Analog Code® MicroPlug

Manual

Mo-Verb Plus
Manual
Mo-Verb Plus
Analog Code MicroPlug

Native Version (AAX, AU and VST):

Manual Version 2.0 –2/2017

This user‘s guide contains a description of the product. It in no

way represents a guarantee of particular characteristics or results
of use. The information in this document has been carefully com-
piled and verified and, unless otherwise stated or agreed upon,
correctly describes the product at the time of packaging with this
document.

Sound Performance Lab (SPL) continuously strives to improve its

products and reserves the right to modify the product described in
this manual at any time without prior notice. This document is the
property of SPL and may not be copied or reproduced in any way,
in part or fully, without authorization by SPL electronics GmbH.

SPL electronics GmbH

Sohlweg 80, 41372 Niederkruechten, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)2163 983 40
Fax: +49 (0)2163 983 420
E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: www.spl.info

© 2017 SPL electronics GmbH. All rights reserved. The SPL logo, Analog Code,
Vitalizer and Atmos are registered trademarks of SPL electronics GmbH. All other
logos and brand names are registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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 Contents
Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Mac Installation, Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Analog Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mo-Verb Plus & Transient Designer Plus, Working with
Mo-Verb Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Control Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Mouse Wheel Control, ACTIVE, REVERB-ENHANCEMENT. . . . . 7
OUTPUT GAIN, SIG. LED, OVL LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
LIMIT, DRY/WET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Drums & Percussion, Guitars, Backings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Toolbars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Plugin Settings Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Plugin Alliance Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Your Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Installation MAC & WIN Installation

Plugin Alliance Activation

Your Analog Code plugin must be activated in your Plugin Alliance
account. You can set it up and log into your account anytime at
http://www.plugin-alliance.com
For details about the activation process, read the Plugin Alliance
Activation Manual. The PDF file is stored in the same folder of your
computer like this product manual file.
Alternatively, the following web page provides the same informa-
tion: https://www.plugin-alliance.com/tl_files/products/activa-
tion_manual.pdf

System Requirements and Compatibility

For details about system requirements and supported platforms
or formats visit https://plugin-alliance.com/en/systemrequire-
ments.html

MAC and Windows Installation

1. Check for the latest plugin software version before installation:
https://plugin-alliance.com/en/products.html
2. Execute the installer file and follow the instructions.

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 Introduction
The Analog Code
For more than two decades, SPL of Germany has been well-known
as a manufacturer of handmade analog hardware processors.
Innovative processors like the Vitalizer and Transient Designer are
accompanied by a complete analog range from frontend to back-
end and culminate in the Mastering Series with exemplary specs
thanks to SPL’s proprietary 120 V rails technology. While SPL’s
hardware has been fascinating audio professionals from home
studio owners to mastering engineers in the world’s most famous
facilities, there has been a continuing and ever growing demand
for digital (DAW) users to be able to enjoy this technology.

Our software design team has managed to transfer the class and
excellence of our analog processors into the digital domain. Latest
methods for high-precision modeling of our analog circuit designs
now give us results beyond a pure mathematical approach. The
digital products are so amazingly close to their analog equiva-
lents that we call them The Analog Code plugins. The Analog Code
MicroPlug Series is derived from our Analog Code plugins, offer-
ing single functions or controls of plugins such as the Transient
Designer Plus. While the Transient Designer Plus offers ATTACK
and SUSTAIN controls, the Mo-Verb Plus MicroPlug focuses on
prolonging the sustain event, thus enhancing the reverb portion
of a signal.

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Introduction
Mo-Verb Plus & Transient Designer Plus
The Mo-Verb Plus MicroPlug employs the same processing tech-
nique as the original Transient Designer Plus. SPL’s Differential
Envelope Technology revolutionized dynamic processing with a
level-independent method. And now, the Mo-Verb sounds more
like SPL’s original hardware than ever.

This radically different approach eliminates the need to set a

threshold. Other parameters are set automatically and in a musi-
cal manner as they follow the characteristics of the input signal.
After all, only one control is needed to reshape the reverb charac-
teristics of a sound.

Working with Mo-Verb Plus ...

... is disarmingly simple: All reverb events can be amplified – re-
gardless of their signal level. However, the possibilities for studio
and live applications are seemingly endless.

Amplify the reverb curves of any sound event to enhance dry ambi-
ences and reverb-tails (see “Applications” on pages 9 and 10 for
more examples).

The Mo-Verb Plus also offers a limiter and an output gain control
that allows users to compensate for level changes after process-
ing the signal. This ensures a simple and safe adjustment of levels
and helps with avoiding internal clipping. It also includes a large,
photo-realistic user interface with an intuitive multi-bank system
for fast comparisons, and up to 32 steps of “Undo” history.

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 Control Elements
Mouse Wheel Control
All SPL Analog Code plugins, including the MicroPlug Series, sup-
port mouse wheel control for rotary controls and faders. Place the
mouse cursor over a rotary control and move the wheel or scroll
ball of your mouse to adjust the control. Hold the CTRL (Windows)
or APPLE/COMMAND key while moving the wheel or scroll ball for
fine adjustments with higher control resolution.

REVERB-ENHANCEMENT
With the REVERB-ENHANCEMENT control you can
amplify the sustain period of a signal by up to 24 dB.
You can operate the control by ear actually ... for an
extensive description and explanation of the pos-
sible applications please refer to “Applications” on
page 9 cont.

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Control Elements
OUTPUT GAIN
The OUTPUT GAIN control allows you to reduce the
output signal by up to -20 dB or boost it by up to
+6dB. This ensures that following devices receive
an optimized level. The center position at 12-o‘clock
equals 0 dB output. If the OVL-LEDs keeps flashing
you have to reduce the output level to avoid internal
clipping.

SIG. LED
The SIG. (signal) LED indicates the presence of an audio sig-
nal. In the analog world this LED helps the operator especially
in complex setups to determine immediately if the device
receives any signal. In the digital domain it tells you that the
channel where you inserted the plug contains a signal that is loud
enough to ensure correct processing.

OVL LED
The OVL (overload) LED indicates that there is clipping.
Whether the clipping is audible or not depends on the kind of
audio material you are processing, and whether you have set
up additional processing after the Mo-Verb Plus in the signal
path.

You should generally avoid illuminating the OVL LED. Use the
OUTPUT GAIN control to reduce the output level if the OVL LED
keeps flashing.

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 Control Elements

LIMIT
Engage the LIMIT button to enable basic peak limiting
on the processed signal. The limiter is applied after
all the effects of the Mo-Verb Plus, including OUTPUT
GAIN. The GR light will illuminate when the limiter is
applying gain reduction.

DRY/WET
This sets the proportion of the original and the processed sig-
nal. Turn this knob fully clockwise to output only the effect of
the Mo-Verb Plus.

The DRY/WET mix is applied after the OUTPUT GAIN and the
LIMITER.

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Applications

The following examples are given as suggestions and examples.

The described procedures with specific instruments can of course
be transferred to others which are not mentioned here.

Drums & Percussion

• Adjust the apparent “distance” of the microphone by simply
varying REVERB-ENHANCEMENT values.

• If your drums happen to sound as if the room mics have been

placed in a shoe closet, the Mo-Verb can immediately turn
that sound into the ambience of an empty warehouse. Slowly
increase REVERB-ENHANCEMENT values to bring up the room
tone. For a solid and driving rhythm track just fine-tune the set-
tings to make sure that the room mic envelope ends more or
less exactly on the desired upbeat or downbeat.

Guitars
• Increase distortion with a sustain period. If you want to create
soaring guitar solos that would make even David Gilmour blush,
just crank up the REVERB-ENHANCEMENT control to the max
and there you go.
• On acoustic guitar tracks you can emphasize the room sound by
turning up REVERB-ENHANCEMENT.

Backing Tracks
• A common problem especially with tracks that are recorded and
mixed in different studios: Backings lack of ambience, and find-
ing a reverb that “matches” takes time ... so simply emphasize
the original ambience by turning up the REVERB-ENHANCEMENT
control.

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 Toolbars

Plugin Settings Toolbar

ACTIVE (Power button)

With the ACTIVE button you can turn the De-Verb Plus on or off.

UNDO/REDO (Arrows)
Up to 32 steps of parameter history

Settings A / B / C / D
Select banks of paramter settings; use the A/B/C/D settings to
copy a complex channel setting and alter it slightly for different
parts of your song, for example. These settings can be automated
by your DAW system, so you can jump from setting A (in the verse)
to setting B (in the chorus, for example).

COPY / PASTE / RESET

Copy and Paste between setting banks, reset paramters of
selected bank

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Toolbars

Plugin Alliance Toolbar

“KEY” ICON
Opens the plugin Activation Dialog

“?” ICON
Opens a dialog thorugh which one can access the plugin’s help
documentation, online product page, or any available updates.

“$” ICON (When Applicable)

If you’ve purchased your plugin using the Plugin Alliance Installment
Payments option, the “$” icon, links to your account so you can
make a payment on your Lease-License

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Mo-Verb Plus
Analog Code MicroPlug

Manual

SPL – Sound Performance Lab

Sohlweg 80, 41372 Niederkrüchten, Germany

Fon: +49 (0) 21 63 9 83 40

Fax: +49 (0) 21 63 98 34 20

E-Mail: [email protected], Website: spl.info