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RING

RING MOD

Metallic bells: two frequencies, neither of them yours

What it does

Ring modulation: the signal multiplied by a sine at FREQ, which gives you the sum and difference frequencies and neither of them is the note you played. Metallic bells, clangs and robots. MIX lets a little of the original back in.

  • Tune FREQ to the note and it turns harmonic; off the note it turns to metal
  • On a snare it is an instant industrial hit
ON THE TOUCH PAD

As RING: X is FREQ, 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

2 KNOBS · REAL UNITS
KnobRangeStarts atScale
FREQ20 Hz to 5000 Hz440 Hzlog
MIX0 to 11linear

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.

PresetFREQMIX
METAL440 Hz1
BELL880 Hz0.6
GLASS2200 Hz0.5
SUB55 Hz0.8
TREMBLE30 Hz1
ROBOT200 Hz0.9
DALEK110 Hz1

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 ringmod freq=440 mix=1

The rest of TONE

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