Arturia Analog Factory 2.5 User's User Manual

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10 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL Comparison of harmonics generated by the filter circuits in self oscillation of Analog Lab and a hardware s

ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 11 2 INSTALLATION 2.1 System requirements 2.1.1 REQUIRED MINIMUM CONFIGURATION: PC: 2 GB RAM; CPU 2 GHz (Mult

12 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL On the next screen you will be asked to choose a set of installation folders for the 32-bit and 64-bit versio

ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 13 The installation program now has enough information to complete the installation. When the installation proce

14 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 3 AUTHORIZATION Now that Analog Lab has been installed you will need to authorize the software. Analog Lab u

ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 15 Click the ‘Authorize’ button to proceed. The screen that follows contains a link to the Arturia

16 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL If you don’t have an Arturia account yet, please create one. When you do you will see this form: Once

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 17  If you purchased Analog Lab online, you will receive the serial number and an unlock c

18 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL The third and final window of the Activation wizard will appear, and this is where you will enter the activat

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 19 3.2 Entering activation code into eLicenser Now that you have retrieved the activation code, launch t

2 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL PROGRAMMING: Thomas Diligent Robert Bocquier Adrien Courdavault Mathieu Nocenti SOUND DESIGN: Luca Tor

20 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL Enter the activation code The eLicenser Control Center is now ready to download the software lice

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 21 License is installed and activated It’s now time to launch the Analog Lab application.

22 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 4 ANALOG LAB QUICK START The following chapter is a quick overview of how to start using Analog Lab immediat

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 23 Audio and MIDI Settings window 4.1.2 MIDI setup Your experience with Analog Lab will be serio

24 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL This calls up the Sound mode Preset Manager and displays a list of all available presets. From this window y

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 25 Note: Depending on the size of your monitor you may need to click the KEYB button at the top of the ap

26 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL Modular V has been selected in the Instruments filter Now, thanks to the two active filters, only Br

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 27 If you have an even more specific idea of the sound you are looking for you can add a

28 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 4.2.4 Saving a User preset If you own the instrument you have been editing, then once a preset has been mod

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 29 The ‘Save As’ window Be sure to select one of the “Types” and some “Characteristics” so you can locate

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30 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 4.4 Taking a Snapshot The Snapshot feature of Analog Lab gives you even faster access to your

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 31 The Snapshots section You can see the blue Snapshots tab has moved to the right side of the a

32 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 4.5 Multi Mode Quick Start 4.5.1 Select a Multi preset First a quick definition: A Multi is a combination o

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 33 Multi mode window And also as with Sound mode, you can sort the list of Multis according to the colum

34 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL See the grayed-out word ‘Sound’ at the top of the Preset list window? Click on this word and the entire list

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 35 4.6 Live Mode Quick Start There’s a third performance option for Analog Lab positioned next to the So

36 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 5 USING ANALOG LAB Analog Lab builds upon the success of its predecessors Analog Laboratory, Anal

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 37 The following options are available: RAM Allocation Low, Normal, Comfortable, No Limit Screen Height

38 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL The “Audio &MIDI Settings” windows for Windows and Mac OS X DEVICE The top line allows y

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 39 5.2 Tool Bar The tool bar consists of a set of essential icons, organized from left to right: Tool B

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40 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL MIDI Enables ‘learn’ mode for the virtual controls in Analog Lab. Each control can be linked to an incoming

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 41 Select the one that most closely matches the number of controls available on your MIDI controller. Ana

42 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL To create a Snapshot, click on a Sound or Multi and drag it on top of the Snapshot button.

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 43 5.3.3 Virtual keyboards: To each its own control section Default controller The Default virtual h

44 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL MiniLab controller The MiniLab virtual controller gives you fourteen knobs, eight Snapshots and eight pads.

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 45 Assigning an external MIDI controller Let’s discuss the information in the above window.  Learning…

46 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL Here’s a breakdown of what each of those features does: Copy current config Any changes you make to the cur

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 47 Sound mode screen To load a preset, click on a name in the Preset list on the left side of the Sound

48 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL If you click on CS-80 V, for example, the Preset Manager will provide a list of presets drawn exc

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 49 5.4.3 Sound Characteristics The Characteristics filter Further refinement of your search is av

ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 5 5.3.5 Exporting/Importing the MIDI Configuration (*.lab2midi) ...

50 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 5.4.5 Preset details To the right of the Preset list is a window showing essential details about th

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 51 For instance, if you own a copy of CS-80 V you can open any of the CS-80 V presets you find by clickin

52 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL Factory presets cannot be overwritten; they can only be modified and saved as User presets. 5.4.7 Organizat

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 53 quality digital effects that will take your combined synthesizer programs and make them positively for

54 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL  The Control Assign window, where the various MIDI controllers can be enabled or disabled for each Sound 

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 55 5.5.4 Multi mode: Preset details The upper right-hand area of the Multi mode window is the section kn

56 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 5.5.6 Editing a Sound Preset within Multi mode The list pictured above shows roughly 20 parameters for each

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 57  Level: Adjusts the volume of one Part without affecting the other Part  Pan: Changes the positio

58 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL  Trans: Use this parameter for chromatic transposition of a Part. The range of transposition is

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 59 But in other cases, such as when there’s a bass sound on the left side and a piano sound on the righ

6 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 History Early in 2001 Arturia began working on advanced algorithms for the digital emulat

60 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 5.5.8.1 Name Modify the name of your Multi. 5.5.8.2 Genre The Genre label allows you to flag a Multi as

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 61 5.5.8.4 Save sounds The sounds provided with Analog Lab are ‘Factory’ thus cannot be modif

62 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL Now activate the control on your controller keyboard and move it through its full range. You will see its id

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 63 The Program Map in Live mode can use either Multis or Sounds We’ll select a Sound first, so click o

64 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 5.7.2 The Preset / Song Details window When a Sound or Multi is selected from the Program Map there are cert

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 65 In addition, clicking the toolbar Delete button will erase all the live programs from the LiveMap. 5

66 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 6 ARTURIA ANALOG LAB – LEGAL INFORMATION 6.1 Software License Agreement In consideration of payment of the

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 67 • You are entitled to prepare a backup copy of the software which will not be used for purposes other

68 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL activation codes may be obtained from the user’s online account for support created during the pe

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 69 • You must have a valid license for the previous or more inferior version of the softwa

ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 7 1.2 Here and Now Analog Lab brings all of these classic instruments together into one software ap

70 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 6.2 No liability for consequential damages Neither ARTURIA nor anyone else involved in the creation, product

ARTURIA – Analog Laboratory – USER’S MANUAL 71 AVIS: Cet appareil numérique de la classe B respecte toutes les exigences du Règlement sur le matériel

8 ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL Linear frequency spectrum of the Analog Lab oscillator made with TAE® 1.3.2 A better reproduction of analog

ARTURIA – Analog Lab – USER’S MANUAL 9 Temporal representation of a “sawtooth” waveform reproduced by TAE® What’s more, the hardware analog osc