Expert Sleepers USAMO Plug
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1. softsynth aka VSTi which translates the incoming MIDI into an audio signal which when sent to the USAMO hardware is decoded back into the desired MIDI messages As well as simply passing on received MIDI messages the plug in can perform some transformations of the MIDI messages e g changing the MIDI channel and can generate MIDI clock and Song Position Pointer The plug in also includes a Test section to aid in setting up the hardware correctly The Plug in GUI Using the controls Knobs Basic use of the knobs is to click on them and drag the mouse up and down However you can obtain different results by holding keys as follows e Shift Values change more slowly as you move the mouse 50 0 Swing e Command Mac OS X Alt Windows The knob assumes its default position e Option Mac OS X Control Windows The knob assumes integer values only e Double click The knob returns to its default value e Command Alt double click The knob assumes the value zero Dropdown menus Clicking on the menu displays the list of options Move the mouse over the desired option and release the mouse to select it Channelise Value edit boxes These boxes below each knob and slider let you enter parameter values directly Clicking on the value highlights it in green you can then type the desired value using the keyboard Press enter to finish and accept the new value While you re typing the value the2. Off slows down the transmission of MIDI to allow compatibility with certain audio interfaces but in a different way to the Space knob above It is generally only necessary when using the USAMO to transmit MIDI Sysex messages and even then only with certain audio interfaces MIDI Out This section controls the plug in s response Clock to MIDI and the MIDI eee cpp messages generated by 1 Of TH 46 W 50o O Opao the plug in Channelise Swing Swing Offset Channel Specifies the MIDI channel to receive on All MIDI messages from this channel are echoed out to the USAMO s output Off disables this feature but not the MIDI clock output if enabled Omni receives messages on all MIDI channels 10 Channelise If set to Off MIDI messages are sent out on the same channel on which they are received If set to a channel number 1 16 the incoming MIDI messages are sent out on the specified channel Clock If enabled causes the plug in to send MIDI timing clock messages synced to the DAW s transport When Clock is enabled MIDI clock is generated when the host DAW s transport is running The MIDI clock generation always begins at the start of a bar if the host transport is started in the middle of a bar the plug in waits for the next bar before starting the MIDI clock SPP If enabled the plug in will send MIDI Song Position Pointer messages Swing These controls allow you to add shuffle
3. box goes red to indicate that the value you see has not yet been accepted While the box is highlighted green using the cursor keys on your keyboard up down left right will change the value by the smallest increment Name value display As you move the mouse around the interface the name and Output Level 1 000 current value of the control currently under the mouse is displayed in the top right of the window This area also provides tool tips for buttons 2 The Command key is also known as the Apple key the one next to the spacebar 3 The Option alt key is the one between the Control ctrl key and the Command cmd key 9 The Plug in Controls Adjust This section contains controls which affect the generation of the audio signal from the incoming MIDI messages These will in general be used to tune the operation for particular audio interfaces There is a list of tested audio interfaces and recommended settings here If your interface is not listed contact Expert Sleepers for assistance and please do report your findings so they can be added to the list Level The Level knob simply sets the output level of the plug in It has exactly the same effect as adjusting the track fader in the DAW Space Raising the Space knob from Off slows down the transmission of MIDI to allow compatibility with certain audio interfaces It is rarely necessary Balance Lowering the Balance knob from
4. E IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE Mesa 3 D graphics library Version 7 0 Copyright C 1999 2007 Brian Paul All Rights Reserved Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVE
5. Expert Sleepers USAMO Plug in v1 0 0 User Manual Copyright 2015 Expert Sleepers All rights reserved This manual as well as the software described in it is furnished under licence and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such licence The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by Expert Sleepers Expert Sleepers assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this document THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE Contents Installation Mac OS X Audio Unit AU Mac OS X VST Mac OS X AAX Windows VST Windows AAX System Requirements Mac OS X Windows Registration Introduction The Plug in GUI Using the controls Knobs Dropdown menus Value edit boxes Name value display The Plug in Controls Adjust Level Space Balance MIDI Out Channel Channelise Clock SPP Swing Offset Don t Panic History DO NO NO NO NO NO CO N DD WB oa oa A
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9. a A A OI et fado ee ee Se ee Ce A Noe meme nae ee maeu oOo o o o o o oD Test Selecting the MIDI input Enable Type Interval History Preferences Skin OSC Base Port Eye candy Constant redraw Floating tooltip Version History 1 0 0 2nd March 2015 Contact Acknowledgements Lua oscpack elew FreeType FTGL libpng zlib 12 13 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 14 14 15 15 16 17 17 17 18 19 19 19 19 Installation Mac OS X Audio Unit AU The plug in file is named ExS1USAMO component Simply copy the file to the folder Library Audio Plug Ins Components Mac OS X VST The plug in file is named ExS1USAMO vst Simply copy the file to the folder Library Audio Plug Ins VST Mac OS X AAX The plug in file is named ExSIUSAMO aaxplugin Simply copy the file to the folder Library Application Support Avid Audio Plug Ins Windows VST The plug in files are named usamo d11 32 bit version and usamo_x64 d11 64 bit version Simply copy the files to your VST plug ins folder Windows AAX The plug in is a folder named usamo aaxplugin For Pro Tools 10 copy the folder to C Program Files x86 Common Files Avid Audio Plug Ins or for Pro Tools 11 or above copy the folder to C Program Files Common Files Avid Audio Plug Ins System Requirements Mac OS X The software requires at least Mac OS X version 10 6 8 The plug in is Intel only and b
10. be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE oscpack oscpack Open Sound Control packet manipulation library http www audiomulch com rossb code oscpack Copyright c 2004 Ross Bencina lt rossb audiomulch com gt Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that they can be incorporated into the canonical version THE S
11. ed that the GUI is wasting your CPU resources Floating tooltip Causes the parameter name and value display usually in the top right of the GUI to be displayed above the mouse pointer 14 Version History 1 0 0 2nd March 2015 e First release Contact The Expert Sleepers website is here http www expert sleepers co uk Or you can email info expertsleepers co uk Or you can use one of the Expert Sleepers forums which are here http www kvraudio com forum viewforum php f 85 and here http www muffwigegler com forum viewforum php f 35 16 Acknowledgements The software described in this manual makes use of the following open source projects The author is greatly indebted to them for their efforts and generosity Below are reproduced the various copyright notices and disclaimers that accompany these software projects in accordance with their terms of use Lua Copyright C 1994 2008 Lua org PUC Rio Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software _ without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall
12. or swing timing to the clock output Swing has two controls The knob sets the amount of swing in percent 50 means no swing the middle sixteenth note is 50 of the way between the neighbouring notes as normal Higher values of swing make the middle note later lower values make it earlier At 100 the middle note is right on top of the following note The dropdown menu chooses between sixteenth and eighth note swing Offset The Offset control applies a small delay or advance in the timing of the MIDI clock relative to the host s transport This can be used to compensate for any difference in the response time of the hardware being synced Don t Panic The Don t Panic button sends a MIDI All Sound Off message on all 16 MIDI channels This should deal with any stuck notes or other bad state if it occurs 11 History The History display shows the MIDI messages received by the plug in and as such is a useful diagnostic tool From left to right the data columns are the time at which the message was received system time not time within the song the first up to 3 bytes of the MIDI message and then the interpretation of the message if available The interpretation will typically contain the MIDI channel the message type e g Note On and the data bytes of the message e g note number and velocity Test expert sleepers USAMO 1 0 0 Show Hide Test Controls The Test button switches the pl
13. sends a MIDI System Exclusive dump The Byte 3 knob sets the size of the dump in kilobytes Interval The Interval knob sets the time in milliseconds between test messages History There are two history displays in test mode Sent Test and Received Test Input They show the test messages sent and the messages received on the test MIDI input port The received messages are coloured green if they match the sent message or red if they do not 13 Preferences Pressing the Prefs button brings up a dialog where various preferences are set These settings are shared by all instances of the USAMO plug in and are not stored with presets The top section shows the product version The central section will show your serial number once you ve bought a registration Skin Allows you to choose a skin for the plug in GUL See below OSC Base Port Sets the base port number for OSC Eye candy Enables the pretty graphics Turn off if you don t like them or if your computer has compatibility issues with drawing such things Constant redraw USAMO Prefs Expert Sleepers Visit www expert sleepers co uk USAMO Version 1 0 0 Thank you for registering this product Launch Licence Manager Skin Default Open skin folder OSC Base Port 7010 Eye candy Constant redraw Floating tooltip Is on by default If turned off the GUI is only redrawn when a control changes Use this if you re concern
14. ug in UI to show controls and history displays for the plug in s test and diagnostic mode This mode works in conjunction with a MIDI input port on your computer The MIDI output of the USAMO hardware needs to be plugged into this MIDI input The plug in sends a known sequence of MIDI messages and listens to what it gets back If there are any discrepancies the plug in or hardware settings can be adjusted until the errors cease 12 Selecting the MIDI input The text box labelled Source selects the MIDI port to listen on It is usually easier to use the Browse button next to it which brings up a dialog listing the available MIDI input ports on your system Select the port to which you connected the MIDI cable from the USAMO Enable The Enable button starts the sending of test messages It also resets the Test Failures count to zero Type The Type menu selects the type of test messages to send The options are e Notes Random sends note on off messages with randomised channel note number and velocity e Notes Exhaustive sends all possible note on off messages iterating though all channels note numbers and velocities in turn e Clocks sends MIDI clock messages including start stop continue e Clocks SPP sends MIDI clock messages and Song Position Pointer messages before each continue message e Message sends a fixed MIDI message using the values from the three Byte knobs e Sysex
15. uilt for both 32 and 64 bit The Audio Unit version will work in any Audio Unit host The VST version requires a VST 2 4 compatible host The AAX version requires Pro Tools 10 3 6 32 bit or Pro Tools 11 or higher 64 bit Windows The software has been developed and tested with Windows 7 The plug in requires a VST 2 4 compatible host The AAX version requires Pro Tools 10 3 6 32 bit or Pro Tools 11 or higher 64 bit 1 VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH 6 Registration The downloadable version of the USAMO plug in stops working after 15 minutes every time you use it To stop this happening you need to activate the software using the serial number that should have been supplied to you when purchasing the USAMO hardware Enter the serial number into the Expert Sleepers Licence Manager application See here for more information Note that you need at least version 1 1 0 of the Licence Manager Your registration key allows you to install the USAMO plug in on up to 3 different computers useful if for example you have a desktop computer in the studio and a laptop for live use You need an internet connection to activate the software though not necessarily on the computer on which you want to use it Introduction expert sleepers USAMO 1 0 0 Output Level 1 000 The USAMO plug in is the software component of the Expert Sleepers USAMO product It is a virtual instrument plug in aka
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