Phaser Bi-Tron Overview; Arturia's Phaser Bi-Tron Plug-In - Arturia Phaser BI-TRON User Manual

3. PHASER BI-TRON OVERVIEW

3.1. Arturia's Phaser BI-TRON plug-in

Our goal was to give the users the experience of a great tool from the past. But although we
have worked to be faithful to the unit sound, appearance and workflow, it wouldn't be an
Arturia plug-in without the addition of some extra features to enrich the user experience.
We kept most of the original unit layout. As is usual with the effect plug-ins produced by
Arturia, the Graphical User Interface (GUI) has a Main panel and an Advanced panel. But
here we added a third panel, the Pedal, which also plays a very important role in controlling
the unit.
The Main panel has the main phaser controls, with a few knobs and buttons. It follows
closely the control panel of the original unit, with the controls for both engines clearly
divided and separated. A routing control in the lower middle of this panel is where we define
how the two phaser engines interact. We will explain all of these in detail in the Control Panel
chapter [p.13].
The pedal includes two extra controls for the phasers. One is a manual control, and acts
exactly like what should be expected from a pedal. The other is an audio Envelope Follower,
and again acts as expected on this kind of modulators.
Finally, the Advanced control panel includes a few extras, like a control for number of poles
of the All-Pass filters (which can go from two-poles up to twelve-poles), a Dry/Wet mix
control, switches to invert the right side polarity of the LFOs (all of these in double, one for
each phaser circuit), and a Hi-Pass Filter to shape the audio input.
We will take a detailed look at all of these controls, and will explain all of them in detail in
the Control Panel chapter [p.13]. Now, it's time to check out how it works and how it sounds.
Let's go!
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