The new library
In this chapter we will give you a brief overview of the new library. We would like to incourage you to use the new modules for building new devices. There are plenty of new modules which have enhanced functionality and/or better audio qualities. The interface of the modules were all remodelled and are already using the new surfaces (with Surfaceinterfaces, CloseGroups and ControlGroups).
There are also some new examples which should help you to understand specific modules better.
When you have a look into the 'Circuit Design' folder you can see the first level of our library. In 'Basics' you will find all basic modules for building devices, routings and a test tone generator.
in 'Effects' you find everything from basic effect modules to auxiliary modules like special filters and a special LFO for effects. The effects themselves are categorized in different groups. 'Delays' provides different simple delays but also delay effects like chorus and flangers. Interestig new modules are the 'Modulation Delays' and the 'Float/Mute Delays'. There are two examples which are using 'Modulation Delays' (/Examples/Effects/Mono/Chorus and /Examples/Effects/Stereo/TFlanger). Mono and stereo compressors, limiters etc. can be found in the 'Dynamics' folder. Different other effects like Envelope Followers, Pitch Shifter etc. are in the 'Others' whereas the Allpass filter is in 'Reverbs' (delays are in the delay folder and comb filters are in '/Filters/Sound Design').
In 'Envelopes' you find different envelopes and pitch envelopes as well as volume attenuators. The latter ones are only used in conjunction with envelopes and therefore they can be found in this folder.
The 'Filter' directory has different subgroups - from mixing purpose filters to sound design. In the so called 'Filter Design' there is the Linkwitz-Riley-filter which is absolutely linear. Also the one pole filters in this folder are very suitable for designing new filters. They are exactly on the frequency. The filters in 'Sound Design' are most often used for synthesis purpose (like the 'Formant Filter'). Nevertheless others could also be used in reverbs like the 'Comb Filters'.
The 'Gates' folder includes some gates that are usefull for designing synths.
In 'Logic' there are multiple modules for managing routings and controls as well as to adjusting control data.
The a 'Basic Channel Strip' module can be found in the 'Mixer Comp'. This module consists a 'Mixer Pan', a 'Mixer Input Amplifier' and a 'Mixer Master Gain' modules. There is also an enhanced Pan module, the 'Script Pan', and an 'Insert Slot' module.
Different kinds of modifiers (for sound and controller) can be found in the 'Modifiers' directory. This includes 'Crossfade Pan' and 'Crossfade Mix' as well as multiple modules for synths like 'Key Level', 'Cutoff Key Follow' and 'RingModulator'.
'Oscillators' is a collection of different oscillators, LFOs and noises. There are also oscillators that can be synchronized and a FM Operator.
There are different types of signal adders in Scope. The classic mixer types can adjust the level for each input signal. The normalized ones reduces the sound by the ratio of the numbers of input channels. The level signal adders all to adjust the level of the sum and the dynamic signal adders provide both, control for the sum and for each channel separately. There are multiple models of each type in the 'Signal Adders' folder.
The 'Switches' folder provides different switches for control and audio signals. A very nice one is the 'Signal Switch Ex' which is very flexible.
Voice Controls and related modules can be found in 'Voice Controls'.
For metering there are some VU modules in the directory 'VUs'.
Examples
There are some examples that may help to understand the basics fo designing a specific circuit. While looking TSynth (/Examples/Synths/) please note how the Voice Control and the envelopes are interconnected. The Voice Control need a double connection with the amp envelope to determine how many voices are actually playing. Also it is important to place a 'Poly Mix 16' in front of the output of the synth. This module transforms a polyphonic signal flow into a monophonic signal.
The Drumulator is an example for how to set up and use MuteGroups. But you can also find the Voice Control-envelope construction in this synth.
Whereas the synth examples focus on general issues of circuit design the effect examples illustrate who to use the new delay modules like 'Modulation Delay', 'Mute Delay' and 'fx LFO'.
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