Expert Sleepers Silent Way v1.7.3 - Manual (Page 30)

Calibration
The calibration process is quite simple:
• Connect the Voice Controller’s pitch output (by default,
output 1) to the pitch CV input of the oscillator that you
want to control.
• Connect the oscillator’s output to the Voice Controller’s
input. Ideally this would be a direct connection, not
through any filter or other processing.
• Set the oscillator to generate a fairly simple waveform. Any basic square, triangle,
sine etc. waveform will do.
• Press one of the ‘Calibrate’ buttons.
The plug-in will then generate a series of voltages and analyse
the pitch it gets back from the oscillator. The calibration dis-
play (the left-most graph at the top of the plug-in GUI) will
update during this process.
See the Expert Sleepers website for notes on calibrating spe-
cific oscillator/audio interface combinations, and for host application-specific tutorials.
For most synthesizers/modules you’ll use the ‘Calibrate V/oct’ button. Synths that use the
less common Hz/V standard include the Yamaha CS-30 and the Korg MS-20.
Saving and Loading Calibration Data
The plug-in’s calibration data can be saved to and loaded from
disk, independently of the normal plug-in preset save/load
mechanism. This is accomplished with the two buttons below
the calibration buttons. Pressing Save brings up a standard file
browse dialog allowing you to name the file and choose where it is saved; pressing Load
brings up a standard file browser dialog allowing you to choose the file to load.
The data is saved in a simple text file, which is easy to read and if necessary easy to edit.
This opens up all sorts of possibilities for manually created or adjusted calibration data.
Calibration files can also be used with
Silent Way Quantizer .
A typical calibration file might look like this:
Silent Way Calibration Data
version: 1
0 -0.98087925
1 -0.96048236
2 -0.94008547
3 -0.91968852
4 -0.89929163