TC electronic SDN BHD Master X3 LOOK-AHEAD Delay, Digital Ceiling, Target Curve & Target Factors

TC MASTER X3 – PARAMETERS

LOOK-AHEAD DELAY

Master X3 can look into the future, whenever this parameter is active! This won’t help you fortune-telling, but it’ll help Master X3 to be prepared for sudden peaks in your material, thus ensuring a much better quality processing!

DIGITAL CEILING

Digital Ceiling will let you define a marginally lower level than 0 dB as maximal value, so you can ensure that you definitely don’t have

any values reaching 0 dB.

This can be important for mastering – as some devices already show a clip or overload, when 0 dB is reached for one single sample – others take up to 5 or more consecutive clips before they display an overload.

Do not activate Digital Ceiling before you have adjusted the setting to your liking – Master X3 won’t display clips with Digital Ceiling active!

TARGET CURVE & TARGET FACTORS

The Target Curves and Target Factors simplify the handling of Master X3 significantly, by reducing the amount of parameters necessary to control the Plug-In by approximately 2/3. Thanks to these innovative parameters it will be easy for you to keep an overview of all relevant settings at all times – and get to a result fast anyway!

Although you are using a 3-Band solution you only have one set of parameters for each module. This is possible due to the use of the Target Meta-Parameters:

The displayed values are always referring to the center band, with Target Curves you define the basic “focus” (like “all equal” or “less treble” etc.) as displayed by the little curve in the Target Curve display – and with the Target Factor you can edit that “focus”, move the target elsewhere in the frequency spectrum.

TC MASTER X3 – PARAMETERS

Target Factor

The Target Factor allows fast editing of the relation between the

3 bands, separately for each module. For example: With just one move of the Target Factor in the Limiter block, you can increase the focus of the Limiter block on the hi frequency spectrum.

In OFF position, the Target Factor is deactivated for the module – all 3 bands will be processed with the setting you see on screen. In MAX position, the selected Target Curve will be applied to the maximum – and the 3 bands will be processed differently.

So in a way you could say: The Target Factor determines the amount of differences between the bands.

Target Curves

The Target Curves determine how the 3 bands work together:

Linear

All 3 bands are processed equally. The Target Factor has no effect. (Imagine the frequency characteristics of white noise)

Pink

The Hi band will be processed less.

(Imagine the frequency characteristics of pink noise)

Hyped

The Hi band will be processed more.

Smiley

Lo and Hi band are processed more.

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