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WIDE

STEREO WIDTH

Wider than the speakers, or dead centre

What it does

Wider than the speakers, or dead centre: a stereo width control from mono (0) through unchanged (1) to double width (2), with a MONO frequency under which everything stays in the middle, so the bass never leaves.

  • WIDTH 1.3 on a pad with MONO at 150 Hz is the safe wide
  • WIDTH 0 on a bass channel is a mono bass, which is the right bass
ON THE TOUCH PAD

As WIDE: X is WIDTH, Y is MONO. 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
WIDTH0 x to 2 x1.2 xlinear
MONO0 Hz to 300 Hz120 Hzlinear

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.

PresetWIDTHMONO
NATURAL1 x120 Hz
WIDE1.5 x120 Hz
BIG1.8 x90 Hz
SUPER2 x150 Hz
NARROW0.5 x100 Hz
MONO BASS1 x200 Hz
MONO0 x0 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 width width=1.2 mono=120

The rest of SPACE

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