Waves Q-Clone Stereo Equalizer User Manual
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1. Waves Q Clone EQ Sampling System TIT EA zE 2 ZEM Waves Q Clone Manual Introduction You own a great sounding hardware EQ It sounds great It feels good You know just how to tweak the knobs to get the sound that you are looking for But perhaps you can t afford to buy 97 more hardware EQs for every one of the 98 tracks in your current mix Even if you could wouldn t it be like a dream come true if you could digitally save the various settings of your hardware EQs on all of the different tracks of your mix Now you can With the Q Clone you can clone your favorite hardware EQ and use it on an unlimited number of tracks tweak the EQ in real time using the familiar hardware EQ knobs create a library of the cloned presets and then change them at any given time BASIC CONCEPT The Waves Q clone is an EQ device cloning system It captures the EQ curve of a single mono analog EQ and uses it to process any given track This process can be repeated on several tracks cloning different EQ settings from the same device to each track The Q Clone also comes with a great library of sampled EQ curves from classic acclaimed and vintage hardware equalizers The presets can be used without having your own hardware EQ to sample The Q Clone can be opened on any given track After a simple procedure is followed the Q Clone will create the image of the EQ hardware device that is connected to your DAW THE Q CLON2. Q apbure Clone G Clone Mono O1 Paragraphic EQ O1 Paragraphic EQ Mano O10 Paragraphic EC O10 Paragraphic EQ Mono O Paragraphic EC Oe Paragraphic EQ Mono Y3 Paragraphic EQ Mane 7 Arm the Record button and the Input Echo button Click them on Audiol S i 1 nil nide G UE iarie Master 8 Calibrate the Q Capture with your EQ device as instructed in the Calibration section on page 11 9 On an Audio track the one that you want to process insert the Q Clone Mono or Stereo according to the track You must bypass all other plug ins on the track while you are EQ ing it 10 When the Q Clone is open click the Capture button to start receiving the cloning image from the EQ device You will see the orange line on your display graph showing the present EQ curve 11 Play this track solo it or play it with the entire session and start building your EQ setup by adjusting the parameters tweaking the knobs on the hardware EQ device 12 Once you reach your desired EQ click on the Hold button to engage Hold mode 13 Now there are a few options to choose from A Save your EQ to a new preset file anywhere on your computer Click the Save button on the Waves menu bar and choose Save To Waves Q Clone Manual 22 New File This saves a preset file to any desired directory on your computer B Save your EQ to your Waves Preset Menu Click the Save button on the Waves menu
3. tweak the EQ on your hardware EQ device 11 Once you get the desired preset click the Hold button This preset is now saved in the plug in By clicking the Save button on the Waves menu bar you can choose between the two saving options 12 You can add a preset on top of the existing one in one of two ways The first is by clicking the Add button and tweaking a new preset starting from a flat EQ position again The second option is to load an existing preset from your presets list and choose its Add version Waves Q Clone Manual 31 Q CLONE TROUBLESHOOTING CHECK LIST Problem lm capturing a flat device setting but the curve in the Q Clone is not flat have calibrated using Q Capture and my device is flat but the curve in the Q Clone is off the O DB axis Q capture shows Waiting on both of its display meters Q Capture shows Waiting on its upper display meter only Curve is smooth but not flat This is probably representing the current state of your analog system Curve is drastically unfelt and or full of ripples The analog system s imperfections lead to difference between peak level alignment and frequency response alignment Q Capture is non functional as a result of insufficient initialization Capturing loop is not Closed Waves Q Clone Manual Try closing the loop in your VO Try a digital loop Try other I O or other devices Refer to the calibration
4. bar and choose Put Into Preset Menu As This will allow you to load your new preset anytime you open the Waves Q Clone preset menu C Reset Reset the preset by loading the reset preset file from the Load menu D Add By clicking the Add button you can load a new preset on top of an existing one The Add mode gives the effect of having 2 or more EQ devices in a chain There are 2 options for Add mode i Open a Q clone preset from the Q Clone preset menu or any directory on your hard drive or use the existing displayed EQ curve Click the Add button and then make changes to it Note that changes should be done from a flat EQ starting point ii Load an EQ on top of the existing Q Clone EQ curve on your screen This preset can be loaded from the Q Clone preset menu or from any directory on your hard drive 14 You can use saved presets and factory presets in two ways Load and Add When you click the Load button on the Waves menu bar you can choose any preset from the preset list Each preset will show you two options for loading Load will allow you to upload the preset and use it instead of the one that you had before Add will upload the preset on top of the one that you previously had used Logic Pro 7 1 Connect a cable from one of your audio card output ports into the input of the EQ device Connect a cable from the output of the EQ device to your audio card input port Set all of the frequencies g
5. graph It has a logarithmic frequency scale in the horizontal showing 25 Hz to 16 kHz and Gain in the vertical axis showing 16dB or 30dB GRAPH SCALE CONTROL The Graph Scale Control allows you to choose either 16 gain or 30dB gain as the scale of measurement for vertical axis of the Q Clone component GAIN FADER The Gain control is a continuous fader going from 48dB to 12dB The default setting is OdB To the right of the EQ graph display there is output metering Waves Q Clone Manual 8 When a Q Clone instance is launched it will load in Hold mode with a flat EQ response When you switch to the Capture or Add modes it will check for a port to receive the EQ filter transmission If it does not find such a port it will show a text message stating No Transmission If the Transmission signal is too low for sampling an EQ preset it will show a text message stating No Transmission TRIM This Control shows the margin in dB between the peak of the program material and the full digital scale Clicking on the Trim control automatically trims the specified margin by applying the specified value to the gain control Although trimming generally implies a decrease of volume it is possible to trim upwards up to a maximum of 12dB Trimming downward is the most important application for eliminating clipping We recommend using Trim whenever the clip lights are on The current value in the Trim window
6. section on page 11 Check to see if the host application appears in the supported application list of the Q Clone Check if the Track I Os are routed correctly Try playing stopping the session Check your cable connections according to the quickest section Check your track s I O routing 32 Q Clone shows No Q Capture is not well Make sure Q Capture Transmission on the routed is in bypass or meters show Transmitting frequency response disabled and Receiving messages display Signal is very low Check your analog connections EQ Curve in the Insufficient headroom Check clipping indicator in frequency response in capturing either the Q Capture and lower the display does not seem analog distortion or headroom fader until digital smooth or is full of digital clipping clipping stops indicator ripples resets the meters by clicking on them with the mouse f distortion still occurs lower the fader some more to prevent analog clipping EQ Curve display Sync problem Q Clone Check if you are using too flickers or changes is unable to lock to a much headroom in Q rapidly between valid signal Capture settings Check if your device is valid for Q Clone See definition on page 4 Try using a less extreme EQ setting Try closing the session and reopen EQ Curve is empty Signal is too low Calibrate the Q Clone using the Q Capture component oee directions in Page 1
7. 1 Unstable behavior of the EQ graphic curve look Close the plug in instance Q Clone s EQ curves in sluggish and unstable first then change the Cubase Nuendo after in the Q Clone session s sample rate and re changing the sessions frequency response open the plug in sample rate display Q Clone mutes the Q Capture is capturing Make sure Q Clone is not audio silence bypassed muted or poorly connected to the analog hardware device through the soundcard s I O Waves Q Clone Manual 33 Waves Q Clone Manual 34
8. 4 10 Calibrate the Q Capture with your EQ device as instructed in the Calibration chapter on page 11 11 On an Audio track the one that you want to process insert the Q Clone Mono or Stereo according to the track You must bypass all other plug ins on the track while you are EQ ing it n CHF TE ij ji Sj 12 When the Q Clone is open click the Capture button to start receiving the cloning image from the EQ device You will see the orange line on your display graph showing the present EQ curve 13 Play this track solo it or play it with the entire session and start building your EQ setup by adjusting the parameters tweaking the knobs on the hardware EQ device 14 Once you reach your desired EQ click on the Hold button to engage Hold mode 15 Now there are a few options to choose from A Save your EQ to a new preset file anywhere on your computer Click the Save button on the Waves menu bar and choose Save To New File This saves a preset file to any desired directory on your computer B Save your EQ to your Waves Preset Menu Click the Save button on the Waves menu bar and choose Put Into Preset Menu As This will allow you to load your new preset anytime you open the Waves Q Clone preset menu C Reset Reset the preset by loading the reset preset file from the Load menu Waves Q Clone Manual 25 D Add By clicking the Add button you can load a new prese
9. Capture you will see that the calibration fader is set to give 14db of headroom by default This 14db is the amount of headroom that most EQ hardware devices allow you to work with This means that every gain parameter in your EQ device has a gain space from 14db cut to 14 db boost In EQ devices that have less then 14db of headroom we recommend calibrating to 14db in order to be on the safe side if the EQ device is not calibrated internally The Headroom fader will control the output and the input of the Q Capture signal together Adjust your Hardware general output gain with the input meter The goal is to match the levels of the In and the Out meters Now open the Q Clone component and see that the frequency response line in the frequency display is flat on the Odb axis If the line is not exactly on the Odb line you can still match it to this point by changing the output gain of your EQ hardware device using the EQ device fader or knob Waves Q Clone Manual 12 Quick Start up and Set up Here are basic step by step directions on how to prepare your session to use the Q Clone and clone your EQ device for various Host Applications Pro tools 6 7 LE and TDM 1 Connect a cable from one of your audio card output ports into the input of the EQ device 2 Connect a cable from the output of the EQ device to your audio card input port 3 Set all of the frequencies gain knobs on your EQ device to 0 db and turn any filt
10. E PRODUCT The Q Clone clones the linear part of any system that it is connected to It will not replicate distortions noise or other non linear properties However it will perfectly replicate the sound of the filters and their phase responses The Q Capture is a mono only component so it will capture only mono devices However you can open a stereo Q Clone component on a stereo track and it will apply the same EQ settings to both channels This will be a perfectly matched stereo clone of the analog device The system is comprised of 2 plug in components The Q Clone and the Q Capture This manual will go into more depth on the Q Clone and the Q Capture in The Plug ins components section Waves Q Clone Manual 2 BEHIND THE SCENES The Q Capture component sends a continuous test signal routed to the audio card output to the input of the EQ device that is being cloned Only a fraction of a second later the output of that device routed to the audio card input is returned to the input of the Q Capture component Diagram 1 E HMixRec Any Aw clio Session channel ieee es Ande Track DO window Gut A Card amp in A card 8 Audio Card output section 192858 858t B78 5 m dun a wi aj a el a U ym Audio card Input Section Waves Q Clone Manual 3 Once the test signal returns from the device it is analyzed and loaded into the Q Clone component as an impulse response This hap
11. Manual 26 Setup Windows Help Control Pane X Counter tr Tools ira Background Processing R Audio Performance cry Step Record 358 Polar TrP Audio Monitor ir MIDI Monitor Ir MIDI Machine Control trH input Quantize ir Audio Bundles fr MIDI Device Groups ir Remap MIDI Devices Click 455 Click And Countoff Options Multi Record r 35M wv MIDI Pat hru Audio Patch Thru i Stop Sounding MIDI Notes 351 Clear All Clipping Indicators 38 B Setup menu choose Configure Audio System and choose the Input Monitoring Mode Waves Q Clone Manual 27 Region Audio Setup Windows Help Project Studio Commands UL Set View Filter EF set Input Filter uM uj Gd lj We Set Event Chasing Project hghgh Seq Seq 1 aii Auto Scroll m ae a ae La a USE Colors Ld Automation Setup rpict Time Formats dT a l A Sequence End amp Frame Rate 2 eten stet TINO End MOT Receive Sync hor LocCH EL IMRT LEVEL FLAY HAFT IUTFLT Transmit Sync L M Slave To External Sync H7 k AC Drivel AC Di Open Audio MIDI Setup Bur im Audio d m gt Built in A GA Bu mAsmo2 P Built in Interapplication MIDI Bur im Avdio T amp uilt in inure MITY uj s RNV M S e Kaum Autoconfigure MIDI Devices Wult im Audio 1 2 P FE Control Surface Setup fuift indedio 1 21 fm tuilt in Audi
12. after meeting the following technical requirements You have a DAW Digital Audio Workstation that allows for live output and input In many host applications this may require you to arm the input track for recording and sometimes to initiate playback You will need to dedicate one input and one output of your audio card in order to create your sampling loop plus your main monitoring output You have a hardware equalizer that you wish to replicate by sampling You successfully achieve the Transmitter Receiver feedback system so that the receiver plug in shows the message Receiving and Transmitting Once these conditions are met you can open a Q Clone plug in on any track that you wish to EQ initiate Capture Mode and start setting your new EQ Waves Q Clone Manual 10 CALIBRATING In this section we will learn how to calibrate the Q Clone with our Hardware EQ in order to achieve the best cloning results First we should explain Headroom Every electronic channel digital or analog has a maximum signal level that it can pass Attempting to exceed this typically results in hard clipping where the waveform is leveled off flat when it reaches the limit The maximum level is much more difficult to define for analog tape machines than in digital recording In analog machines a higher recording level can be obtained by accepting some distortion on signal peaks This is possible because it is low order distortion genera
13. agram if you encounter problems Waves Q Clone Manual 6 Save r TY Q Clone Component The Q Clone plug in has 2 main controls Gain and Mode It also has a Scale control for the frequency response graph The Mode control shows Capture Hold and Add CAPTURE Capture sets the plug in to adapt its filter purely to the settings in the cloned EQ device This mode can only work when the Q Capture component is active When hidden the plug in will automatically assume Hold mode At any time you can open the GUI Graphic User Interface of the instance that you wish to set HOLD In Hold mode the plug in is processing with the filter currently sampled Thus it is not receiving further changes until it is changed to the Capture or Add settings ani ADD Add allows the plug in to receive updates on top of the currently cloned EQ If you want to make a change to the current setting then you can put the plug in into this mode The settings you make with your EQ will be cloned and added to the current filter This is exactly like adding another instance of the Q Waves Q Clone Manual T Clone except that the overall EQ will be shown in a single graph and the CPU usage will be that of only a single instance Please note that to switch from Capture to Add Mode or vice versa you must first go through Hold mode p FREQUENCY RESPONSE GRAPH The larger part of the Q Clone GUI shows a frequency response
14. ain knobs on your EQ device to 0 db Open your Audio Card control panel and make sure that this in out setting is shown properly in the routing chart Go to Logic menu bar and open the Audio menu Choose Audio Hardware amp Drivers In this dialog box choose the Drivers tab and check the Software Monitoring check box If it is not already checked Waves Q Clone Manual 23 E ES Preferences yates Mamer Requirement 27 0 ME Driver Digidesign HW HD WO Buffer Size 512 i Iri NEAT Max Number of Audio Tracks ETT 164 Busses I9 Universal Track Meds Larger Disk Buffer 124 Bit Recording Ro Munitarmg Process Buffer Range Meritum 4 Rewirc behavior Playback Mode Less CPU Load hisximurtr Scrub Speed Miorrmal g Scrub Rex panne Hermal j 6 Open your Logic session and open a new Audio file which will be dedicated to the Q Capture 7 On this track assign the input of the channel to the input of your audio card that receives the hardware output cable input Y 8 Also on this track assign the output of the channel to the output of your audio card that receives the hardware input cable output X 9 Click the Rec button of this channel On and hit play and stop to activate the plug in One this is happening you automatically see the signal from the plug in the channel s meter Waves Q Clone Manual 2
15. ed from the Q Clone preset menu or from any directory on your hard drive 17 You can use saved presets and factory presets in two ways Load and Add When you click the Load button on the Waves menu bar you can choose any preset from the preset list Each preset will show you two options for loading Load will allow you to upload the preset and use it instead of the one that you had before Add will upload the preset on top of the one that you previously used KNOWN ISSUES 1 We recommend working with the VST components in Cubase Nuendo and not with the DX This is due save session problems with the DX components Clicking on the Add mode in the Q Clone multiple times without changing the EQ settings may create a ripple and distortion in the Q Clone graph Ripples may occur when capturing This is due to an analog to digital path behavior Make sure not to capture when they appear While Q Clone or Q Capture are open sample rate changes in Cubase Nuendo may cause unstable behavior in the EQ curves To avoid this close the plug in instance first then change the session sample rate and reopen the plug in In Logic and in Sonar playing or stopping the session may cause clicks in Q Clone while it is in Capture mode To avoid this click the Hold button on Q Clone before you start playback and resume to Capture mode afterwards In all applications The Flashing No Transmission while in Capture mode is a phenomenon re
16. ers off 4 Open your recording session 5 Open a new AUX Auxiliary track 6 Assign the output of the new AUX track to be the same number as the output port that you used in step 1 7 Assign the input of the new AUX track to be the same number as the input port that you used in step 2 amp v r a z eli f Grid 4 Mudge l Cursor Bars Beats gt E erts e aa aaa 4i waveferm P _ Vive L 3 p He suto read ER D Qv Waves Q Clone Manual 13 8 Open the Q Capture on this AUX track and make sure that this is the only plug in that you have on this track s plug in list 9 Calibrate the Q Capture with your EQ device as instructed in the Calibration section on page 11 10 Go to your Audio track where you want to use the cloned set up of your EQ device and open the Q Clone on its insert 11 Put the Q Capture s AUX track in solo safe mode m s septrHTor1 E EST wss TM LE daetorv default Eh compare auto sae z KEN JL ERE EE 12 When the Q Clone is opened it will be in Hold mode When you switch the Capture on it will be able to start receiving the cloning image from the EQ device Once this happens you will see the red line on your display graph showing your present EQ curve 13 Play this track solo it or play it with the entire session and start building your EQ setup by adjusting t
17. he parameters tweaking the knobs on the hardware EQ device 14 Once you reach your desired EQ click on the Hold button to engage Hold mode 15 Now there are a few options to choose from A Save your EQ to a new preset file anywhere on your computer Click the Save button on the Waves menu bar and choose Save To New File This saves a preset file to any desired directory on your computer B Save your EQ to your Waves Preset Menu Click the Save button on the Waves menu bar and choose Put Into Preset Menu As This will allow you to load your new preset anytime you open the Waves Q Clone preset menu Waves Q Clone Manual 14 C Reset Reset the preset by loading the reset preset file from the Load menu D Add on top By clicking the Add button you can load a new preset on top of an existing one The Add mode gives the effect of having 2 or more EQ devices in a chain There are 2 options for Add mode i Open a Q clone preset from the Q Clone preset menu or any directory on your hard drive or use the existing displayed EQ curve Click the Add button and then make changes to it Note that changes should be done from a flat EQ starting point li Load an EQ on top of the existing Q Clone EQ curve on your screen This preset can be loaded from the Q Clone preset menu or from any directory on your hard drive Nuendo Cubase SX 2 x 3 1 2 Ear Connect a cable from one of your aud
18. ill be able to start receiving the cloning image from the EQ device Once this happens you will see the red line on your display graph showing your present EQ curve 14 Play this track solo it or play it with the entire session and start building your EQ setup by adjusting the parameters tweaking the knobs on the hardware EQ device 15 Once you reach your desired EQ click on the Hold button to engage Hold mode 16 Now there are a few options to choose from A Save your EQ to a new preset file anywhere on your computer Click the Save button on the Waves menu bar and choose Save To New File This saves a preset file to any desired directory on your computer B Save your EQ to your Waves Preset Menu Click the Save button on the Waves menu bar and choose Put Into Preset Menu As This will allow you to load your new preset anytime you open the Waves Q Clone preset menu C Reset Reset the preset by loading the reset preset file from the Load menu Waves Q Clone Manual 20 D Add Byclicking the Add button you can load a new preset on top of an existing one The Add mode gives the effect of having 2 or more EQ devices in a chain There are 2 options for Add mode i Open a Q clone preset from the Q Clone preset menu or any directory on your hard drive or use the existing displayed EQ curve Click the Add button and then make changes to it Note that changes should be done from a flat EQ starti
19. io card output ports into the input of the EQ device Connect a cable from the output of the EQ device to your audio card input port Set all of the frequencies gain knobs on your EQ device to 0 db and turn any filters off Open your Nuendo Cubase SX recording session Open a new mono audio track It will be dedicated to the Q Capture component Open devices from the Cubase menu bar and open Device Setup Choose the VST Audiobay and uncheck the Direct Monitoring checkbox Waves Q Clone Manual 15 Device Setup X P Reset All D levices ASIO Echo WYDM Master ASIO Driver a coa MIDI Total Input Latency 123 220 ms Total Output Latency 24 558 ms DirectMusic Bl Release ASIO Driver in Background 0 i Windows MIDI um G Transport C W Dicet Monitoring gt Time Display zd fm Video 00 ER Video Player Expert coe ASID Echo WDM M VST Inputs YST Outputs i WST System Link 7 Set the I O of this track to match the insert I O that you used in steps 1 amp 2 The basic I O setting can be done from the Nuendo Cubase Menu Bar under Devices VST Connections as seen in the following pictures Waves Q Clone Manual 16 sport Network Devices Window Help 9 Pin Device 1 3 9 Pin Device 2 IM CM Motormix X MIDI Device Manager PEE F3 PATS Mixer Z Mixer 3 Mixer 4 Plug in InFormation F LE 104 04 117 1 Time Base 9 Pi
20. lated to high CPU load hiccups When the CPU is at Waves Q Clone Manual 30 maximum capacity the real time tasks have dropouts which result in flashing No Transmission messages 7 Sonar will have a boost in the returned Capture signal This can be fixed by applying digital corrective gain before the Q Capture plug in Q CLONE LOOP CHECKLIST 1 Connect the EQ hardware device to the Sound card 2 Connect an output port mono only from the audio card to the input port of the EQ device 3 Connect the output port of the EQ device into the input port mono only of the audio card 4 These steps can be done using the digital in out ports as well on your audio card if the EQ device has digital I O 5 Open a session in one of the supported host applications and make sure that the audio card is listed as the active I O of the application 6 Make sure that your hardware EQ device is turned on and that it is in a flat setting all faders and gain should be at 0 db Any extra filters should be turned off 7 Open the Q Capture component on its track following the directions from your host application start up section in this manual 8 Calibrate the Q Capture by following the directions in the Calibration section on page 11 9 Open the Q Clone component on the track that you want to process by following the directions from your host application start up section in this manual 10 Press the Capture button in the Q clone and
21. n Time Display YST Connections F4 YST Instruments Fil WST Performance F12 Video F8 show Panel Device Setup KI YST Connections Outputs Stereo Cut Shere E een 1 Analog 1 2 Quattro o tK Right 2 Analog 1 2 Quattro Mona Out Mono E EK Mana 3 nalog 3 4 Quattro Waves Q Clone Manual 17 Ivana In E Qc Fu Q hana Ciut JE s i i capture h m nao Je NEUE ERE 3 IE ro Audio Dz 8 Put the Q Capture in the first Nuendo Cubase Insert slot It will be located in the Waves Plug In list hana In hana Ciut D D MIE ERN Waves Q Clone Manual 18 9 Arm the monitor push the monitor button on this track mj s IFTE 10 Calibrate your EQ hardware with the Q Capture following the directions on the Calibration chapter on page 11 11 On the audio track that you want to process open the Q Clone in the insert channel of that track It will be located in the Waves Plug In list Stereo In Stereo Ciut iC mj sj RJ w m H 18i 12 Make sure that the I O on this channel is different than the I O on the Q Capture s channel Waves Q Clone Manual 19 Stereo In Sterea Out 0 0 a mm 2 5 EIRRE i n mm ma tee L Audio 11 13 When the Q Clone is opened it will be in Hold mode When you switch the Capture on it w
22. ng point li Load an EQ on top of the existing Q Clone EQ curve on your screen This preset can be loaded from the Q Clone preset menu or from any directory on your hard drive 17 You can use saved presets and factory presets in two ways Load and Add When you click the Load button on the Waves menu bar you can choose any preset from the preset list Each preset will show you two options for loading Load will allow you to upload the preset and use it instead of the one that you had before Add will upload the preset on top of the one that you previously used Sonar 3 x 1 Connect a cable from one of your audio card output ports into the input of the EQ device 2 Connect a cable from the output of the EQ device to your audio card input port 3 Set all of the frequencies gain knobs on your EQ device to 0 db and turn any filters off 4 Open a new Audio track in your session 5 Set the I O of this track to match the insert I O that you used in steps 1 and 2 3M Audiol FIE YD F T3 BI Lill EN ASIO Echo WOM Gina24 M 6 In the track s Audio Effects window insert the Q Capture from the Waves plug ins list Waves Q Clone Manual 21 MondoMod MondoMod m s Delete MondoMod Mono Sane Morphoder Morphoder mis Morphoder Mona MainConcept MPEG Audio Decoder PAZ Analyzer PAS Frequency Bypass Bin Arm Parameter pains Pae Frequency Mono E Pantheon Surround saa Mane E PA Meters Mono PA Position
23. o System b Configure Audio System Audio System Clock Confiqure Hardware Driver Configure Studio Settings Input Monitoring Mode Fine tune Audio I O Timing Sample Format In this dialog box check the Always option and click OK Input Monitoring Mode j 1 Monitor the inputs nf record enabled tracks 3 Only during recording and penzhad in P Always 6 Open your DP session and open a new Audio file which will be dedicated to the Q Capture 7 On this dedicated track assign the input of the channel to the audio card input that is connected to the hardware output cable input Y 8 Also on this dedicated track assign the output of the channel to the output of your audio card which receives the hardware input cable output X 9 Arm the Rec button on this channel Waves Q Clone Manual 28 ds uu uu CE du du uu Ga GG Memar Suri rris Bogi aeuo Project alphas faq 552 1 38 Mire bine Dre E imierral a go aiz Hirn 8 11 Calibrate the Q Capture with your EQ device as instructed in the Calibration section on page 11 12 On an Audio track the one that you want to process insert the Q Clone Mono or Stereo according to the track You must bypass all other plug ins on the track while you are EQ ing it 13 When the Q Clone is open click the Capture button to start receiving the cloning image from the EQ device You will
24. pens several times per second so that the EQ settings of the device are well tracked by the cloned EQ As long as the Q Clone is in Capture mode it keeps on tracking the EQ settings of the device When the Q Clone enters Hold mode accomplished by clicking the Hold button the very last settings are frozen All EQ settings are stored within sessions and can be stored as presets The presets can be shared across different sessions or different tracks within the same session WHICH EQ HARDWARE DEVICES ARE SUPPORTED TO WORK WITH THE Q CLONE 1 Any working condition EQ device with analog digital I O 2 Any analog channels strip with EQ section built in 3 Not a combination of EQ with compressor or any other non linear processor The plug in components Waves Q Clone Manual 4 Q Capture Component The Q capture sends a test signal from its output that is intended to be fed back into its own input through the EQ device It should be opened on a live I O This can be a Mono Auxiliary track or an Audio Track depending on your Audio host Only a single instance of Q Capture can work at a time THE TRANSMITTING SECTION The Q Capture plug in shows the Transmitting section in the bottom part The Transmitting section transmits the Q Capture signal to the track on which it is inserted The track s output should go directly to an analog output of the Workstation s I O as shown in Diagram 1 A graphic representation tha
25. see the orange line on your display graph showing the present EQ curve 14 Play this track solo it or play it with the entire session and start building your EQ setup by adjusting the parameters tweaking the knobs on the hardware EQ device 15 Once you reach your desired EQ click on the Hold button to engage Hold mode 16 Now there are a few options to choose from a Save your EQ to a new preset file anywhere on your computer Click the Save button on the Waves menu bar and choose Save To New File This saves a preset file to any desired directory on your computer b Save your EQ to your Waves Preset Menu Click the Save button on the Waves menu bar and choose Put Into Preset Menu As This will allow you to load your new preset anytime you open the Waves Q Clone preset menu Waves Q Clone Manual 29 c Reset Reset the preset by loading the reset preset file from the Load menu d Add By clicking the Add button you can load a new preset on top of an existing one The Add mode gives the effect of having 2 or more EQ devices in a chain There are 2 options for Add mode i Open a Q clone preset from the Q Clone preset menu or any directory on your hard drive or use the existing displayed EQ curve Click the Add button and then make changes to it Note that changes should be done from a flat EQ starting point li Load an EQ on top of the existing Q Clone EQ curve on your screen This preset can be load
26. t indicates that signal is being transmitted will be displayed THE RECEIVING SECTION The Q Capture plug in shows the Receiving section in the top part This section takes the live track input from the sampled EQ output and displays a mode status Waiting or Receiving When the status indicates Receiving this means that a signal is being received and that the system is ready for work When the word Waiting shows up the loop described in the set up section is not completed and the cloning signal is not returning to the Q Capture Waves Q Clone Manual 5 The Receiving section also shows an input meter to indicate the signal level returning from your EQ device back into the channel Headroom i 14 0 13 7 SEE CALIBRATION SECTION The Headroom slider and the In and Out meters are on the right side of the Q Capture These not only indicate that signal is being received but can also help to adjust the Headroom fader of the Transmitting section This is to insure optimal dynamic range and to avoid clipping in the analog device Please see the Calibrating section on page 11 for more information If you find that you are not getting a signal there can be multiple reasons for this All reasons are fairly straightforward and are related to routing and live input monitoring Please follow the set up step by step directions on page 13 then consult our Troubleshooting section or EQ sampling loop checklist and di
27. t on top of an existing one The Add mode gives the effect of having 2 or more EQ devices in a chain There are 2 options for Add mode i Open a Q clone preset from the Q Clone preset menu or any directory on your hard drive or use the existing displayed EQ curve Click the Add button and then make changes to it Note that changes should be done from a flat EQ starting point li Load an EQ on top of the existing Q Clone EQ curve on your screen This preset can be loaded from the Q Clone preset menu or from any directory on your hard drive 16 You can use saved presets and factory presets in two ways Load and Add When you click the Load button on the Waves menu bar you can choose any preset from the preset list Each preset will show you two options for loading Load will allow you to upload the preset and use it instead of the one that you had before Add will upload the preset on top of the one that you previously used Digital Performer 4 x 1 Connect a cable from one of your audio card output ports into the input of the EQ device 2 Connect a cable from the output of the EQ device to your audio card input port 3 Set all of the frequencies gain knobs on your EQ device to 0 db 4 Open your Audio Card control panel and make sure that this I O setting is shown properly in the routing chart 5 On the Digital Performer DP menu bar go to A Studio menu and check the Audio Patch Thru option Waves Q Clone
28. ting mostly third order harmonics Hard clipping such as that which occurs in electronic circuitry or digital storage generates lots of high order harmonics which are far more obtrusive Hard clipping is not normally detectable if it is very brief about 1 millisecond but if sustained it sounds very unpleasant Both in recording and in live music the level of signals arriving is not entirely predictable It is optimal to have some margin of safety between the usual operating level and the point where clipping occurs In calibrating the Q Clone we want to achieve a nominal output level Transmitting signal and input level Receiving signal into your EQ hardware To calibrate the Q Clone you first need to set up your hardware EQ with the plug in in your Audio host application as explained in your host application set up chapter below When the connection is right and everything is set as explained in the instructions you should see the word Receiving in the top part of the Q Capture and the word Transmitting at the bottom part of it Waves Q Clone Manual 11 If the set up is not working properly you will see the word Waiting in one or both parts of the GUI This can happen when the physical loop between your audio host audio card and EQ hardware device is not complete You would also get the Waiting message if the I O on the Audio AUX channel is not assigned to the correct I O of your audio card After opening the Q
29. will be applied to the Gain Fader There is little point in using the Trim many times throughout a piece of audio as you would do better with a steady gain for the whole passage The recommended practice is to let the whole passage play find just the loudest passage and then apply Trim Repeat this until the program plays all the way through no clipping is indicated and the Trim window shows 0 0 If you do wish to ride the gain it is best done very smoothly rather then in sudden jumps in gain Be aware of this if you are automating your mix THE PRESET MENU The Q Clone plug in is loaded with factory presets made for specific applications with some world class analog EQ s The preset menu has 2 load options Load and Aad Waves Q Clone Manual 9 LoAD will replace any existing sampled EQ with the one in the preset ADD will load the preset on top of the current EQ settings Since the Q Clone s preset files include the complete EQ filter and there is no need for external media files it is very easy to share EQ settings Now if you have a favorite EQ in your home studio in Atlanta but you are doing a mixing session in London you can take a bunch of setup files of your EQ with you on CD or even e mail them to yourself and use your EQ settings in the overseas session Below is a step by step guide for successful creation of the set up for various host applications USING THE Q CLONE SYSTEM Using this system is possible
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