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Tonelux Tilt Live Manual
Tonelux Tilt Live Manual
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Contents
1 User Interface 5
Menu Row. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Key Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Tonelux Tilt 7
Foreword by Paul Wolff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Tilt Live. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Buying Recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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1 User Interface
Menu Row
In the bottom of the plug-in interface, you will see
a thin black row with some buttons. We’ll use the
Dyna-mite plug-in as example, but the same goes
for all plug-ins.
Enable
About Box Opens the “About” Box with When the Enable switch is set to on (I), the plug-
version info. in is active and will process audio. When set to off
(0), it will be bypassed and not process any audio. It
Value Display Displays the knob value when will take considerably less CPU when it is bypassed.
the mouse is hovering over a
control.
2 Tonelux Tilt
Phase Invert
Tilt Equalization
The Tilt control rebalances the whole sound of a
track with just one twist of a knob, going from a
In Loud shape mode and the Tilt knob fully clock-wise (at 4
bright and shimmering top to a warm and wide o’clock), you will boost both high and low frequencies.
low-end.
The filter of the Tilt is shaped so when one end of Turning the Loud control from min to max can give the
the frequency spectrum goes down, the other end illusion of a sound going from far away to up close. This is
goes up, thus cutting frequencies in one end while a handy effect for post production.
boosting in the other. The center frequency of this
The EQ In button will engage or disengage the
Tilt/Loud filter making A/B comparisons easy.
Tilt Live
The TILT LIVE plug-in is optimized for the Avid
Boost Ceiling
VENUE system and contains features requested by When using the TILT LIVE the Gain control will
live sound engineers. The TILT LIVE version does be replaced with a Boost Ceiling control.
not include the transformer modeling to preserve The Boost Ceiling control makes the Tilt filter
DSP power and features the Boost Ceiling control. behave differently depending on the Boost Ceiling
setting.
The TILT LIVE is perfect for in-ear systems when you
want to tweak the mix to adjust for ear fatigue, without When the Boost Ceiling is at its minimum the au-
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Credits
Buying Recommendations Niklas Odelholm – modeling, Oscar Öberg –
The TILT and TILT LIVE plug-ins aren’t based on DSP programming. Torsten Gatu – framework
a single piece of hardware. Designer Paul Wolff programming. Arvid Rosén – framework program-
wanted to create some extra functionality for the ming. Ulf Ekelöf – 3D rendering. Original hard-
plug-in version of his Tilt module, and worked ware was designed by Paul Wolff at Tonelux.
night and day to design a hardware prototype that
is the basis of these two plug-ins. However, if you
are desperate to find the Tilt control in a hardware
package, we can strongly recommend the fantastic
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