Pop-up menus & changing values, Accessing tremolator, Real time processing (rtas or htdm) – Soundtoys Tremolator User Manual

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Pop-Up Menus & Changing Values:

For most text-based readouts (meaning things that aren’t a number), like LFO

WaveShape etc, clicking on the readout with the mouse will display a pop-up menu.

To change a value in the pop-up, hold down the mouse button and drag to select the

desired value and let go. The selected entry will show up in the field, or a new pop-up

window may appear depending on what you have selected.

Accessing Tremolator

Now that you know how to use knobs and pop-up menus, it’s time to actually use

Tremolator within Pro Tools. Tremolator is available to process your audio in two dif-

ferent ways: Real-Time, or Non Real-time.

Real Time Processing (RTAS or HTDM)

As a real-time plug-in, Tremolator works a lot like a real hardware…umm…

Tremolator! Whatever sound goes into Tremolator, comes out filtered, and you can

hear it as it is happening (in real time!). Keep in mind that using Tremolator in this

manner always chews up some CPU processing power.

To use Tremolator in this way, you must first select Tremolator as one of the insert

devices within Pro Tools, by clicking on the inserts button on a track. You can do this

either from the edit or mix window in Pro Tools. From the inserts pop up, select

Tremolator: (one and two-band versions of Tremolator) as shown in the next graphic.

You can insert as many versions of Tremolator as you’d like, just keep in mind that

each one gobbles up a certain amount of CPU cycles and can make your computer

start to sweat in terms of what’s left over for other tasks.

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