Expert Sleepers Meringue v2.0.2 - Manual (Page 9)

‘Cutoff’ and ‘Resonance’ and the standard filter cut-off frequency and resonance (Q) con-
trols.
‘Saturation’ applies a saturation (aka overload, distortion) effect to the sound (before it is
fed into the filter). The ‘Shape’ control alters the type of saturation: from harsh digital lim-
iting (at value 0) to soft saturation (at value 1).
LFO
The LFO knobs apply a Low Frequency Oscillator to the filter’s cut-
off frequency. (Note that this will have no audible effect unless the
filter ‘Type’ is set to something other than ‘Thru’.)
‘Speed’ sets the LFO oscillation rate. ‘Amount’ sets the depth of the
modulation to apply (in octaves). Negative values of ‘Amount’ in-
vert the phase of the LFO.
Sync/LFO Sync
The two Sync sections work in
exactly the same way. The up-
per one (LFO Sync) affects the
filter LFO; the lower one (Sync)
affects the delay time.
The ‘Host Sync’ knob turns sync on and off. When on, the LFO Speed or Delay Time set-
tings (respectively) have no effect.
The ‘Beats’, ‘Divisor’ and ‘Triplet’ knobs together specify how the LFO period or delay
time is calculated from the host applications tempo. ‘Divisor’ specifies the base unit of cal-
culation e.g. ‘1/4’ selects quarter notes (i.e. a single beat of a typical 4/4 time signature).
‘Beats’ then selects how many of the selected notes to use for the LFO period/delay time.
E.g. if Beats is 4 and Divisor is 1/4 then the LFO period/delay time is one bar (of 4/4
time). If ‘Triplet’ is on, the note type selected by Divisor is replaced by its triplet equiva-
lent.
To the right of ‘Triplet’ is an indicator of the current ‘phase’ of the LFO/delay. For the de-
lay, this is the same information that is shown by the red indicator overlaid on the wave-
form in the main display above. For the LFO, this shows the current position in the LFO’s
cycle. The indicator revolves one full circle per LFO cycle.
The ‘Zero’ button allows you to manually reset the phase of the LFO or delay. This is espe-
cially useful when Sync is on, as it lets you fully control the relationship between the delay
position and the song’s bars/beats. As mentioned in the introduction, unlike standard de-
lays the sound of Meringue is intrinsically linked to the timing relationships between the
input sound and the delay buffer’s write position.