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OCTAVE

SUB OCTAVE

An octave underneath, felt not heard

What it does

An octave underneath, felt rather than heard: a sub-octave follower with its own level, the dry signal beside it, and a TONE that sets where the sub sits. What puts a sampler's weight under a chip kick.

  • TONE around 60 to 90 Hz for a kick, 120 for a bass
  • DRY at 1 and SUB at 0.4 is the honest setting; more and it blurs

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

3 KNOBS · REAL UNITS
KnobRangeStarts atScale
SUB0 to 10.5linear
DRY0 to 11linear
TONE50 Hz to 400 Hz120 Hzlog

The presets

6 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.

PresetSUBDRYTONE
SUB0.51120 Hz
TOUCH0.31150 Hz
DEEP0.8180 Hz
BOOM0.70.860 Hz
FAT0.61200 Hz
BASS ONLY10100 Hz

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 sub sub=0.5 dry=1 tone=120

The rest of TONE

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