Xils lab Chor'X 2.0 User manual

Chor'X
2.0
User Manual
www.xils-lab.com

Table of contents
1 INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................................................3
2 FEATURES........................................................................................................................................................4
3 INSTALLATION...............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 SERIAL NUMBER..............................................................................................................................................5
3.2 WINDOWS (WINDOWS 7,8,10).........................................................................................................................5
3.3 MAC (OSX 10. .0 AND LATER)......................................................................................................................6
4 GETTING STARTED.......................................................................................................................................7
4.1 INSERT OR BUS ..............................................................................................................................................7
4.1.1 Chor'X as insert ....................................................................................................................................7
4.1.2 Chor'X on a Bus.....................................................................................................................................7
4.2 TOOLBAR........................................................................................................................................................7
4.3 ADJUSTING THE CHOR'X PARAMETERS.............................................................................................................8
5 PRESET MANAGEMENT...............................................................................................................................8
5.1 MAIN TOOLBAR..............................................................................................................................................8
5.2 PRESET MENU.................................................................................................................................................
5.3 SORT MENUS..................................................................................................................................................
5.3.1 Sorting Menu: Additional Functions ..................................................................................................1
5.4 ADVANCED PRESET MANAGER......................................................................................................................11
5.5 A/B COMPARISON..........................................................................................................................................12
6 THE MAIN PANEL........................................................................................................................................12
6.1 THE LEGACY SETTINGS.................................................................................................................................12
6.2 THE ADVANCED SETTINGS............................................................................................................................13
6.3 THE BUCKET-BRIGADE DELAY (BBD) SETTINGS...........................................................................................13
6.3.1 Bucket-Brigade Delay settings, VP33 and CS-8 structure..............................................................13
6.3.2 Bucket-Brigade Delay settings, Synthex structure..............................................................................14
6.3.3 Bucket-Brigade Delay settings, Dimension D structure......................................................................14
6.3.4 The True Stereo Dynamic Engine........................................................................................................15
6.3.5 The Transient Follower Modulations..................................................................................................15
7 OPTION MENU...............................................................................................................................................17
7.1 MAIN............................................................................................................................................................17
7.2 DISPLAY.......................................................................................................................................................17
7.3 MISC............................................................................................................................................................17
8 CREDITS.........................................................................................................................................................18

1 Introduction
Thank you for choosing the Chor'X !
Chor'X is a stereo Dual Bucket-Brigade Delay (BDD) emulation-based chorus, featuring a new
and intuiti e way to tweak its parameters quickly.
In the Legacy mode, Chor'X pro ides four finely reproduced, well known choruses from the
CS-80, VP-330, Synthex Synthesizers and from the imension effect.
When opening the Ad anced panel, the internal parameters for the legacy chorus can be
tweaked. You will also ha e access to the Xils-lab True Stereo ynamic Engine which allows
you to put your dry or wet channels at the correct stereo position with unbelie able realism.
Knowing that some audio materials need to keep their transients unprocessed, Chor'X also offers a
special transient follower to modulate the ry/Wet or the Amount le el and then to process only
some parts of your audio.

2 Features
Chor'X offers:
•True stereo path, independent Right and Left chorus
•Four Chorus type emulations, CS-80, VP-330, Synthex, Dimension-D
•up to four Bucket-brigade delay emulations
•True Stereo Dynamic Engine
•Impulse follower
•En elope follower
•All parameters are MIDI controllable
Chor'X is a ailable in the following formats:
Mac OSX 10.9 and later: 64 bits (Intel & M1), VST, Audio Unit,AAX 64 bits nati e
Windows 7, 8,10: 64 and 32 bits, VST, AAX (32 & 64 bits)
Minimum system requirements: 1 Gigabyte of RAM and a 1 GHz processor.
Chor'X is a plug-in and is not a ailable as a standalone application

3 Installation
3.1 Serial number
Chor'X uses a simple proprietary serial number based protection.
When launching Chor'X for the first time, it will ask for this number.
After submitting (by clicking on the “enter” key of your keyboard or the VALIDATE button), you
must close and re-launch it to complete the registration.
This serial number will ne er be asked for again, e en when installing updates.
Tip: It is always a good idea to back up this serial number, or to print it, in case you should
ha e to reinstall Chor'X (i.e., if you encountered an HD crash, or ha e to reinstall your OS).
3.2 Windows (Windows 7,8,10)
To install Chor'X on Windows 7 and later, launch the installer file chorx_win_setup_xxx.exe. Please
download the latest ersion from the XILS-lab website.
Once you ha e accepted the license agreement, you will be asked to select the installation directory
and be pro ided with a default one. Presets and arious files, like this manual, used by the Chor'X
will be stored in this directory. Please note that this location is different from the VST install
directory, which you will need to specify in the next step of the installer.
Once the installation directory is specified, you will be asked to select the VST plug-in directory, with
a suggested default location. Keep this default directory if you do not use the VST ersion.
Important notice: be sure to use a folder owned by the user (do not use “c:/program files” for
instance, or any subfolder of a system folder). By default, the preset folder is
c:/users/documents/public/XILS-lab/ChorX

3.3 Mac (OSX 10.9.0 and la er)
To install Chor'X on a computer equipped with Mac OSX 10.9.0 or later, double-click the file
chorx_osx_setup_xxx.dmg.
Please download the latest ersion from the XILS-lab website.
Then launch the install program, ChorX.pkg, and follow the instructions. Warning: the install
program will ask you for your system password.
If your ersion of OSX doesn't want to run the installer, open the System preferences, select
Security & Pri acy and click on “Launch anyway” at the right of the Chor'X installer name.
The arious files of the Chor'X will be copied into the following directories:
Library/Application Support/A id/Audio/Plug-Ins
Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/
Library/Application Support/Documentation/XILS-lab/ChorX
Library/Application Support/XILS-lab/ChorX
users/username/Library/Preferences/XILS-lab/ChorX

4 Getting Started
4.1 Inser or Bus
Like any other Chorus unit effect, Chor'X can be inserted in the instrument channel of your mixer or DAW,
or be used on an auxiliary bus. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of each method.
4.1.1 Chor'X as insert
When inserted on the instrument channel, you can adjust the dry/wet signal between the incoming dry
signal and the delay signal (wet) using the DRY/WET knob located at the bottom right of the unit.
This can result in a loss of global olume; therefore you should use the Global Output Gain knob to
compensate for this.
The main ad antage of this method is that you can use the Chor'X ad anced stereo processing to put your
track in the stereo field in a real, easy and intuiti e way.
4.1.2 Chor'X on a Bus
When placed in an auxiliary bus, Chor'X pro ides you total control of the processed signal: You can EQ it,
compress it, choose to add re erb on it, or a different re erb than on the dry signal… in short you can
perform all the processing you want. You can also render the signal of Chor'X on an audio track then
cut/paste/slice/edit it.
In an auxiliary track, Chor'X can also recei e data from SEVERAL separate audio channels.
You can experiment with this and create stunning effects that would be different if Chor'X recei ed only a
single channel signal.
In that method, you must turn the Dry/wet parameter in the Ad anced panel fully to the right to remo e
the dry signal. To mix between dry and wet, you will use the global le el of each of the indi idual tracks,
and/or the global le el of the Chor'X.
4.2 Toolbar
Note: The toolbar at the top of the interface allows you to load or sa e presets, make a comparison between
settings A and B, or modify the options. These functions are described in detail later in this manual.
Click on the PRESET menu to show the a ailable presets in the current sorted group. Please note that selecting
a new preset without sa ing your current settings will erase any changes you ha e made to those settings.
Click on the sort arrow button to display the current sorted group and to choose the preset within it.
You can sort presets by: Author, Feeling, Type, Style, Bank or Projects.
Please note that Chor'X will display presets by Author categories by default.
Click on the sorting label o er the sorted group name, to sort your presets according to your preferences.
Please note that Chor'X’s powerful Preset management is fully explained in chapter 5 of this manual.

4.3 Adjus ing he Chor'X parame ers
On Chor'X, the sound parameters are controlled using knobs, switches or Pad 2D.
To use a mouse to adjust the parameters of Chor'X which are controlled by knobs, click inside the knob and
mo e the mouse up or right to increase the alue, down or left to decrease it.
If you right-click on a parameter, or if you hold-shift while clicking, you can adjust the parameter with fine
precision.
To use a mouse to adjust the parameters of Chor'X which are controlled by a switch, just click inside it.
To use a mouse to adjust the parameters of Chor'X which are controlled by Pad 2D, locate the dot you want to
mo e, click on it and drag it around the PAD. By right-clicking, you can mo e se eral dots at the same time.
Keyboard shortcuts:
In addition, we ha e pro ided some soft key combinations to perform se eral ery useful tasks:
Windows:
•CTRL+left click: resets parameter to its default alue.
•CTRL+right click or CTRL+Shift+left click: initializes the default alue of the parameter.
•Win+Alt+CTRL + click: opens the MIDI Control panel, with the parameter already selected.
OSX:
•Apple+left click: resets parameter to its default alue.
•Apple+Shift+left click: initialises the default alue of the parameter
•Apple+Alt+CTRL + click: opens the MIDI Control panel, with the parameter already selected.
When a parameter is chosen ia a drop-down menu, just click on the button or label and select the item.
The help button (?) on the toolbar displays a panel summarizing these shortcuts.
5 Preset Management
5.1 Main Toolbar
In the toolbar you can find two buttons, displaying the category name (Bank, Author, Type, Style, Feeling or
Project), which open the sort management menus.
The first two text fields show the current sorting group and the third shows the current preset.
Clicking the arrow on the left of the category or preset names opens the corresponding menus.
Note: When a parameter is modified, the name of the preset is followed by a *, indicating that the current
settings of Chor'X no longer match the stored preset.
When you want to sa e a modified preset, click on the Save or Save As button.
In order to pre ent you from erasing them, the Factory presets cannot be modified. When you edit a Factory
preset, the Save button will be grayed out, and you will ha e to use the Save As function to sa e it in another
bank.
If you edit any preset, other than a Factory one, the Save and Save As function will both be a ailable.
The main difference is that the Save function will sa e the preset under its current name, and with its current
tags, o erwriting the pre ious incarnation of the preset, while the Save As function will open a dialog box where
you can modify the name of the preset, the bank in which it will be stored, and all its tags.

The settings of Chor'X are then sa ed in the currently displayed preset, and the *disappears. Click on the
Save As button to sa e this preset with another name and/or to other sorting groups.
5.2 Prese Menu
Click the Preset arrow button to open the preset menu. Here you can choose and load another preset from the
current sort group into Chor'X.
In this menu, other actions are also a ailable:
elete Preset: Use this to delete the current preset (a pop-up confirmation window appears). This option is
only a ailable if the current preset is not a factory one.
Export Preset: Use this function to export the current preset in an external file (.chx format). This file can be
imported later as a new bank. It always makes sense to back-up your presets on external media.
5.3 Sor Menus
The sorting menus are a unique and powerful tool allowing you to perform sophisticated tasks, such as
displaying the preset list organized in a ariety of different ways:
•All the Organ type choruses of your Sound Library
•All the Organ type choruses tagged with a gi en musical genre
•All the Organ type choruses made by a gi en Sound Designer
•All presets for a musical genre like Electronica, or Funk
•All presets that were recently imported in a bank
There are indeed a lot of possibilities, and we’re confident that you’ll find the best way to customize it to
your personal needs.

In order to perform such selections, all you ha e to do is select an item in the first sort menu. This
represents the first and main criteria for the search engine.
•Author (Your name, or a Sound Designer name for factory presets),
•Type (Category of the instrument like Keys, Leads, Basses, etc.)
•Style (Musical Genre),
•Feeling (Cold, warm, soft)
•Project (My Song, My Li e Project).
•ALL (this item is not used for sorting the preset)
These primary results can then also be filtered according to a second criteria which can be chosen from a
similar list in the secondary sort menu.
Sometimes a picture is better than a lot of text, so below you’ll find an example of where you can find how
to select a specific sound.
Please note that, once you are familiar with this system, you can also perform some operations with a single
click, by using the Sub Groups to choose a preset:
In the picture below, the primary sort menu is used to browse the different banks. Then in a factory bank, the
author, Xils-Lab, is selected, and finally the Preset -Init-. In this example the preset is selected in a single click
operation, and the presets a ailable in the preset list will be all the Xils-Lab presets a ailable in the entire
Factory Sound Library.
Click on the row of the sorting button to open the menu used to manage this sorting group (or subgroup). Here
you can directly select and load any preset from any group or subgroup.
5.3.1 Sorting Menu: dditional Functions
In this menu, other actions are also a ailable:
elete: Deletes all of the presets of the current group that are not factory ones. IMPORTANT: Use this function
with care: If the bank does not contain any factory presets, ALL PRESETS IN THIS BANK WILL BE PERMANENTLY
DELETED.
Use Factory: enables or disables the display of factory presets.
Sort By: This function sorts the presets according to bank, author, project, or shows all presets (Bank Name,
Author Name,Project Name,All Presets). The preset menu will show presets of the same category (same
author, same project or same bank).
Export Bank: This function exports a bank in Chor'X’s proprietary cross platform format, (Mac and PC). The