User Manual v.1.0 ()

Analog Mastering Plug-In

User Manual version 1.0 ()

Analog Mastering Plug-In

Contents

Interface

License and copyrights

What is T-RackS?1.1 Description1.2 Whats New in T-RackS plug-in

Requirements2.1 System Requirements

Installation and Authorization3.1 Installation - Mac3.2 Authorization

Mastering with T-RackS4.1 Intro 4.2 Equalizing your master 4.3 Compressing your master 4.4 Limiting your master 4.5 Output stage4.6 Presets

Equalizer section5.1 RESET ALL5.2 LOW CUT 5.3 LOW 5.4 LOW-MID 5.5 HI-MID 5.6 HI 5.7 HI CUT5.8 OUTPUT LEVEL5.9 PATCH 5.10 BYPASS /ON

Compressor section 6.1 RESET ALL6.2 SIDECHAIN HPF6.3 ATTACK TIME 6.4 RELEASE TIME 6.5 STEREO ENHANCE 6.6 INPUT DRIVE 6.7 GAIN REDUCTION VU

I

II

III

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

I - Contents4

5I - Contents

6.8 RATIO control 6.9 OUTPUT LEVEL6.10 PATCH6.11 BYPASS/ON

Limiter section7.1 RESET ALL7.2 OVERLOAD7.3 RELEASE TIME7.4 INPUT DRIVE7.5 GAIN REDUCTION VU7.6 SINGLE BAND THRESHOLD 7.7 SINGLE BAND LEVEL7.8 CROSS OVER POINTS7.9 OUTPUT7.10 PATCH 7.11 BYPASS/ON

Soft clipping output stage8.1 GAIN 8.2 SHAPE 8.3 OUTPUT CONTROL8.4 SAT LED8.5 OVER LEDs8.6 PATCH8.7 BYPASS/ON

Support 9.1 Support9.2 User Area

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

6 II - Interface

5 Plug-ins: Mastering Suite

plus separateequalizer,

compressor,limiter and

soft-clippingstage

Equalizer

Compressor

Limiter

Soft-Clipping Stage

Mastering Suite

54EQ

7II - Interface

State-of-the-Art6-bandEqualizer

ClassicTube StereoCompressor

MultibandStereo Limiter/Leveler

Soft-ClippingStage

32 Bit floating point resolution

Award winninganalog modeled

sounds with truetube emulation

100 presets

Mastering Suite

Analog Mastering Plug-Infor Digidesign Pro Tools

32

100

6

8 III - License Agreement

License AgreementEND-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR T-RackS plug-in SOFTWARE

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10 1 - T-RackS

T-RackS Plug-In for Pro Tools

T-RackS(fig. 1)

5

- 6

EQ(fig. 2)

- (fig. 3)

- (fig. 4)

- (fig. 5)

- EQ

(fig. 1)

T-RackS

T-RackS

IK Multimedia

DSP

T-RackS

T-RackS

T-RackS

Chapter 1

1.1

fig. 1

111 - T-RackS

T-RackS

EQ

1) MID EQ

Low/Hi MID20-20kHz

2)

EQ

3)

4)

Low/Mid/Hi

5)

32

6)

0dB

-0.05 dBfs

OVERLOAD

-0.05 dBfs

fig. 2

fig. 3

fig. 4

fig. 5

1.2

12 3 - Installation and Authorization

RTASPro Tools

DigidesignPower MacintoshPCIPro Tools|24 MIXPro

Tools|24 MIX PlusPro Tools|24 Mix (Pro Tools software 5.1)Digi 001AudioMedia

IIIPro Tools LE (Pro Tools software 5.1)Digidesign

ATA/IDESCSIMac OS 8.69.0832 x624

(1024x768 )

T-RackS CD-ROM Install T-RackS

T-RackSProTools

T-RackS plug-ins>DAE

Folder>Plug-Ins- T-RackS Mastering Suite

- T-RackS Equalizer

- T-RackS Tube Compressor

- T-RackS Multiband Limiter

- T-RackS Soft Clipper

DAE Folder>Plug-In Settings

>DAE Folder>Plug-InsT-RackS plug-ins

T-RackS

T-RackS

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

2.1

3.1

3.2

133 - Installation and Authorization

T-RackS

1) ProTools

- Serial Number

1I (/)0O (/)

- Digital IDID

Digital ID

- Authorization CodeSerial NumberDigital IDIK Multimedia

Digital ID

2) Digital IDT-RackSOS

OS

Digital IDI ()1

()O ()0 ()

3) T-RackS

http://www.t-racks.com/TRReg.html

T-RackSJavascript

Netscape NavigatorInternet Explorer

4) T-RackSDigital ID

Authorization CodeEmail

FAX

Submit

5) IK Multimedia

EmailAuthorization Code ()

6) Authorization Code(T-RackS

) ProTools

T-RackSAuthorization Code

I ()1 ()O

()0 ()

14 3 - Installation and Authorization

7) Serial Number

8) OK

Authorization CodeEmail

Authorization CodeEmailIK Multimedia

ID(user

id/password) EmailID

IK Multimedia

Authorization Code

9

Email FAX

FAX

T-RackS 24 authorization code request (FAX )

- T-RackS serial number (#)

- Which kind of T-RackS () - Digital ID:

- First Name (: Taro)

- Last Name (: Yamada)

- Company (: Orange Computer)

- Address (+ : 1-9-2-901 Jinnnan)

- City (, : Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)

- Zip Code(: 150-0041)

- Countr (: Japan)

- Phone ()

FAX. 03-3477-1757

150-0041 1-9-2 901

FAX2

154 - Mastering with T-RackS

T-RackS

T-RackS

Intro

CDR

CD

CD

CD

CD

FM?

CD

0dB

?

1)

T-RackS

T-RackS

2)

CD1 T-

RackS

3) CD

T-RackS T-RackS

0 dB

0 dBT-RackS

Chapter 4

4.1

16 4 - Mastering with T-RackS

T-RackS EQ

T-RackSEQUALIZER

T-RackS 6

EQ

2

EQ /

T-RackS EQ ON/BYPASS ON

(fig. 6)

T-RackS 6

(fig. 7)

1) 4th(30Hz 2kHz)

2) (30Hz 2kHz)

3) Lo/Hi Q (15Hz 20kHz)

4) Lo/Hi Q (15Hz 20kHz)

5) (1kHz 20.4kHz)

6) 4th(1kHz 20.4kHz)

Lo/Hi Q Lo:/Hi:)

RESET ALL

CTRL()

(dB)(Hz/kHz)CURRENT

(LOW CUT/Low/.../HI CUT)ON/OFF

4.2

fig. 7

fig. 8

fig. 9

fig. 10

fig. 11

fig. 6

174 - Mastering with T-RackS

Mastering Suite plug-inEQ -

PATCH EQ

EQChapter 5

EQ

EQ

T-RackS

/

T-RackS ON/BYPASS

ON LED

(fig. 13)

INPUT DRIVE

(fig. 14)

T-RackS ()

VU

T-RackS

VU dB (fig. 15)

Attack/Release /

Ratio

Stereo Enhancement 0 dB

Sidechain HPF

(fig. 16)

Mastering suite plug-inEQ

4.3

fig. 12

fig. 13

fig. 14

fig. 15

fig. 16

18 4 - Mastering with T-RackS

PATCH

PATCH

1

Chapter 6

T-RackS

Low/Mid/Hi

T-RackS ON/BYPASS

ON LED

Input drive (fig. 19)

VU (fig. 20) dB

T-RackS

3

Release

Overload

THR

Level

Crossover

(fig. 18)

Chapter 7

fig. 18

fig. 20

fig. 21

fig. 19

fig. 17

4.4

194 - Mastering with T-RackS

0 dB

T-RackS 24

OUTPUT (fig. 22) 0dBGAIN

-0.05 dBfs

OUTPUT0dBGAIN

SAT (fig. 23)

SAT LEDOVER LED SAT

OVER (fig. 22)

CD

OVER LED 0dB

Chapter 8

T-RackS RTAS4Mastering Suite

ProTools

T-RackS RTAS100Mastering Suite

fig. 22

fig. 23

4.5

4.6

20 5 - Equalizer section

Equalizer section

T-RackS (fig. 24) 6 EQ

(fig. 7)

1) 4th(30Hz 2kHz)

2) (30Hz 2kHz)

3) Lo/Hi Q (15Hz 20kHz)

4) Lo/Hi Q (15Hz 20kHz)

5) (1kHz 20.4kHz)

6) 4th(1kHz 20.4kHz)

RESET ALL

RESET(fig. 25)CTRL

1

LOW CUT

(30Hz 2kHz)

FREQ control

(fig. 26)

(Hz)

CTRL

LOW CUT band ON/OFF

LOW CUT (fig. 27) EQ /

Off

LOW

(30Hz 2kHz)

FREQ control

(fig. 26) CTRL+

30Hz 2kHz(Hz)

fig. 24

fig. 25

fig. 26

fig. 28

fig. 27

Chapter 5

5.1

5.2

5.3

215 - Equalizer section

GAIN control

GAIN(fig. 29)

CTRL +/-

15dB(dB)

LOW band ON/OFF

LOW (fig. 30) EQ /

Off

LOW MID

FREQ control

(fig. 31) CTRL+

15Hz 20kHz(Hz/kHz)

GAIN control

GAIN(fig. 32)

CTRL +/-

15dB(dB)

HiQ and LowQ switch

HiQ/LowQ(fig. 33)

LO Q

Hi Q

LOW MID band ON/OFF

LOW MID (fig. 34) EQ /

Off

HI MID

Lo/Hi Q (15Hz 20kHz)

FREQ control

(fig. 35) CTRL+

15Hz 20kHz(Hz/kHz)

GAIN control

GAIN(fig. 36)

CTRL +/-

15dB(dB)

fig. 29

fig. 31

fig. 35

fig. 32

fig. 33

fig. 30

fig. 34

5.4

5.5

fig. 36

22 5 - Equalizer section

HiQ and LowQ switch

HiQ/LowQ(fig. 37)

LO Q

Hi Q

HI MID band ON/OFF

HI MID (fig. 38) EQ /

Off

HI

(1kHz 20.4kHz)

FREQ control

(fig. 39) CTRL+

1kHz 20.4kHz(Hz)

GAIN control

GAIN(fig. 40)

CTRL +/-

15dB(dB)

HI band ON/OFF

HI (fig. 41) EQ /

Off

HI CUT

(1kHz 20.4kHz)

FREQ control

(fig. 42) 1kHz

20.4kHz(Hz)

CTRL

HI CUT button

HI CUT (fig. 43) EQ /

Off

fig. 37

fig. 38

fig. 39

fig. 42

fig. 40

fig. 41

fig. 43

5.6

5.7

235 - Equalizer section

OUTPUT LEVEL

OUTPUT (fig. 44) EQEQ ON

PATCH

PATCH(fig. 45)EQ

Mastering Suite

EQ1

BYPASS/ON

BYPASS (fig. 46)

LED

fig. 44

fig. 45

fig. 46

5.8

5.9

5.10

24 6 - Compressor section

T-RackS (fig. 47)

/

RESET ALL

CTRL1

SIDECHAIN HPF

T

(fig. 49)

ATTACK TIME

(fig. 50)

15ms80ms

RELEASE TIME

(fig. 51)

70ms1.5s

fig. 47

fig. 49

fig. 50

fig. 51

fig. 48

Chapter 6

6.1

6.2

6.3

6.4

256 - Compressor section

STEREO ENHANCEMENT

(fig. 52) +/-5dB

0dB

INPUT DRIVE

INPUT DRIVE (fig. 53)

+/-18dB

T-RackS()

T-RackS

GAIN REDUCTION VU

VU (fig. 54) dB

0dBdB

RATIO

(fig. 55)

2

5

23

T-RackS

fig. 52

fig. 55

fig. 53

fig. 54

6.5

6.6

6.7

6.8

26 6 - Compressor section

2

RATIO

RATIO 5

2 3

OUTPUT LEVEL

(fig. 56)

PATCH

PATCH(fig. 57)EQ

Mastering Suite

2

BYPASS/ON

BYPASS (fig. 58)

LED

fig. 58

fig. 56

fig. 57

6.9

6.10

6.11

277 - Limiter section

Limiter section

T-RackS

Output0dB

-0.05 dBfs

RESET ALL

RESET(fig. 60)CTRL

1

OVERLOAD

0dB

RELEASE TIME

(fig. 62)

60ms16s

INPUT DRIVE

(fig. 63)

-10dB+15dB

fig. 59

fig. 60

fig. 61

fig. 62

fig. 63

Chapter 7

7.1

7.2

7.3

7.4

28 7 - Limiter section

GAIN REDUCTION VU

VU (fig. 64) dB

0dBdB

T-RackS

3

SINGLE BAND THRESHOLD

THR (fig. 65)

SINGLE BAND LEVEL

LEVEL (fig. 66)

3EQ

CROSS OVER POINTS

Crossover (fig. 67)

low-mid70Hz

OUTPUT LEVEL

(fig. 68) 0dB

-0.05 dBfs

PATCH

PATCH(fig. 69)EQ

Mastering Suite

3

fig. 65

fig. 66

fig. 67

fig. 64

fig. 68

fig. 69

7.5

7.6

7.7

7.8

7.9

7.10

298 - Soft-clipping output stage

BYPASS/ON

BYPASS (fig. 70)

LED

T-RackS Mastering Suite

(fig. 71)

0dB

GAIN

GAIN (fig. 72)

GAINOUTPUT0 dB

OUTPUT (fig. 74) 0dBGAIN

0.05 dBfs

SHAPE

(fig. 73)

3dB

OUTPUT

OUTPUT (fig. 74) 0dBGAIN

0.05 dBfs

fig. 70

fig. 71

fig. 72

fig. 73

fig. 74

7.11

Chapter 8

8.1

8.2

8.3

30 8 - Soft-clipping output stage

OUTPUT0dBGAIN

SAT LED

SAT LED (fig. 75) OVER LED SAT

OVER LEDs

OVER (fig. 76)

OVER LED 0dB

PATCH

PATCH(fig. 77)EQ

Mastering Suite

4

BYPASS/ON

BYPASS (fig. 78)

LED

fig. 75

fig. 76

fig. 78

fig. 77

8.4

8.5

8.6

8.7

319 - Support

Support

Support

T-RackSOS CPU

RAMProTools

DAE

150-0041 1-9-2 901

Tel. 03-3477-1493 Fax. 03-3477-1757

http://www.miroc.co.jp/t-racks.html

http://www.miroc.co.jp/MI_Support/

email ()mi-support@miroc.co.jp

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new secure personal user area on our website.

You can access the area here:

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