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DUENDE
User Guide
Version 2.0 Rev. A Mac & PC
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Duende User Guide Table of Contents 1. Safety and Installation Considerations ...............................................................................4 General Safety.............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Power Safety ........................................................................................................................................
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Duende User Guide Channel Processing Order .................................................................................................................................. 25 Side Chain Processing Order.............................................................................................................................. 25 7. Duende Stereo Bus Compressor ......................................................................................26 Introduction ...................
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Duende User Guide 1. Safety and Installation Considerations This section contains definitions, warnings, and practical information to ensure a safe working environment. Please take time to read this section before installing or using this unit. Please do not dispose of these instructions. General Safety Installation Notes • Read these instructions. • When installing this apparatus, place the apparatus • Keep these instructions. on a secure level surface. • Heed all warnings
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Duende User Guide Instructions for Disposal of WEEE by Users in the European Union Physical The symbol shown here is on the product or on Depth 165mm / 6.5 inches casing only its packaging, which indicates that this product 235mm / 9.25 inches inc’ connectors must not be disposed of with other waste. Height 44.5mm / 1.75 inches (1 RU) Instead, it is the user’s responsibility to dispose Width 438mm / 17.25 inches casing only of their waste equipment by handing it over to a 482mm
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Duende User Guide 3. Introduction Hi – and thank you for purchasing Duende – the SSL processing solution for your audio workstation. As you’re sat here reading this, the chances are that you have a pretty good understanding of who we are and our outstanding reputation in audio recording technology. How did we get here? Well, there were no great plans to make SSL into a major manufacturer of mixing consoles when it all started back in the seventies - the company began with nothin
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Duende User Guide 4. Installation Unpack Your Duende Box should contain the following: Universal Power Supply + World-Wide AC socket adapters CD and Installation Guide 2m 6-Pin Firewire Cable The Duende Unit Configure the Power Supply (If required) Configure the Duende power supply to suit your local mains connection: * Illustration shows UK mains adaptor – AU, Euro and US adaptors are also supplied (see opposite). Refe
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Duende User Guide Software & Hardware Installation (PC) 1) Insert the Duende installation CD in your CD drive 2) Navigate to your CD drive 3) Launch the Duende installer by double clicking the Duende installer icon 4) Follow the installation instructions on the screen 5) Connect IEEE 1394 Firewire Cable 6) Connect Power 7) Switch Duende On After the Duende installer has installed all of the required software on your computer, click ‘Finish’ to quit the installer.
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Duende User Guide 5. Operational Overview Once your Duende hardware and software has been properly installed, Duende plug-ins are accessed and used just like any host-based plug-in. You can run Duende plug-ins simultaneously with your other host based plug-ins in any combination. All Duende plug-ins support up to 40bit 96kHz operation. Please note that Duende plug-ins use twice as much DSP resources at 96kHz. Duende parameters are changed by dragging, rotating or clicking k
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Duende User Guide 5.1 Duende Preferences/Control Panel OS X Windows XP The Duende Preferences/Control Panel shows information about your Duende such as serial no (Authentication ID), firmware version and driver version. It also displays DSP resource information and allows you to easily see how much DSP you have available at any time. OS X: The panel can be found by navigating to 'Apple Menu>System Preferences>SSL Duende'. Windo
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Duende User Guide Launching a Duende channel strip in Logic 7: Launching a Duende channel strip in Cubase SX: Page 11 of 29
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Duende User Guide 5.3 DSP Resource Management Due to the nature of Duende having 4 DSP chips, a minimal amount of resource management should be done when running Duende at high load. If there are, for example 2 slots free and you wish to load a stereo plug-in, Duende will under certain conditions notify you that you are out of DSP resources. This will only happen if the two slots are on different DSP chips as Duende is not able to load a stereo plug-in across 2 chips. This may
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Duende User Guide Most host applications automatically compensate for this latency by simply turning on the Plug-in Delay Compensation (PDC) or similar, usually found in the applications preferences. Some hosts even provide full plug-in delay compensation throughout the entire signal path, including sends, groups, and buses. The location of the settings for the PDC option within some common host applications is as follows: Cubase SX + Nuendo 2/3: Always on unless the ‘Co
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Duende User Guide Compensating for latency in Pro Tools LE and M-Powered Because Pro Tools LE and M-Powered do not feature PDC it must be done manually when Duende plug-ins are used. Due to the use of firewire and the nature of how signals are sent to and from Duende, a latency is introduced which will delay any audio track, aux input, master fader or instrument track by a specified amount. Tracks that use no Duende plug-ins or less than the track with the most Duende plug-ins
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Duende User Guide Any tracks that have a smaller latency than the maximum must also be delayed but by a smaller amount (i.e. tracks with 1 Duende plug-in where the maximum has 3). The delay value for these will be maximum latency minus the latency reported by that track. Using Automatic Delay Compensation in Pro Tools HD Pro Tools HD users have the luxury of being able to use Automatic Delay Compensation, as opposed to the manual method required in Pro Tools LE and M-Power
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Duende User Guide This means that you can generally use up to 2 Duende plug-ins per channel without considering latency issues, but this will depend on the buffer size set in Pro Tools, the sample rate and which Duende plug-ins are loaded. Note that if an audio track with 1 Duende plug-in is routed to an aux channel with 2 Duende plug- ins the total latency for that audio getting to the mix bus will equal 3 plug-ins; this will however be clearly shown by Pro Tools. Page
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Duende User Guide To view the latency introduced by plug-ins go to the bottom left hand corner of the Mix view, click on the small black/grey box and select ‘Delay Compensation’. Here you will find 2 values; ‘dly’ is the amount of latency introduced by the plug-ins on that channel and ‘cmp’ is the number of samples Pro Tools is delaying the other channels by. If the ‘dly’ value is less than the 4095 set in the Delay Compensation box then you don’t need to worry and everything
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Duende User Guide 6. Duende EQ and Dynamics Channel Strip 6.1 Introduction The Duende EQ and Dynamics Channel Strip plug-in is based on the EQ and compressor sections of the XL 9000 K Series console. SSL were the first manufacturer to feature dynamics and EQ on every channel on an in-line console with the SL 4000 B Series in 1977. The plug-in includes separate high and low pass filters, a four band parametric equalizer, an independent compressor/limiter and gate/expander
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Duende User Guide When no buttons in the Filter section are pressed, the filters come after the Equalizer section With the INPUT button pressed, the filters come before the Equalizer section When the DYN SC button is pressed, the filters are switched into the sidechain of the Dynamics section. The term ‘sidechain’ and the process of sidechaining will be discussed in greater detail in the overview of the Dynamics section. Using Filters DYN SC: The Filters are switched i
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Duende User Guide 6.4 Equaliser Section Freq kHz Freq kHz Q Freq kHz Q Freq kHz ±dB ±dB ±dB ±dB BELL BELL G LF LMF HMF HF INPUT OUTPUT Operation The equaliser included with the Duende EQ and Dynamics Channel Strip plug-in is a four band parametric EQ. Based on the XL 9000 K Series EQ circuit, this plug-in includes two distinct EQ curves, one based on the SSL G Series EQ and another based on the latest version of SSL’s classic E Series EQ. The plug-in includes high an
