Unlock The Power Of “Orchestral Dust” With The Simple To Use Interface!

Sound Selection & Playback Menus

At the top of the MAIN tab you will see four buttons, two for each sound source. The first and third buttons lets you select a sound from those included in Orchestral Dust(V1.5). Click on one of these buttons and Orchestral Dust(V1.5) will display the Sound Browser.

The Sound Browser will say which class of voice you are working with (top left), and list the categories of sounds included in Orchestral Dust(V1.5). Each category has a number of subcategories for each instrument in that class and each sub-category has a number of alphabetically listed sounds.

Select a category, sub-category and sound, then press LOAD (top right) and Orchestral Dust(V1.5) will load the sound into its granular engine.

Next to the Sound Selectors are the Play Back Menus. Here you can tell Orchestral Dust(V1.5) how you want the sounds to be played:

GRAIN – Orchestral Dust(V1.5) will use the Granular engine – and all its controls to play the sound

Orchestral Dust(V1.5) will use the Granular engine – and all its controls to play the sound HYBRID – Orchestral Dust(V1.5) will play the sound using the granular engine, and at the same time will also play the sound from start to finish once

Orchestral Dust(V1.5) will play the sound using the granular engine, and at the same time will also play the sound from start to finish once ONE SHOT – Orchestral Dust(V1.5) will play the sound “once through” very much like a “classic” ROMpler

Shape

The shape tab allows you to set up the dedicated filter for each voice, you can select lo-pass, band-pass or hi-pass filter.

You can also set up the LFO used for filter frequency. You can select Sine, Saw, Square or random LFO shapes.

Sound Shaping

Below the Sound Selection and play back buttons are the sound shaping buttons. Selecting each of these will show you a dedicated set of sound-shaping controls.

Voices

Voices controls overall Volume, Pan and Pitch of each voice, and includes the innovative Scene Management tool and the overall Sound Drift control.

Settings

The Settings tab allows you to define the Change Controllers you wish to use with Orchestral Dust(V1.5).

The Voice CC assignments will modulate each voices Gain and Position table. So you could use this to apply CC-based crescendos, or change the position of the play-head to get cc-based changes in timbre.

Learn more in-depth details about all these features in the Manual HERE.