Rooms, microphones and output
Choose a space
| Venue | Perspective |
|---|---|
| Studio | Close, controlled reflections and a short, dense tail |
| Small hall | Chamber clarity with a warm bloom |
| Concert hall | A wider stage and spacious orchestral tail |
| Church | Tall, reflective architecture and a gradual, enveloping decay |
Selecting a venue changes the room model while keeping your microphone and return controls. Click Load [venue] setup to apply that venue's recommended complete microphone, reflection, diffusion and tail-EQ settings.
Solo recital loads the concert-hall solo perspective, enables distance level compensation, and sets Body resonance=1 and G depth=0.
Freeplay space loads the lighter Freeplay room/microphone settings. Room off sets Reverb amount to 0. It does not disable instrument resonance, microphone color or output finishing.
Shape the room
- Reverb amount / CC91 sets the return level.
- Early reflections / CC93 adds the nearby reflected structure around an attack.
- Late reverb / CC94 controls the diffuse tail.
- Decay length / CC92 scales the room's decay; Treble decay / CC107 shapes high-frequency persistence.
- Pre-delay / CC95 separates the reflected return from the direct arrival.
- Diffusion / CC110 fills the tail; Reverb width / CC108 changes its stereo spread.
- Reverb low-cut / CC111 and high-cut / CC112 filter the room return.
For running passages that become cloudy, reduce Late reverb or Decay length before removing the instrument's own resonance.
Microphones
Distance, pair spacing, height, off-axis angle and pattern change the modeled perspective. Pattern runs from 0 figure-eight, through 0.5 cardioid, to 1 omni.
Match level with distance / CC89 keeps the direct level steady while moving the microphones; the room becomes more prominent with distance. Turn it off when you want distance to reduce the direct level naturally.
Leave the DAW track pan centered. String image width and room width create a stereo image around it. CC10 is not the plug-in's pan control: it controls Refined articulation response. Standard center-pan CC10=64 keeps that response enabled.
Output finishing
| Output | Use |
|---|---|
| Solo finish | The default polished solo output: broad tone shaping, gentle stereo-linked compression, calibrated gain and look-ahead peak control |
| Mix headroom | Finishing without the solo makeup gain, with more peak headroom for a larger arrangement |
| Raw | Bypass the finishing stage for your own processing or direct comparison |
Output polish / CC19 adjusts the finishing amount. Peak protection remains active in the enabled finishing modes even with low polish. Raw is a finishing bypass; use Room off separately if you also want no reverb return.
Finishing is for the instrument's own output. It does not master the rest of your DAW session. If the host bus overloads after other effects or instruments are added, adjust the session levels.
Solo finish and Mix headroom report a small look-ahead latency to the host. Keep the DAW's plug-in delay compensation enabled and choose a suitable audio buffer for live playing.