Noise Engineering Sinc Vereor Intuitive Yet Powerful Synthesizer User Guide

Sinc Vereor
Intuitive yet powerful synthesizer with wave morphing and wave folding, vintage-inspired chorus, and multimode gate

User Guide

Welcome to Sinc Vereor. Sinc Vereor’s intuitive and inviting controls belie the power of this lightweight synthesizer. Loosely based on Noise Engineering’s beloved Eurorack module Sinc Iter, the wave morphing/wave folding Tone control makes sound design a breeze. Blend between familiar waveforms like a saw, triangle, and square. The supermodel adds 6-phase offset oscillators. Use Noise mode to generate self-similar noise for percussion, effects, and more.
We’ve paired this oscillator section with Vereor, our easily manipulated dynamics section using an ADSR envelope controlling a variable slope and analog-inspired multimode gate/filter. Add to that a vintage-inspired chorus and a library of presets, and Sinc Vereor will astound with its versatility.
If you want to quickly create instruments that bridge the gap between traditional subtractive sounds and modern synthesis techniques, Sinc Vereor has you covered.

Installation

Account creation

1. Go to portal.noiseengineering.us
2. Enter your email and a secure password, then press “Log in”.
3. Confirm your password by re-entering it in the next box, then fill in your desired display name.
4. Read the Terms and Conditions, End-User License Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookies Policy documents, then check the boxes to confirm you agree to comply with them and are over 16 years of age.
5. Click “Sign Up”.
6. Check the email account you signed up with for an email with a confirmation link. Click that link to verify your account.
7. Press “Continue” on the page that opens.
8. Enter your email and password and press “Log In”.

Plugin installation

1. While logged into portal.noiseengineering.us you’ll see download links in the “Software” tab labeled “Download Plugin Manager”.
2. Click the W64 link if you are using Windows, or the OSX link if you are using Mac.
   This will download the installer, and it is then ready to be installed.

Windows installation

1. Navigate to the installer you downloaded in the previous step and double-click on it to run it.
2. A window will appear: “Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?” Click “Yes”.
3. If a web browser window opens, log in using your Portal account credentials.
4. Navigate back to the Plugin Manager, click “Online Install” then click “Install/Update Plugins”.

Mac installation

1. Open Finder and navigate to the installer you downloaded in the last step.
2. Double-click the installer to open it and follow the instructions it provides.
3. When it finishes installing, Plugin Manager should run automatically. The installer can be closed and deleted.
4. If a web browser window opens, log in using your Portal account credentials.
5. Navigate back to the Plugin Manager, click “Online Install” then click “Install/Update Plugins”.

About the Preset Names
Our names are a bit unusual. It’s true. Product names, preset names… Let us explain.
At Noise Engineering, we think it’s our job to make the tools, but not our job to tell you how to use them. Often, when products are described by a specific function (e.g., “drum module”), people grab the product for that function…and then don’t explore what it can do beyond that space. Our synths are designed to be versatile and not serve a single function, and our effects are generally non-standard.
So you’ll find that our product names are deliberately created to not tell you what to do with them. You decide how they best fit your workflow. Is this one for percussion? Is it smooth? Is it harsh? Is it for all your pads?
We give each plugin a load of presets meant to hit a wide range of sounds so that you can step through for a quick taste. We started out with descriptive names like everyone else uses…and then realized that even within the team, people had different perceptions of sounds and how we would name them. And so we went back to our core practice of making the tool and not telling you how to use it: we chose not to be prescriptive.
So, about those preset names.
We are a small team of nerds. And faced with a daunting task like naming 1,000 presets for a single plugin, we do what we do best: we automate. We briefly considered using a dictionary, but if you’ve ever read a dictionary (at least one of us has), you’ll know there are some words in there that at least one of our users is bound to not want to pop up in their plugin. So we did a workaround. Stephen, our chief noisemaker and also head engineer, went to the nerdiest resource he could find: the IETF, or the Internet Engineering Task Force. They produce documents for voluntary Internet standards. They are technical and cover things like Network File Systems, MD5, ISCSI, Secure Shell-2, and others. Want a nerdy list? Check it out here.
The Requests for Comments series contains technical and organizational notes about the Internet. So we grabbed some of those and made our own dictionary. If some of the presets have very weird terms — there is probably an esoteric technical meaning to it. If Joseph or some other name pops up, you can thank them for their contribution to trying to make the Internet a slightly more sane place. Of course, there was still the occasional questionable word here or there, so we went in and made a few adjustments. You may one day find a preset with the name Puppies_rainbows or with Unicorn in the name. You can thank Kris for that.
We randomly selected names from this list. These presets were then organized into categories. Each plugin has its own theme, including articles of clothing, keyboard keys, and tea. Have fun with them and explore. We hope that our products will help unleash your creativity and help inspire you to think outside the box…and then get back in.

Tone page

Sinc (oscillator) section

Mode (automatable): Selects one of the three synthesis algorithms used for sound generation. Noise is a unique type of self-similar pitched noise. Plain is a wavemorphing/wavefolding oscillator that continuously curves through standard waveforms and folded sines. Super is the same as plain but adds 6 phase-offset oscillators to create chorusing and phasing effects.
Tone (automatable): Changes the density of noise in Noise mode, or the waveform in Plain and Super modes.

ADSR section

Attack (automatable): Controls the attack time for the envelope: this sets the amount of time it takes the envelope to go from minimum to maximum.
Decay (automatable): Controls the decay time for the envelope: this sets the amount of time it takes the envelope to go from the peak reached in the Attack stage to the level
set in the Sustain stage.
Sustain (automatable): Sets the sustain level of the envelope: this is the level the envelope holds at after the Attack and Decay stages while a note is held down.
Release (automatable): Sets the release time for the envelope: this is the amount of time it takes the envelope to go from the Sustain level to the minimum.
Slope (automatable): Changes the curve of the Attack, Decay, and Release stages of the envelope.

Ampla (dynamics+filter) section

Volume (automatable): Sets the output level of the plugin.
Filter Mix (automatable): Controls the mix of unfiltered and filtered signals. To the left, no filter is heard. To the right, only the filtered signal is heard.
Resonance (automatable): Resonance control for the filter. At high values, the Resonance modulates the filter cutoff frequency for added harmonic content. This parameter will only be audible if the Blend parameter is set higher than the minimum.
Envelope Amount (automatable): Controls how much the envelope opens the filter.
Cutoff (automatable): Sets the minimum frequency for the filter.
Pitch Track (automatable): Controls how much the filter’s frequency tracks the notes being played.
LP/BP/HP (automatable): Sets the filter type: lowpass, bandpass, or highpass. The filter will only be audible if the Blend parameter is set higher than the minimum.
Chorus: A vintage-inspired chorus: 0 is off, I am some, and II is a lot.

Preset controls

load: Opens the preset directory in the file browser.
save: Opens the file browser to save/rename a preset.
nudge: Applies a small amount of randomization to all tonal parameters. Useful for creating slight variations of sounds.
rand: Applies a small amount of randomization to all tonal parameters and settings. Use this to create inspiring new sounds and ideas.
reset: Resets all parameters to their default settings.
Arrow buttons < >: The top pair of arrows navigate through preset categories and the bottom through presets within those categories.
shhh: Panic button. Sends a note-off signal to all notes.

Config

pitch

Polyphony (automatable): Sets the maximum number of simultaneous voices the plugin can play. The number to the right in parentheses indicates the number of voices
currently playing.
Legato Time (1 Polyphony only): If two notes overlap, this sets the amount of time it takes one note’s pitch to slide to the next.
Legato Curve (1 Polyphony only): Sets the curve of the pitch slide when two notes overlap.
Pitch of A4: Offsets the base pitch of the synthesizer; defaults to contemporary “concert pitch” (A=440hz).
Bend Range (automatable): Sets the pitch bend range in semitones.
Tuning: The “12-tet” button sets the pitch scaling of the plugin to the default twelve-tone equal temperament tuning. The “load scl” button allows the user to load Scala files for different tuning systems.

graphics

Hue (automatable): Sets the color scheme of the plugin.
Size: Sets the size of the plugin window. Note that “Tiny” is optimized for monitors 800px in height.
Fire: Adds some attitude to the plugin GUI.

help

Frequently Asked Questions: Opens the FAQ page on our website.
Report Problem: Sends anonymized system information to our server for use in support tickets, and opens the plugin contact page on our website.

MIDI Page

This page contains a list of all parameters with adjustable counters next to each. The number on each counter represents the MIDI CC that the parameter will respond to; change the number with the arrows next to each number to change the CC the control responds to.
reset from: This button allows all MIDI CCs to be reassigned in one click.  The number on the counter to the right is the first CC, and the rest of the parameters are assigned numerically ascending ccs from there.
CC Enabled: This button enables or disables CC control of Sinc Vereor’s parameters.
Vel Enabled: This button enables or disables velocity control of Sinc Vereor’s dynamics.

About NE

Noise Engineering is located in Los Angeles, California. We started around 2014 when Chief Noisemaker Stephen McCaul wanted a hobby for his off time from his day job and started making Eurorack modules in a spare bedroom at home. One thing led to another and a couple of years later, he and wife Kris Kaiser quit their day jobs and took the company full time. Noise Engineering has since grown in size and has established itself as a well-regarded and innovative synthesizer brand, with products in Eurorack, 5U, and multiple software platforms.

Special Thanks

And a huge thank you to every single one of our beta testers!

Documents / Resources

| Noise Engineering Sinc Vereor Intuitive Yet Powerful Synthesizer [pdf] User Guide
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References

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