System Overview

The AE Cymbal System Digital Cymbal Processor (DCP) has two main components:

1. A control processor with flash memory that handles the user interface, USB communications, and storage of preset data
2. A digital signal processor (DSP) that modifies the sound of the cymbal pickups

The DSP is controlled by a parameters that come from two sources:

1. The positions of the front panel knobs
2. Parameter values stored in the control processor's flash memory as preset data

A set of stored preset parameters is recalled from flash memory and sent to the DSP each time you press a preset selector button on the DCP to change a cymbal preset. These parameters cannot be individually controlled via the DCP's on-board user interface. Using the on-board interface you are limited to changing presets and making on-the-spot volume and pan adjustments with the knobs - in other words, "performance-time" control.

We have created the DCP Access Tool to give you access to all of the DSP power in the DCP. With this program you can adjust any of the DSP's parameters while monitoring in real time, then save your settings as presets to disk, to the DCP, or both.

The DCP also includes a Kit Preset feature allowing easy performance-time recall of user-created "kits" of cymbal presets which are stored, like the DSP presets, in flash memory. The Access Tool application facilitates creation of preset kits and the underlying "sets" of cymbal presets that support them.