PHASE

PHASER

Notches walking up and down

What it does

Notches walking up and down the spectrum: an all-pass phaser with RATE, DEPTH, feedback and MIX. Softer than the flanger, it moves the colour of a sound without the metal.

DEPTH 0.7, RATE 0.5 Hz on a chip lead is the seventies
FB 0 is subtle; 0.6 and up is a vocal, talking kind of movement

ON THE TOUCH PAD

As PHASE: X is RATE, Y is DEPTH. Touch to engage, lift to let go, HOLD to keep it.

Where it goes

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Four to a socket, in order: sound runs through the slots top to bottom. Open the box and every knob is in real units; BYPASS takes it out of the path without losing its settings; the presets are along the top; any knob learns a controller and gets an automation lane.

The knobs

4 KNOBS · REAL UNITS

Knob	Range	Starts at	Scale
RATE	0.05 Hz to 10 Hz	0.5 Hz	log
DEPTH	0 to 1	0.7	linear
FB	0 to 0.9	0.3	linear
MIX	0 to 1	0.5	linear

The presets

7 IN THE BANK

Every box ships with a bank. AS SET is the knobs as you left them; the rest are starting points, each a sound someone wanted often enough to name. Star one and it sits at the front of the bank.

Preset	RATE	DEPTH	FB	MIX
CLASSIC	0.5 Hz	0.7	0.3	0.5
SUBTLE	0.3 Hz	0.4	0.1	0.35
SLOW	0.15 Hz	1	0.5	0.5
DEEP	0.4 Hz	1	0.8	0.6
SWIRL	0.8 Hz	0.9	0.6	0.5
FAST	3 Hz	0.5	0.2	0.5
WOBBLE	6 Hz	0.6	0.4	0.5

The console line

Every box is also a line of the console's language, so a pad or a patch can carry its effects in text. The words are the knobs:

fx phaser rate=0.5 depth=0.7 fb=0.3 mix=0.5

The rest of MOTION

THINGS THAT MOVE

ENSEMBLE

chorus

Copies drifting past each other

JET

flanger

A jet sweeping through the middle

TREM

tremolo

The level swinging in time

CHOPPER

trance gate

Cut into the beat, on and off

SHIFT

pitch shift

The whole thing moved in semitones

ENVELOPE

auto wah

A filter that follows how hard you play

SKIP

stutter

A stuttering repeat, like a scratched disc