Delay – Audio Damage BigSeq2 Upgrade From BigSeq1 User Manual

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Delay

BigSeq2’s Delay effects block contains a simple but versatile stereo delay.
It can be used for both tempo-synced echo/repeat effects and modulation
effects created by short delays such as simple chorusing, flanging, and
doubling.

The switches in the lower left of Delay’s panel control the maximum delay

time. When the DELAY switch is activated, the delay has a maximum
duration of two seconds. Also, when this switch is turned on, the delay
time is synchronized to the tempo setting of your host software. As you
adjust the time knob, you’ll see that the delay time is expressed in
rhythmic units. For example, if the time knob says “1/8”, the delay time
will be equal to the duration of an eighth note, regardless of the current
tempo of your music. Dotted and triplet values are available and are
denoted with a dot (.) and a ‘T’ respectively.

If the CHORUS or FLANGE buttons are activated, the delay time is not
synchronized to your song’s tempo, and has a value expressed in

milliseconds (thousandths of a second). When the CHORUS switch is

turned on, the maximum delay time is 100msec; when the FLANGE switch
is on, the maximum is 10msec.

The FINE knob lets you adjust the delay time with more precision than the TIME knob offers by itself. The
FINE control multiplies the TIME setting, and has a range from 0.5 to 2.0. In other words, the FINE knob

adjusts the time shown on the TIME knob, from one-half that value up to twice that value. When the DELAY

switch is turned on, the FINE knob lets you vary the echoes so that they are ahead of or behind the beat of

your music. In the CHORUS and FLANGE modes, the fine knob controls the timbre of the effect. In these

modes it is particularly useful to modulate the FINE knob with the Delay block’s Modulation Sequencer.

The Feedback parameter, labeled FDBK, sends some of the delay’s output back into its input. For longer delay

times the FDBK knob controls how many times the echoed signal repeats before fading out altogether. If
FDBK is turned all the way up to 100%, the delayed signal will repeat many times before it fades out. (It will
eventually fade out. The Delay block includes some internal filtering which helps distinguish the delayed signal

from the original.) In the CHORUS and FLANGE modes, the FDBK knob makes the effect sound thicker or
more intense.

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