note The phaser has it s own LFO with it s own rate But the LFO synchronizing options found on the LFO FILTER Panel do also work for the phaser LFO Note Sync Phase Smart Mode LO FRQ Lowest Frequency reached while sweeping HI FRQ Highest Frequency reached while sweeping FEEDB Phaser feedback VINTAGE Enable this button to get a phaser sound which is close to a small stone phaser pedal STEREO A stereo phasing effect is generated by delaying the sweeping oscillator of one channel DELAY DRY WET Sets the amount of delay effect added to the dry signal PAN Allows to pan the dry signal to one side and the delay effect to the other TIME Defines the delay time FEEDBACK Higher values at this control will create more repetitions HP High pass filter in the delay feedback loop LP Low pass filter in the delay fee
5. KEYBOARD ZONES Night Flight provides two keyboard zones e BASS By moving the inner knob of the NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 11 dual concentric pot you can define the highest key to which the bass oscillator will respond e 8 4 Use the outer ring of the dual concentric pot to define the lowest key to which the 8 and the 4 will respond EFFECT e Enable this button to let the bass STRUCTURE oscillator bypass the ensemble effect and route it through the filter This way you get a clear and punchy bass to complement your string section 7 2 2 VCA Panel BECAY SUSTAIN VELG CITY DECAY These two controls complement the ATACK and SUSTAIN RELEASE controls on the main panel to give you a full ADSR envelope ATTACK DECAY AMPLITUDE SUSTAIN RELEASE 4 TIME NOTE NOTE ON OFF VELOCITY Controls the impact of key velocity on the loudness of all oscillators 12 NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 7 2 3 ENSEMBLE Panel In order to make full use of the parameters on this panel you need to understand how a string ensemble effect works The following paragraph aims to provide you with the necessary know how to successfully tweak your own string timbre Be careful with these settings since there tends to be a thin line between a rich ensemble and something completely unimpressive The Eminent Solina type string ensemble effect is a variation of the cl
6. ar Logan Roland Oberheim and Korg also released string machines following the same architecture combining organ style divide down oscillators with an ensem Image 2 Arp Solina String Ensemble ble effect Image 1 Eminent 310 unique String machines have been widely used in Pop Rock Funk Reggae Soul and Disco music throughout the seventies and up to the early eighties when they were popular with New Wave acts 4 NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 1 2 Features Night Flight does not use any samples It is based emulation of the ensemble effect first used by Eminent Solina back in 1972 and an organ like sound generation octave divider You will also find a number of features inspired by other string machines like the 3 band equalizer from the Crumar Performer or the Envelope Filter on the very rare ARP String Synthesizer Besides the clearly laid out main panel there are 6 sub panels giving access to a large number of under the hood parameters like filter and amplifier modulations ADSR LFO keyboard split points equalizer automation and two additional simultaneous ensemble effects for even thicker pad sounds Finally there is an onboard effect section providing the typical phasing and delay effects which are essential for some of the best known string machine timbres e Oscillators 8 waveforms pulse width control e Up to three simultaneous ensemble effects modelled the eminent solina architec
7. assic chorus effect A typical characteristic of a real string ensemble is that the individual musicians are never completely in tune even when playing the same note This can be simulated by means of modulated delay lines By varying the delay time of a delay line the pitch of the notes played is also affected You might know this phenomenon if you ever owned an old tape deck or record player with an unstable playback speed There are three delay lines The delay time of each is modulated at the same time by two sine shaped low frequency oscillators The trick is that there OR are actually only two of these sine oscil f speaker 1 lators for all three delay lines In order to create a different SPEAKERS modulation signal for each delay line two Image 3 Eminent 310 ensemble effect phase shifted sine waves are deducted from each oscillator with an offset of 120 respectively 240 degrees from the original signal The three modulation signals from each oscillator are thus equal in shape but their phasings are evenly distributed around the 360 degrees of the full circle This results in a very Sine Osc 1 Sine Osc 2 Slow Fast NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 13 14 harmonious chorus effect without the dreaded beating that can be heard on simple chorus units Nightflight contains three of the ensemble effects described above This allows to create wide stereo pads that are still very dense Also you can creat
8. dback loop NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 8 Program History v 1 0 March 2013 initial release 9 Credits e Built with Synthedit by Jeff Mc Clintock http www synthedit com e Third Party modules were used by David Haupt Dan Worrall Attilla Fustos e GUI controls were created using Knobman http www g200kg com en software knobman htm e The executable was packed using UPX http upx sourceforge net NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 19
9. e extra rich ensemble timbres by connecting two ensemble effects in series As an alternative the exact stereo output configuration of the Eminent 310 see Image 3 can also be selected Ensemble Ensemble B Ensemble A ENSEMBLE ENSEMBLE RATE l 2 L TEPTH 1 F a DRY Sets the mix of the ensemble sound vs the Original signal DEPTH Overall modulation amount Set this to zero and the delay lines will not be modulated at all RATE 1 Rate of sine oscillator 1 DEPTH 2 Modulation amount of sine oscillator 2 This will only have an effect if the overall modulation amount DEPTH is higher than zero RATE 2 Rate of sine oscillator 2 NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual SYMMETRY This will skew the phase angles of the modulation signals resulting in an irregularly moving chorus effect Set the control to zero to get the original angles of 0 120 240 degrees This control will affect ensembles A A and B at the same time CLIP Use this control to clip the sine waves generated by the two modulation oscillators The more you clip the more the signals will resemble a rectangle A value of zero creates no clipping This control will affect ensembles A A and at the same time DUAL Enables Disables ensemble B TWIN STEREO ON Ensembles A and are both enabled and panned to the lef
10. er resonance KEY FOLLOW If set to a value higher than zero the filter cutoff frequency will follow the notes played High notes will be played with the filter set to a higher cutoff frequency than low notes MODULATION The filter cutoff frequency can be either modulated by the LFO or by the ADSR envelope e LFO By moving the inner knob of the dual concentric pot you can set the amount of LFO modulation e ADSR Use the outer ring of the dual concentric pot to set the amount of modulation by the Filter envelope ATTACK DECAY SUSTAIN RELEASE Use these parameters to define the filter envelope ATTACK DECAY 8 AMPLITUDE SUSTAIN RELEASE 4 4 TIME NOTE NOTE ON OFF VELOCITY Controls the impact of key velocity on the filter cutoff frequency NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 7 2 5 EQUALIZER Panel LOW BAND 2 BANE HIGH BANE 3 FILTER FILTER MGGULAT ION FILTER AGGULAT ION i 1 FRA d FRA GAIN FRA d FRA GAIN FRA d FRA 2 5 0 0 0 0 5 60 5 30 0 0 0 0 1 55 0 0000 0 0000 The controls this panel complement the Equalizer on the main panel You can set the center frequency and bandwidth of each band Additionally each band can be modulated by the LFO in two different Ways Gain Q Frequency Q FRQ FRQ FRQ FILTER FRQ By moving the inner knob of
11. ervices 4 Demo Version e Please install and test the demo version on your system before buying the full version e Demo limitation short moment of silence is inserted once every 30 seconds Otherwise the demo version has the complete functionality of the full version 5 Installation e Copy the dll file from the download archive to your VST folder e Restart your host software DAW Load the plug in Note In case of problems please read the following Upon starting the plug in for the first time a number of files are automatically extracted to your VST folder On Windows versions from VISTA onwards by default plug ins are not allowed to write files to your hard drive This will typically cause an error message from your DAW reporting missing files You can fix this issue by changing the write permissions for your VST folder as follows e Use Windows Explorer to browse to your VST Plugins folder 6 NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual e Right click the folder Properties e Choose Security tab e Click button You may need to click a UAC prompt e Select user name Users e Tick options Allow Write and Modify e To finish Select to close the two dialog boxes 6 General Operation 6 1 Control Back lighting e You can easily see if a control currently has an influence on the sound Back lighting is switched on only if this is the case 6 2 Manual Entry of Values Below each
12. like on an organ 10 NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual ATTACK DECAY AMPLITUDE amp AMPLITUDE SUSTAIN RELEASE 4 TIME TIME NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE ON OFF DN OFF ADSR ORGN WAVE Select one out of 8 wave shapes for each oscillator Sine Sine2 Saw Saw2 Tri Tri2 Pulse Noise Saw2 is modeled after the string ensemble waveform of the Eminent 310 PW Sets the pulse width for the pulse wave shape DIVIDE DOWN MODE By clicking repeatedly you can toggle through the options OFF 8 4 ONLY and FULL e Enable the option FULL to phase lock all octaves played on the keyboard This corresponds to the classic divide down organ style sound generation used on string machines By selecting the option 8 4 ONLY you can exclude the bass oscillator from the phase locking Background This plug in emulates the classic organ sound generation by synchronizing the three oscillators to a master oscillator In some situations this method might cause undesired clicks at the note start You are more likely to observe this if your sound has several of the following characteristics very low frequencies short attack phase no low pass filtering enabled Generally speaking the option FULL should be chosen for string pad type sounds particularly if you want to play full chords including octaves For bass lines or lead melody playing the option OFF is suitable
13. s a slow build up of the vibrato effect after a note is pressed EQUALIZER e Allows to quickly adjust the low mid high frequencies See the equalizer panel if you want to automate the equalizer via the LFO or adjust the center frequencies and bandwidths PHASER enable disable the phaser effect DELAY enable disable the delay echo effect NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 7 2 Sub Control Panels ENSEMBLE e Press any of the sub control panel buttons to access a sub control panel e Press the KEYBOARD button to return to the on screen key board 7 2 1 OSC SYSTEM Panel KEYBOARD acT 1 ZONES EREET NODE STRUCTURE ORGH ADER ADER WAVE Wave ONLY CHAIN ALL BASS ie g 4r 3 65 3 b0 OCT Click the OCT button to transpose the pitch of an oscillator by one octave Click the button repeatedly to reach a number of different octaves OCT 0 is the default setting where the three oscillators are spaced by one octave from each other ADSR ORGN You can select the loudness envelope shape for each Oscillator e ADSR The oscillator loudness is following an ADSR envelope defined by the Attack and Release parameters on the main panel and the Decay and Sustain parameters on the VCA sub panel e ORGN The oscillator is switched off immediately when pressing and releasing a key
14. t and to the right Ensemble A receives the same three modulation signals as ensemble A but they are inverted This results in a wide and dense stereo effect OFF This corresponds to the stereo configuration of the Eminent 310 Ensemble is disabled The outputs of the three delay lines of ensemble A are used to create a stereo effect as displayed in image 3 7 2 4 LFO FILTER Panel LOWPASS o FILTER SETUP REY FOLLOW ATTACK SUSTAIN RELEASE VELOCITY LF lt i 0 0000 b 50 LFO NOTE SYNC Enable this function to reset the main LFO and the phaser LFO each time a note is played PHASE Sets the start phase to which the LFOs are reset NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 15 16 SMART If you enable this function the LFOs are only reset if a short time has passed since the last note was released This way you can play a melody line or a chords progression while the LFOs keep on running The LFOs will be reset again as soon as you start playing the next melody line chord progression FILTER TYPE Selects the filter type or disables the Filter Lowpass 2 Lowpass 4 Bandpass Highpass 2 Highpass 4 OFF SETUP Use this control to define the filter characteristics e FRQ By moving the inner knob of the dual concentric pot you can set the filter cutoff frequency e RES Use the outer ring of the dual concentric pot to set the filt
15. ture Full access to the internal parameters of the ensemble effects e Optional divide down mode featuring organ style phase locked octaves e 3 Band Equalizer Each band can be configured and automated via the LFO e Filter 5 modes LP2 LP4 BP HP2 HP4 resonance cutoff modulation via ADSR envelope LFO velocity or keyfollow e Amplifier section Attack and Release Decay and Sustain are available as under the hood parameters For each oscillator a simple organ envelope can be selected as an alternative to the ADSR envelope e 1 LFO routable to pitch vibrato Filter cutoff or equalizer automation Optional note sync e Selectable keyboard split points for bass and string footages e Effects section phaser two models delay echo configurable effect routing NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi User Manual 5 2 System Requirements e WINXP VISTA WIN7 WIN8 e A host software DAW capable of running VST plug ins e This plug in runs natively 32bit systems If you have a 64bit system it is likely that your DAW provides support for 32 bit plug ins via a so called bridge If this is not the case you might consider acquiring a third party bridge instead 3 License e By acquiring the full version you are granted the right to use this software on all of your computers for as long as you want e You not allowed to sell the software to someone else neither on it s own nor as part of a package with other goods or s
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