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• Groove slider and field: Determines the proximity of every second delay repeat to the
absolute grid position—in other words, how close every second delay repeat is. A
Groove setting of 50% means that every delay has the same delay time. Settings below
50% result in every second delay being played earlier in time. Settings above 50% result
in every second delay being played later in time. When you want to create dotted note
values, move the Groove slider all the way to the right (to 75%). For triplets, select the
33.33% setting.
• Note buttons: Set the grid resolution for the delay time. These are shown as note
durations.
• Low Cut and High Cut sliders and fields: Frequencies below the Low Cut value and above
the High Cut value are filtered out of the source signal. You can shape the sound of
the echoes with the highpass and lowpass filters. The filters are located in the feedback
circuit, which means that the filtering effect increases in intensity with each delay
repeat. If you want an increasingly muddy and confused tone, move the High Cut slider
towards the left. For ever thinner echoes, move the Low Cut slider towards the right.
If you’re unable to hear the effect even though you seem to have a suitable
configuration, be sure to check out both the Dry and Wet controls and the filter
settings—move the High Cut slider to the far right, and the Low Cut slider to the far
left.
• Smooth slider and field: Evens out the LFO and flutter effect.
• LFO Rate knob and field: Sets the frequency of the LFO.
• LFO Depth knob and field: Sets the amount of LFO modulation. A value of 0 turns delay
modulation off.
• Flutter Rate and Intensity sliders and fields: Simulate the speed irregularities of the tape
transports used in analog tape delay units.
• Flutter Rate: Sets the speed variation.
• Flutter Intensity: Determines how pronounced the effect is.
• Dry and Wet sliders and fields: Independently control the amount of original and effect
signal.
• Distortion Level slider and field (Extended Parameters area): Determines the level of the
distorted (tape saturation) signal.
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