| Effect Mode | button | — | Cycles through four effect modes, selecting which effect Flutter and Hiss knobs control. All effects run simultaneously. Blue=Analog Tape Emulation, Green=Digital Audio Artifacts, Gold=Reverberation, Purple=Highpass/Lowpass Filtering.667 |
| Erase | button | — | Erases the buffer. Button response configurable via Narwhal as either a tap (default) or hold for 1 second.667 |
| Flutter | knob | — | Controls the first effect assigned by the Effect Mode button. Off at full CCW, maximum at full CW. Assignment depends on Effect Mode: Blue=Wow & Flutter amount, Green=Downsampling amount, Gold=Reverb amount, Purple=Highpass amount.667 |
| Freeze | button | — | Freezes a portion of the loop audio. Gate input threshold 0.4V. In freerunning clock mode, the frozen audio length is 1% of the loop length with a minimum of 62ms. Shift+Freeze enters Loop Save/Overwrite menu.667 |
| Hiss | knob | — | Controls the second effect assigned by the Effect Mode button. Off at full CCW, maximum at full CW. Assignment depends on Effect Mode: Blue=Tape hiss amount, Green=Bitcrush amount, Gold=Reverb time, Purple=Lowpass amount.667 |
| In Level | knob | — | Controls incoming signal amplitude. Silent at full CCW. At center, audio is at full amplitude. Turning CW past center introduces tape saturation and compression to the incoming signal.667ZonesSilent Full Amplitude Saturation - Silent -100–-100%Knob fully to the left: no audio signal passes through.667
- Full Amplitude -100–0%From fully CCW to center: controls input amplitude from silent to full.667
- Saturation 0–100%CW past center: introduces tape saturation and compression to the incoming signal.667
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| Inertia | knob | ≤2000ms | Controls lag between user speed input and actual playback speed, creating tape stop effects. Off at full CCW; up to 2 second lag at full CW. Inertial Slope (Shift+Inertia) adjusts the ratio of speed decrease vs increase lag.667 |
| Loop Mode | button | — | Selects macro recording behavior: Sound on Sound (default, overdub), Replace (delete and replace), Frippertronics (decaying overdubs), or Resample (bake all modifications into a new recording).667 |
| Mix | knob | — | Blends between dry (fully CCW) and wet (fully CW) signals. Default mix curve is Constant Power; can be changed to Transition or Linear via Narwhal.667 |
| Play/Pause | button | — | Starts playback from current tape head position (LED green) or pauses it (LED white), leaving the tape head at its current position. State changes on button release or gate rising edge.667 |
| Record | button | — | Starts and stops recording audio to the buffer. State changes on button release or gate rising edge. First recording sets max buffer length. Subsequent recordings are within the active loop. Configurable Punch-In mode available.667 |
| Reset | button | — | Sets tape head back to loop start point on button release or gate high. LED blinks gold on each reset activation; blinks blue when loop point is hit.667 |
| Reverse | button | — | Toggles playback direction. LED blue = reversed; LED white = forward. State changes on button release or gate rising edge. Reversed playback speed matches the forward speed set by Varispeed.667 |
| Shift | button | — | When held, activates secondary functions for all front panel controls including fine loop controls, DSP effects signal routing, punch-in recording modes, loop file access, and more.667 |
| Size | knob | ≥5ms | Sets loop size relative to loop start point. Minimum 5ms at full CCW; expands to full buffer length at full CW. Indicated by gold LED streak across galaxy LED cluster.667 |
| Skip | knob | — | Adjusts probability of splice transformations occurring. Transformations are cumulative by zone: Zone 1 (start offset), Zone 2 (random reverse), Zone 3 (micro pitch changes), Zone 4 (octave pitch jumps), Zone 5 (random semitone jumps), Zone 6 (tape lag on semitone jumps).667 |
| Slice | knob | ≥62ms | Sets number of evenly distributed splice points within the loop. No splice points at full CCW. Increasing CW adds splice points by multiples (2, 4, 8, 16, etc.) down to minimum 62ms splice length. Also randomly repeats splices unless galaxy LEDs show solid color.667 |
| Start | knob | — | Sets loop start point within the recorded buffer. Fully CCW = beginning of buffer; fully CW = end of buffer. Indicated by blue LED animation in galaxy LED cluster. Via Narwhal, CV input can be reassigned to control Frippertronics Decay Amount.667 |
| Undo | button | — | Removes the last recording from the buffer on button release. Pressing Undo a second time redoes the undone recording. Does not operate in Frippertronics Mode.667 |
| Varispeed | knob | -2octave – 3octave | Controls loop playback speed and pitch simultaneously (varispeed). CW = up to 8x speed (+3 octaves); CCW = down to 1/4 speed (-2 octaves). Click encoder to return to 1x speed. Secondary functions include octave jumps (Shift+turn) and range selection (Shift+click).667 |