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Effects
delayed signal will be increasingly fed back into the delay to create more and more repeats, the multiple repeats
slowly decaying in volume over a period of time. At the fully clockwise position (Max), the number of repeats
feeding back into the delay will be sufficient to maintain the looped section indefinitely.
SPEED
This control can be used to manually set the trigger rate of the DELAY. It's operation models the classic tape echo
machines of the past, smoothly changing the speed up and down (without a digital glitch) as would the motor driven
machines of the 60's and 70's. The inherent speed control time lag of these older tape echo units has also been
included, just try moving the speed control quickly from minimum to maximum (with REPEAT control set to multiple
repeats) to hear the delay repeats catch up in a lazy manner.
IMPORTANT NOTE - PLEASE READ:
differs to that of other effects. Using the analogy of the classic tape machine, the BEATS setting determines the
'tape length' whilst the SPEED control sets the 'tape speed', this having a 4 to 1 range centred about the current
BEATS setting. When a new BEATS setting is selected a new 'tape length' is calculated for the current 'tape speed'
setting. This means that the SPEED control is always in the correct position and never jumps to a new BEATS
setting, which would result in sudden 'out of tune' echos. Therefore, the BEATS indicators will not always light in full
sequence as do the other effects.
To override any of the preset BEATS settings, simply turn the SPEED control to make the necessary adjustment.
The BEATS indicators will light in sequence as the control is moved past each preset value, with two LEDs
indicating a speed setting between any two values. The range of selectable settings, when using the SPEED
control, will always be governed by the current BEATS setting (i.e. a 4/1 range about a mid-point BEATS value).
BEATS
These indicators show the automatic BEATS setting for the DELAY effect. See "Setting the BEATS" on page 21.
SET (EDIT)
This button selects the automatic BEATS setting mode for the DELAY effect. See "Setting the BEATS" on page 21.
ACTIVATE
This button switches the DELAY effect on and off (or 'cue' if MASTER ON/OFF is set to OFF).
THE PANNER
TM
This part of the FEDERATION is quite revolutionary. There have of course been auto-panning devices before,
which could use an LFO to move a signal around the stereo field, but none which could trigger this LFO from a
BPM analyser and certainly none which could move different frequency bands to different pan positions at the
same time.
FEDERATION BPM FX
The relationship between the Delay's SPEED control and BEATS setting
2- Way
Lo-Hi
Off
Full
Lo-Mid
Mid-Hi
SPS
2-WAY SPLIT
(X-OVER 1)
(DIRECTION)
1/4
1/3
1/2
2/3
3/4
1/1
BEATS
ACTIVATE
PANNING
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TM
TM
SPEED
(X-OVER 2)
2/1
USER
SET (EDIT)
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