Ugo Audio Dualism User's Guide

dualism Users Guide
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Dualism Users Guide
This PDF will guide you through general usage, as well as provide some extra programming tips to help you get the most out of Dualism. Check the Bookmarks tab in Acrobat for quick access to individual sections.
Installation & Overview
Open the zip and extract the entire Dualism folder into your host’s VST folder. Yup, that’s it. No annoying copy protection, no tricky registration and no troublesome installers.
Dualism is a plugin version of the dual arpeggiators and 2X MIDI utilities found within M-theory and, as such, provides you with the ability to arpeggiate/double any other synth you wish, including hardware synths.
Combining two flexible and programmable phrase arpeggiators with a pitch and speed controllable MIDI doubler, Dualism allows you to create arpeggiations that are far more complex and detailed than your standard synth arpeggiator. However, all this flexibility is contained within a small and straightforward interface, letting you quickly and comfortably create complex patterns without having to feel slowed down but the UI.
Project Setup
While Dualism is not a synthesizer, your host will load it as if it was one. For Dualism to control an actual synth, it is required that your host allows MIDI note data to be sent to from one synth to another. So the way this would work would be that you would play notes to Dualism, Dualism would arpeggiate those notes, then pass them on to the synth of your choice.
The setup procedure for re-routing MIDI differs from host to host, therefore I recommend that you refer to your host’s manual for instructions on how to route MIDI note data to and from Dualism. Similarly, some hosts will allow you to capture Dualism’s output to a separate MIDI track so you can edit it or save it for later use, but some hosts do not offer this feature.

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2X
This feature causes another midi note to be played after each one you play on your keyboard.
On Turns on the 2X effect.
Speed Adjusts how quickly the note will be triggered. Slower speeds provided a sort of delay effect. Faster speeds can be useful for creating harmonies. (Including a 12 string guitar / mandolin type of doubling.)
Pitch Lets you set the pitch of the newly triggered note. Settings are in semi tones above the note you play. The range is from 0, which plays the same note you do, to 12, which plays an octave higher than the note you play.
Velocity This slider allows you to adjust how much key velocity effects the volume of the 2X generated note.
Arpeggiators
These are two programmable phrase arpeggiators which can be used at the same time. Giving both different settings allows you to create more complex patterns than you could with just a single arp. When used in conjunction with the 2X, you can get even more complex patterns.
A few words about phrase arps:
With your typical basic arp, the pattern is based exclusively on the pitch of the notes you play, and the order in which the keys were pressed in gets ignored. So if you press 3 keys, those three notes will always play in the order defined by the arp...typically either ascending, descending or alternating pitch...and not in the order you pressed the keys in. In contrast, with the phrase arps in M-theory, the order of the playback depends on the order you press the notes down in.
On
Activates the arpeggiators.
SRC/BPM
This control let’s you choose whether Dualism syncs to your host’s clock or if it uses an internal clock. The default (off) setting uses your host’s clock. Switch this on to use the internal clock. To set the internal time, click on the number, type a new speed in, and press enter.
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