PLATE

What it does

The room it was played in: a plate-style reverb with SIZE, DAMP for how fast the top fades, and MIX. The REVERB bus on the desk has one, so a send is the usual way; a box on a channel is for a room of its own.

SIZE 0.3 DAMP 0.6 is a drum room; SIZE 0.9 DAMP 0.2 is a hall
On a send, keep the box's MIX at 1 and ride the send

ON THE TOUCH PAD

As REVERB: X is SIZE, Y is MIX. Touch to engage, lift to let go, HOLD to keep it.

Where it goes

PADSINSTRUMENTSCHANNELSBUSESMASTER

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

3 KNOBS · REAL UNITS

Knob	Range	Starts at	Scale
SIZE	0 to 1	0.6	linear
DAMP	0 to 1	0.4	linear
MIX	0 to 1	0.25	linear

The presets

9 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	SIZE	DAMP	MIX
AMBIENCE	0.25	0.6	0.15
ROOM	0.35	0.5	0.2
CHAMBER	0.55	0.45	0.3
SPRING	0.5	0.7	0.3
DARK PLATE	0.7	0.8	0.35
BRIGHT PLATE	0.7	0.1	0.35
HALL	0.75	0.35	0.35
CATHEDRAL	0.95	0.3	0.5
WASH	1	0.2	0.7

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 reverb size=0.6 damp=0.4 mix=0.25

The rest of SPACE

ROOM AROUND IT

WIDE

stereo width

Wider than the speakers, or dead centre

TAPE ECHO

delay

Repeats, in time or free