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Chor'X
2.0
User Manual
www.xils-lab.com

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  • Page 1 Chor'X User Manual www.xils-lab.com...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of contents 1 INTRODUCTION..............................3 2 FEATURES................................4 3 INSTALLATION...............................5 3.1 S ..............................5 ERIAL NUMBER 3.2 W 7,8,10).........................5 INDOWS INDOWS 3.3 M (OSX 10.9.0 )........................6 AND LATER 4 GETTING STARTED............................7 4.1 I ..............................7 NSERT OR 4.1.1 Chor'X as insert ............................7 4.1.2 Chor'X on a Bus.............................7 4.2 T ................................7 OOLBAR...
  • Page 3: Introduction

    Introduction Thank you for choosing the Chor'X ! Chor'X is a stereo Dual Bucket-Brigade Delay (BDD) emulation-based chorus, featuring a new and intuitive way to tweak its parameters quickly. In the Legacy mode, Chor'X provides four finely reproduced, well known choruses from the CS-80, VP-330, Synthex Synthesizers and from the Dimension D effect.
  • Page 4: Features

    Features Chor'X offers: True stereo path, independent Right and Left chorus • Four Chorus type emulations, CS-80, VP-330, Synthex, Dimension-D • up to four Bucket-brigade delay emulations • True Stereo Dynamic Engine • Impulse follower • Envelope follower • All parameters are MIDI controllable •...
  • Page 5: Installation

    Installation 3.1 Serial number Chor'X uses a simple proprietary serial number based protection. When launching Chor'X for the first time, it will ask for this number. After submitting (by clicking on the “enter” key of your keyboard or the VALIDATE button), you must close and re-launch it to complete the registration.
  • Page 6: Mac (Osx 10.9.0 And Later)

    3.3 Mac (OSX 10.9.0 and later) To install Chor'X on a computer equipped with Mac OSX 10.9.0 or later, double-click the file chorx_osx_setup_xxx.dmg. Please download the latest version from the XILS-lab website. Then launch the install program, ChorX.pkg, and follow the instructions. Warning: the install program will ask you for your system password.
  • Page 7: Getting Started

    4 Getting Started 4.1 Insert or Bus Like any other Chorus unit effect, Chor'X can be inserted in the instrument channel of your mixer or DAW, or be used on an auxiliary bus. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of each method. 4.1.1 Chor'X as insert When inserted on the instrument channel, you can adjust the dry/wet signal between the incoming dry...
  • Page 8: Adjusting The Chor 'Xparameters

    4.3 Adjusting the Chor'X parameters On Chor'X, the sound parameters are controlled using knobs, switches or Pad 2D. To use a mouse to adjust the parameters of Chor'X which are controlled by knobs, click inside the knob and move the mouse up or right to increase the value, down or left to decrease it. If you right-click on a parameter, or if you hold-shift while clicking, you can adjust the parameter with fine precision.
  • Page 9: Preset Menu

    The settings of Chor'X are then saved in the currently displayed preset, and the * disappears. Click on the Save As button to save this preset with another name and/or to other sorting groups. 5.2 Preset Menu Click the Preset arrow button to open the preset menu. Here you can choose and load another preset from the current sort group into Chor'X.
  • Page 10: Sorting Menu: Additional Functions

    In order to perform such selections, all you have to do is select an item in the first sort menu. This represents the first and main criteria for the search engine. • Author (Your name, or a Sound Designer name for factory presets), •...
  • Page 11: Advanced Preset Manager

    selected bank (i.e., the bank which contains the currently active preset) will be exported to a user specified location on your hard drive. Import Bank: This Function allows you to browse your hard drives to select a file and import a Chor'X bank. These two choices are not available from the second sort menu.
  • Page 12: A/Bcomparison

    On each criteria, right-clicking will open a contextual menu. You can then rename, delete, export a criteria. In these two later cases, all the presets which are not in the “Factory” bank, corresponding to that criteria will be deleted or exported. Favorite: You can add each preset in your “Favorite”...
  • Page 13: The Advanced Settings

    “Synthex” structure, “Dimension D” structure, “VP 330” structure, “CS-80” structure, based based on two BBDs and based on one BBD per based on two BBDs and on one BBD and two two LFOs per channel channel and only one LFO two LFOs per channel LFOs per channel.
  • Page 14: Bucket-Brigade Delay Settings, Vp330 And Cs-80 Structure

    6.3.1 Bucket-Brigade Delay settings, VP330 and CS-80 structure There are two bucket-brigade emulations, one for each channel. Each delay is modulated in frequency and range, according to the position of the lights. When a light is moved around the 2-D area, the corresponding delay is modulated according to its position. Horizontal movement gives a greater or lesser amount;...
  • Page 15: The True Stereo Dynamic Engine

    There are two bucket-brigade emulations, one for each channel. Each delay is modulated by a unique LFO, in range according to the horizontal position of the lights, in frequency according to the vertical position of the lights. As there is only one LFO, the vertical positions of the lights are the same for both.
  • Page 16: The Transient Follower Modulations

    As with the bucket-brigade settings, you can add chaotic movement to the stereo position of your wet signal, with AMOUNT and SPEED, HORZ and VERT allowing the animation to be horizontal or vertical only. Blue and Green lights are for the right and left dry channels. Blurred Circled Blue and Circled Green lights are for the right and left wet channels.
  • Page 17: Option Menu

    Option menu This menu allows you to choose the global settings. These settings are defined for all the instances of the Chor'X. Each time an option is changed, the related option file is saved. 7.1 Main In the toolbar, the Options button opens a menu for selecting various options for the Chor'X. This menu shows the following options settings: Chor'X About: displays information about the Chor'X (version, build date and credits).
  • Page 18: Credits

    8 Credits Concept of Chor'X and original UI design was done by: Xavier Oudin Additional designs of version 2.0 were done by Xavier Oudin Chorus, Stereo processing concept and coding were done by: Xavier Oudin Digital Signal Processing and plug-in coding was done by: Xavier Oudin The graphical user interface was created by: Xavier Oudin...

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