Audio Damage Discord3 Upgrade - Manual (Page 10)

values are denoted with a “T” after the beat fraction, and dotted values are denoted with a period. For
example, “1/8 .” indicates a delay time with a dotted eighth note feel. Discord will track tempo changes,
saving you from having to adjust its delay time by hand when you change the tempo of your song.
Short delay times can enhance a chorusing or doubling effect created with small amounts of pitch shifting. If
you set the left and right delay times to slightly different values, Discord will produce a wide stereo chorus.
Long delay times create familiar echo effects. In conjunction with pitch shifting and feedback, long delays
produce echoes that ascend or descend in pitch.
The FEEDBACK slider controls the feedback level, that is, the amount of the output signal which is fed back
into the pitch shifter. Note that the feedback path goes through the delay lines and the filters before returning
to the pitch shifter. Extreme rising and falling pitch effects can be obtained with longer feedback times when
the pitch shift amount is set to a value other than zero. The plug-in will self-oscillate at higher feedback
settings, creating interesting noise effects.
The CROSS FDBK slider controls a second feedback path. As you move this slider to the right, some of the
signal is fed to the input of the other channel. For example, if you move the right-channel CROSS FDBK slider,
the right channel output signal is fed back into the input of the left channel. This cross-channel feedback can
be used to create delay effects that bounce back and forth, thicker chorusing, more complex pitch-shift
effects, etc.
If you use the LFO (or automation, or a MIDI controller) to modulate the delay time, you will hear a change in
pitch also. This is separate from the pitch change created by the pitch shifter, and an inherent side-effect of
dynamically changing the time of a delay. (Delay effects of lesser quality than Discord make nasty clicking
sounds rather than altering the pitch of the delayed signal, which is why you may not have noticed that
changing delay times affect pitch.)
3. Filter Controls
Discord has low-pass and high-pass filters which come after the delay lines in the signal chain. These filters
can be adjusted to alter the timbre of the pitch-shifted and delayed signal. For instance, you can use the low-
pass filter to create a “darker” sound, or the high-pass filter to create a “thinner” sound.
The filters are controlled in tandem with the graph-like controls labeled, appropriately enough, FILTER. Since
the filter controls change the low- and high-pass filters simultaneously the filters act like a band-pass filter
with a variable width. Dragging the white circle in the control changes the corner frequencies of both filters.
Dragging up and down moves the corner frequencies farther apart and closer together; dragging left and right