CHANNEL SETTINGS
Time Channel Settings (TIME)
The Time Channel Settings page contains settings related to echo delays, time
shifting and adding arpeggio effect to the instrument. These settings appear
in all generators (including third party ones), except the TS404, which has
different sound generation approach, so it can not have echoed or arpeggiated
note events (you can still have echoes in TS404, see TS404
Channel Settings).

1. Echo Delay Section
This section lets you set up echoes for the channel, but be warned that this
is NOT a real delay line. It does not create echoes of wave output of the generator,
but creates echoes of the note events instead. This enables some special effects
like pitch shifted echoes, but also requires additional CPU power for each echo
generated (because each echo created with this section is a normal note). If
you want to use a standard delay line, use Fruity Delay effect instead (see
Effects).
All options described below are applied additive to each successive echo. For
example, if you set the pitch wheel to +10 cents, the first echo will have 10
cents higher pitch than the original sound. The second will have 20 cents higher
pitch than the original sound etc.
- Feedback (FEED) - Sets the volume of echoes.
If this wheel is centered, echoes have the same volume as the original note.
Turning it to left creates fading out echoes. Turning it to right increases
the volume of each successive echo. Turning this wheel to the leftmost point
turns echo delay off.
- Pan (PAN) - Sets the panning of echoes.
- Cutoff (CUT) - Sets the cutoff value of echoes.
- Resonance (RES) - Sets the resonance value
of echoes.
- Pitch (PITCH) - Sets the pitch offset of echoes.
- Time (TIME) - Sets the delay period between
echoes in units of beats. This enables you to set a tempo based delay, so
echo will follow properly tempo changes in the song.
- Number of Echoes (# ECH) - Sets the number
of echoes generated for each note. It is recommended to keep this number down
for lower CPU usage.
- Ping Pong - If turned on, the pan value will
"bounce" when it reaches 100% left or right panning.
- Shuffled - If turned on, echoes will tolerate
the shuffle value set in the Step Sequencer.
2. Arpeggiator
This section lets you add arpeggio effect to the note events of the instrument
and plays it back in real time. To use the arpeggiator, select a direction from
the icons in the top left corner of this section. The available options are:
Off (default; turns off the arpeggiator), Up, Down, Up-Down, Up-Down (twice
the lowest and highest notes), Random (selects random notes from the range and
chord specified).
- Arpeggio Time (TIME) - Select the delay between
the successive notes generated by the arpeggiator. Right-click the wheel and
select Set for some time presets.
- Arpeggio Gate (GAT) - Applies gate the notes
generated for creating short, staccato sounds.
- Slide (Slide) - Check this option to make
the arpeggiator slide between notes. This option will not work with generators
that do not support slides.
- Arpeggio Range (RANGE) - Lets you set the
arpeggio range in octaves.
- Arpeggio Chord (CHORD) - Lets you set a chord
that will be used by the arpeggiator. If no chord is selected (none), the
arpeggiator will progress with a step of 12 semitones (1 octave) within the
specified octave range.
3. Shift
Turn this wheel to right to delay notes triggering with up to 16-th note time
period.