Mixing and effects

Balancing eight channels from eight knobs, the two effects every channel feeds, and the handful of settings that belong to the machine rather than to a channel.

What it is

Every channel carries its own reverb and delay send on encoders 7 and 8, feeding two shared effects. Sixteen insert hosts in total — a TAP Stereo Echo and a TAP Reverberator on every one of the eight channels.

The sends are post-fader, so pulling a channel down takes its tail with it rather than leaving a ghost of it hanging in the reverb.

Try it

  1. Press VOLUME. That is MIXER mode: one control across all eight channels at once, rather than eight controls on one channel.
  2. Turn any encoder. Each one is a channel's LEVEL. This is the page for balancing.
  3. Press the right arrow beside the display. The ring steps to REVERB, then DELAY — the same eight channels, a different send.
  4. Press VOLUME again to jump back to page 1 rather than paging round.
  5. Press AUTO. That is FILTER: CUTOFF and RESO across the row. Notice the five drum columns are drawn dead — see below.
  6. Press ALL. Now the eight encoders are the machine's globals: ROOT, SCALE, BPM, MASTER, REVSIZE, REVTYPE, DLYTIME, DLYFBK.

How it works

A spread page is one verb across eight channels. MIXER and FILTER are both spreads; CONTROL and STEP are the other shape, eight verbs on one channel. That is the whole grammar of the surface, and every page is one or the other.

ROOT and SCALE wait for the bar, like everything else that changes what the pattern is. The rest of the globals land instantly.

Group button brightness tracks each channel's level, so the row shows the balance without reading anything — and the peak meters on the display run live.

What it refuses, and why

FILTER's five drum columns draw dead. Only the three voices answer it. The drum channels run a sampler, and there is no filter in that chain to reach — so rather than offering a knob that would do nothing, the columns grey out.

There is no drum filter in this version. That is worth saying plainly so you do not go hunting for one: filtering drums needs a filter plugin per channel, which costs eight more plugin hosts, and it has not been built.

See also

  • Modulation — a spread page is the best place to bind eight modulators at once
  • Sound and presets — LEVEL, REVERB and DELAY per channel
  • The surface — modes, pages and how the ring works