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- Page 1 M a g n e t i c Ta p e E m u l at o r...
- Page 2 CDs, and lo- telecom systems. We wanted Ribbons to be a playful and powerful tool all on its own, so it’s packed with other features too, includ- ing a stereo reverb, some wild Touch Modes, a four-track looper, and a sine wave synth.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents Getting Started Tape E ects Page 1 Mix and Utility Page 2 Wow and Flutter Page 3 Degradation Page 4 Reverb, Touch Modes Presets Touch Modes Magnetic Dance Tape Stop Broken Machine Repeater Crushed Cassette Disintegration Loop Four-Track Looper Additional Topics Mixing options Bypass options... -
Page 4: Getting Started
Take care to use an isolated +9VDC center-negative power supply rated for at least 160 mA. Ribbons passes a stereo in / stereo out signal by default via TRS input and output jacks. To use it in stereo you will need to use TRS style cables. -
Page 5: Tape E Ects
Tape E ects When you power on Ribbons, its default mode allows you to edit the tape e ects, which broadly refers to the di erent parameters abbreviated on the front panel. 4 knobs have unique controls across 4 pages. - Page 6 LEDs. You don’t lose your settings when jumping from one page to another. All of Ribbons’ parameters work together, so dialing in your desired e ect is a matter of adjusting the knobs on each page. If you’re ever not sure what the heck is going on and just wish you could start over —...
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Page 7: Mix And Utility
LOW-PASS HIGH-PASS COMPRESSION SATURATION MIX (MX) — Ribbons has a dedicated mix knob for all of its sounds and e ects. This is thoughtfully designed so that so you can blend dry and wet signals without any phasing issues. The main use case for this knob is to use it in conjunc- tion with the di erent modulation settings. - Page 8 Ribbons’ lters are modeled after the lter from a very famous 1970’s synthesizer. If you have suddenly lost e ects and are unsure why, double check your page 1 settings. By design you can completely lter out incoming audio by turning the LP knob all the way to the left, or the HP knob all the way to the right.
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Page 9: Wow And Flutter
Page 2 Wow and Flutter WOW DEPTH FLUTTER DEPTH FLUTTER FREQUENCY FREQUENCY Wow is meant to emulate slower pitch variations caused by malfunctioning components in a tape transport. So something like a worn out belt or deformed rubber rollers. WOW DEPTH (WD) — By turning up depth, your audio’s pitch will start to randomly wobble. -
Page 10: Degradation
FLUTTER FREQUENCY (FF) — As you increase frequency, the variations become more chaotic. Ribbons' random wow and utter parameters are modeled after spectral and waveform data collected from all kinds of tape players, ranging from perfectly functioning to completely broken —... - Page 11 DROPOUTS DEPTH (DD) — Controls the max intensity of a dropout when it occurs. DROPOUTS FRQUENCY (DF) — Controls the probability of a dropout occurring. CRINKLE (CR) — Emulates surface-level imperfections on a wrinkly piece of cassette tape. By turning up this knob you crumple up the tape more and more.
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Page 12: Reverb, Touch Modes
Modes. A good way to remember this last page is: red for reverb, hand for touch. Ribbons’ reverb algorithm draws inspiration from the famous rack reverb units of the 70’s and 80’s. We carefully studied many of these designs and came up with our own unique structure that’s simple, elegant,... - Page 13 0% REVERB MIX 100% MIX, 100% MIX, PRE TAPE EFFECTS POST TAPE EFFECTS You can really change the character of the reverb by playing with the placement setting. Putting the reverb before the tape e ects creates more of a haunting and aged sound, whereas putting it after allows it to ring out nice and clear.
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Page 14: Presets
Presets Presets are a quick way to queue up some core sounds Ribbons is capable of. To enter the Presets Menu, hold down the push button for 3 seconds. A single LED will light up, and now you can toggle through 8 preset slots: 1, 2, 3, 4 are red, and 5, 6, 7, 8 are blue. -
Page 15: Touch Modes
Touch Modes Ribbons has a number of playful Touch Modes that can be activated momentarily or latched. Touch Modes can interact with all of the other stereo tape e ects. The functionality of the Touch footswitch depends on which mode is selected. The T1 and T2 knobs on page 4 provide controls. -
Page 16: Magnetic Dance
Touch engages your Touch Mode. • For momentary e ects — keep Touch held down. • For latched e ects — tap Touch brie y to engage, and tap again to disengage. MAGNETIC DANCE (green LED) In this mode the pedal is constantly recording to a one second micro-loop in the background. -
Page 17: Tape Stop
T2 — Controls the playback direction and volume of the tape heads. MAX VOLUME MIN VOLUME MIN VOLUME TAPE STOP (dark blue LED) Tape Stop does exactly what you might expect — it slows down and drops the pitch in real-time. It doesn’t just come to a complete stop in one go though;... -
Page 18: Broken Machine
BROKEN MACHINE (light blue LED) You can use Broken Machine to add even more random tape modulation to your signal. At its minimum it can be used in subtle ways, similar to the wow and utter parameters, then at its maximum you can get some really intense rewind e ects or abrasive and totally unpredictable sounds. - Page 19 It’s great with full mixes and is a lot of fun to play along with using a drum machine. You have the option to sync Repeater to your other devices using MIDI clock (see our online manual for more info). First use Touch as a tap tempo to set the max length of your loop.
- Page 20 T2 — Controls the wet/dry mix of repeated audio and toggles between Standard or Resampling options. EQUAL MIX INPUT AUDIO AND LOOP 100% LOOP, 100% LOOP, NO DRY SIGNAL NO DRY SIGNAL Standard Repeater — Only samples new audio when the Touch footswitch is being pressed.
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Page 21: Crushed Cassette
CRUSHED CASSETTE ( ickering dark blue LED) Crushed Cassette provides sample rate reduction and bit depth reduction with -law companding. Use this mode to emulate the sound of your favorite vintage sampler or lo- telecom systems of decades past. T1 — Controls sample rate reduction from 48 kHz (hi- ) down to 100 Hz. -
Page 22: Disintegration Loop
Most bit-crushers have a gated quality where your signal abruptly disappears when it gets too quiet. -law companding prioritizes quiet parts of your signal, resulting in a bit-crushed sound with lots of haunting distortion and artifacts, but without the gating e ect so your signal decays more naturally. - Page 23 There are two options to record to the loop: • Hold down Touch to record, then release to stop. • Tap brie y to start recording, then tap again to stop. The rst write sets the loop length. The Touch LED will ramp from zero to 100% brightness as your loop plays from start to nish.
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Page 24: Four-Track Looper
Double tap Touch to stop playback and erase your loop. Four-Track Looper Ribbons also features a four-track asynchronous looper. It can record up to 4 separate stereo loops with a max recording time of 40 seconds per loop. - Page 25 100% brightness as your loop plays from start to nish. If you exceed the max loop length during the rst write, Ribbons automatically switches from recording to overdubbing. You can endlessly overdub by holding Touch and...
- Page 26 Record multiple layers of sound by overdubbing on a single track or recording to a new track. Overdubbing allows you to add new layers that stay synchronized with the original loop, but you can't undo any mistakes. Recording to a new track allows you to clear a loop if you make a mistake, but it may eventually drift out of sync with other tracks.
- Page 27 1x SPEED, 20 SEC MAX LOOP TIME ~2x SPEED, ~0.5x SPEED, 10 SEC MAX LOOP TIME 40 SEC MAX LOOP TIME Immediately after recording to a loop, the sound will play back at the same pitch. If you turn up the speed knob, the pitch will increase and your loop will become shorter.
- Page 28 Sometimes when you’re adjusting the speed of a loop, you’ll want to quantize the speed setting so that the pitch changes sound more musical. Ribbons’ looper is designed to give you a few di erent scale options: • Continuous (+/- 12 semitones; not quantized) •...
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Page 29: Additional Topics
Additional Topics Mixing options To access the Mixing Menu, hold down Touch while applying power to Ribbons. The page LEDs will indicate your current mix setting. You can toggle between three options using the push button. After saving or exiting Ribbons will boot up normally. -
Page 30: Bypass Options
This option was introduced in rmware v1.2, so users with earlier Ribbons from the fall of ‘22 may need to update their rmware as a rst step. -
Page 31: Firmware Updates
To perform a factory reset, hold down the push button for 3 seconds to enter the Presets Menu. Then, hold down the push button and double tap Touch. After about 5 seconds Ribbons will reboot on its own. Do not remove power during the reset process. Firmware updates Occasionally we may release updated rmware to address bugs or improve features. -
Page 32: Documentation Updates
• If Ribbons is at your ngertips but you wish you could control the Touch footswitch hands-free, simply map Touch to CV / EXP and control it with an expression pedal on the oor. • Don’t have an instrument to plug into Ribbons? No problem.
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