Soundtoys Crystallizer - Manual (Page 12)

Pop-Up Menus & Changing Values:
For most text-based readouts (meaning things that aren’t a number), like LFO
WaveShape etc, clicking on the readout with the mouse will display a pop-up menu.
To change a value in the pop-up, hold down the mouse button and drag to select the
desired value and let go. The selected entry will show up in the field, or a new pop-up
window may appear depending on what you have selected.
Accessing Crystallizer
Now that you know how to use knobs and pop-up menus, it’s time to actually use
Crystallizer within Pro Tools. Crystallizer is available to process your audio in two
different ways: Real-Time, or Non Real-time.
Real Time Processing (RTAS or HTDM)
As a real-time plug-in, Crystallizer works a lot like a real hardware…umm…
Crystallizer! Whatever sound goes into Crystallizer, comes out filtered, and you can
hear it as it is happening (in real time!). Keep in mind that using Crystallizer in this
manner always chews up some CPU processing power.
To use Crystallizer in this way, you must first select Crystallizer as one of the insert
devices within Pro Tools, by clicking on the inserts button on a track. You can do this
either from the edit or mix window in Pro Tools. From the inserts pop-up, select
Crystallizer as shown in the next graphic...
You can insert as many versions of Crystallizer as you’d like. Just keep in mind that
each one gobbles up a certain amount of CPU cycles and can make your computer
start to sweat in terms of what’s left over for other tasks.
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