Characteristic - Native Instruments Absynth 5 Reference Manual

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Vintage: An effect that creates a vintage character, mostly associated with warmth and
positive sound alteration.
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Multi-band: For effects working with more than one level or band, e.g. a multi-band com-
pressor.
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Selective: All effects that operate on certain selective scopes of the signal, e.g., on selec-
tive frequencies like an exciter or de-esser.
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Adaptive: Driven by parameters that are extracted from the sound itself. The goal of this
effect's class is to provide a changing control signal to an effect.
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Channel strip: A combination of effects designed for processing incoming audio, similar
to a hardware mixing console.
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Parallel: The signal routing of effects is parallel.
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Chain: The signal routing of effects is serial.
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Stereo: All effects work in stereo mode.
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Mono: All effects work in mono mode.

14.2.3 Characteristic

Describes an effect's special sound characteristics.
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Long: Describes the release time of an effect, e.g., a long reverb or delay.
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Short: Describes the release time of an effect, e.g., a short reverb or delay.
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Fast: For effects that need to treat the incoming signal immediately upon receiving it (e.g.,
a compressor) or the effect itself sounds or acts fast.
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Slow: An effect that treats the incoming signal slowly, or the effect itself sounds or acts
slow (e.g., attack-delay effect).
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Bright: A general, rather subjective interpretation of an effect. Can also be used to dif-
ferentiate similar effects.
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Dark: A general, rather subjective interpretation of an effect. Can also be used to differ-
entiate similar effects.
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Warm: An effect that adds warmth to the processed sound.
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