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Summary of Contents for MIA Compressor One
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MIA COMPRESSOR ONE User Guide MIA LABORATORIES...
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● External Sidechain Use any other channel of your mix as an input to the side-chain of MIA Compressor One. ● Sidechain filtering Use the High Pass and Low Pass filters to restrict the side-chain information to the desired frequency range.
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Note for Windows users: MIA COMPRESSOR ONE will be installed by default on the following directory : C:\Program Files\VSTPlugIns (64bit version) and C:\Program Files (x86)\VSTPlugIns (32bit version) (If this directory is not included in the search path list for vst plugins of your DAW, you can add it manually or change the installation location from the Browse menu of the installer to the one you are using).
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MIA COMPRESSOR ONE Controls: THRESHOLD Set the desired threshold level where compression begins RATIO Select the Ratio of the compression from 1.3:1 (soft) to 100:1 (hard) ATTACK Set the Attack of the compression from 0.1 msec up to 500ms. RELEASE Set the Release of the Compression, between 1.4ms and 5000ms.
COLOUR TYPE - AMOUNT Choose between the 5 carefully designed EQ curves to add some MIA flavour to your sound. Use the AMOUNT control to set the desired amount of colour from 0 to 100%. MAKE-UP GAIN Use this to makeup the gain lost from compression.
Border Section: We have utilized an instance of “BORDER” to incorporate Band Compression or Sidechain Filtering. BAND COMPRESSION Use the High Pass / Low Pass filters to compress only the selected band. SIDECHAIN FILTER Use the High Pass / Low Pass filters to define the range of sidechain information.
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MONITOR When using B and Compression , you can select Select S olo (S) t o monitor the area set from the HPF / LPF, before any compression is applied. Select P RCD (P) to monitor the compressed result of the selected frequency band only.
In case of clipping, the R ed CLIP Led will stay ON, until you click the corresponding meter. You can choose between P eak and R MS display mode, using the corresponding buttons. Thank you for using MIA Laboratories. May the sound be with you!
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External Sidechain in Ableton Live: Sidechaining in Live 10.1 and later 1. Add MIA COMPRESSOR ONE to a track. 2. Enable E xternal Sidechain within the plug-in GUI. 3. Create a track with a sound source to be used as the sidechain trigger.
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In order to prepare for this, you should set up the following tracks: A Track with MIA Compressor ONE. Enable E xternal Sidechain within the plug-in GUI. ● A second Track with the source for the sidechain signal trigger ( S idechain Trigger Track ) ●...
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