Caleb Hargrove asks (paraphrasing): “can you make a patch that’s like the opposite of a Thermae (just the analog delay part, not the pitch shifting), where each repeat gets progressively cleaner?”

Kinda. Here’s a really ham-fisted first attempt. Delay line is a “clean delay,” and just run a whole bunch of them into each other, with the final one looping back on itself once it’s “all the way clean”. VCA controls how many more repeats happen on the last one (and a value module on the front panel labeled “feedback” is attenuated hastily… all the way at 1.0 and you get about sixteen repeats). Tap tempo controls all of the delay lines and acts as a master tempo for the entire effect (Left footswitch, the yellow module on the front panel).

There are three stages of grit: first repeat is very distorted, second repeat is cleaner, and the rest are all clean (and the number of them is to taste). Dialed in the input/output gain on the OD modules hastily; these can definitely be refined. (Perhaps a different flavor of OD? Different values? Etc.) I was also trying to make the volume of the first repeat be about unity, the second repeat a little less, and then all the clean repeats afterward subsequently less… could stand more tweaking here.

Was running out of CPU in stereo, but a longer cascade could have more nuance in mono (more modules, EQ/filtering, etc.)