General Information

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Tap Factory – Multi-Tap Delay

Windows

PowerCore software 3.0 or higher Windows XP

PIII 1.4 GHz or faster 512 MB RAM

VST compatible host application System must meet requirements of the host application.

Mac OS X

PowerCore software 3.0 or higher Mac OS X (10. 4 or higher) G4/G5 or Intel (1 GHz or faster) 512 MB RAM

VST, Audio Units or RTAS*) compatible host application.

System must meet requirements of the host application.

Transcend the Average Delay – A Tweaker’s Paradise

Let your creativity run wild with this delay/reverb hybrid. Easily design custom out-of-this- world effects that cross the borders between Ambience, Early Reflections, Reverb and Delay.

Tap Factory makes customization of your sound a breeze and brings radical signatures to your productions. Tap Factory’s extremely intuitive and clean user interface allows you to make individual parameter settings for each of its 24 taps within seconds.

Tap Factory includes a bonus LE version that allows you to run multiple instances per DSP

*) RTAS (Pro Tools) is supported via the VST to RTAS adapter from FXpansion (optional). More info on www.tcsupport.tc

GETTING STARTED

Scroll Wheel Support

If you are using a host application that supports this feature, all parameters support scrolling on both Windows XP and Mac OS X. Simply place the mouse over a parameter value field and use the Scroll Wheel to increment/decrement the associated parameter-value.

Key Commands

In most host applications, plug-ins support keyboard commands for certain functions. The following key commands are available for all plug-in parameters.

Key Commands in Mac OS	Key Commands in Windows
Reset To Default = Alt	Reset To Default = Shift & Control

DSP USAGE

For each open instance of the Tap Factory on PowerCore devices (Express, PCI mkII, Unplugged, Compact, FireWire, X8 and PowerCore 6000), the following DSP usage applies:

Full version
@44. 1 kHz:	@48 kHz:	@88. 2 kHz:	@96 kHz:
DSP 66%	DSP 72%	DSP 93%	DSP 100%
MEM 100%	MEM 100%	MEM 100%	MEM 100%
LE version
@44. 1 kHz:	@48 kHz:	@88. 2 kHz:	@96 kHz:
DSP 48%	DSP 53%	DSP 76%	DSP 83%
MEM 25%	MEM 25%	MEM 25%	MEM 25%

on current PowerCore systems and supports first generation PowerCore hardware.

Differences between Tap Factory and other delays

In many aspects, Tap Factory is a fairly normal delay-unit: What comes in goes out again a bit later. What sets Tap Factory apart from other delay-units is the way it can alter the delayed sound and its ability to create very short and precise delay times.

Tap Factory covers common delay parameters like delay time, level and panning. Additionally you will find the parameters Shade, Feedback and Phase. Feedback is common to most multi-tap delays and echo-units, but as you will discover the way the feedback works in TF is rather unique.

When you hear a natural echo, you do not hear an exact representation of the original sound. The sound is obviously a little weaker in level, but it is also altered in a few other ways: The sound is diffused, and the timbre has changed. And this effect is what the “Shade” parameter recreates: timbre and diffusion of the delay taps.

If a sound hits a plaster wall, the resultant echo has a small dip in the high and low frequency, but the amount of diffusion is very low and almost nonexistent. If the same sound hits a rock face, the echo will have a lot of diffusion because of the surface structure of the rocks, but there will only be very subtle coloring of the sound. Every material has its own “audio-fingerprint” so to say, and that is why the sound in a bedroom is different from the sound in an office even when the two rooms have the same size and proportions. The “Feedback” parameter is routing a portion of the signal back to the start of the delay-tap-chain. However, please exercise caution when setting up Feedback as the overall level can get really loud!

Creating 3D delays

The Phase parameter can be used to simulate three-dimensional sound. If you set two delay taps to the same delay time, set the Pan for each to the widest position possible,