User`s Manual
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1. IEN A ROSIN ser s Manua DUY Z Room DUY Z Room is a natural sounding reverb featuring Main features High quality density and diffusion Total control over parameters which had never been available to the user before with a friendly and intuitive user interface Three modes Deluxe Economy and Earlies The second allows to free processing time l l An exclusive Rehearsal Mode allows you to set the parameters while hearing the real impulse response of the reverb This is one of the finest tools to evaluate the quality of the reverb You can choose between several Early Reflections responses reverse gate hall room stage All these presets can be modified with the Stretch and Pre delay parameters Processing time is freed when you choose not to include Early Reflections Independent mixing controls for each of the three selectable bands as well as for the Direct Early Reflections and Reverb signals Total control over the iteration depth with six levels of calculation Z Room is the only reverb that allows you to control the time base of the reverb s algorithm r e i of the Direct Early Reflections and Reverb signals in the time omain DUY Z Room DUY Page 2 DUY Z Room 1 Z Room s interface Utility bar Ne Sa 0 ms Low Gain Mid Gain Hi Gain input Gain Base Time j Mode uxe aS 7 a r ee oO s epth l A diffusion section gt _Color control Pulse freq2. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners DUY Research Plaza Lesseps 33 08023 Barcelona Spain Phone 34 932 174510 Fax 34 932 176 313 info duy com www duy com 2 DUY Z Room DUY Page 15
3. a percentage Depth This slider allows to control the amount of sound Diffusion A value near zero will produce no diffusion at all but it will create an additional delay proportional to the current Base Time and x Decay The value of the Depth time in is displayed as a percentage Level The number of iterations in calculation inside the Diffuser section are selectable 1 2 3 4 5 or 6 A lower level will mean less diffusion and less processing time consumption A higher level will imply a greater diffusion of the source sound and will consume more processing power 2 3 Color Control This section is used to select reverb decay times based on frequencies responses This kind of control allows the selection of different reverb times per frequency band Low Gain Mid Gain Hi Gain Low Gain This slider controls the decay time of the Low frequency band selected by the Low Cut parameter of this section DUY Z Room DUY Page 6 DUY Z Room Mid Gain This Slider controls the decay time of the Mid frequencies band set with the Low and Hi Cut parameters Hi Gain This Slider controls the decay time of the Hi frequencies band selected by the Hi Cut parameter Low Cut This control defines the Low frequency band that ranges from zero Hertz to this parameter At the same time this slider defines the Mid band s lower value The value is displayed in KHz Hi Cut This control defines the Hi frequ
4. Click to activate You ll need to activate the Speech manager to use the latter DUY Z Room DUY Page 13 Ambience Dark Ambience Hi Ambience Mid Ambience Soft Ambience Large Halls Cathedral Hi Cathedral Mids Colored Long Hall Dark Hall Granular Long Marble Hall Widespread Hall Natural Rooms Cavern Dark Stone Booth Dumped Drum Booth Mids Stone Booth Natural Bright Natural Dark Natural Neutral Near Room Solo Natural Short Reverb FX Ad infinitum Hyper Ringy Late Mid State Madly Ringy Supa Ringy Tapping Tube Verb DUY Z Room DUY Z Room PROVIDED PRESETS Rooms Mid Room Mid Room 2 Steady Room Whole Room Xtra Room Solo Verbs Diffused 1 Diffused 2 Diffused 3 Hi Spread Brass Natural Solo Tapped Disorder Wooden Ambience Time Reversals Convergent Gated Reverse 1 Reverse 2 Voice Verbs Breathing HF Vocals Solo Voce Voice Delayed Voice Diffused Voice Diffused Hi Voice Diffused Mid Vox in Short Room DUY Page 14 DUY Z Room e Sound Designer II Digidesign TDM Bus DAE and Pro Tools are registered trademarks of Digidesign a division of Avid Technology Inc Apple Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc Power PC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc DUY Z Room and the DUY logo are registered trademarks of DUY S A a division of Iris Multimedia S L
5. H input section ff e a B l j Low Cut Hi 3 NS OOms Se 102 5 ms B Pre Delay Base Time Direct Gain m 100s SC xDeay mass section Early Gain n 0m E r earlies Early Reflection eae z Pre Delay Reverb Gain input output signals in time domain output Z Room is divided into 6 operating sections Input Diffusion Color control Early Reflections Mass Control Mixer DUY Z Room D U lt Page 3 DUY Z Room 2 Z Room s Sections and Parameters 2 1 Input section In this section you can program the parameters related to the input stage of the sound that is Input Gain Frequency response and other general parameters and Operation modes F Input Gain Use this slider to set the level of the signal to be processed You can reduce the input level to reduce the excess of regeneration produced by the reverb The displayed value is in dB Low Pass Use this slider to reduce the high frequency contents of the input signal Lowering the value will cut off higher frequencies making it suitable to avoid unwanted ringing effects The low pass value is displayed in KHz Operation Mode There are 3 operation modes e Economy Mode In this mode Z Room frees processing time from your processor This may be useful when you re running many plug ins at a time in the same session e Deluxe Mode The reverb uses more processing time to enhance quality results e Earli
6. available permanently or only the ones you need at the time The Select Root Folder options lets you choose the folder where you would like Z Room to read the presets from in order to show them in the pop up menu that appears as seen at the beginning of this chapter Once you ve selected the folder you must activate the Re build Patches List command and then press OK If you don t click the Rebuild button it will not regenerate the list of presets after you ve pressed OK 4 2 Copy Paste A B C D If you would like to play around modifying some of the existing presets or some of your own creation you will find these commands very useful The Copy Paste commands allow you to copy the settings from one preset and copy them onto another brand new one The COPY command will copy the current state of your process and store it for later recall To recall your copied data you must use the PASTE command If you have temporary settings and in between changes and options before saving the preset you can store them in memories A B C or D To store in A B C or D click on the arrow at the left of each letter To recall click on the letter 4 3 Undo Redo You can revert the parameters of the process to the previous state before the last edition Up to 10 editions can be reverted undone redone 4 4 Balloons Help Talking Help The last two icons in the utility bar are the Balloons Help and Talking Help
7. ency band which ranges from this Hi value to the maximum allowed At the same time this slider defines the Mid band s higher cut value The value is displayed in KHz 2 4 Early Reflections In this section you can define the type of Room where you wish to introduce your sounds in Early Reflections define the first perceptions of a sound located in a Room of a certain size and geometry Pre Delay This slider controls the time of silence introduced after the original signal and the Early Reflections response Value in miliseconds DUY Z Room DUY Page 7 DUY Z Room Stretch The Stretch parameter controls the size of the Room at the Early Reflections stage Lowering the slider value will produce shorter responses or smaller Room sizes Geometry This menu allows you to select the type and shape of the Room modelled by the Early Reflections response A choice of 12 different room models can be selected 12 different room models can be selected in the Geometry box included in the Early Reflections section of Z Room 2 5 Mass Control This section provides control to the internal parameters of the Reverb processor Base Time This slider sets the seed time used to calculate the series of delay lines used to reverberate the sound This slider works in parallel with the x Decay parameter x Decay This parameter controls the time differences between the reverb s internal blocks The value is d
8. es Mode The strength of the algorithm focuses basically on the Early Reflections DUY Z Room DUY Page 4 DUY Z Room Z Room introduces an extremely useful tool to evaluate the quality of the reverb patch that has been set or that the user may be programming Rehearsal Switch When the Rehearsal switch is on Z Room enters the Test Mode A series of very short pulses are produced in order to hear the response of the reverb The pulses are repeated as often as set with the Pulse Frequency slider The gain of these pulses is controlled by the Input Gain Pulse Frequency This slider changes the frequency of the pulses used to test the parameters of the reverb controlled by the Rehearsal button This slider only has effect when the Rehearsal switch is on The display shows the time between one pulse and the next in seconds 2 2 Diffusion section This section allows to program the degree amount and type of sound recreation before entering the reverb stage Base time This slider will set the seed time used to calculate the series of tap delays used to diffuse the sound This slider functions in parallel with the x Decay parameter The display shows the current value of the seed time in the diffuser DUY Z Room DUY Page 5 DUY Z Room x Decay The cross decay parameter controls the time differences between the diffuser s internal blocks The current value displayed is the decay time in the form of
9. he bar is the Patch Manager section in the figure above it shows up with the word None Click on this part and the following menu will appear Save as Save in Patch Manager as Patch Manager Load Functions Preferences Ambience Large Halls Natural Rooms Reverb Fa Foorns Solo Verbs Time Reversals Voice Verbs Patch families gt gt gt b PATCH FAMILIES The provided presets also called patches throughout this manual are categorised in families just as shown above In the figure above the names of the families are below the line Ambience Large Halls Each one of these families contains several presets You can create new presets of your own and add them to the list This is where the Patch Manager comes in handy PATCH MANAGER The Patch Manager allows you to save and load your presets to and from any location you want in your disk The Save and Load options let you find a preset wherever in your disk If you click the Preferences option the following screen will appear DUY Z Room DUY Page 12 DUY Z Room Patches Preferences LJ Cache On Cache Patches Cache Patches when needed Select Root Folder Re Build Patches list The Cache On option lets you choose if you prefer to store all the available patches in memory or not If you want them in memory as you go along you can choose to have them all
10. isplayed as a percentage DUY Z Room DUY Page 8 DUY Z Room Pre Delay This slider controls the timelength of silence introduced after the original signal and the Reverb response 2 6 Mixer section This section provides 3 independent sliders to set up your final effect output The Direct gain Early Reflections gain and Reverb Gain can have independent values Direct Gain Sets the final Gain of the Original sound unprocessed Setting this value to its minimum will mute the original sound This signal is displayed in gray on the Scope at the bottom of Z Room s interface Early Gain Sets the final Gain of the Early Reflections section Setting this value to its minimum will disconnect the Early Reflection section freeing processing time This signal is displayed in blue on the Scope at the bottom of Z Room s interface Reverb Gain Sets the final Gain of the reverberated sound Set this value to its minimum in order to mute the reverb sound This signal is displayed in red on the Scope at the bottom of Z Room s interface DUY Z Room DUY Page 9 DUY Z Room 3 Signal displays 3 1 Input Meter This plasma meter shows the value of the input signal in dB If the input signal is mono only onene plasma meter will appear 3 2 Qutput Meter This plasma meter functions in exactly the same way as the Input Meter However it adds an extra visualization option the Clip Indicator 3 3 Clip Indica
11. tor This Indicator will light in red if signal overflow occurs in the calculation and means that some clip distortion has been produced Clip indicator Click on the Indicator to reset it To avoid this kind of distortions we advise you to lower the input gain DUY Z Room DUY Page 10 DUY Z Room 3 4 Scope Output Display The Scope Output Display is located at the bottom of Z Room s interface This display allows you to visualize the sound evolution of the output signal in the time domain Three signals are visualized on the same screen carefully color coded as follows e Gray Direct signal e Blue Early Reflections e Red Reverb signal NMeoedeile ancrteedeelltrrere cece type errefees a eane o antn t te cence ret gap nettles Mee cert tens eee t tt cccect ATTAT l Scope Output Display of a signal that includes direct reverb and early reflections signals The figure below demonstrates the output signal when you re working in Rehearsal Mode Remember that Rehearsal mode emits a series of short pulses in order to try out the response of the reverb In gray the direct pulse signal In red the response of the reverb DUY Z Room DUY Page ll DUY Z Room 4 The Utility bar The Utility bar is located at the top of Z Room s graphic interface It includes several useful functions when it comes to creating loading and saving presets 4 1 The Patch Manager The first part of t
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