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reflected by a little tremble in the sound.
DAMPING
allows you to increase the hysteresis in this system, adding a
little “viscosity” or “elasticity” so changes in the parameter can’t accelerate as quickly as those in the source.
At low settings,
DAMPING
adds a little smoothing. Try a setting of 4–12 ms to “grease” a wah or to ease the edges
of a step-sequence to eliminate clicks and pops. Medium settings can “relax” a whammy or cover up for a
“scratchy” expression pedal. With high damping, sound changes glide like honey. Quick motions are entirely
swallowed up, while a simple footswitch can be used to create a 1000-ms-long ramp of sound change. Used
appropriately, damping adds tremendous power to the MODIFIER system.
Auto Engage
7.2.3
Though it may sound like the precursor to an arranged marriage,
AUTO ENGAGE
is actually a powerful feature that
brings a block out of bypass when the
SOURCE
for a modifier on one of its parameters goes above a certain value.
The classic example is a Wah that turns on automatically when you rock the pedal and then turns off when you
return to the heel-down position. Another example might be a pedal that controls the speed of a Rotary Speaker
and then bypasses the effect when pulled all the way back.
To use Auto Engage, set the following two parameters, found toward the bottom of the MODIFIER screen:
OFF VAL
– Sets the threshold that the value of the current
SOURCE
must cross for auto-engage to occur.
When the value goes above this limit, the effect is engaged. Note that incoming MIDI CC values of 0–127 are
scaled to 0–100% for purposes of this determination.
AUTOENG
– Sets the time that the source must remain above or below the OFF VALUE for the bypass state
to toggle. Fast = 100 ms; Med = 333 ms; Slow = 1000 ms. Use slower settings to “loosen” Auto Engage so your
effect doesn’t snap off every time your source dips. Set to OFF to disable Auto Engage.
Try it! You’ll quickly find that Auto Engage comfortably eliminates the need for expression pedal “toe” switches.
Program Change Reset
7.2.4
Normally, the last value of an external control source is retained—even across preset changes—until a new value is
received. So if you “park” a pedal-controlled Wah, for example, then change to a new preset with the same Wah
settings, the newly loaded preset will load with the Wah in the same parked position.
Program Change Reset
(
PC RST
) allows you to
override
this behavior, causing a parameter to use a previously
stored setting when it loads, rather than referring to the retained source value. As soon as the external controller
is updated—the pedal moved, a new MIDI message received—the attached parameter snaps back to track it again.
You can either set the stored value before turning
PC RST
to ON or change it afterwards. The parameter box above
a modified knob always shows the “manual” value so you can freely set it to save it. (Knob and filter “graph”
parameters with modifiers are animated as their sources change, so you won’t see these elements update in the
display as you turn the value wheel.) Text-only parameter values remain directly editable for this purpose. When
BYPASS MODE is assigned a modifier, you cannot change the stored setting with the FX BYP button; this control is
disabled to ensure that a remote control and the actual bypass state remain in sync.
Internal controllers are not subject to
PC RST
because their values are updated immediately when a preset loads.
(This is true even for an LFO or Sequencer that is “stopped” or an ADSR that has not yet been triggered.)
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