ABSYNTH 5 Reference Manual – 202• Vintage: An effect that creates a vintage character, mostly associated with warmth andpositive sound alteration.• Multi-band: For effects working with more than one level or band, e.g. a multi-band com-pressor.• Selective: All effects that operate on certain selective scopes of the signal, e.g., on selec-tive frequencies like an exciter or de-esser.• Adaptive: Driven by parameters that are extracted from the sound itself. The goal of thiseffect’s class is to provide a changing control signal to an effect.• Channel strip: A combination of effects designed for processing incoming audio, similarto a hardware mixing console.• Parallel: The signal routing of effects is parallel.• Chain: The signal routing of effects is serial.• Stereo: All effects work in stereo mode.• Mono: All effects work in mono mode.14.2.3 CharacteristicDescribes an effect’s special sound characteristics.• Long: Describes the release time of an effect, e.g., a long reverb or delay.• Short: Describes the release time of an effect, e.g., a short reverb or delay.• Fast: For effects that need to treat the incoming signal immediately upon receiving it (e.g.,a compressor) or the effect itself sounds or acts fast.• Slow: An effect that treats the incoming signal slowly, or the effect itself sounds or actsslow (e.g., attack-delay effect).• Bright: A general, rather subjective interpretation of an effect. Can also be used to dif-ferentiate similar effects.• Dark: A general, rather subjective interpretation of an effect. Can also be used to differ-entiate similar effects.• Warm: An effect that adds warmth to the processed sound.
