Nexus

User Manual

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elcome and thank your for purchasing NEXUS2. You are now the owner of a highquality product that includes a professional and comprehensive sound library and an easy-to-use but powerful patch management system. The demands placed on your computer’s CPU are surprisingly low.

NEXUS2 is a sample-ROM based synthesizer (often called a “rompler”). Thismeans that NEXUS2 accesses sampled waveforms from your hard disk to generate its sounds. Apart from the low demands on your CPU mentioned above, this method also has other benefits: It allowed us to sample several prohibitively expensive analog hardware devices and make these quality sounds available to you, the NEXUS2 user. Furthermore, the complex sound architecture in NEXUS2 gives youextensive control over the most important parameters to customize the sounds to suit your personal tastes. The internal architecture lets you generate highly complex soundscapes, stacked sequences and/ or extreme modulations – all with a depth and clarity you’ve never heard before. Dive into the world of NEXUS2 and experience a totally new dimension of sound. Specifications and features: ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒƒ Over 4 gigabyte library of high quality multisamples Eight alias-free classic waveforms Over 890 factory presets covering all popular genres Four different filter types with flexible envelopes Two freely editable master effects Freely programmable 32-step arpeggiator with note transpose Freely programmable 32-step stereo trance gate Flexible delay with adjustable modulation Production-qualityreverb (licensed from ArtsAcoustic) Can be upgraded via separately available expansions (27 already available)

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INSTALLING NEXUS2 ON A WINDOWS PC
To install NEXUS2 on your Windows PC, please follow these simple steps:

1. Insert the NEXUS2 DVD into your DVD drive. 2. Double click the file “NEXUS2 Setup.exe” from within the“Windows Setup” folder on the DVD and follow the on screen instructions. Continue with “DOWNLOADING THE LICENSE” on page 8

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MINIMUM PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ Pentium III @ 800MHz or better (or AMD equivalent) Minimum of 512Mb RAM (1Gb recommended) Hard drive space required: 4Gb Operation system: Windows XP/Vista Graphics (minimum resolution): 16-bit 800x600 Host: Any applicationsupporting the VSTi standard (e.g. Cubase, FL Studio, Sonar etc.) or Pro Tools 7.3 or better

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INSTALLING NEXUS2 ON A MAC
To install NEXUS2 on your Mac, please follow these simple steps:

1. Insert the NEXUS2 DVD into your DVD drive. 2. Double click the file “NEXUS2 Setup.dmg” from within the “OSX Setup” folder on the DVD and follow the on screen instructions. Copy thefolder “Nexus Content” from the DVD to any location on one of your hard drives, but make sure that the hard drive has enough space to fit the entire factory content (4 Gb) and please also make sure there is enough space left for expansions you might want to import in the future. Continue with “DOWNLOADING THE LICENSE” on page 8.

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MINIMAL MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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