Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product 9631 Sound Performance Lab
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Manual Digital Harmonics Processor Spectralizer Model 9631.
SOUND PERFORMANCE LAB by Her mann Gier and P aul W hite V ersion 2.2 – 1 / 1999 T he inf or mation in this document has been caref ull y verif ied and is assumed t o be correct. How ever Sound P erf or mance Laborat ory (SPL) reserv es the right t o modify the product described in t his manual at any time .
3 Spectralizer Contents Dear cust omer , T hank you f or the c onf idence you ha ve shown t owards SPL electronics GmbH by purc hasing t he SPL S PECTRALIZER . Y ou hav e decided to use a t ool of high perf or mance w hic h sets you in the position to ha ve f ast er success and a better sound quality in your music productions and pre-mast erings .
4 Spectralizer SPL digital audio processors are designed in c ooperation wit h Spectral Design of Bremen, Ger many , w ho are responsible f or t he DSP programming .
5 Spectralizer Operation Safety t he small timing glitc hes t hat w ould otherwise occur w hen switc hing the process in and out. Up t o 99 presets can be stored and c hanged using a MIDI program c hange command.
6 Spectralizer Connections Bef ore connecting t he S PECTRALIZER switc h the pow er of f at all c onnected units . T he rear panel provides AES/EBU- and S/P-DIF-inputs and outputs . Any additional c hannel, status and user -bits are passed t hrough unaltered, and t he outputs can be used at t he same time if required.
7 Spectralizer Flow Chart Quick-Start Generator 2nd Harmonic Encoder Density- Encoder Generator 3rd Harmonic Encoder Effect Original Solo- T aste Kick- Encoder Frequency- Encoder Highpass - Filter Mix.
8 Spectralizer 3 2 7 6 5 4 12 Rela y hard-bypass f or AES/EBU input and output I NPUT G AIN = 0 for pr ocessing pre-pr oduction material with enough headroom Choose neg ative I NPUT G AIN values f or .
9 Spectralizer F REQUENCY sets t he starting frequenc y of t he highpass f ilter . Abov e this frequenc y sec ond and third har monics are being generated. T he highpass f ilter can be v aried between 1 kHz and 7 kHz in steps of 500 Hz. M IX c ontrols t he mix level betw een t he processed and the unprocessed signal.
10 Spectralizer Diagram 3: 3 RD H ARMONIC T he illustration shows t he F FT spectr ums of the odd harmonics f or a measuring signal of 3 kHz. Diagram 4: If two fr equencies are f ed into the Spectrali.
11 Spectralizer Control Elements D ENSITY increases t he l oudness of t he generated har monics by appl ying diff erent “c ompression ratios”. T he control of f ers six positions . Adjus tment: If D ENSITY is set t o 0, the generat ed harmonics hav e low intensity ev en at high values f or 2 ND and 3 RD H ARMONIC .
12 Spectralizer Control Elements If you w ant to appl y various presets depress A PPL Y f or one sec ond. T he A PPL Y LED st arts to f lash indicating t hat the A PPL Y mode is activat ed. Y ou can step t hrough t he preset list wit h U P and D OWN .
13 Spectralizer Control Elements or : AES/EBU input wit hout w ordc loc k is detected Press A PPL Y : S/P-DIF input detect ed or : no S/P-DIF input detect ed Press A PPL Y (if S/P-DIF is detected): S/P-DIF wit h w ordc loc k detected or : S/P-DIF input wit hout w ordc loc k is detected 3.
14 Spectralizer 6. Dis pla ying t he Channel Dif f erence Error flag: N O = no error detect ed; Y ES = error detect ed 7. Setting or erasing t he Cop y-Prohibit flag: N O = f lag erased or not set; Y ES = flag set 8. Dis pla ying t he Original f lag: N O = no Original f lag; Y ES = Original 9.
15 Spectralizer 13 Output PPM MIDI IMPLEMENT A TIONS Function Received Data Note Basic Channel: Change 1-16 stored Control Change: 7 1-127 V olume Program Change: 0-99 real value In order to increase operation saf ety only send t he necessary MIDI data t o t he S PECTRALIZER .
16 Spectralizer Specifications Input/Output Sample rate frequency , autom. 32-48kHz AES/EBU , twisted pair ( 1 ) AES 3 AES/EBU in- & output impedance 110 Ohms S/P -DIF , co-axial ( 2 ) SPDIF -2 S/.
17 Spectralizer SPL electronics GmbH (hereafter called SPL) products are w arranted onl y in the c ountry w here purc hased, through t he authoriz ed SPL distributor in t hat c ountry , against def ects in material or w orkmanship .
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