N.I. Absynth Flashcards
The____page allows you to define the paths for the directories containing your samples and your templates, along with two additional options.
General
____: These three fields allow you to set paths to the directories contain- ing the samples used by your Sounds.
Samples Directories
____: This field allows you to set the path for the directory contain- ing your various Templates (Envelopes, Waveforms, modules, Channels…).
Template Libraries Directory
__: If this option is enabled, ABSYNTH 5 controls the output of the three individual Channels in the Patch Window so that the main output remains constant and do not clip. That is, if you were to increase the level of one Channel, ABSYNTH 5 would___.
Auto balance patch channels
automatically decrease the levels of the two other Channels
___: If this option is enabled, a Macro Control that has had a parameter assigned to it takes over the name of this parameter – but only if no other parameters have already been assigned to it.
Auto rename control macro on first assignment
The___page allows you to configure ABSYNTH 5’s surround output channels.
Surround
ABSYNTH 5 can have up to ____separate audio outputs. The fundamentals for configuring your audio and MIDI interfaces can be found in the Getting Started guide. The Surround page can then be used to assign your output channels to specific positions in the panoramic field.
eight
___ This standard configuration delivers typical two-channel stereo sound. In this setting, the speakers are situated at 45 degrees and -45 degrees.
2 Stereo:
___: This configuration is easy to distinguish from 2 Stereo: Both front speak- ers are arranged at 90° and -90°. This results in a wider stereo soundscape.
2 Stereo Wide
___: This configuration returns to analog Matrix surround sound. It is well known under the names of, for example, Dolby SurroundTM (home entertainment center) or Dolby StereoTM (movie theatre), but without a ____. Here, there is a central rear channel as well as left- and right front ch3 Front: This configuration replaces the central rear channel of the previous configuration with a center front channel, which leads to better distribution in the stereo soundscape than a classic stereo configuration.
3 Surround
front center channel
___: This configuration combines a 3 Surround configuration with a front-center channel and is also known under the name Dolby Surround Pro LogicTM.
4 Surround
____: This four-channel configuration is based on the quadraphonic systems that were popular with consumers in the 1970’s. The four speakers are arranged symmetrically in a square shape.
4 Quad
___: This five-channel surround sound configuration is comparable to top-of-the-line home theater arrangements and movie theaters systems, known as, for example, Dolby DigitalTM or DTSTM. This system provides you with three___ channels (left, center, right) and two ___ channels (surround left, surround right).
5 Music
front
surround
____: This configuration delivers five-channel surround sound, where the five channels are arranged symmetrically in a circle.
5 Pentaphonic
_____: This configuration corresponds to a 5 Music configuration, but contains an additional rear center channel. This arrangement is used by, for example, the surround sound systems Dolby Digital EXTM and DTS-ESTM.
6 Music
___: This configuration delivers six-channel surround sound where the six channels are symmetrically arranged in a circle.
6 Hexaphonic
___ This configuration delivers seven-channel surround sound as it can often be heard in films. Well-known surround sound systems of this type include SDDSTM and IMAXTM. This configuration combines the 5 Music configurations with two additional front center channels (center left, center right).
7 Cinema:
___: This configuration delivers seven-channel surround sound. It is comparable with the 6 Music configuration, but the surround center channel is divided between the two rear channels “surround center left” and “surround center right”.
7 Music
__: This configuration delivers seven-channel surround sound, where the seven channels are symmetrically arranged in a circle.
7 Heptaphonic
___ This configuration delivers eight-channel surround sound, where the eight channels are symmetrically arranged in a circle.
8 Octaphonic:
___
For all configurations but the last 8 Octophonic, you can activate an additional LFE / or Subwoofer channel. To enable it, click on the little LFE button at the bottom left of the Surround page.
Low Frequency Effect Channel
ABSYNTH 5 uses a dynamic voice allocation; voices that are not played do not_____ .The more notes are played simultaneously, the higher the CPU read-out will go. If the CPU overloads, it is recommended to____ in order to reduce the processing load. If your computer reacts sluggishly to incoming commands, it is probably because your CPU is____ and there is not enough resources available for generating the image on the screen. If this happens, try to decrease the load by___
contribute to the processing load.
leave out a couple of notes
leave out a couple of notes
releasing a few notes.
if ABSYNTH 5 overloads the CPU, the audio hardware installed on your computer might get out of step and no longer be able to accurately produce sound. In such a case, you have several options to restore operations back to normal:
► Release___.This releases resources used by ABSYNTH 5 for every voice.
► Click on the ___ button in order to reset the ABSYNTH 5 engine, and stop playing (see section 4.1.6 below).
► Click on the _____button to switch to another Sound (see section 4.2.3 below).
► Click on a_____ in the Patch Window to turn a Module on or off. This will also reset ABSYNTH 5’s audio engine.
all of the notes on your MIDI keyboard
Panic
Next or Previous Sound
Module Slot frame
The__and __ buttons are shortcuts for the Mutate button and Retry button of the Mutator in the Browser.
Mutate and Retry
The ___ Window is the control center of ABSYNTH 5 where you assemble the components that make up a Sound.
Patch
the design of ABSYNTH 5 is ____. That means that you can determine the arrangement of certain components yourself. Other components have a permanent place in the signal flow.
semi-modular
The Patch Window organizes the modules components into___Channels. These Channels are designated with the letters ___ and they each consist of three vertically arranged fields, the Module Slots. Each of these Module Slots can be filled with a ___.
three
A through C
module
The Patch Window:To turn a module on or off, click on the ____ on the left side of the Module Slot – where the writing indicates the type of module.
extended border
The Module Slots A-C at the top of the three Channels can only be loaded with an ___module.
The remaining Module Slots 1 and 2 of any Channel can be loaded with___.
Oscillator
Modulator, Filter or Waveshaper modules
:::
, which is located in the lower left-hand corner of the Patch Window, allows you to activate/deactivate the Surround Pan mode:
Surround Pan Switch
::
This mode allows you to freely position the three Channels in the surround panorama. This function can be used for impressive___effects, for example, by modulating the surround position of the Channels independently of one another with an LFO or an Envelope.
Surround Pan switch
spatial
ABSYNTH 5 can also adjust the levels automatically so that the sum of the three audio signals never exceeds ___, even after a value in one of the three Channels has been changed.
0 dB
To activate automatic volume levels, activate the option ___ in the General page of the Options dialog . You also have the possibility to balance Channels manually, giving the same level to each. To do this, select the entry Balance lLevels from the ___menu in the ___Bar
Auto balance patch channels
Edit
After the __module, the final signal leaves ABSYNTH 5.
Effect
The modules in the Master Channel have two operating modes: __mode and__ mode. You can switch between both modes by clicking on the__ switch:
Mono/Poly switch
Poly
Mono
Mono/Poly
• In ____ mode (three arrows meeting each other), the signals coming from the three Channels A-C are summed up before being processed by the module.
Mono
• In\_\_\_ mode (three parallel arrows), the module processes each Channel separately. !As a logical consequence, you cannot have a module in\_\_\_ mode sitting after a module in Mono mode, since the three Channel signals have already been summed up by the first module...
Poly
Poly
In ___ mode every voice has its own, independent Waveshaper. The distortion affects every voice separately – in the same way as if every string on a guitar had its own amplifier.
Poly
In ___ mode, only one Waveshaper is used for the different voices, which means that many of the notes played interact – similar to the way that they do in chords played on a distorted electric guitar.
Mono
In an Oscillator, select the option Load Oscil Template to load a___.
The command Load Channel Template allows you to load___.
pre-configured Oscillator
a complete Channel
In a Filter, Modulator or Waveshaper module, the Edit menu solely offers a ___ that loads the settings for that module.
Load Template option
The ____ Basically, it is a Comb Filter equipped with a feedback loop and a tonal control borrowing characteristics from the Resonators and Pipe Effects.
Supercomb filter
Supercomb’s Tone panel parameters:
• ____: selects from a set of resonance modes. The higher the feedback is turned up, the more pronounced the effect is.changes the color of the decay.
Tone Mode menu
Supercomb’s Tone panel parameters:___ This controls affects the sound differently according to the mode selected in the Tone Mode menu above. It is not available for the mode Raw.
Tone control
Supercomb’s Tone panel parameters:____ Controls the ratio of the delay taps (see 5.5.9, “Comb”, above). This control changes the color of the comb filter.
Position control
the ___ is the little brother of the new Aetherizer effect, a granular delay with multiple feedback and tone controls.
Cloud filter
Cloud filter :
The___panel holds parameters controlling the grain cloud.
• The ___ panel allows you to activate a filter and to adjust its parameters.
• The__ panel allows you to adjust the mix between the dry and processed signals and the level of the output signal.
Grain
Tone
Mix
Cloud filter :Grain Panel:
On the Grain panel, you find the following parameters:
• ___control: Sets the global transposition of the grains.
• __ control: Defines the number of grains created during one second.
• ___ control: Adjusts the pre-delay involved in the grain creation.
Transpose
Rate
Delay
Cloud filter: Tone panel, parameters:
• ___: Activates/deactivates the Cloud’s internal filter.
Filter switch
Cloud filter: Tone panel, parameters:
• ___: Defines the cutoff frequency of the internal filter.
Frequency control (Hz)
Cloud filter: Tone panel, parameters:
• ___: Adjusts the resonance of the internal filter.
Resonance control (Q)
Cloud filter: Tone panel, parameters:
•___: Activates/deactivates the quantization of the filter, and allows you to select the quantization mode. The quantization distributes the possible___over the predefined scales available in the menu.
Filter Quantize menu
cutoff frequency
Cloud filter: Tone panel, parameters:
•___: Adjusts the base pitch of the scale on which the cutoff frequencies are quantized. This parameter appears for all quantization modes except__ (and None of course).
Quantize Tranpose control
Vowel
The____ uses its own built-in oscillator in order to change and modulate the incoming signal.
Modulator module
Modulator module:___:The amplitudes of the incoming signal and of the signal produced by the Modulator oscillator are multiplied with one another.
:ringmod
Modulator module:___mode, the Modulator module produces a frequency shift via a feedback loop.
Frequency Shift
From a functional point of view, the ____resembles the ring modulation, and it can also bring similar sonic results.
frequency shift
While the Ring Modulator produces
- –, the Frequency Shifter limits itself either to frequency sums or differences. Practically, this means that the
- – produces subtler, better to control effects than the Ringmod mode.
frequency sums as well as frequency differences
Freq Shift mode