[ OPERATION MANUAL ]
Updated: 15/07/15
Elements T-Delay
Welcome!
Thank you for purchasing Elements T-Delay.
Inspired by a device from another popular DAW, T-Delay is a fully-featured tape delay effect which integrates seamlessly into our Elements modular series. It combines an advanced modulation section with a comprehensive delay which includes Saturation, Ping-Pong and
Freeze functions. On the rear panel you will find stereo CV inputs for the main controls which allow T-Delay to be plugged into any Elements devices featuring stereo CV output, such as the DS-LFO. You will also find I/O for external feedback routing, which allows you to place other effects, such as Elements Distort, within the feedback loop.
In contrast with Elements S-Delay, T-Delay’s built-in modulation section and expanded delay options replace S-Delay’s Envelope Follower and stereo controls. Whichever Element you choose to use will depend on the type of sound you’re after. That said, T-Delay does have a slightly more friendly-looking icon. Used either as a standalone device or as part of a modular/multiband setup, T-Delay is an exceptionally creative tool for sound designers and musicians alike.
Typical applications include: Classic mono delays; modulated delays; saturated delays; pingpong delays; warped tape effects; delay freeze effects, arpeggiated pitch/frequency-shifted delays (via external feedback FX); any combination of the above, and more.
We hope you have as much fun using it as we did creating it. Enjoy!
About Elements
Elements is a series of mini devices originally derived from our Triad Multiband series. They have been carefully crafted to isolate and enhance specific “elements” of Triad, and integrate together modularly, through stereo CV modulation and slick, unified design. T-Delay is part of a new wave of entirely new devices not derived from Triad.
Currently available Elements: A-Filter, Chorus, Distort, DS-LFO, Filter, Lo-Fi, Phaser, S-Delay,
T-Delay, Splitter
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Contents
Welcome!
Loading and saving patches
Controls and displays
Env Follower
Delay
Global
Rear Panel
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Loading and saving patches
Loading and saving patches in S-Delay is done in the same way as with any other Reason device. See “Loading patches” and “Saving patches” in the Reason Operation Manual for further information.
Controls and displays
ENV FOLLOWER
The envelope follower generates a control signal from the device's audio input which can be applied independently, either positively or negatively, to S-Delay’s primary controls. This signal can be “smoothed” using the Attack and Release controls.
Amp — Controls the amount of envelope modulation applied to the destinations specified by the individual Envelope Mod Target toggle buttons.
Attack — Controls the attack of the envelope. Higher settings result in a slower attack, whereas lower settings are much faster.
Release — Controls the release or decay of the envelope. Higher settings result in a slower release, whereas lower settings are much faster.
Envelope Mod Targets — Located to the right of the three knob controls listed above, these buttons toggle whether the envelope modulation gets applied to their respective targets. E.g., activating the Freq and Res buttons ensures that the envelope modulation gets applied to the
Freq and Res parameters, but not to Width.
DELAY
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Time L — Sets the delay time of the Left channel. This time can either be synced or free, depending on the setting of Sync. Synced times range from 1/64 to 1 bar, while free delay times range from 10ms to 1000ms.
Note: if the Stereo button is active, both the left and right delay times in tandem.
Time R — Sets the delay time of the Right channel. This time can either be synced or free, depending on the setting of Sync. Synced times range from 1/64 to 1 bar, while free delay times range from 10ms to 1000ms. Note: if the Stereo button is active, Time R ceases to have any effect as the right delay time becomes linked to the left.
Feed — Controls the feedback level per channel.
Cross — Controls the cross-feedback level between the left and right audio channels.
HP — Controls the cutoff frequency of the high-pass filter that lies within the delay’s feedback loop. Values range from 50 Hz to 20 kHz.
LP — Controls the cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter that lies within the delay’s feedback loop. Values range from 50 Hz to 20 kHz.
Sync — Controls the cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter that lies within the delay’s feedback loop. Values range from 50 Hz to 20 kHz.
Mono — Links the right channel’s delay time to the left channel’s delay time, disabling Time
R. Enabling this button will result in mono delay, whereas disabling it will create a stereo delay
(so long as Time L and Time R are set to different values).
Note: By “mono delay”, we do not imply that the outputted audio signal will be mono, as no summing takes place, only that the delay times of the left and the right channels will be identical.
Equal — Ensures that the left and right channels’ feedback times are equal, regardless of each one’s individual settings. For example, a left channel delay of 1/4 would logically decay earlier than its 1/3 right channel counterpart, which is not always desirable. Enabling Equal resolves this.
Limiter — Activates the limiter that’s found at the end of the delay’s internal feedback chain.
This is a very useful means for attenuating the run-away feedback that can occur when external effects are inserted within the delay’s feedback loop (see the audio I/O section below for more details on this).
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GLOBAL
Mix — Controls the dry/wet mix of the device.
Vol — Controls the volume level of the device’s output, allowing you to either attenuate it or boost it by up to 6 decibels.
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REAR PANEL
As with most other devices in our Elements series, S-Delay offers two distinct types of CV modulation—mono or stereo—depending on the parameter in question. This is a unique implementation which truly embraces Reason’s modular concept and allows for effects which were impossible... until now.
CV Modulation (mono) — The CV input modulates the parameter for the left and right audio channel in an identical manner. Essentially, the CV modulation for these parameters works exactly like it does for any stock Reason device.
CV modulation (L/R) — The left and right audio channels are modulated are modulated individually. This works by connecting the left and right CV inputs for the parameter to separate CV sources (such as the stereo CV outputs of our DS-LFO device, or indeed any two CV outputs from any Reason device). These parameters also allow for mono CV modulation, which is active if only the left CV input is connected (in much the same way that connecting only the left audio input of a stereo pair gives you a mono audio signal).
Audio I/O — The audio inputs and outputs work exactly the same way as for any stock
Reason device.
Ext. FB Effects — These audio input and output pairs allow you to insert external devices within the delay’s feedback loop. For example, connecting the audio outputs of this section to the inputs of a Scream 4 device, and connecting the outputs of said device to the inputs of this section will add any flavour of distortion or saturation to the feedback chain of the device.
Other classic feedback effects include pitch-shifting, frequency-shifting and filtering, but ultimately there are no limits on far this concept can be pushed.
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