Effects Reference

26 Chapter 1 Delay
Saving Sync Settings
When you save a Delay Designer setting, the Sync mode status, Grid, and Swing values
are all saved. When you save a setting with Sync mode on, the grid position of each tap
is also stored. This ensures that a setting loaded into a project with a different tempo
(to that of the project that the setting was created in) will retain the relative positions
and rhythm of all taps—at the new tempo.
One point to bear in mind, however, is that Delay Designer offers a maximum delay
time of 10 seconds. This means that if you load a setting into a project with a slower
tempo than the tempo at which it was created, some taps may fall outside the
10 second limit. In such cases, these taps are not played, but are still retained as part
of the setting.
The Master Section
The Master section incorporates parameters for two global functions: delay feedback
and dry/wet mix.
Using Feedback
In simple delays, the only way for the delay to repeat is to use feedback. Because Delay
Designer offers 26 taps, you can use these to create repeats, rather than requiring
discrete feedback controls for each tap.
Delay Designer’s global feedback parameter allows you to send the output of one tap
back through the effect input to create a self-sustaining rhythm or pattern.
This tap is called the feedback tap.