Eventide ULTRA CHANNEL User's Guide

Copyright 2017, Eventide Inc.
P/N: 141236, Rev 4
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Eventide Inc.
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Little Ferry, NJ 07643
201-641-1200
www.eventide.com

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Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 About This Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Registration, Activation, and Installation 2

2.1 Registering Your Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.2 Activating Your License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.3 Installing Your Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.4 Moving or Removing an Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3 UltraChannel 4

3.1 Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3.1.1 Invert Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3.1.2 Input Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3.1.3 Overload Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.1.4 Input Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.2 Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.2.1 Side Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.2.2 Input Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.2.3 Threshold (TH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3.2.4 Gain Reduction (GR) Bar Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3.2.5 Release Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3.3 Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3.3.1 Side Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3.3.2 Saturation (SAT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3.3.3 De-Ess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3.3.4 Input Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3.3.5 Threshold (TH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3.3.6 Gain Reduction (GR) Bar Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3.3.7 Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3.3.8 Attack Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3.3.9 Release Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3.3.10 Knee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3.3.11 Make-Up Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3.4 O-Pressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3.4.1 Side Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3.4.2 Gain Reduction Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3.4.3 Threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3.4.4 Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3.4.5 Attack Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3.4.6 Release Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3.4.7 Make-Up Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3.4.8 Bass Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3.5 Five-Band Parametric Equalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3.6 Graphical Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3.7 On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3.8 Filter Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3.8.1 Low Filter (20 Hz - 800 Hz) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3.8.2 Low Mid Filter (100 Hz - 2 kHz) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3.8.3 Mid Filter (500 Hz - 800 kHz) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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3.8.4 High Mid Filter (1 KHz - 20 kHz) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3.8.5 High Filter (5 kHz - 20 kHz) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3.8.6 Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3.8.7 Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.9 Micro Pitch Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.9.1 Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.9.2 Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.9.3 Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.9.4 Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.10 Stereo Delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.10.1 Tempo Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.10.2 System Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.10.3 Left/Right Delay Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.10.4 Left/Right Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.10.5 Left/Right Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.10.6 Left/Right Feedback Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.10.7 Left/Right Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.11 Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.11.1 Transformer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.11.2 Output Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.11.3 Overload Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.11.4 Output Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.12 Saving and Recalling Plug-In settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4 Conclusion 16

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Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 About This Product

The Eventide UltraChannel plug-in is a powerful audio engineering plug-in for Avid AAX, Apple Audio
Units, and Steinberg VST formats. It provides you with a routable Gate, Parametric EQ, two Compres­sors, a Micro Pitch Shift section, and Stereo Delays. Its flexible modular design accommodates different
signal processing routing, its graphical displays provide you adept precision in frequency adjustment, and
its suite of controls give you a near infinite number of ways to generate exactly the tone and frequency
characteristics you’re seeking. Additionally, through its support for side-chaining, you can use an alterna­tive audio source to color the characteristics of your main signal. Whatever your audio application may
be, UltraChannel will be invaluable for its remarkable versatility and industry benchmark performance.
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).

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Chapter 2

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.

2.1 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. If you have an individual UltraChannel license,
the Serial Number will start with UC (i.e. UC-######). If you purchased a group license, the
Serial Number will be in the same format, but correspond to that group license (e.g. AX-###### for
Anthology X). 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 UltraChannel or the applicable group license 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.

2.2 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 UltraChannel Native 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.

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