Overview
With Thermae, we wanted to see how far we
could take these chips. We put them under
digital control, then started asking them to do
the impossible:
To use delay times far beyond their capabilities.
To undergo shape-shifting modulation.
To make melodies.
All the things you normally associate with
analog delay.
Just kidding.
It can do normal analog delay too though.
We’re going to go pretty deep in this manual,
but don’t feel like you need to go there with us.
Thermae was designed to be fun and intuitive.
Hands-on. We’re just going to lay it all out there,
and you decide what you need.
Let’s see.
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Thermae is analog delay
taken to its extreme.
We should talk about technology briefly. It will
be worth it.
Analog delays use bucket-brigade chips (BBDs)
to achieve their effect. They create echoes by
re-recording the same sound over and over,
and the truth is they’re pretty bad at it. That’s
their secret.
Each “copy” becomes a little more distorted,
and loses a little bit more detail. It’s perfect.
They melt into the background, dissolving in the
most natural sounding way.
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