Multimodulation, reverb, delay and noise gate, with a tap tempo that synchronizes all effects. It allows you to obtain lots of sounds without changing presets.
The principle: each modulation passes through a VCA set to 0, which cuts the sound. All you have to do is deactivate the VCA which is to the left of the modulation you want to select so that the modulated sound passes. You can also put several modulations at once by deactivating several VCAs, or by setting several VCAs to a sound greater than 0 if you want a more precise blend or avoid increasing the sound level.
The switches:
A: activate/deactivate the selected modulation(s).
B: change modulation (in this purpose assign switch B to several modulations) and/or add the dry sound to the modulated sound (in this purpose change the value of the FOOTSWITCH B ON module to a value greater than 0); you have to configure it as you want; by default, changes between vibrato and flanger, does not add the dry sound.
C: activate/deactivate the delay + tap tempo of the delay and LFOs associated with the modulations; you can also play with the time division in the parameters of each LFO. The delay is connected to LFO2 and the ADSR filter to imitate the fading effect of tape delay, but there is not enough DSP to do better.
D: enable/disable reverb.
E: activate/deactivate the noise gate; you can adjust the threshold in the parameters of the ONSET DETECT 2 module; it is a little aggressive in its cut but there is no longer enough DSP to add a slew limiter.
The modulations:
For all of them, use the tap tempo (switch C) and the “time div” parameter of the LFOs to adjust the rate of modulations that have one. The modulations uses different LFOs to allow different rates and depths, but I couldn’t use one LFO for each modulation because of the DSP, so groups of modulations share the same LFOs.
VCA1: tremolo. To be used with a dry sound blend to soften the depth. You can also play the SLEW LIMITER to soften the square waveform. We adjust the waveform in the LFO4 parameters.
VCA2: ring modulator (or wavefolder / bitcrusher if you set the METAMODULATION module differently). By default, it is set to sound good on the Bm pentatonic scale. We can change this in the frequency parameter of the METAMODULATION module. You have to find the frequency that gives unison with the fundamental that you want. The VCA12 is used to prevent the sound volume from being too loud.
VCA3: chorus. Uses LFO1.
VCA4: vibrato. Also uses LFO1, with an attenuverter if you want a different depth from the chorus.
VCA5: flanger. Uses LFO3.
VCA6: phaser. Also uses LFO3.
VCA7: low pass filter (or high pass / band pass if we connect the UBERHEIM module to the VCA7 differently) coupled to an ADSR filter and/or LFO3. Note: you can also try to rely the ADSR to another modulation, for example the phaser.
VCA8: granular.
