Expert Sleepers Augustus Loop v1.8.0 - Manual (Page 20)

Shape
Controls the shape of the saturation. At '1.0' the effect is that of soft saturation and clip-
ping. At '0.0' the effect is of hard digital clipping. Note that at shape settings other than
'0.0', some alteration is applied to the signal even if the Saturation level is zero.
Host Sync
The 4 controls to the right of the delay slider controls allow you
to sync the delay time to the tempo of the host application. (NB
not all plug-in hosts provide tempo information.)
Host Tempo
This button activates the host tempo mode.
Beat Divisor & Triplet
The 'Beat Divisor' drop-down menu lets you set the units in which you want to control the
loop length. '1/4' corresponds to quarter notes, '1/8' to eighth notes etc. The 'Triplet' but-
ton turns the selected value to triplets.
Beats
This is where you set the number of beats you want for the loop length. NB this can be a
non-integer value e.g. if the beat divisor is '1/8' then setting 'Beats' to 1.5 will give you a
dotted eighth note loop length.
Clock Out
These controls set how the plug-in generates MIDI
clock out. NB these controls have no effect if the
MIDI output has been disabled in the 'Prefs' dia-
logue.
The tempo of the clock signal produced is set by the
loop length and the beats settings in the host tempo section. The tempo is displayed in the
top left corner of this control group.
In this version of the plug-in this functionality is tied to the 'Tap Record' feature. Essen-
tially the clock is started and stopped by the end and beginning respectively of the record-
ing. However using the three drop-down menus you can control exactly what MIDI mes-
sages are sent.
The 'Pause Clock' button lets you manually stop and resume the MIDI clock once it's run-
ning.