Expert Sleepers Silent Way v2.4.3 - Manual (Page 83)

Interpolation mode
The ‘Interpolation’ dropdown menu lets you select between Step and
Linear interpolation. When set to Step, the same value is held constant
throughout a step; when set to Linear, the values change in linear ramps
between steps.
Note that the Smooth control offers other options for how the value changes between
steps, that can be combined with either setting of the Interpolation menu.
Gate
The ‘Gate’ control sets the amount of each step that takes the step value; outside
of this time, the step value is zero. By default the control is set to 100% - reduc-
ing this introduces ‘gaps’ in the waveform. This is especially useful when using
one side of the Step LFO to control the gate of a voice (usually fed into the gate
input of a hardware envelope generator) since it means that each step can trig-
ger a new envelope cycle, rather than having to introduce zero values steps
every other step.
Inputs
Pressing the ‘Inputs’ button
shows the controls that affect the
plug-in’s behaviour with respect
to its inputs.
There are three possible destina-
tions for input signals: Reset,
Signal and Trigger.
• Reset causes the Step LFO
to return to step 1 (when the
signal rises above a thresh-
old).
• Signal is the input to the plug-in to be combined with its output in exactly the same
way as happens in the
LFO plug-in.
• Trigger causes the Step LFO to advance one step if the Sync setting (see above) is one
of the Trigger modes (when the signal rises above a threshold).
Each signal can be Off or driven from one of the plug-in’s six inputs. (Note that some
DAWs might make it hard or impossible to access more than two or four of these.) The in-
put choice is set via the drop-down menus.