Eventide PHYSION User's Guide

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Contents

1 Physion Introduction 1

2 About This Manual 1

3 Registration, Activation, and Installation 1

3.1 Registering Your Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

3.2 Activating Your License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

3.3 Installing Your Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

3.4 Moving or Removing an Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

4 Physion Overview 3

5 Structural Split Processing 4

5.1 Source Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

5.2 Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

5.3 Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

5.4 Trans Decay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

5.5 Structural Split On/Oﬀ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

5.6 Waveform Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

6 Transient Processing 6

6.1 Transient Eﬀects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

6.1.1 Transient Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

6.1.2 Transient Tap Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

6.1.3 Transient Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

6.1.4 Transient Phaser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

6.1.5 Transient Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

6.1.6 Transient Gate+EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

6.2 Transient Eﬀects On/Oﬀ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

6.3 Transient Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

6.4 Transient Solo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

6.5 Transient Output Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

7 Tonal Processing 10

7.1 Tonal Eﬀects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

7.1.1 Tonal Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

7.1.2 Tonal Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

7.1.3 Tonal Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

7.1.4 Tonal Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

7.1.5 Tonal Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

7.1.6 Tonal Tremelo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

7.1.7 Tonal EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

7.2 Tonal Eﬀects On/Oﬀ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

7.3 Tonal Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

7.4 Tonal Solo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

7.5 Tonal Output Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

8 Preset Bar 15

8.1 Global Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

8.2 Global Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

8.3 Saving and Recalling Plug-In Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

8.4 Compare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

8.5 Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

8.6 Source Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

9 Conclusion 16

1 Physion Introduction

An entirely new type of eﬀect, Physion separates the incoming audio signal into two parts based on the signal’s structure, in this case Transient content and Tonal content. These two independent streams are processed individually with custom Eventide eﬀects, and then combined in (close to) real time. Because the Transient and Tonal structures of the signal are processed separately, Physion lends itself to some very useful and interesting mixing and sound design purposes that haven’t before been possible.

Physion features:

• New Structural Split technology, which allows for complete separation of Transient or Tonal audio content.

• 6 custom Eventide eﬀects on the Transient stream.

• 7 custom Eventide eﬀects on the Tonal stream.

• Handy post-Structural Split Waveform Viewer

• Preset bar for easily saving and recalling presets

2 About This Manual

While we’re conﬁdent you’ll be able to use your new plug-in without reading this manual, we urge you to have a quick look. There are several unique features and interesting options presented in Physion and a cursory glance will illuminate any features you may overlook. We’ll try to keep it all relevant and highlight any tips or cool tricks for you. We also won’t cover much at all about the operation of your plug-in host or the macOS or Windows environments, as their owner’s manuals or online help should provide you with the answers you need. We’ve made every attempt to integrate the standard controls and features from the major plug-in hosts into our plug-ins so that you don’t have to learn anything new. If you ﬁnd the need to get more information from us than this manual can provide, please visit our support forum available via our website (http://www.eventideaudio.com).

Note that you can access this manual directly from the plug-in by clicking the ”INFO” button in the preset bar.

3 Registration, Activation, and Installation

Eventide uses PACE’s ilok.com licensing system, with or without an iLok hardware dongle, to license our plug-in products. Each license provides two activations which can reside on either your computer or on an iLok license dongle. Once you’ve purchased your plug-in, you’ll need to register it on Eventide’s website, activate your license, and install the plug-in on to your computer.

3.1 Registering Your Plug-in

When you purchase an Eventide Native plug-in, you’ll receive a Serial Number and License Key. The Serial Number will be two letters followed by 6 numbers. The Serial Number will start with FI (i.e. FI-######). The License Key will be 3 sets of 4 characters, a letter or a number, each; like XXXXXXXX-XXXX.

Once you’ve received these codes, you can register your plug-in on the Eventide website. To do so, please log in to http://www.eventideaudio.com, navigate to My Account in the top right corner, and select Register a New Product. Then, ﬁll out the form by selecting Native Plug-in (VST, AU, AAX) in the Product Category ﬁeld, select Physion in the Product list, and enter your Serial Number, License Key, and ilok.com account name. If you don’t yet have an ilok.com account, you can create one for free at

http://www.ilok.com. Once you’ve done so, press Register.

Once you’ve entered this information and pressed the Register button, Eventide will send the applicable plug-in license to your ilok.com account, which you will need to activate to your computer or iLok dongle.

3.2 Activating Your License

To activate and manage your plug-in licenses you’ll need to install PACE’s iLok License Manager software which you can download from http://www.ilok.com. If you don’t have this software installed, please download and install it now.

Once you have installed and launched iLok License Manager you should be able to log in to your account by clicking the large Sign In button in the upper left hand corner of the application. Once you have, you should be able to see available licenses by choosing the Available tab at the top of the iLok License Manager application. If you have successfully registered your plugin, your Physion license will be available in this list. Please activate this license by dragging it to either your computer or iLok dongle listed on the left. When you do so, you will be asked to conﬁrm the activation, and you will be able to see it by clicking on the location you have chosen. At this point your license is activated.

3.3 Installing Your Plug-In

You should have been given a link to the Eventide Native plug-in installer when you purchased your plug-in, but if you haven’t, you can ﬁnd downloads for all of Eventide’s Native Plug-Ins at http://

www.eventideaudio.com/products/plugins. Please download and launch the correct installer for your

system.

Once you’ve launched the plug-in installer, it will take you through several pages of options. We have tried to choose defaults for these options which will best serve the majority of users, but it is worth a minute to make sure you understand these options before clicking through to the next page. Once you have followed through the installer, your plug-ins and presets should be in your chosen locations, and you can hit ﬁnish to end the installer application.

Note that if you are using the VST format in a Windows DAW, it is possible that you need to add the ﬁle paths where you chose to install Physion to the DAW’s VST preferences.

At this point, you should be ready to use your Physion Plug-In.

3.4 Moving or Removing an Activation

If at any point, you decide to move your plug-in activation, you can do so in iLok license manager. To move an activation between an iLok dongle and your computer, simply plug in the iLok, locate the license in its current location, and drag it to its new location. To deactivate a license, ﬁnd it in its location, right click on it, and choose deactivate.

Remember that each Eventide Native Plug-In License comes with two activations, which can be used on either a computer or iLok dongle, meaning you can use Physion in two locations at the same time.

4 Physion Overview

Figure 1: Physion Plug-in

The Physion user interface is divided into four main horizontal sections, each serving a unique purpose. However, it should be noted that the most important section to set ﬁrst is the Structural Split section, as this controls the ﬂexibility and eﬃciency of the splitting algorithm. The four sections are:

• The Preset Bar, which lets you choose from Factory and User Presets

• The Transient Eﬀects section, which applies eﬀects to the Transient content of your signal

• The Structural Split section, which performs the separation magic

• The Tonal Eﬀects section, which applies eﬀects to the Tonal content of your signal

Figure 2: Physion Signal Flow

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