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  • Page 1 Electric Piano USER GUIDE...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ................................3 WELCOME .............................................. 3 1.1 PRODUCT OVERVIEW ......................................... 4 1.2 CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY .................................... 4 1.3 COMPONENTS ..........................................5 1.4 FUNCTIONAL BLOCK/FLOW DIAGRAM ................................6 CHAPTER 2 QUICK START GUIDE ..............................7 CHAPTER 3 INTERFACE AND CONTROLS ..........................8 3.1 INTERFACE ............................................

  • Page 3: Chapter 1 Introduction

    CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Welcome Thank you for choosing Waves! In order to get the most out of your new Waves plugin, please take a moment to read this user guide. To install software and manage your licenses, you need to have a free Waves account. Sign up at www.waves.com. With a Waves account you can keep track of your products, renew your Waves Update Plan, participate in bonus programs, and keep up to date with other important information.

  • Page 4: Product Overview

    Waves painstakingly sampled a well-used, road-worn Mark 1 88-key electric piano to capture the nuance and detail of the original sound. The result is the Electric 88 Piano plugin and standalone application. Every element of the instrument’s sound—down to its beautiful imperfections—is captured to recreate the magic realism of the original.

  • Page 5: Components

    1.3 Components The Electric 88 Piano has one component: Electric 88 Piano Stereo Electric 88 Piano is a virtual instrument plugin and will appear under the related selection menus for virtual instruments under all supported DAW host applications. Waves Electric 88 Piano also works as a standalone application, using ASIO (Windows) or Core Audio (Mac) drivers to play through...

  • Page 6: Functional Block/Flow Diagram

    1.4 Functional block/flow diagram Velocity Curve Sampler Engine 1 Main Main Keys Volume Formant Control Tone Simulator Tremolo, Sampler Engine 2 Master Brickwall Key Up Vintage Controls (Drive) Autopan, Reverb Key Up Keys Volume Compressor Bass, Mid, Volume Limiter Cabinet Phaser, Treble Simulator (Mic)

  • Page 7: Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide

    CHAPTER 2: QUICK START GUIDE Insert Electric 88 Piano on an instrument track in your DAW or launch the standalone application. Start to play and you will quickly understand how to get the sound you want. There are two modules with which to control the behavior and sound of the instrument.

  • Page 8: Chapter 3 Interface And Controls

    CHAPTER 3: INTERFACE AND CONTROLS 3. 1 Interface The ELECTRIC 88 Piano interface is arranged into two sections. Bottom: The Piano module includes tone controls, a vintage style compressor, and an amplified cabinet th t was sampled with both a condenser mic and a dynamic mic.

  • Page 9: Piano Module

    3.2.2 Piano Module Keys Section Vel Curve This control changes the curve of the velocity response from logarithmic to exponential. When the control is set to 50%, the curve is linear. Range: -50% to +50% Initial Value: 0 Reset Value: 0 Continuous control Formant The formant control changes the sound character but not the pitch.
  • Page 10 Mix Section Main The Main control is the sampled sound of the electric piano, without the mechanics and the release keys sounds. It controls the Main samples level in the overall mix. Range: 0–100 % Initial Value: 100% Reset Value: 100% Continuous control Tines Tines is the sampled sound of the key tines.
  • Page 11 Mechanics The Mechanics control is the sampled sound of the electric piano mechanics without the Main and the Key Up sounds. It controls the Mechanics (thump) samples level in the overall mix. Range: 0 – 100% Initial Value: 25% Reset Value: 0 Continuous control Comp The Comp control influen es the mix of the internal compressor.
  • Page 12 Drive Controls the level of the amplifier verdrive. Range: 0–100 Initial Value: 0 Reset Value: 0 Continuous control There are two microphone options in front of the amplifie : Condenser and Dynamic. Initial Value: Condenser Reset Value: Condenser Tone Section Bass The Bass control is a low shelf fil er at 203 Hz, which can be decreased or increased by +/-18 dB.
  • Page 13 Treble The Treble control is a high-shelf fil er at 1.875 kHz, which can be increased or decreased by +/-18 dB. Range: -50 to +50 Initial Value: 0 Reset Value: 0 Continuous control Output Section Volume Controls the output gain level after plugin processing. Range: 0–10 Initial Value: 8 Reset Value: 8...

  • Page 14: Effects Module

    3.2.3 Effects Module FX In/Out The FX In/Out switch toggles all effect module sections on and off. When the FX module is again turned on, each section will return to its previous state. Tremolo Section Tremolo On/Off The Tremolo button turns the Tremolo section on or off. Range: Off, On Initial Value: On No reset value: Alt+click does not affect the current mode of this switch.
  • Page 15 2/1 equals one cycle in 2 bars. Scaling: Custom. Range: Sync 1/32T-2/1; Free 0.25–28 Hz Initial Value: 1/16D sync rate Reset Value: 1/16D sync rate Continuous control Tremolo Depth The Depth control increases or decreases the amplitude level. Range: 0–100 Initial Value: 60 Reset Value: 0 Continuous control...
  • Page 16 independently of the host BPM, using the same knob. The middle position,12 o’clock, is the slowest Free value. Turning the knob clockwise from this position increases the rate from 0.25 Hz to 28 Hz. When the knob setting is less than 12 o’clock, values are defined with espect to the host. Turning the knob counterclockwise increases the Autopan rate through music note duration values related to the host’s BPM: 1/32T, 1/32, 1/32D, 1/16T, 1/16, 1/16D, 1/8T, 1/8, 1/8D, 1/4T, 1/4, 1/4D, 1/2, 1/2D, 1, 2/1.
  • Page 17 Range: Off, On Initial Value: On No Reset Value: Alt+click does not affect the current mode of this switch. Phaser Mix Controls the level of the Phaser effect. Range: 0–100% Initial Value: 25% Reset Value: 0 Continuous control Phaser Rate Phaser Rate provides control over Sync rates that relate to the host (such as ¼), or Free rates (in Hz) that can be set independently of the host BPM, using the same knob.
  • Page 18 Phaser Depth The Depth control controls the Phaser feedback. Range: 0–100 Initial Value: 53.5 Reset Value: 0 Continuous control Chorus Section Chorus On/Off The Chorus button turns the Chorus section on or off. Range: Off, On No reset value: Alt+click does not affect the current mode of this switch Depth The Depth control influen es the dry/wet mix of the signal into the chorus and determines how much the module oscillator will influen e the delay.
  • Page 19 Reverb Section Reverb Mix Controls the balance between the dry and wet signal, and also controls the amount of reverb added. Range: 0% (dry) to 100% (wet) Default: 30% Reset Value: 0% (dry) Continuous control Reverb Predelay Controls the amount of the delay between the dry and wet signals. Range: 20 ms–400 ms (milliseconds) Initial Value: 55 ms Reset Value: 55 ms...
  • Page 20 Reverb Damp Increases the level of high frequencies during the decay. Default: 0.8 Reset Value: 0.8 Continuous control Meters Meter Scale Peak meter: -30 dB to 0 dB, showing a VU meter scale calibrated for 18 dB of headroom (0 dBVU = -18 dBFS). Split Meters Separate left and right meter indicators.

  • Page 21: Wavesystem Toolbar

    Samples button to navigate to another sample library folder. This library will become the default until you load another library. The folder must contain valid Waves sampled instrument files, otherwise the OK button will be grayed out. You can download Waves sample libraries from the Waves download page http://www.waves.com/downloads/sample-libraries...

  • Page 22: Chapter 4 Standalone Application

    CHAPTER 4: ELECTRIC 88 PIANO STANDALONE APPLICATION The Electric 88 Piano application can be used as a standalone instrument. It requires an ASIO driver for Windows or a Core Audio driver for Mac OS X. Opening ELECTRIC 88.exe (Win) or ELECTRIC 88.app (MAC) loads the ELECTRIC 88 Piano instrument and configuration preferences dialogs.

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