Antares Filter user manual

							Antares Filter
Quad Rhythmic Multimode Filters
Owner’s Manual 
						

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							The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo
The Antares Filter software and this User’s Manual are protected by
copyright law. Making copies, adaptations, or derivative works without the
prior written authorization of Antares Audio Technologies, is prohibited by
law and constitutes a punishable violation of the law.
Antares Audio Technologies retains all ownership rights to the Filter
software and its documentation. Use of Filter is limited by the following
license agreement.
Please carefully read all the terms and conditions of this license agreement.
At the time of installation of the Filter software you will be presented with
a copy of the agreement and asked whether or not you agree to it.
Continuing with the installation process beyond that point constitutes such
agreement.
Filter License Agreement
Antares Audio Technologies grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive
license to use Filter under the terms and conditions stated in this
agreement. Use of Filter indicates your agreement to the following terms
and conditions.
License
You may:
1. Use Filter on only one computer
You may not:
1. Make copies of Filter or of the user manual in whole or in part except
as expressly provided for in this agreement. Your right to copy Filter
and the user manual is limited by copyright law. Making copies, verbal
or media translations, adaptations, derivative works, or
telecommunication data transmission of Filter without prior written
authorization of Antares, is prohibited by law and constitutes a
punishable violation of the law.
2. Make alteration or modifications to Filter (or any copy) or disassemble
or decompile Filter (or any copy), or attempt to discover the source
code of Filter
3. Sub-license, lease, lend, rent, or grant other rights in all or any portion
of Filter (or any copy) to others.
Term of the Agreement
This agreement is effective until terminated by you or Antares. You may
terminate the agreement at any time by notifying Antares and destroying
all copies of the manual, and erasing Filter from all machine-readable
media, whether on-line or on archival copies. 
						

							In the event of breach of any of the terms of this agreement, you shall pay
the attorney’s fees of Antares that are reasonably necessary to enforce the
agreement plus resulting damages.
Limited Warranty and Disclaimer
FILTER AND ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Antares Audio Technologies does not warrant that the functions contained
in the program will meet your requirements. The entire risk as to the use,
quality, and performance of Filter is with you.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN
IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY
TO YOU. THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS. YOU MAY
ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM JURISDICTION TO
JURISDICTION.
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT WILL ANTARES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING
LOSS OF DATA, LOST PROFITS OR OTHER SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF
FILTER OR ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS. THIS LIMITATION WILL APPLY EVEN
IF ANTARES OR ITS AUTHORIZED AGENT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LICENSE
FEE REFLECTS THIS ALLOCATION OF RISK. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT
ALLOW LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY
TO YOU.
Whew!  Now that that’s over, let’s get on to the good stuff. 
						

							Contents
Getting Started Chapter 1  02
Introducing Filter Chapter 2  06
Filter Controls Chapter 3  10
About the Factory Chapter 4  45
Fun Facts About Chapter 5  47
Index 48
Presets
Sturgeons 
						

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Welcome!
On behalf of everyone at Antares Audio Technologies, we’d like to offer
both our thanks and congratulations on your decision to purchase Antares
Filter, a powerful, great-sounding, easy-to-use tool for sonic sculpting and
creating unique rhythmic harmonic effects for your tracks and mixes.
Before you proceed any farther, we’d like to strongly encourage you to
register and authorize your copy of Filter. (You can skip ahead to the
Authorization and Installation instructions on page 2. We’ll wait.) Also, if
you’re planning on discarding that lovely Filter box, it’s probably a good
idea to write down the serial number that appears on the bottom of the
box for future reference. (The inside cover of this manual would be a good
place.)
As a Filter owner, you are entitled to receive notification of any software
upgrades, technical support, advance announcements of upcoming prod-
ucts and even the occasional special promotion. But we can’t send you stuff
unless we know who and where you are. So please, register.
At Antares, we are committed to excellence in quality, customer service,
and technological innovation. With your purchase of Filter, you have
created a relationship with Antares which we hope will be long and
gratifying. Let us know what you think. You can count on us to listen.
Again, thanks.
Dr. Sturgeon and The Whole Antares Crew
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Chapter 1: Getting Started
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
Since we already made the “read the words and turn the pages” joke back
in the kantos 1.0 manual, we’ll forego it this time around (although we
certainly encourage you to buy a copy of kantos 1.0 and check it out there).
Instead, while we’d always like everyone to read every word in our
manuals, it was our intent in the design of Filter that if you already had
some experience programming an analog (or analog modeling) synth
with traditional synth filters and modulation, about 90% of Filter would
be totally self-evident.
If you count yourself among that group, you can probably get by with
reading the installation and authorization instructions in this chapter and
then scanning Chapter 3 for the various notes and tips along with the
details of the MIDI implementation and the tempo syncing functions.
If, on the other hand, this is your first exposure to filters and modulation,
we strongly encourage you to read the entire manual. In particular, Chapter
3 includes not only a guide to Filter’s interface, but also introductions to
some key filter and modulation basics.
In either case, if you just can’t wait to get some sound going, feel free to
check out Filter’s collection of factory presets (although you might want to
read Chapter 4 first). They’ll give you a good idea of what Filter is capable
of as well as providing inspiration for your own creations. Then come back
and dig into the details.
THE CONTENTS OF THIS MANUAL
Chapter 1: Getting Started
The chapter you are reading. Includes instructions on installing, registering
and authorizing your copy of Filter.
Chapter 2: Introducing Filter
This chapter provides a brief overview of what Filter is about, as well as
descriptions of the functional modules that make up Filter.
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