Operation Manual

CHAPTER 19. LIVE AUDIO EFFECT REFERENCE 260
The Dry/Wet control adjusts the balance between the processed and dry signals. Set it to
100 percent if using Ping Pong Delay in a return track.
19.16 Redux
The Redux Effect.
Nostalgic for the famed low-resolution sound quality of the Ensoniq Mirage, Fairlight CMI
or Commodore-64 computer? Redux returns us to the Dark Ages of digital by reducing a
signal's sample rate and bit resolution.
The Downsample section has two parameters: Downsample and a downsample Mode
switch.
If the downsample dial is set to 1, every input sample passes to the output and the signal
does not change. If set to 2, only every second sample will be processed, so the result
sounds a bit more digital. The higher the number, the lower the resulting sample rate,
and the more deconstructed the sound. Downsampling is like applying a mosaic effect
to an image: There's a loss of information and sharp edges occur between the blocks.
The Downsample Mode switch denes if the downsampling either interpolates over a smaller
range (soft, down to 20.0 samples) or does not interpolate over a larger range (hard,
down to 200 samples).
Bit Reduction is similar, but while downsampling superimposes a grid in time, bit reduction
does the same for amplitude.
If the Bit Reduction amplitude dial is set to 8, amplitude levels are quantized to 256 steps