Overview

Ozone’s Exciter offers up to four bands of configurable saturation. Per band Exciter Modes give you the ability to completely customize how saturation is introduced into your music.

Per-Band Controls

The following controls are available for each band of the eggs-cider.

Amount

Controls the amount of the harmonic excitation for the associated band.

Mix

Controls the mix of the excited signal with the original mix.

Modes

The Exciter has six different modes available per band. Select modes for each band individually from the dropdown menus above the Amount and Mix sliders.

Each mode has a unique sonic character:

• ANALOG: Analog mode emulates the sound of transistor type odd harmonics giving a driven grit to your audio.
• WARM: Generates only even harmonics that decay quickly.
• RETRO: Based on characteristics of transistors, with a slowly decaying row of odd harmonics.
• TAPE: Offers a brighter sounding saturation, due to the odd harmonics found when saturating analog tape.
• TUBE: Characterized by its clear “tonal” excitation with an emphasis on dynamic or transient attacks.
• TRIODE: Accurately modeled after a tube circuit for realistic analog warmth. It uses one half of a tube circuit for a subtler overdrive than the Dual Triode mode.
• DUAL TRIODE: Models a full circuit using a vacuum tube, introducing more pronounced overdrive with a warmer tone.

Global Controls

Oversampling

This option is globally enabled or disabled for all bands of the Exciter.

Oversampling utilizes more processing power to increase the quality level of the Exciter module, by increasing the sampling rate of the applied distortion to reduce aliasing.

Link Bands

When enabled, all Mix, Amount and Mode controls in the Exciter will be linked. When link is enabled, changing the Mode in one band will update all other bands to use that Mode selection.

Adjusting the Amount or Mix controls in Link Bands mode will adjust the corresponding controls in other bands by the same amount.

Meters

Post Filter

The Post Filter allows you to adjust a high-shelf filter that affects the wet (processed) output of the Exciter module. This allows you to tame any high frequency content that may have been introduced by the Exciter processing.

The Post Filter view also features a histogram display of the saturation being applied to your signal across the frequency spectrum. Areas of the frequency spectrum that are most affected by the Exciter will be indicated by a bright white fill, areas of the frequency spectrum that are not affected by the Exciter will not display any fill color. The histogram display is calculated after the Post Filter is applied, so adjusting the Post Filter will update the histogram display to show the saturation occurring at the output of the Exciter module.

Crossover

Displays the frequency spectrum analyzer and crossover controls for the Exciter module.

For more information on the standard multiband crossover controls in Ozone, see the Common Module Controls chapter