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System Settings: The ‘Up-Center’ Group (Version 4 legacy)

Auto Muting

Auto Mute 

is a noise gate that silences the input when a signal less than 5mVpp is detected on any input. This 

prevents runaway feedback if 

Feedback 

is turned up and the DLD is allowed to run for a long time with no input 

signal. In most cases, it is not necessary to turn off the Auto-mute, since a 5mVpp signal is extremely quiet.

Delay Feed CV Assignment

Mix CV

, when enabled, re-assigns the 

Delay Feed CV 

jack to control the 

Mix 

(

Dry/Wet) 

amount

Soft-Clipping

Soft Clipping 

enables limiting (compression) when the output signal exceeds 75% of the clipping point. Below this 

point, the signal is unaffected. This saturation distortion sounds is often more pleasing to hear versus harsh clipping. 
In most cases, it is not necessary to disable soft clipping.

System Settings: The  ‘Up-Down’ Group (Version 4 legacy)

Loop and Main Clock Output Duty Cycle

The clock output jacks can output gates or triggers (22ms pulse width). In this mode, the loop lights and Ping light will 
each blink once in sequence. A short flicker means the associated jack is in trigger mode, and a longer blink means it's 
in gate mode. The associated button will also be lit to indicate gate mode, or unlit to indicate trigger mode.

LED Brightness Control

The red and blue Loop LEDs can be dimmed: Hold 

Infinite Hold B 

while turning the 

Feedback A 

knob (In 

firmware v3 and earlier, it's not necessary to press 

Infinite Hold B

)

Summary of Contents for DLD

Page 1: ...rate notifications and close applications such as Facebook that use audio notification Any disruption in the audio will ruin the process Updating 4 To enter the Audio Bootloader mode depress both Reverse buttons A and B and the Ping button while powering on the DLD When you see the Channel A Hold button turn on or blink the DLD is ready to receive firmware Release all the buttons 5 Begin playing t...

Page 2: ...ash 6 Now flip Time A up Time B down 7 Hold down all five buttons Rev A Inf A Rev B Inf B Ping for 10 seconds 8 Release the buttons when you see the lights make a chase sequence 9 Power off and power back on The DLD has now been reset to its factory default settings New Features and Enhancements New Feature High Resolution Audio 24 bit Audio Operation The DLD can now operate with superb full 24 bi...

Page 3: ...n passing is that free modulating the Reverse in this mode can lead to quite a lot of Memory Scraps that come back at surprising times especially when the Reverse switching continues after input source is killed This can be a real plus as well as a real surprise as these bits and pieces will remain locked to the clock If it gets out of hand you can use the Memory Clear function or discontinue trig...

Page 4: ...nced for greater ease of use In entering and using the System Settings mode the position of the channel toggle switches upper left and upper right determines what happens With that in mind the function available in System Settings are here organized into groups according to the position of these two switches Many of the System Settings functions are inherited from Version 4 These are included here...

Page 5: ... recommend the factory default setting of 8 ms Volt Octave Tracking Compensation A and B from Version 4 The tracking of the Time CV jack when the channel is in Unquantized Time Mode See Owners Manual for details on this mode can be adjusted to compensate for keyboards or sequencers that are not accurate or to provide alternate tunings See the earlier section for a discussion on Unquantized Time Mo...

Page 6: ...These methods are suited for syncing to clocks that have a small amount of jitter and no drift where tiny differences in clock speed don t matter but you want the DLD to respond quickly to large changes in tempo Locking to a drum loop that changes tempo from 120BPM to 90BPM for example is an example where you may want to use these settings ECD Disabled one to one This method simply makes the DLD s...

Page 7: ...cation of this with regard to reverse is use a variable PW pulse wave as the gating source It does time stretching easily with some really interesting time stretching that can make sounds slow down or even go backwards Note that the limits of this effect heavily depend on the Cross fade time described below Some recommended settings for initial experimentation Cross fade time set to 8ms factory de...

Page 8: ...things too quiet too quickly so the use of Linear Taper compensates for that In Version 5 Linear Taper is not the default but can be changed by the user With Linear Taper iIf you have a very hot input signal you should keep Delay Feed below 50 so that it doesn t saturate Runaway DC Blocking NEW FEATURE Hardware on the DLD inputs eliminates most DC offset but it s still possible for a small amount ...

Page 9: ...oint Below this point the signal is unaffected This saturation distortion sounds is often more pleasing to hear versus harsh clipping In most cases it is not necessary to disable soft clipping System Settings The Up Down Group Version 4 legacy Loop and Main Clock Output Duty Cycle The clock output jacks can output gates or triggers 22ms pulse width In this mode the loop lights and Ping light will ...

Page 10: ...will allow you to audition changes without saving It s a good idea to form the habit of putting your toggle switches back to their desires positions for operation as soon as you exit System Settings mode Otherwise you can forget and find yourself with a much longer delay time than you expected Want to know more The completely updated version 5 User Manual for the DLD contains more discussion and e...

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