Expert Sleepers Augustus Loop v2.4.1 - Manual (Page 35)

Also note that if you want a totally clean loop, you should also set the filter to 'Thru' and
turn off the saturation. NB setting the saturation knob to zero is not the same as turning it
off (by pressing the button). Likewise all the Tape Sim controls (Crunch, Drive and Hi and
Lo Amnt) should be zeroed.
Record Offset
Record Offset is a feature designed to help with la-
tency issues when using Augustus Loop as a looper in
live situations.
Specifically, the problem that this solves arises in the
following combination of circumstances:
• When using a tempo-synced delay time.
• When the source material has obvious rhythmic qualities (e.g. feeding drums into the
plug-in).
• When your audio hardware, or other plug-ins in the processing chain, are introduc-
ing significant latency.
What you may hear then is that, while the time between delay repeats is correct, they ap-
pear to be late relative to the song.
What record offset does is to record the initial audio into the delay loop slightly ahead of
where it should be, so that when it starts repeating it will be in the right place.
The record offset controls are hidden by default - they’re exposed
by clicking on the little ‘More’ button just above the Delay Time
controls.
The ‘Enable’ button turns the whole feature on and off. The re-
maining two controls control how much of an offset is applied.
The menu to the right of the Enable button offers three choices for
the offset amount:
• Auto: The plug-in uses a latency figure guessed from information supplied by the
host app.
• Off: No offset is applied.
• Manual: You can specify exactly the offset you want via the ‘Offset’ knob.