Manual for the TimeFreezer instrument

The basics of the TimeFreezer VST Instrument

The TimeFreezer VST Instrument is not a virtual MIDI synth like most of the others. It is not a sampler, it is not an emulation of a before existing hardware that has been realized with electronics in the past. The basic idea is a resynthesis of an analysed sound. Although those machines have existed already in the 70s, the quality of the sound never ever reached the original. The TimeFreezer allways works in two steps: analysis and resynthesis. This means, that an instant response of the keyboard is nearly impossible because of the huge amount of calculations that have to be done for achieving that. But there is already a solution for those who want to play "fast frozen sounds": The TF can remain as many presets as you have keys on a MIDI-Keyboard. So when you don´t change all the settings all the time, you can play as fast as your environment allows it. Some settings don´t take time at all, for example the volume, the pitch, and even the filter settings. The morphing time can also be set by the "fade time".

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