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Summary of Contents for ELEVEN Free
- Page 1 Eleven Free Plug-in ™ Version 8.0...
- Page 2 Technology, Inc. Xpand! is Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Digidesign Eleven Free is not affiliated with, or sponsored or endorsed by, the makers of the classic and contemporary amplifiers, speaker cabinets, and microphones that are emulated in the product.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Installing Eleven Free Download Version ........ - Page 4 ..............27 Eleven Free Guide...
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Page 5: Chapter 1. Introduction
Pro Tools and Avid ® • Two custom amp models from Digidesign systems. Eleven Free gives you two custom gui- • Two speaker cabinet models. tar amplifiers and two cabinet models, selected from among the “best of the best” vintage and •... -
Page 6: System Requirements
System Requirements Conventions Used in This Guide To use Eleven Free you’ll need one of the following: All Digidesign guides use the following conven- ® • A Digidesign-qualified Pro Tools|HD tions to indicate menu choices and key com- ® Pro Tools LE , or Pro Tools M-Powered™... -
Page 7: About Www.digidesign.com
News and Events Get the latest news from Digidesign or sign up for a Pro Tools demo. Pro Tools Accelerated Videos Watch the series of free tutorial videos. Accelerated Videos are de- signed to help you get up and running with Pro Tools and its plug-ins quickly. - Page 8 Eleven Free Guide...
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Page 9: Chapter 2. Installation
Installing Eleven Free other free DigiRack™ plug-ins included with Download Version your Pro Tools system. The installer for the Eleven Free plug-in can also To install the Eleven Free plug-in: be downloaded from the DigiStore (www.digide- Download the installer for your computer sign.com) -
Page 10: Removing Eleven Free
Panel and double-click Add or Remove Programs. Select the Eleven plug-in from the list of in- You can also remove Settings files and doc- stalled applications and click the Change/Re- umentation for Eleven (Library/Application move button. -
Page 11: Chapter 3. Input Calibration And Quickstart
3 Input Calibration and QuickStart This chapter shows you how to get connected, calibrated, and cranking through Eleven Free. Throughout this guide, references to Pro Tools LE also apply to Pro Tools M-Powered. Before You Begin Eleven was designed to model the essential aspects of each amplifier including characteristics of the input stage. -
Page 12: 1: Connect Your Guitar And Configure Source Input
Mic/DI switch Line/Inst 1 input, then set its source to Inst. Input 1 DI Guitar into Mbox 2 Pro PRE (or other pre-amp) Pro Tools|HD audio interface Guitar into Digidesign PRE into a 192 I/O Eleven Free Guide... -
Page 13: 2: Set Hardware And Levels
2: Set Hardware and Levels After plugging in, do the following to set your primary gain and configure your Pro Tools hardware by watching its input indicators (meters). This sets the first stage of your gain structure for Eleven. Pro Tools LE... -
Page 14: 3: Set Up A Pro Tools Track
To set up and check Track level (all systems): Choose Tracks > New, and create one mono Audio track. In the Mix window, click the track Input selector and choose your guitar input. Click the track Insert selector and select Eleven Free. Eleven Free Guitar input... -
Page 15: Set Up Eleven Free
Figure 2. Eleven’s Input LED Strum as hard as you can a few more times and watch Eleven’s Input LED to see where your level registers. The Input LED lights green, yellow, orange, or red to indicate the following level ranges: Green (Off to –8) Indicates signal is present, but too low. -
Page 16: Working With Pre-Recorded Tracks
Working with Pre-Recorded Tracks If the pre-recorded tracks weren’t calibrated with the Eleven plug-in using the method previously de- scribed, you can use the Input control in Eleven to adjust the signal level feeding the input stage of the amp model. -
Page 17: Chapter 4. Using Eleven Free
Category Harmonic Manufacturer Digidesign Inserting Eleven Free on Tracks Eleven Free is an RTAS plug-in that can be in- Adjusting Eleven Free’s serted on Pro Tools audio, Auxiliary Input, Mas- Parameters ter Fader, or Instrument tracks for real time pro- cessing. -
Page 18: Using Midi And Midi Learn
Groups (Mix, Edit, or Mix/Edit) for linked con- are defined. Settings files (presets) for Eleven trol of multiple inserts. For more information, Free do not store or recall MIDI Learn assign- see the Pro Tools Reference Guide. ments. Using Automation All of Eleven Free’s parameters can be auto-... -
Page 19: Settings (Presets)
Control-click an Eleven Free param- eter to show the MIDI Learn menu. Note To save your settings as an Eleven Free preset: that you won’t be able to use the Control key Configure Eleven Free for the desired tone. -
Page 20: Master Section
Output range is –60 dB to +18 dB. The Master section doesn’t change when you When you want to adjust Eleven Free’s out- switch amps. Master section settings are stored put level, use the Output knob. For tone/dis- and recalled with plug-in presets. -
Page 21: Amp Types
(fade out) of the guitar through This selector lets you select which speaker cabi- Eleven Free. The key to using the Release control net model to use (see “Cabinet Types and Con- is to set it high enough to keep the guitar sound- trols”... - Page 22 Amp Controls Each Eleven Free amp provides a set of controls similar to (and in some cases identical to) those on the actual amp it models. The following sections give an overview of amp controls as they appear in Pro Tools. Keep in mind that not all amp types will show all the controls described in this section.
- Page 23 When Treble is set to lower values, the Bass and Middle have more effect, making Eleven Free does not support Tempo Sync. for a darker amp tone. The default setting is 5.0. The Treble range is from 0 to 10.
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Page 24: Cabinet Types And Controls
Eleven Free. This section gives you a few specific exam- Cabinet Type selector ples of some of the many different ways you can choose to work: •... - Page 25 • Click the Output selector and choose Bus 1. Audio track for recording dry, while hearing Eleven Free • Click the Insert selector and select Eleven The audio that is recorded is the dry (unproc- Free.
- Page 26 Eleven the original tracking session. It requires two au- Free dio track, as follows: To record guitar dry and with Eleven Free live: Choose Track > New. Guitar input Bus input Configure the New Tracks dialog to create two...
- Page 27 Import and place your audio in a Pro Tools au- dio track. – and – • Click the Insert selector and select Eleven Assign the audio track Output to Bus 1. Free. Create an Aux Input track, and configure it as Choose Track >...
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Page 28: Tips And Suggestions
Free tracks to disk. AudioSuite is especially use- you can add to your Eleven Free guitar tracks us- ful when you’re processing loops or other ing nothing more than a few of the free Digi- shorter-form guitar material. - Page 29 To add echo to the guitar track, bus an Eleven just need to clamp a couple “overs”), try putting Free track to an Aux Input and put a Delay plug- a limiter on the individual track (after Eleven in on the Aux. Try other delay plug-ins to un- Free).
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Page 30: Eleven Free Signal Flow
Eleven Free Signal Flow The following figure shows the signal flow through Eleven Free from its input source to its output des- tination. Input Output from Pro Tools to Pro Tools track (disk) or live input output or bus Input knob... - Page 31 11 calibration (input) 11 HW Buffer 9 Category 13 Input LED 16 controls 13 inserting Eleven 13 installing plug-ins 5 intensity (Tremolo) 19 Depth 19 DSP 24 keyboard shortcuts 13 example Pro Tools setups and signal routing 20...
- Page 32 (bypass) 18 recording 21 dry 20 dry and Eleven simultaneously 22 processing pre-recorded tracks 23 Manufacturer 13 red 11 Master 19 Release 16 Master section 16 removing plug-ins 6 Mic Type resources 24 navigating 14 Middle 19 MIDI 14...
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