Expert Sleepers Augustus Loop v2.3.0 - Manual (Page 27)

Sync
The controls in the Sync group (to the right of the delay slider)
allow you to sync the delay time to the tempo of the host ap-
plication, or to another instance of Augustus Loop. (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.
Using Beats with Tap Record
When a loop has been recorded using the Tap Rec feature, the length of the loop and the
beats controls define a tempo (see Clock Out, below). Once this has been done, you can
change the beats controls to change the loop length in a rhythmically meaningful way.
E.g. suppose the Beats control is set to 4, and that you use Tap Rec to record a loop of 1.2
seconds. Changing the Beats control to 2 would change the loop length to 0.6 seconds;
changing the Beats control to 8 would change the loop length to 2.4 seconds.
Sync Groups
The bottom two controls in this section - the Sync Group Mode dropdown menu and the
Sync Group Number knob/textfield - allow you to sync up multiple copies of Augustus
Loop which are running at the same time within one host application.
There are 16 sync groups; which group an Augustus Loop is in is defined by its Sync
Group Numbers setting. How the plug-in interacts with its sync group is defined by the
Sync Group Mode setting. There are four options, as follows:
• None - the plug-in is not affected by any other in its sync group, nor does it affect any
other plug-in.
• Master - the plug-in is the group ‘master’. Its loop length and tempo information is
made available to other plug-ins in the group. NB if you set two plug-ins to both be
the master of the same group, the result is undefined (and probably not useful).