Signal Generator

[Punx]

What is the practical use for the signal generator plug in?

[Zeus]

Not much. It's too difficult to use it musically (even though the lower frequency range below 1k is tuned to half-steps!). The pink noise generation is totally flawed. The square and triangle waves are aliasing like hell...

I think they mostly made it up for the TDM systems for signal level calibration purposes.

Z

[Punx]

That's what i figured Zeus. I was actually hoping there was a way to use the tones as an oscillator function, but apparently that's not possible. Thanks for the response

[Ben Jenssen]

I use it for:

Simple level calibrating. I send a -10db sinus around my system to check the levels.

Checking tuning of guitars and stuff.

And heres one special thing:
I have a mic on the ceiling in my recording studio. It lets me hear people speaking to me even if they dont have a recording mic close to them.
But the problem is that I have to switch this mic on and off all the time because it has a terrible ambience sound and interferes with tweaking.

This is where the signal generator comes in:
I have a whole track of sinus tone feeding into a squashing compressor on the studio talkback mic. The sinus goes in as sidechain in the compressor.

This means that every time I press play or rec, the sinus tone makes the compressor attenuate the studio talkback mic. So I hear only the music and recording tracks. When I stop playback, the studio talkback mic comes back.

Pretty clever, eh?

I got the tip from this board!

The DUC rules!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[CCash]

Very clever!

I couldn't go without the signal generator for calibrating my gear... one of the best plugs they ever invented.

Also needed for laying down reference tones for clients.