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Name

The name of the Effect instance.

Effect instances are a group of effect property settings. They can be one of two types: custom instances or ShareSets. Custom instances can be used by only one object, whereas ShareSets can be shared across several objects.

(Object Color)

Displays the object's color. Clicking the icon opens the color selector.

Select a color to apply it to the object. When you choose a color for an object, a palette icon appears on the selected square, as well as a yellow triangle in the lower-right corner, as shown.

To inherit the parent object's color, select the square at the far left of the color selector.

Inclusion

Determines whether the element is included in the SoundBanks when they are generated. When selected, the element is included. When unselected, the element is not included.

To optimize your sound design for each platform, you might want to exclude certain elements on certain platforms. By default, this check box applies across all platforms. Use the Link indicator to the left of the check box to unlink the element. Then you can customize the state of the check box per platform.

When this option is unselected, the property and behavior options in the editor become unavailable.

Default value: true

(Show references)

Indicates the number of elements in your project that contain direct references to the object. The icon is displayed in orange when references to the object exist, and in gray when no references exist.

Selecting the button opens the Reference View with the object's name in the References to: field.

Notes

Additional information about the Effect.

Metering

Indicates the name of the object currently being metered.

Allows you to browse for other objects to meter.

	Note
	The metering interface elements only appear in the Effect Editor for Effects that include VU meters.

Sets the display of the Effect Editor's selected tabs. By default, there is one panel displaying only one selected tab. You can, however, click a splitter button to split the panel into two, either side by side or one on top of the other, for two different tabs. The currently selected option is highlighted with a background color.

	Note
	You cannot display the same tab in both panels. If you select the tab that is currently displayed in the other panel, then the other panel will automatically display another tab.

Early Reflections

Enable Early Reflections

Specifies whether the early reflections component of the signal will be computed and processed.

Default value: true

ER pattern

A pattern containing pre-determined early reflection arrival times (in ms) and gains (linear) that are characteristic of a particular acoustical space.

ER Room Size

Determines the time scaling applied to the ER pattern.

A value of zero means there is no time scaling of the ER pattern selected, a value of 100 yields a doubling of the time taken before receiving each early reflection, and a value of -100 halves the time taken by the ER pattern chosen. Note that the time of the first early reflection is a good perceptual cue of the size of the acoustical space modeled.

Default value: 0

Range: -100 to 100

ER Rear Delay

Time delay between the early reflections fed to the front and rear channels.

When using non-zero rear delay values with surround signals in conjunction with matrix encoding systems, such as Dolby Pro Logic 2, some artifacts may be heard (usually as comb filtering). This may occur on the Xbox 360 platform while listening to the analog stereo output, for example.

Default value: 0

Range: 0 to 100

Units: ms

Reverb

Pre Delay

Specifies the time between the direct sound and the start of the dense reverb tail. While pre delay supports exclusive RTPC, it should only be used for initialization, before playback. If an RTPC is used to change pre delay in real time during playback, the delay buffer will be continuously re-initialized, which will cause sudden silences or changes in the reverb signal.

Default value: 25

Range: 0 to 1000

Units: ms

Decay Time

The time it takes for the low frequencies of the sound to fall by 60 dB from its original amplitude.

Default value: 1.2

Range: 0.2 to 10

Units: s

HF Damping

A roll-off factor used to control the reverberation time for high frequencies relative to low frequencies.

When the value of this ratio is less than 1, the high frequency reverberation time becomes longer than that for lower frequencies.

Default value: 2.25

Range: 0.5 to 10

Density

Directly modifies the perceived modal density. Lower values often result in a certain amount of ringing while higher settings sound flatter in frequency with a noisy reverb tail.

This property is directly proportional to the amount of memory and CPU used by the plug-in because higher modal density is achieved using longer delay lines. These longer delay lines are analogous to larger spaces so this property can sometimes be used to control the perceived room size. This property works closely with the ‘Room shape’ and ‘Quality’ properties.

Default value: 80

Range: 0 to 100

Units: %

Room Shape

Determines the perceived coloration of the reverb by controlling (along with the Density property) the delay lengths used by the algorithm while maintaining a constant modal density. In general, a high room shape setting will mean less divergence between the longest and shortest delay lengths. This could be analogous to a regularly shaped room, a cube for instance. At lower room shape settings, the divergence between delay lines is larger.

It is recommended that you experiment with different Room shape settings for each Density value.

Default value: 100

Range: 0 to 100

Units: %

Quality

Determines the number of reverberation units used by the algorithm. A higher Quality value can help change the audio quality of the reverberation significantly but will result in a proportional increase in CPU usage.

If you increase Quality, you may want to reduce the Density and the reverse is also true. Lower Quality values, such as 2, often do not provide the necessary echo density for realistic reverberation. Higher Quality values may produce the effect of more reflective rooms.

Default value: 8

Range: 2 to 16

Units: Reverberations

Diffusion

Directly controls the echo density characteristic of the reverb. A lower Diffusion value will sometimes result in a shrilling sound where each echo can be distinctively perceived. Higher Diffusion values give a denser reverberation tail. Higher diffusion also means that transient signals are blurred in time with their energy spread over some interval of time. the effect of this property will be noticeable mostly on materials with sharp transients, for example, snare drum hits.

Default value: 100

Range: 0 to 100

Units: %

Stereo Width

Determines the similarity between the ER + reverb content that is output in the left channels (front and/or rear) and right channels (front and/or rear). This can create a stronger sense of space, by enlarging the stereo spread of the early reflections and the reverberation.

When a value of zero is used, the ER + reverb output to the left and right channels is the same. As a result, some memory and CPU optimization can be obtained. A value of 180 means that an entirely different ER + reverb signal is fed to each side. This effect is stronger when monitored over headphones due to the absence of cross-talk between speaker signals which diminishes the Effect.

This property has no effect on 1.0 (mono) or 1.1 channel sounds.

Default value: 180

Range: 0 to 180

Units: °

Tone

Enable Tone

Specifies whether shelving and peaking filters can be applied to the various components of the reverberated signal. When selected, you can apply up to three different filters. Each filter can also be inserted at various points in the signal chain.

Default value: false

Filter Band Insert

Determines the point in the signal chain at which filters are applied. The following insertion points are available:

When the Early reflections option is not selected, the ER component will always be ignored no matter which insertion point is selected.

Default value: ER + Reverb

Filter Band Curve

Determines the type of filtering that can be applied to the signal. The following filters are available:

Default value: High shelf

Gain

The amount by which the audio signal is amplified for the selected frequency band. Increasing this value boosts the audio signal. Decreasing this value cuts or attenuates the audio signal.

Default value: 0

Range: -32 to 32

Units: dB

Filter Band Frequency

The portion of the frequency spectrum that will be affected by the gain.

Default value: 10000

Range: 20 to 20000

Units: Hz

Filter Band Q

The area around the center frequency that will be affected by the change in gain. A low Q value means that the bandwidth range will be wide and, conversely, a high Q value means that the bandwidth range will be narrow.

The Q property is only available when the Curve property is set to Peaking.

Default value: 1

Range: 0.1 to 10

Input Levels

Center Input Level

Determines the amount of the Center channel that will contribute to feed the reverberation algorithm.

Default value: 0

Range: -96.3 to 0

Units: dB

LFE Input Level

Determines the amount of the LFE channel that will contribute to feed the reverberation algorithm.

Default value: -96.3

Range: -96.3 to 0

Units: dB

Reverb Levels

Front Level

Controls the amount of late reverberation applied to the front left and right channels. This property control does not affect the center channel, which can be controlled explicitly.

This property has no effect in channel configurations where rear channels are not present. In these cases, controlling the wet level (ER + Reverb) is more intuitive.

Default value: 0

Range: -96.3 to 0

Units: dB

Rear Level

Controls the amount of late reverberation applied to the rear left and right channels.

This property has no effect in channel configurations where rear channels are not present. In these cases, controlling the wet level (ER + Reverb) is more intuitive.

Default value: 0

Range: -96.3 to 0

Units: dB

Center Level

Controls the amount of late reverberation applied to the center channel, when present.

Default value: 0

Range: -96.3 to 0

Units: dB

LFE Level

Controls the amount of late reverberation applied to the LFE channel, when present.

Default value: -96.3

Range: -96.3 to 0

Units: dB

Output Levels

Dry Level

Determines the gain factor that is applied to the direct path sound.

Default value: -96.3

Range: -96.3 to 0

Units: dB

ER Level

Determines the gain factor that is applied to the early reflection signal.

This control has no effect when the Early reflections check box is not selected.

Default value: -20

Range: -96.3 to 0

Units: dB

Reverb Level

Determines the gain factor that is applied to the reverberated signal (reverb tail).

Default value: -20

Range: -96.3 to 0

Units: dB

Estimated memory usage

The estimated amount of memory, in KB, used to generate the Effect. This estimate assumes a surround configuration. If the rear left and rear right channels are not present, the memory used will be slightly lower than the amount displayed.

For the Windows platform, this value assumes that the sound quality (AkSoundQuality) is set to High (48 kHz sampling rate). If the sound quality is set to Low (24 kHz sample rate), then the estimated amount of memory will typically be half of the value displayed.