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APERTURE - THE STACK

USER MANUAL

  

SHOW KEYSWITCHES — 

When this option

is on, presets that have multiple techniques

will show available keyswitches in red and

the currently selected technique(s) in yellow.

AUTOMATIC UNLOAD WITH MIXER FADER —

 

Toggle this to unload  data from RAM when 

fader is pulled down to the bottom.

GAIN UNITS —

 Toggle this if you want your 

gain to be displayed in dB instead of as a 

percentage.

MAKE CONTROLS GLOBAL— 

Common 

Controller values will remain when switching 

techniques.

DISABLE HOST AUTOMATION —

 Turn this 

on to enable the Host Automation from the 

DAW. 

CHANGE KNOB DRAG TYPE—

 This option 

changes how the knob interacts with your 

computer mouse, turn it off for a circular 

drag and on for vertical drag. 

DISABLE WARNINGS FROM MISSING 

SAMPLES —

 This option will stop error 

messages appearing when you are missing 

samples, only enable this option if you 

intentionally delete samples you are not 

using.

DISABLE AUTO HIDE KNOB PARAMETER 

GROUP —

 Normally the Knob parameter list 

will disappear when you click on another 

control, enable this option to have it stay 

visible instead. 

MAXIMUM VOICES —

 Enter the maximum 

number of voices that can play at once. More 

voices = More CPU and memory used.

PRELOAD SIZE —

 The minimum number of 

sample values preloaded into memory for 

each audio recording. Increase for slower 

hard drives. Default is 12888.

STREAM BUFFER SIZE —

 The number of 

sample values kept in memory for each audio 

recording stream at any time. Increase for 

slower hard drives. Default is 65536.

MASTER TUNING —

 Change the default 

tuning of the plugin. For example A = 440hz 

or A = 432 HZ.

PITCH / STRETCH QUALITY —

 This option 

allows you to override the default pitch/time 

quality to improve performance or improve 

audio quality. Not used in this library at this 

time. 

MAXIMUM PITCH VOICES —

 Limit the 

number of voices triggered at any one time. 

Lower values can aid CPU. 

ENABLE MEMORY MAPPING—

 Turn off for 

windows machines for better performance

DEFAULT PRESET —

 Choose a preset that 

you wish the plug in to load by default on 

launch

Summary of Contents for APERTURE

Page 1: ...1 APERTURE THE STACK USER MANUAL APERTURE THE STACK USER MANUAL...

Page 2: ...NSTALLING 4 THE SPITFIRE APP PREFERENCES 5 THE DEDICATED PLUGIN 6 HAVE A LOOK AROUND 7 PRESET SELECTOR 8 MAIN CONTROLS 10 SIGNALS AND EFFECTS 11 TOP MENU 12 MICROPHONE SIGNALS 15 APPENDIX A FAQS TROUB...

Page 3: ...drum machines eurorack and guitars all captured in the rarified space of AIR Lyndhurst Hall The sound of this library is truly one of a kind Single Aperture mix 13 presets Six controls NKS Compatible...

Page 4: ...ences allows you to set default locations and 1 2 3 4 2 behaviours as described on the next page 2 FILTERS clicking these filters will quickly display products you ve yet to install those already inst...

Page 5: ...ly click the Install button for the library This is either directly on My Products tab under the library artwork or it can be found by clicking on the library image and clicking the install button on...

Page 6: ...omatically pop up Choose Software Instrument and then look beneath the Instrument dropdown Select AU Instruments Spitfire Audio Aperture The Stack CUBASE Right click the track window and choose Add In...

Page 7: ...ND 1 TOP MENU 2 PRESET SELECTOR 3 MAIN CONTROLS 4 TECHNIQUE SELECTOR 5 KEYBOARD INFO 1 2 3 4 APERTURE THE STACK OPENING YOUR FIRST PRESETS When you first open Aperture The Stack this is similar to wha...

Page 8: ...show patches and presets that have had the star to the left clicked 3 NEXT PREVIOUS AND SAVE With the presets view collapsed you will be able to see the Next Previous and Save icons Next and Previous...

Page 9: ...of the preset without having to load it Enormously helpful when choosing a sound 6 PRESET LIST Scroll through the list of presets here Double click to load a preset or click the Load button 7 INFORMA...

Page 10: ...lows you to control any of the other available parameters for the particular technique Hover over the knob and it will light up 3 1 CLICK Click in the center of the knob and you will be able to assign...

Page 11: ...he technique section and prevent any unwanted changes 6 TECHNIQUE TRIGGER With the technique trigger section you can choose to trigger techniques using various parameters KEYSWITCH Pick a key on the k...

Page 12: ...on sound different you can choose to reset the round robins using the DAW transport 10 RESET FROM KEY You can also reset the round robins using a keyswitch Choose that keyswitch here 11 OPTIONS LAYER...

Page 13: ...but does reduce realism Only applies to the Short patches C RELEASE Adjusts the amount of release trigger you hear Only applies to the Long patches D REVERB Adjusts the amount of reverb being added E...

Page 14: ...e the order By selecting the x in the top right corners you can remove a technique from your preset Click the trash can in the upper corner to remove all techniques completely in a single click Once y...

Page 15: ...e useful if you have hanging MIDI notes or have moved samples in your file system 7 MIDI CH Set the MIDI channel that will control the instrument here If in doubt select any so that the instrument wil...

Page 16: ...his will reset all of the CC mappings for this instrument to the defaults useful if you ve got yourself in a mess D SYNC TO TEMPO This option syncs to your host BPM 13 PLUGIN SETTINGS COPY SETTINGS Co...

Page 17: ...ng DISABLE AUTO HIDE KNOB PARAMETER GROUP Normally the Knob parameter list will disappear when you click on another control enable this option to have it stay visible instead MAXIMUM VOICES Enter the...

Page 18: ...THE TOP LEFT OF APERTURE THE STACK WHAT DOES THIS MEAN This means that there is an error you can click the exclamation mark to open a log with further details It is likely that using the Repair and L...

Page 19: ...his is the stage where the compressed files are extracted and placed in their final locations on the hard drive There could be hundreds of GB of content to unpack so it really can take hours If you re...

Page 20: ...le path will cause errors as there is a character limit on how far the Spitfire App can read We advise a file path of something along the lines of Samples Drive Spitfire Audio When it comes to downloa...

Page 21: ...he bug you have found A screencast video of the bug happening or an audio example The exact preset name or presets in question and also the library giving us as much detail as possible will help us ge...

Page 22: ...Pulses 135 BPM Pulses Open 135 BPM LEGENDS Longs Jupiters Landing Runner Up Devoid Pawn Shop Shorts Murmur In Earnest Some Solution Ask Again SWARM Longs Ground Loop It Trembles Oblivion Disruptor Hy...

Page 23: ...ong Long Aggressive Long Soft Scattered Scattered Soft Swells Cloud Tremolo Shorts Power Chords Power Aggressive Short Short Muted THE MACHINES THE ORIGINAL KITS The Original Only Bleed The Original K...

Page 24: ...24 APERTURE THE STACK USER MANUAL APPENDIX C DEFAULT CC MAPPINGS Global Gain 7 Global Pan 10 Expression 11 Dynamics 1 LPF 74 Tightness 18 Release 17 Reverb 19 Noise 15 Portamento 5...

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