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Cubase 5 VST Instruments

Operation Manual by Ludvig Carlson, Anders Nordmark, Roger Wiklander Quality Control: K. Albrecht, C.Bachmann, H. Bischoff, S. Pfeifer, C. Schomburg The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies AG. The software described by this document is subject to a LicenseAgreement and may not be copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies AG. All product and company names are ™ or ® trademarks of their respective owners. Windows 2000 and Windows XP are trademarksof Microsoft Corporation. © Steinberg Media Technologies AG, 2002. All rights reserved.

Introduction
This document contains descriptions for the VST Instruments which can be found in the Cubase 5 Instruments subfolder of your VST plugins if you chose to install any of these during the Cubase SX installation. • JX16 - a software synthesizer.

See page 4.
• CS40 - a software synthesizer.See page 17.
• Neon - a software synthesizer.

See page 20.
• VB-1 – a virtual bass instrument built on realtime physical modelling principles.

See page 22.
• LM-9 - a drum machine.

See page 24.

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JX16 Synthesizer

The JX16 is a dual oscillator software synthesizer with the following main features: • • • • The JX16 is polyphonic with up to 16 voices.
The polyphonysetting for each patch is user programmable.

Low CPU load and high quality sound (low aliasing distortion). Multimode Filter.
Lowpass, Bandpass and Hipass filter modes are available.

Oscillator Lock function enables the creation of pulse and square waveforms with classic PWM (Pulse Width Modulation).
See page 11.

• • •

Built-in stereo chorus effect. The JX16 receives MIDI in Omni mode(on all MIDI channels).
You don’t need to select a MIDI channel to direct MIDI to the JX16.

The JX16 responds to MIDI Controller messages.
These are listed on page 13.

❐ All parameters can be automated as described in the Getting into the

Details chapter “VST Instruments”.

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JX16 Parameters
Osc 1+2 Section

This section contains parameters affecting bothoscillators.
Parameter Octave Fine Tune Vibrato Values -2/+2 -100/+100 Cent 0-100 Description Tunes the oscillators in octave steps. Tunes the oscillators in cent (100th of a semitone) steps. Governs how much the LFO should modulate the pitch of the oscillators (vibrato). The Vibrato parameter is also controllable via MIDI by using the Mod Wheel. This parameter produces white noise mixed with theoscillators. By using the “OSC lock” parameter you can “cancel out” the oscillators and use pure noise as the sound source. This is described on page 11. This is described separately on page 11.

Noise

0-100

OSC lock

0-95/Free

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The Oscillator 2 Section

This section contains parameters that affect oscillator 2 only.
Parameter OSC Mix Values 0-100 Description Controls thelevel of oscillator 2. 100 produces equal level to oscillator 1, which has a fixed output level. Tuning of Oscillator 2, in semitone steps. Fine tuning of Oscillator 2, in cent (=100th of a semitone) steps. This lets you apply vibrato on the second oscillator only. This can be useful for creating PWM effects - see page 11 for a further description. Both positive and negative values can be set.Coarse Fine Tune Vibrato

-24/+24 Semitones -50/+50 Cent -100/100

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The Glide/Chorus Section

This section contains Glide parameters, and also the Polyphony and Chorus parameters.
Parameter Mode Values Off/Held/On Description If set to “On”, the pitch will glide up or down between notes played. If set to “Held”, Glide will only be applied when you press a key while another...