GUIdPlayer

The GUidHost is an easy-to-use audiofile player combined with a mixer and can be used for live and studio applications.

Main features are:

• 4 stereo audiofile player with pitch adjuster and loop function.

• mixer with level and pan

• 4 tap delay with separated delay sends for each player.

• 2 vst master inserts

• audio file recorder

By default the GuidPlayer uses Soundmanager for its audio output but supports ASIO drivers and also can be directly linked to protools via DirectConnect or to other programs like DigitalPerformer using the Rewire protocol (Rewire has not been tested).

Check out this screenshot of the GUidPlayer.

QUICK START

1.Launch the GUidPlayer and load some audiofile into the players.

The Guid Machine can load pretty much any audiofile (Aiff, Wav, SDII and so on) but they need to be stereo otherwise they will play only on the left channel.

To load the sample just press open on the top end of the file-player.

Press 1to start and 0 to stop the files.

2.Bring Up the faders in the mixer section.

3.To use the delay just use the Sends located on the top left of the delay section and tweek the delay settings by ear.

For the other features and more details descriptions read the rest of the manual...

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FILE PLAYER SECTION

Starting from the top:

• load the audiofile pressing open and locate the file you want.

• the number just below is the pitch. (1 is the original pitch, numbers between 0 and 1 are slower)

• Clicking on the red led will loop the file.

• 0 and 1 are respectively stop and start.

• the box below allows to play the file from a certain point and the one after that is the actual file position , both expressed in seconds.

• the number outside the box is the lenght of the file.

• the bottom box will show which file is loaded into that specific player.

MIXER SECTION

It's very straight forward. The red vertical faders are the volumes and the orizontal ones below are the pan value for each player.

The peak meters will show the actual levels of the individual tracks and the master output.

DELAY SECTION

This delay is a modified version of the 4 tap delay featured on the GUidMachine.

The Sends are for the individual players starting from the top (player1, 2, 3, 4) the peak meter on the right will show how much of the signal is sent to the delay.

The Time/Fb sets respectively delaytime and feedback for each tap.

Starting from the left you have delay-time 1, feedback1, delay-time 2, feedback 2, delay-time 3, feedback 3, delay-time 4, feedback 4.

The pan section sets the pan value of each tap in this order: tap 1 , tap 2, tap 3, tap 4. The center value is in the middle.

You can also pitch shift each tap using the PitchShift boxes (The WindowSize boxes sets the granulation lenght).

The FeedbackMultiplier simply double the feedback value for very long and sustained delays.

The AllPitchTo1 button sets the pitch of all the taps to the original value.

The DUBWISE!! parameter send the output of the delay back to its input. Be careful with this because it can easily overload the output if used toghter with FeedbackMultiplier.

MASTER SECTION / RECORDER

Use this fader to adjust the master level and the RECORDER to save audiofiles of what you are doing on the GUidPlayer.

To Record, first of all you need to set the file path using the open button. After you have named the file, to start recording press the little grey box. To stop recording press it again.

Remember that everytime you start/stop record you will need to create a new audio file path otherwise it will not record!

MASTER VST INSERTS

Here you can put a 2 vst fx before the master out. To do that press plug and select a vst fx to load. on and off will resplectevely enable and bypass the effect.

Use open to edit the plugin.

AUDIO SETTINGS

Here you can switch the GUidPlayer on and off and select the audiodriver and sample rate.

The CPU will show the actual cpu engagement.

GLOBAL START/STOP - SETTINGS RECALL

The GLOBAL START/STOP allows you to start and stop all the player at once. This is very useful if you have for example four submixes of the same track and you want to mix it live.

The settings recall section is to store and recall the window settings. To store Shift+Click on the boxes; to recall just click on the boxes.

This settings are for this window only and will disappear when you quit the program.

To Save them use write and to reload them use read.

ENJOY!

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

It seems to work on any mac with G3 or G4 processor running mac OS9 although the fastest the better.

It also OMS downloadable at www.opcode.com

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